Things are made, created or built to be a great use. A thing mainly signifies a reliable source of a help for anything we do in our everyday lives. But like what most of us believed, something very mysterious can actually happen to these helpful things we have in our house- unknown spirit can be attach inside them.
It’s quite funny to think of, but there are actually real stories of items which people claimed were cursed and are haunted. To hear out your wild curiosity, here are just some of evil-possessed objects:
1. The Conjure Chest
150 years ago Jacob Cooley ordered his African American slave named Hosea to build a chest for his first child. Hosea set to work, crafting a wooden chest of some remark. For some unknown reason his master was displeased with his efforts and beat his slave to a pulp, killing him. Cooley’s other slaves vowed to avenge the death of their friend and sprinkled the dried blood of an owl in the chest and had a ‘conjure man’ curse the chest. As if by magic, Cooley’s first born died in infancy and over the forthcoming years a total of seventeen deaths were attributed to the chest. Eventually the curse was lifted by a ‘conjure woman’. The chest can be found in the Kentucky History Museum in Frankfort.
2. The Crying Baby Boy Painting
Countless undamaged copies of this painting have been found in the rubble of house fires. It is said that this painting and any copies will burn down any building it resides in. Tears have occasionally been seen dripping from this painting as well.
3. The Lemb Statue
This statue is also known as the ‘Goddess of Death’. Anyone who has owned this statue has passed away from bizarre circumstances. The craziest part is even their entire family passes away. It currently remains out of reach of humans at the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.
4. Valentino’s Ring
Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) was considered one of Hollywood’s greatest silent movie stars. Valentino died of a perforated ulcer at the age of only thirty-one. Some blame his early demise on a ring he purchased from a jeweler in 1920. The ring had a gem called the tiger’s eye embedded in it. The legend goes that Valentino showed the ring to a close friend immediately after he bought it and his friend said he saw a vision of a pale and deathly Valentino. Regardless of what his friend did or did not see, Valentino’s next few major pictures flopped at the box office and he died within six years. But Valentino wasn’t the ring’s only victim: his lover Pola Negri became gravely ill after wearing the ring, so much so that her career had to be put on the back burner for years and it never fully recovered; Russ Colombo, the actor hired to play Valentino in the biopic of his life wore the ring and was killed in a shooting accident some days later; and the gangster Joe Casino bought the ring and refused to wear it until the curse had faded. After several years he finally put the ring on—and was dead within a week due to a motoring accident. The list goes on… But since the 1960s the ring’s whereabouts have remained unknown.
5. Robert The Doll
This doll was given to a boy in 1896 by a servant of the boy’s family who practiced black magic. The boy would talk to the doll irregularly and even claim it was the doll that broke vases and messed up rooms, even though he was blamed. The doll now resides in a museum, and those who take pictures of it without permission are cursed until they apologize. This doll inspired the movie ‘Child’s Play’.
6. Screaming Skull of Anne Griffiths
This is one of the most famous screaming skulls that can be found in Burton Agnes Hall in Driffield, East Yorkshire. The Hall was built during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I by Sir Henry Griffiths and his sisters. During the build one of Sir Henry’s sisters, Anne, was stabbed and killed by an unknown assailant. Before she passed on her other sisters promised that her head would be removed from her body and kept in the hall… a bizarre last request if ever there was one. It is believed that when the skull is removed from the hall, noise of screams are heard and the building would tremble and portraits would fall from the walls. Finally one of Sir Henry’s descendants agreed to keep the skull in the house but only if it was bricked up behind a wall, where it remains today.
7. The Ghost Cane
The ‘Ghost Cane’ was put on eBay by Mary Anderson, a woman from Indiana who hoped the sale would ease the fears of her 6-year-old son who had come to believe that his grandfather’s ghost roamed the family home. The cane reached 132 bids on eBay and was only accepted on the online bidding site, which usually rejects ‘intangible items such as spirits or souls’ because Miss Anderson made it clear she was only selling the cane so that her son would no longer freak out. This cane can be found in the Golden Palace casino in Antigua.
8. The Myrtles Plantation Mirror
This mirror is located on a famously haunted bed and breakfast that was built on an Indian Burial Ground in 1796. The mirror is said to hold the spirits of the Woodruff family whom were poisoned to death. They can be seen lurking in the background occasionally and children hand prints are often found on the mirror.
9. The Possessed Bunk Beds
The case of the Haunted Bunk beds was so famous that the tale found it’s way on to the hit TV show Unsolved Mysteries. In February 1987 in Horicon, Wisconsin, Alan and Debby Tallman brought home a bunk bed from a second hand shop, and like you do, they put it down in the basement. In May later that year, the couple moved the beds upstairs… and nine months of hell ensued and not just a bad back from shoddy bed building. From the very first night the bunks were in their new room things quickly escalated from wacky to just plain creepy.
First of all, the children of the house became ill, then a radio would jump from station to station without anyone touching it and to cap things off, the first two children to sleep in the bed said they saw a witch. The Tallmans got a pastor in and things cooled for a while. But when Alan Tallman returned home a few weeks after Christmas in 1988 he heard a voice telling him to ‘come here’. He followed it to the garage where he witnessed a blazing fire. Rushing to grab an extinguisher, Alan returned to the scene only to see the fire had vanished. A few more creepy circumstances later and the Tallmans had had enough—they burned the bunk beds. And would you believe it, just like that, the paranormal activity ended.
10. The Chair of Death
Cursed by a man in 1702, anyone who sits in this chair dies shortly afterwards. There have been countless stories of people daring each other to sit in it and then dying later that day. Eventually it was donated to a museum and is now nailed to a wall five feet high so nobody can make the mistake of sitting there again.
11. The Haunted Wedding Dress
This dress was bought to be worn by Anna Baker but her father banished her should-be husband for being poor. Anna spent the rest of her life bitter, alone and angry. When she passed the dress was put on display and moves and dances as if the spirit of Anna is still very present, especially on full moons.
12. The Basano Vase
Anyone who owns this vase is either murdered or dead from strange circumstances. It was even buried once but rediscovered with the note, “Beware…this vase brings death”. After claiming more lives the vase was finally discarded again. It is said that the vase remains buried again in an undisclosed location.
13. The Possessed doll ‘Annabelle’
This doll moves on its own and has been seen standing on its own. The doll lied to a psychic stating it held the soul of a young girl named Annabelle. Later it was discovered the doll was actually possessed by a demon. It currently remains enclosed in cases saying ‘Warning: Positively Do Not Open”.
14. The Anguished Man Painting
This painting was locked away in an attic for a long time. The original artist painted it with a mixture of blood and paint before killing himself. Paranormal activities occur when this painting is present. In fact the owner set up a video camera and caught strange things happening. These videos can be found on YouTube.
15. Chairs from The Belcourt Castle
This famously haunted castle has been around since 1894. The most famous of paranormal activity is a particular set of chairs which are said to have spirits attached to them. Anyone who sits in these chairs feels uneasy and as if there is someone present. A few visitors have even been ejected from the chairs entirely by an unseen force.
16. The Dibbuk Box
A malevolent spirit is said to be contained inside this basic wine box. Every owner has experienced illness and shadowy figures present in their homes. After being auctioned off to a medical museum in Missouri, the new owner wrote a book about it which later became the well-known horror movie, ‘The Possession’.
17. The Hope Diamond
Anyone who possesses this item and wears it suffers from misfortune and death. It has claimed the lives of many but now remains on display at the Smithsonian Institution in order to save lives. Just looking at this object is said to bring fear and a sense of sickness.
18. Anonymous Haunted Ebay Painting
This evil painting is known as ‘The Hands Resist Him’. Just viewing this painting gives the sense of sickness and weakness. Children run from it, and the boy and doll have been said to disappear from the painting entirely at times. Do not look at this image for too long.
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