A game or play is always accompanied by someone or something- someone when you have a visible partner and something when you got nothing but yourself. It’s too lonely to play alone, so when other human isn’t available, a toy or a doll is enough to be a company.
Of course, dolls must act like human, so we do some scenes while playing with them, moving their body and use our little voice for them as a little chit-chat to us.
It’s a fun play, isn’t it? But what if dolls can actually move and talks like us? Will it still be fun? Or will it be frightening?
Most of us believed that spirit can actually go into things and possessed them, and most of their favorite subjects are dolls. Here are some dolls which are believed possessed by something mysterious, making them creepy to even play with.
1. 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”.
2. Patty Reed’s Doll
This doll is owned by the youngest members of the Donner Party named Patty Reed, which has a strange facial expression or be missing body parts from years of moving around, and have witnessed repeated acts of cannibalism since Donner Party is a group of travelers became snowbound and turned to eating bits of leather, mice, old bones—and, finally, each other.
3. 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’.
4. Letta The Gypsy Doll
This doll was made 200 years ago by a Romanian gypsy for his son who had drowned. The gypsies believed in spirit transference, and dolls would act as a new home for the dead. The doll has real human hair, and underneath the scalp is a likeness of a human brain. He was given the name Letta, or Ledda, due to his European gypsy heritage, or because the doll occasionally screams, “Letta me out!”
Letta is also supposedly capable of moving on his own, changing positions while seated, and emitting a pulse while held.
5. Mandy
Mandy is a porcelain baby doll made in England or Germany between 1910 and 1920 and donated to the Quesnel Museum in British Columbia in 1991. Mandy’s donor had said she would hear crying in the middle of the nightcoming from the basement, and it wasn’t until after she gave Mandy away that the crying ceased. Employees of the museum said that their lunches go missing, only to turn up elsewhere in the building. Footsteps are heard when no one is around, and office supplies like pencils and books always appear to be in a different spot from where they were last placed.
It took the museum some time to decide where to place Mandy. They say she couldn’t be encased with other dolls because she had a tendency to harm them. Visitors to the museum say her eyes will blink or follow you wherever you walk. She also likes to mess with camera equipment whenever anyone tries to photograph or film her.
6. Emilia
This doll was given to King Umberto I of Italy in 1878 by one of his royal guards before he was assassinated. The doll passed to his daughter Marie but lost her arms and scalp during WWII when a bomb went off on a train. Marie’s guards ordered a women to retrieve the doll for Marie, but before she could another explosion occurred and the lady perished instantly. The doll was found again later and is said to be still haunted by this woman.
7. Devil Baby Doll
This doll was made-inspired by the New Orleans legend that there’s a voodoo witch (Queen of Voodoo) named Marie Laveau who cursed a bride-to-be and when her first child was born he turned out to be a devilish monster marked by Satan himself. And a woman who claimed to have once played with the actual devil baby when she was young says these new dolls resemble him exactly. For that the dolls are said to be haunted.
8. Joliet
This doll has been passed down to the females of the family for four generations who each gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl, but mysteriously in all four cases the boy has died on the third day after his birth. The family claims the doll holds the spirits of the sons who died, where giggles and inhuman screams are heard in the night. The family claims the cries of different infants can be heard, making the doll appear to be the vessel for all the baby boys lost over the years.
9. Possessed Barbie Doll
This doll is believed possessed by the daughter of a German couple who was detained in Singapore because they were suspected of being spies. The daughter has escaped the arrest, but fell off a cliff and died. According to the reports, there was a man in Palau Ubin experienced the same dream three nights in a row of him going to a store and being a Barbie doll for a little girl. He decided to go to the toy store, found the exact doll that he had dreamt and placed it on the shrine for the girl. The dreams stopped.
10. Voodoo Zombie Doll
This doll was sold through eBay to a woman in Galveston, Texas. The eBay listing gave rules to abide by while owning this doll. These included not removing it from its silver casing, a rule the woman broke as soon as the doll arrived. She would come to regret that decision.
The woman claims the doll haunted her dreams and would attack her repeatedly. She relisted it on eBay several times and succeeded in selling it, only to have the new buyer receive an empty box while the doll kept reappearing at her doorstep.
11. Elmo
It is believed that Elmo is haunted when two-year-old James Bowman had an Elmo Knows Your Name doll by year 2008. This particular doll not only knew James’s name but liked to include the word “kill” before it. Elmo would sing “Kill James!” repeatedly, until James’s distraught mother Melissa decided to put it out of the toddler’s sight. The doll only began spewing death threats after its batteries had been changed.
12. Chrystal, True, Monika, Sharla, Isaac, Lilly, Ashley, and Cameron
These aren’t the names of multiple spirits inhabiting one doll. Instead, these are the names of the different possessed dolls that live with a family of five in rural Pennsylvania. The owners of these dolls purchased each one knowing that they were haunted. As investigators of the paranormal, the owners wanted to examine the dolls while also giving them a loving home.
13. Doll Found In Singapore
This doll was found beside a busy street in Singapore and is believed possessed and has been moving around on its own when the original owner isn’t home. She bound the eyes and left it far away from home so it wouldn’t follow her back.
Some say the doll could be heard talking when it’s left alone in a room and is found with its head turned in a different direction. People heard it speak in the Malay language and sound like an adult female.
14. Pupa
This doll was made in the 1920s to resemble its Italian owner. Pupa’s owner claimed the doll spoke to her. After the owner died in 2005, the family put Pupa in a glass case, and reports say the doll now periodically changes position. Her facial expression changes as well, and she’ll tap on the glass as though she wants to get out. She’s also said to move items around in her display case.
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