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They Should Have Never Touched These… | 3 Hours of True Haunted Objects · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  Art is defined by the expression or application of human creative
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  skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as a
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  painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated
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  primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
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  Art takes time and effort, sometimes sweat, tears and
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  blood, literally. But his art reflects emotional
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  power in whatever branch it decides to express itself.
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  Could it capture with it a piece of the human soul?
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  When a man inherits a strange painting from his grandmother,
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  bizarre happenings begin to manifest within his home.
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  Can he decipher the paranormal mystery surrounding it before
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  it's too late? This is the untold story of the
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  Anguished Man painting of Cumbria, England and this
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  particular story, like the painting itself, is an
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  unsettling. 1. Cumbria, England, a beautiful
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  place known for breathtaking scenery, has over the years
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  become known as a creative hub for the arts, culture and
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  literature, also being home to many of the artists themselves.
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  But underneath this natural beauty lies something dark and
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  foreboding. As art reflects beauty, it must
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  also reflect the abhorrent. The information of some of the
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  experiences are vague. However, I will try to tell the
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  story as complete as I can, given what I could find.
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  Our story begins in Cumbria, approximately around 2010.
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  A man named Shawn Robinson has just inherited a painting from
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  his grandmother. But unlike lots of other works
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  of art, this one is grotesque, almost terrifying, and certainly
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  makes one ponder the sanity of the person who made it.
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  Although no one knows for certain how it came into
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  Robinson's grandmother's possession originally, the
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  painting had apparently been within the family for 30 years
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  by this point, but had been in the attic of his grandmother's
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  house for 25 of those years. She had said she had put it
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  there because there was something evil about it.
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  Within the five years the painting was visibly present
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  within her home, numerous bizarre things began to occur.
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  The legend, as it goes, is that the man who painted it had used
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  his own blood within the painting itself, mixing it with
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  the oils drip by drip, allowing his essence to become infused
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  with the canvas. Although the time frame of its
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  production is unknown, the artist behind it apparently
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  would end by his own hand after finishing his masterpiece.
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  Upon possessing this painting known as The Anguished Man,
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  Robinson's grandmother would soon begin to have experiences
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  that she couldn't explain. She began to see the dark and
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  ominous figure of a man throughout her house, sometimes
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  out of the corner of her eye and other times directly in front of
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  her. This had to have been absolutely
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  terrifying. I'm not entirely sure of her
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  living arrangement, if her husband was still alive or not,
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  but for speculation's sake, imagine being older and living
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  alone, and then starting to see the spectral man wandering
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  throughout your home, seemingly stalking you from the shadows.
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  It's certainly more than enough to fuel your nightmares.
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  This would prompt her to eventually move the painting
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  into the attic, possibly out of fear as to what would happen if
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  she got rid of it. As far as we know, given the
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  information that is available, these apparitions cease to be
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  once the painting was stowed away from the rest of the house,
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  isolated to its own devices within the confines of the attic
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  above. Years later, although he had
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  been forewarned by his grandmother, Robinson wasn't
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  convinced of the supposed evil that inhabited this strange work
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  of art. He himself, being a lifelong
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  horror fan, upon receiving it, was intrigued and decided to
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  take it home. After placing it within the
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  walls of his house, he too would soon begin to experience
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  terrifying events that he couldn't explain.
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  The painting would be sat on display in an upstairs bedroom
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  and upon finding its new home, the painting known as The
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  Anguished Man, began to invoke something evil.
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  As it often does, the activity started small.
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  The day the painting was placed in the house, creaking and
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  footsteps began to be heard and would only continue from there
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  on out. These creaks and footsteps grew
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  ever louder and more aggressive and were soon coupled with
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  tormented, almost muffled screams that would echo all
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  throughout the house. The Robinson family soon began
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  to see a pitch black figure wandering throughout their.
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  Home. A murky, dark presence, an ever
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  present set of eyes burning a hole through their very souls.
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  These episodes disturbed Robinson, who had recalled that
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  his grandmother had said that she experienced the very same
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  phenomenon. In the coming months, the family
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  would also begin to experience other hair raising activity as
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  well. Soon, banging could be heard all
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  throughout the house at odd hours of the day and night, with
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  the activity seeming to peak between 3:00 and 4:00 AM.
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  And with the previously mentioned phenomena, a new and
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  mysterious deep crying noise could also be heard ever more
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  frequently and with no rational origin.
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  As time would pass, the haunting force would continue to only
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  grow stronger. The manifestation of the Shadow
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  Man would continue to be seen, and along with being seen, but
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  also be observed crying and whispering.
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  Although, despite hearing the whispers, the family could never
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  decipher what he or it was trying to say.
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  Alongside these bizarre and creepy happenings, A horrific
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  visual would soon be seen by Sean Robinson's very own eyes.
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  He would find himself suddenly awake between the hours of three
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  and 4:00 AM, when activity would typically reach a fever pitch.
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  Only this night was different. As his eyes adjusted, he sees
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  standing at the foot of his bed, a dark figure whose face appears
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  to be red, and upon a closer look, Sean is frozen with fear.
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  What he was seeing before his very eyes, totally lucid, was
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  the very same figure from the painting.
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  But before Sean could allow himself to scream, the figure
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  simply vanished. Not only would this have been
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  absolutely bone chilling to experience, but with the
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  activity continuing to escalate, Sean wondered what could be
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  next. And was the apparition perhaps
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  an omen of things to come? Whether it was the paranormal
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  force or entity that inhabited the painting, or something else
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  within the Robinson home? Although the home was not
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  reported to have been haunted whatsoever prior to Sean
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  receiving the anguished man, the entity persisted.
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  One night, as the moon hung overhead, Sean Robinson found
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  himself awake early in the morning.
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  As he went down the stairs and into the kitchen, presumably to
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  get himself a drink or a snack to wake up as most people often
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  do, he would be suddenly startled by a blood curdling
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  scream coming from his upstairs master bedroom.
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  He recognized the scream, it was his wife.
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  Robinson's wife would be woken up out of the sound sleep by
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  having her hair played with and tugged on.
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  Upon feeling for the origin in the darkness and rolling over,
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  she was met face to face with a man that she described as being
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  massive, having a sunken in mouth and eyes, and his
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  breathing was absolutely horrific.
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  This experience must have shocked and terrified the poor
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  woman. Perhaps she was thinking it was
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  her husband laying next to her, Except instead of experiencing A
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  reassuring face staring back at hers when looking over after
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  regaining consciousness, she sees something straight out of a
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  horror movie looking at her instead.
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  This morning certainly must have been a hectic one, because how
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  does 1 console their wife after an experience like that?
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  How does one fight something that shouldn't exist?
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  Coexisting with the paranormal force that now inhabited their
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  home, the Robinson family did their best to try and live
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  normal lives, but the activity only ever seemed to get worse.
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  However, one day, when Robinson's son Keenan was pushed
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  down the stairs by something that he couldn't see, Sean had
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  had enough, unsure of what would happen if he did away with the
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  painting by discarding it. Who remembered how his
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  grandmother had dealt with it with her own unique situation
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  surrounding the painting and decided to, at least for the
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  time being, place it in the cellar of his home, away from
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  his family. The activity itself, although
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  still somewhat present, certainly seemed to calm down
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  quite a bit following this move. In the years to come, Shawn
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  Robinson would begin to document the haunting surrounding the
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  anguished man. This documentation began within
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  several months of receiving the painting after he and his family
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  went from skeptics to believers after experiencing a plethora of
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  strangeness ever since the anguished man arrived in their
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  lives. As of right now, there are about
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  16 videos documenting various supernatural occurrences within
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  the Robinson home surrounding the object.
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  These manifestations include apparitions, flashing lights and
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  eerie fogs enveloping the room the painting sits in, doors
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  opening and closing by themselves, and various objects,
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  including the painting itself, moving on their own.
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  More recently, it seems like Auk based Paranormal group has
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  assisted Robinson with investigating what could be
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  taking place at his home. Seems like they have also
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  captured several Evps or electronic voice phenomena as
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  part of those investigation sessions.
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  I will be linking Shawn Robinson's YouTube channel below
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  so you can go see for yourself if you wish to do so.
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  And before we conclude this odd story, first let us speculate as
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  to what could be happening starting from the beginning.
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  Shawn's grandmother came into possession of the painting, but
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  how did she receive it? Did she purchase it or was it a
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  gift? And if so, from who?
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  With these questions, we are only left with more Just how
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  could she or anyone have become aware of the supposed back story
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  of how the painting came to be if the artist is unknown?
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  Perhaps the person who sold it or gifted it to her knew them
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  but kept them unnamed. Perhaps they painted under a pen
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  name and upon their death their true identity was lost.
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  It's hard to say. Upon her initial experiences of
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  seeing the apparition of a large man wandering throughout her
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  home and crying out, I'm curious if she saw any sort of religious
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  or paranormal help. I'm also curious if she lived
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  alone at the time her with her husband.
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  But regardless of her living situation, those would be
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  terrifying things to see and deal with.
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  But in my opinion they would be made so much worse if you were
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  alone, let alone by yourself An elderly.
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  And it seems like paranormal forces such as these, the ones
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  that are perceived to be evil, tend to feed off of human fear
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  like an energy source. These manifestations would lead
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  her to Vanquish the painting into her attic after having it
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  on display for five years for the next 25 years.
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  I wonder why she didn't get rid of it though.
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  Did she fear it would come back, or that the activity would
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  somehow be worse? And with the painting being in
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  the attic, I wonder if anyone went up there and experienced
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  anything, or if she ever heard any noises coming from the attic
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  itself. Because as far as we know, the
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  activity ceased once it was placed there.
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  But that's only a conclusion drawn with very limited
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  information. Once Sean had received the
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  anguished man and placed it on display within his home, he too
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  began to experience the same exact things that his
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  grandmother had and more. But from the sounds of it, at a
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  minimum, he and his wife and children experienced the bizarre
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  phenomena. But I'm also curious if any
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  guest who visited if they experienced anything that
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  perhaps we just haven't had the chance to hear about.
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  And yet another question, just why would someone want to
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  display something so hideous in their house?
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  I mean, the mere side of this painting gives me an eerie vibe.
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  It's dark, soulless eyes and muted screams of terror upon its
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  red face are more than enough for me.
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  I can almost imagine this thing stalking me from the shadows and
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  sneaking up on me with a horrific sound emanating from
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  its face as it smothers me or something.
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  But besides provoking the imagination in a positive or
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  negative manner, if I woke up and saw the anguished man in the
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  flesh from the painting, that would be it for me.
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  I would absolutely seek some kind of assistance and or burn
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  the thing. It's hard to say exactly what
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  one should or would do given the situation until they find
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  themselves experiencing it, but I have to say the Robinson
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  family's experiences sound absolutely terror inducing.
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  There are many theories as to what the entity could be or what
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  the activity could be caused by. It seems like the majority of
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  researchers of this case, myself now included, believe the
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  haunting to be an intelligent one, meaning that an entity can
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  communicate with the living and even physically attack.
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  But others seem to think that the entity isn't stowed away
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  within the painting, but rather that the painting is a conduit
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  itself, something that opens a portal between our realm or
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  dimension to another, one that allows in this strange and
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  menacing presence. Could perhaps the insanity,
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  blood infusion, and ultimate sacrifice of the artist that
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  allegedly painted it upon achieving its final form have
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  something to do with this? Was it an intentional decision
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  or goal on behalf of the artist? It's hard to say.
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  And as many people have, I do also have to ask, is the case
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  genuine? Although Sean Robinson seems
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  like he enjoys a good horror movie as most of us do, I would
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  say he doesn't give me vibes of a charlatan or anything of the
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  sort personally. Some people have accused him of
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  making the entire thing up, but I'd have to follow up with the
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  question of why. I highly doubt.
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  He's profited very much from the story anyways, especially
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  judging from his YouTube numbers, and that is in no way
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  shape or form a dig of any kind. If anything, to me it just backs
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  up the validity of his intentions.
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  He seems more pressed on sharing he and his family's experiences
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  in order to seek other people's opinions as to what could be
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  taking place surrounding the painting.
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  More recently, as previously mentioned, it seems like he's
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  perhaps now had some paranormal assistance from a professional
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  group who can maybe give him some more insight as to what
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  could be happening. But what do you think?
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  Answer one of my many post questions below in the comments,
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  or feel free to share your own thoughts.
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  I'd love to read them. As for the Robinson family as a
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  whole, I hope that they eventually find answers
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  surrounding the mysterious oddity known as the Anguished
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  Man. And the rest of us better pray
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  that we don't come into possession of such an item.
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  Because if we did, perhaps the sunken and face of the creature
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  on the canvas will be stalking you in flesh and bone, a
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  manifestation of your fear, watching and waiting to take you
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  back home with it, wherever that home may be in the darkness.
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  When a young woman receives a birthday gift of a doll from her
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  mother, she is first elated, believing it to make a wonderful
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  companion. But when the doll begins to move
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  on its own, it soon reveals its malevolent nature.
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  It will take the. Expertise of renowned
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  demonologists and priests to help free them from the entity
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  that now infests their lives. Will they make it out alive
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  before it's too late? This is the untold story of
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  Annabelle, the demonic doll of Connecticut, and this story just
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  may make you think twice about your keepsakes.
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  Our story begins in 197025. Year old Deirdre Bernard has
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  recently moved into her first apartment with her two friends,
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  an engaged couple named Laura Clifton and Cal Rendell.
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  Her mother had bought her a gift for her birthday and hoped that
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  it would keep her daughter's spirits up and spread joy to her
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  new home as she pursued her education and nursing.
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  Deirdre loved the gift, finding its rosy red cheeks with hair to
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  match to be a fun companion for her new journey in life.
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  Shortly after admiring her new doll, she placed it on her bed
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  with its arms and legs out. For the next several days, it
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  became routine for Deirdre to come home from her studies,
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  spend time with the doll, and then place her back in the exact
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  same position with its arms and legs out on her bed.
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  Oddly, however, after the first several days of this new
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  routine, the young woman began to notice that something wasn't
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  quite right. Every morning she would lay her
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  doll back on her bed before heading to school with its arms
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  and legs stretched out. Yet every night upon her return,
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  she would find the doll in different positions.
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  Sometimes the doll's legs would be crossed and other times its
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  arms. And as the days went on, it
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  would even start to be seen in different parts of her room,
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  often times with its arms pointed outward.
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  But Deirdre's room would not be its only occupied space.
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  The doll would begin to be found in various positions all over
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  the apartment, and Deirdre wasn't the only person who was
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  witnessing these bizarre manifestations.
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  Her two roommates would seem to bear witness to them as well.
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  One evening, Deirdre returned home with her roommate Laura,
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  who was also a trainee nurse at the time, and her fiance, Cal.
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  Upon opening the door to their apartment, they would find the
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  doll kneeling before them. In a chair facing the door.
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  As if it had been waiting for them to return.
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  This not only scared everyone, but especially Deirdre, because
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  she knew for a fact that as per her routine that she had placed
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  the doll on her bed that very morning, it had inexplicably
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  moved on its own. To try and make sense of all
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  this, they moved the doll and then tried to reposition it back
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  into its original kneeling stance, the same one they had
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  seen when initially walking through the door.
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  But each time they tried to replicate the position.
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  Due to the design of the doll, this proved impossible.
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  The movement of the doll, as well as its position now left
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  the trio at a loss for words. The only conclusion they could
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  draw from the situation was that some kind of force was
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  manipulating the doll. Deirdre would place the doll
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  back in its normal position on her bed for the night, but this
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  experience would be far from the last for all of them.
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  Just several days following the previously mentioned happening,
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  a new phenomenon began to manifest.
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  Little notes written in pencil on parchment paper began to be
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  found randomly throughout the apartment, and at random times,
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  the messages included such phrases as help us or help Cal.
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  But despite the messages urgent requests for help, no one was
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  able to figure out just what they were referring to because
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  none of them were experiencing an urgent situation, including
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  Cal. And weirder still, none of them
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  kept parchment paper or pencils. This realization just further
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  deep into the mystery that was now unfolding before their very
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  eyes. At first, they believed that
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  possibly someone was breaking into their apartment to play
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  pranks on them. So in order to check if this
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  indeed was the case, Deirdre and Laura began leaving marks around
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  the windows and doors. Marks that if disturbed, would
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  show later on. They also rearranged their
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  furniture in an effort to ensure that if anyone was entering
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  their apartment unannounced that they would leave a trace.
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  But again, later that night, upon their return from their
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  studies, none of the furniture had been disturbed, nor had any
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  of their marks. Yet the doll had moved rooms.
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  Frightened and perplexed at this point, the trio tried to come up
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  with some potential solutions. But as they individually gave
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  them thought day in and day out, the doll would continue to move
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  on its own accord, positions and places.
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  One day, the three would return yet again as per their routine,
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  to find the doll yet again and another part of the apartment.
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  But this time there was something different.
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  This time they found it SAT with some kind of liquid on its
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  hands. Upon a closer look, they were
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  even more frightened because the liquid appeared to be blood.
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  And this blood was all over the doll's hands as well as 3
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  distinct dots of blood were also on its chest.
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  Terrified, the three sat in the living room and tried to figure
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  out some kind of game plan on how to handle the paranormal
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  situation they found themselves in.
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  Deidre would grab a phone book from the cupboard and begin
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  flicking through the pages. As the group talked.
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  One of her fingers would finally rest on a psychic mediums
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  number. During the brief call, they
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  would explain that they had been experiencing ghostly type
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  activity within their apartment, but they did not inform her
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  about the doll specifically. She would arrive the following
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  day to see what she could do to help.
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  As she walked through the apartment, she began to explain
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  to Laura and Deirdre about the spirit she felt had inhabited
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  the building. The ladies would eventually make
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  their way to Deirdre's room where the doll currently sat.
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  They asked what the medium felt in regards to the doll.
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  Upon examining it. She said she felt a strong
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  presence surrounding the object, but informed the two that she
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  would need to conduct a seance around it in order to discover
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  more information, so a seance was agreed to.
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  As the ritual was conducted around the doll, the medium
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  began to divulge information to Laura and Deirdre.
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  She claimed that she had channeled the spirit of a 7 year
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  old little girl named Annabelle Higgins.
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  She said that Annabelle used to play in the area long before the
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  houses and apartment buildings were there, back when all that
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  existed were fields. Many innocent and happy hours
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  were passed here until suddenly they ended.
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  Annabelle was confused as to what had happened to.
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  Her. To which the medium interpreted
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  to be her death. And since her death, the child
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  had wandered the place she was the happiest, the fields.
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  Once the apartments were built upon them, the halls quickly
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  became a lonely place for her to haunt.
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  With the lifestyles of most modern people requiring work
• 27:50
  most of the time, this meant that Annabelle had no one to
• 27:54
  play with. But then one day, two young
• 27:59
  women brought with them a playful looking doll.
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  Finally she had something to play with again and more so, she
• 28:08
  had the comfort of two young women who she believed would be
• 28:13
  more empathetic and accepting of her and would allow her to play
• 28:17
  with them through the vessel of the medium.
• 28:21
  Annabelle would ask if she could live in the doll and be with
• 28:25
  Deirdre and Laura. Touched by the young girl's
• 28:28
  story, the two women agreed and following the seance, they would
• 28:33
  name the doll Annabelle and the young girl's honor, a truly nice
• 28:38
  gesture from the two of them. However, upon agreeing to have
• 28:43
  Annabelle inhabit the doll and stay with them is when the
• 28:47
  haunting truly began. Convinced now that they were
• 28:51
  sharing a space with Annabelle, they began to treat the doll.
• 28:55
  As a living. Breathing person, it was no
• 28:59
  longer a lifeless toy, but the young and lonely little girl.
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  Regardless of the two ladies compassion, Cal was not so
• 29:10
  convinced. He sensed that something was
• 29:13
  very off in regards to this entire situation and believed
• 29:17
  that no good would come of it. He thought the doll could
• 29:22
  possibly be some kind of trickster or a conduit that
• 29:26
  disguised its true intentions. And in time, perhaps he was
• 29:32
  right. In the weeks following the
• 29:35
  seance, Cal began to feel ill at most times of the day with no
• 29:40
  rational origin, and at night, every night he began to have
• 29:47
  horrible nightmares. These experiences culminated
• 29:51
  with Cal waking up one night to find Annabelle gliding over his
• 29:56
  body. Before he could.
• 29:58
  React. The dolls hands were on either
• 30:00
  side of his neck, strangling. Him.
• 30:04
  Its large void like eyes staring into his as it sought to steal
• 30:10
  his life. In a later interview, Cal would
• 30:14
  describe the event like this. While I was lying there, I
• 30:19
  suddenly woke up and something seemed wrong to me.
• 30:24
  I looked around the room but nothing was out of place.
• 30:28
  But then I looked down towards my feet and I saw the rag doll
• 30:33
  Annabelle. It was slowly gliding up my
• 30:36
  body. It moved over my chest and
• 30:40
  stopped. Then it put its two arms out.
• 30:44
  One arm touched one side of my neck and the other touched the
• 30:48
  other side like it was making an electrical connection.
• 30:53
  Then I began to be strangled. I was writhing and trying to
• 30:58
  push the doll off my chest, but I might as well have been
• 31:01
  pushing on a wall because it wouldn't move as hard as he
• 31:07
  pushed against the doll. It would not budget, and just as
• 31:11
  he felt like he was slipping into unconsciousness with every
• 31:15
  fiber of his being, he pushed back and finally was able to
• 31:20
  throw the doll away from him. However, despite A terror struck
• 31:25
  but relieved Cow, this would be far from the last time that
• 31:29
  Annabelle would seek to destroy. One night when Deirdre was out
• 31:35
  of the apartment, Laura and Cow were spending time together in
• 31:39
  the living room. This relaxing time, however, was
• 31:43
  quickly interrupted with a large banging sound that emanated from
• 31:47
  Deirdre's room. The couple, confused as to what
• 31:51
  it could be, rushed to find the source with Cal headed in first.
• 31:56
  They threw the door. Open, expecting to see someone,
• 32:00
  but to their surprise, they were only met with the icy gaze of
• 32:05
  Annabelle. She was staring at them from the
• 32:08
  floor as if she had been tossed aside by someone.
• 32:12
  Cal walked over to the doll and went to pick it up, but suddenly
• 32:17
  he dropped Annabelle and screamed in pain.
• 32:21
  The young man winced in agony as white hot slashes lashed his
• 32:26
  chest. A small pool of blood began to
• 32:29
  form in the middle of his shirt as he frantically darted towards
• 32:33
  the door. Laura was paralyzed with fear as
• 32:37
  her boyfriend had been attacked by something that neither of
• 32:40
  them could see. The two would run out of the
• 32:43
  room and back to the living room as soon as possible, praying to
• 32:47
  God that this force wasn't pursuing them.
• 32:51
  When they reached the sofa, Laura pulled up Cow's blood
• 32:54
  soaked shirt to find several large gashes on his chest that
• 32:59
  looked like claw marks. By now, it was becoming
• 33:03
  increasingly clear that Annabelle sought to harm them
• 33:07
  upon informing Deirdre of what had happened while she was gone.
• 33:11
  When she arrived back at the apartment, the three, unsure of
• 33:16
  what else to do, contacted a local priest for help.
• 33:21
  He would in turn request permission to help from his
• 33:24
  superiors, and his superiors then passed on the information
• 33:29
  to paranormal investigators. Ed and Lorraine Warren.
• 33:33
  The Warrens were intrigued by what was allegedly taking place
• 33:38
  and decided to pursue the case in hopes of helping the young
• 33:41
  trio. Upon arriving at their
• 33:44
  apartment, hearing each person's testimonies and observing how
• 33:49
  the space felt, as well as the doll itself, the Warrens
• 33:54
  believed the happenings to be a result of a heavy demonic
• 33:59
  infestation. They believed that the demon
• 34:02
  didn't specifically haunt just their apartment, but rather the
• 34:06
  building itself and the land around it that it had seemed the
• 34:11
  doll as a way in. They further explained that the
• 34:15
  seance had essentially allowed the demon to communicate
• 34:18
  directly with them to be invited into their lives.
• 34:23
  All of those who were present and taking place in the ritual
• 34:27
  were highly vulnerable spiritually and.
• 34:30
  This opened them up to manipulation from the demon.
• 34:35
  Which spun a false narrative that it was instead the spirit
• 34:39
  of little lonely Annabelle. Then following the seance,
• 34:46
  Deirdre and Laura had paid credence to the doll instead of
• 34:50
  ignoring it, which only fed the demon more energy.
• 34:55
  It would then continue to feed off them by manipulating their
• 34:59
  caring and maternal emotions. Since the women were powerless
• 35:03
  to resist feeling sorry. For the little girl who just
• 35:07
  wanted to play and be cared for. But once the women had accepted
• 35:12
  the demon into their lives, they and everyone around them became
• 35:17
  fair game. The entity no longer had to
• 35:20
  masquerade itself. It was free to unleash its true
• 35:24
  form. The couple had sensed that the
• 35:27
  demon was a very powerful one, and given how strong it had
• 35:31
  continued to grow and infest their lives, given its
• 35:35
  proclivity to violence, if left unchecked, it would have
• 35:40
  probably tried to kill one or all of them within the next
• 35:44
  several weeks. After explaining the seriousness
• 35:48
  of the situation they found themselves in, the Warrens then
• 35:52
  contacted a priest they frequently worked with on
• 35:55
  demonic cases, a man named Father Everett, and Father
• 36:00
  Everett agreed to come and bless the apartment in an attempt to
• 36:04
  weaken or drive out the demon entirely.
• 36:08
  In due time, he too would arrive and conduct the blessing.
• 36:13
  Once Father Everett was finished and had departed, the Warrens
• 36:17
  warned the group that if the blessing hadn't driven the demon
• 36:21
  out, that it at this time was severely weakened, but could
• 36:25
  potentially come back with a vengeance.
• 36:28
  Believing the doll to be a conduit at Deirdre's request,
• 36:33
  the Warrens took Annabelle with them.
• 36:36
  When they left Deirdre, Laura and Cal were now thankfully free
• 36:42
  of the demonic entity that had plagued their lives.
• 36:45
  However, Annabelle's story is far from over.
• 36:50
  The Warrens problems seem to begin as soon as Annabelle was
• 36:55
  stuffed into Ed's briefcase. As the couple was headed home,
• 36:59
  they began to experience engine issues in their vehicle which
• 37:04
  almost resulted in multiple head on collisions.
• 37:08
  The demonic entity was causing the power steering and brakes to
• 37:12
  fail and even the engine to stall.
• 37:16
  Once they were able to finally get back home, the doll would be
• 37:20
  placed within the Warren's office, specifically with an
• 37:24
  edge chair. In the days to come, the warns
• 37:27
  would begin to witness the doll manifesting paranormal activity
• 37:31
  within their very house. The doll was seen levitating on
• 37:36
  several occasions and began to frequently teleport to different
• 37:41
  rooms and the same little notes written with pencil on parchment
• 37:47
  paper began to appear with all 2 familiar phrases such as help me
• 37:55
  and then now help us. On top of.
• 37:59
  This one evening while she was alone, Lorraine began to hear
• 38:03
  what she described as loud, rolling growls that reverberated
• 38:09
  within the walls and throughout their entire house.
• 38:13
  Following this night, the Warrens would be visited by
• 38:17
  Father Daniel Mills, the Catholic priest the couple were
• 38:20
  also working with. Upon inquiring about their
• 38:24
  dealings with the doll, the priest made the mistake of
• 38:28
  picking up Annabelle and telling her that you are nothing but a
• 38:32
  rag doll and you can't hurt anything.
• 38:37
  As the priest laughed, Ed warned him to never touch or say
• 38:41
  anything like that to the doll ever again.
• 38:45
  As he prepared to leave, Lorraine warned the priest to
• 38:48
  please drive carefully because her clairvoyance had revealed to
• 38:52
  her an impending tragedy involving a young priest.
• 38:58
  Appreciating her concern but riding the situation off, Father
• 39:02
  Mills departed the Warren's residence a few hours later.
• 39:07
  He would be involved in that near fatal car accident which
• 39:11
  totaled his vehicle after his car's brakes had mysteriously
• 39:18
  failed. Upon receiving the news that the
• 39:21
  priest was hurt but would survive following the accident,
• 39:25
  the Horns decided to lock Annabelle away and hopes that
• 39:29
  she would never be able to hurt anyone ever again.
• 39:33
  They would douse. Her in holy water and place her
• 39:36
  within a blessed class case. A blessed crucifix would also be
• 39:41
  placed on the outside of the box, as well as a warning sign
• 39:47
  asking anyone who may come across the doll not to touch it.
• 39:52
  The doll was then placed and their occult item collection.
• 39:56
  Although Annabelle was now sealed away in hopes that she
• 39:59
  would no longer harm anyone, her power still seems to affect
• 40:04
  those who visit her after Ed passed away.
• 40:09
  Lorraine and several interviews. Would refer to Annabelle as one
• 40:13
  of the most evil objects she had ever come into contact with.
• 40:18
  Besides numerous bouts of bad luck, some people have even said
• 40:23
  to have encountered death as a result of meeting her, as well
• 40:27
  as others losing their minds completely and ending up in
• 40:32
  psychiatric care for the rest of their earthly existence.
• 40:37
  One day, a young man visited the Warrens Museum and clearly did
• 40:41
  not think things through. He went up to and challenged the
• 40:46
  doll, wanting the worst of whatever it had to offer.
• 40:51
  He had apparently driven to the museum with his girlfriend on
• 40:54
  his motorcycle. Upon their departure, 3 hours
• 40:59
  into their trip home, the man would lose control of his
• 41:03
  vehicle and would hit a tree at a very high speed.
• 41:08
  He would die almost instantly due to the impact.
• 41:12
  His girlfriend, on the other hand, survived but would remain
• 41:17
  hospitalized for over a year. Was this particular instance
• 41:22
  coincidence or the demon inhabiting the doll inflicting
• 41:27
  exactly what it had to offer? Although the Warrens did explain
• 41:32
  how the demon came into the doll, it begs a bit of a deeper
• 41:36
  question, one that we've seen reoccurring multiple times over
• 41:41
  our various coverage of haunted objects.
• 41:45
  And that is how much attention is too much attention or
• 41:50
  dedication when it comes to objects, Because it seems like
• 41:54
  depending on your spiritual state and location, that
• 41:58
  dedication or that imbuement could potentially open a door or
• 42:03
  create a vessel for something malicious to make its way in.
• 42:08
  I know that the Warrens are controversial figures now, even
• 42:13
  in death, but regardless, they are integral to many of the
• 42:17
  paranormal stories we have and will have covered in the future.
• 42:22
  But what do you think? Was Annabelle truly possessed?
• 42:27
  Was the whole case legitimate or a hoax?
• 42:32
  And with these questions, you may find yourself wondering,
• 42:35
  where is the Annabelle doll today?
• 42:38
  Annabelle remains sealed in the same box she was placed in 50
• 42:42
  years ago. Ed and Lorraine's daughter Judy
• 42:45
  Spira and her husband Tony continue to hold the torch for
• 42:50
  the warrants and their work. Annabelle is on display for all
• 42:55
  to see at the Occult Museum. And if you choose to visit, if
• 43:00
  you happen to find yourself staring into her big dark eyes,
• 43:05
  just know that if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss
• 43:10
  just may stare back at you. Can a soul or the essence of an
• 43:26
  entity become trapped inside of an object?
• 43:30
  Could one channeling enough energy, dedication and care into
• 43:35
  something allow an otherworldly presence to possess it,
• 43:40
  attracting spirits like moths to a flame?
• 43:44
  We have covered haunted objects here before, such as Akiku the
• 43:48
  Doll, among others, but this story is too infamous to not be
• 43:53
  given the time of day, and although it has been told many
• 43:57
  times, perhaps you will learn a detail or two that you've never
• 44:01
  heard before. This is the untold story of
• 44:04
  Robert the Doll and the malevolent monstrosity that
• 44:08
  stares at the world from behind its beady little lies.
• 44:20
  At first glance, most people tend to agree that although
• 44:24
  dolls of all sorts can be creepy to say the least, there's
• 44:28
  something particularly unnerving about the doll that has become
• 44:31
  known to the world as Robert. But behind the initial feelings
• 44:36
  of unease at first glance lies many tales of accidents, tragedy
• 44:41
  and misfortune, all supposedly at Robert's hands, far too many
• 44:46
  within his presence to just be a string of awful coincidences.
• 44:51
  But if an evil force supposedly lives within the confines of
• 44:55
  this century old child's toy, to come to recognize and understand
• 44:59
  just what it could be, we must first tell it's story.
• 45:02
  And to tell Robert's story properly, we must first start at
• 45:06
  the very beginning. As with many legends, there are
• 45:10
  multiple versions of the origin story and how Robert the Doll
• 45:13
  came to be. Having read through most if not
• 45:16
  all of them, I'll be sharing with you the most agreed upon
• 45:20
  origin for accuracy's sake in the beginning, and we will
• 45:24
  explore other theories and origin stories later.
• 45:27
  In this video, the years 19-O four and a man named Thomas Otto
• 45:32
  is on a trip in Germany. Whether it was for business or
• 45:36
  leisure, we can't say, but during his trip, he decided to
• 45:40
  pick up a gift for his young grandson's birthday to take back
• 45:44
  home with him to the States. As he perused various shops
• 45:49
  throughout his time there, he stumbled across a toy that he
• 45:52
  believed would be the perfect fit for the young boy.
• 45:56
  Perched on display behind a pale glass window sat a doll.
• 46:00
  The doll was about the size of a young child and was accompanied
• 46:04
  by a small dog doll as well. Knowing that his grandson was
• 46:08
  lonely on the large family estate and was very fond of dogs
• 46:12
  as well, Thomas believed he had found what he had been searching
• 46:16
  for and quickly purchased the toy.
• 46:18
  In due time he would find his way back to the United States
• 46:22
  once his trip was over, bringing his precious cargo with him,
• 46:26
  making his way back to the family estate located in Key
• 46:30
  West, FL to greet his family after months abroad, Thomas and
• 46:35
  an act of innocence and excitement gifted the toy to his
• 46:38
  grandson Eugene for his 8th birthday.
• 46:42
  As soon as Eugene laid eyes on the gift he had received, he
• 46:45
  became ecstatic. With no other children his own
• 46:49
  age in the home or nearby, he now for once had his very own
• 46:53
  friend. His own best friend and one that
• 46:56
  could accompany him wherever he went.
• 46:59
  Sitting at around 3 feet tall with his little dog, Eugene
• 47:03
  named his new friend Robert. But Robert of course needed
• 47:07
  clothes to fit for years of adventures to come.
• 47:10
  So Eugene's mother Maria quickly found just what he was missing.
• 47:15
  A small sailor's outfit that had once belonged to her son but had
• 47:19
  long since been outgrown. After placing Robert in his new
• 47:23
  clothes, the two were off to play and soon became
• 47:27
  inseparable. Wherever Eugene win, Robert
• 47:30
  accompanied him from hours of play inside and outside of the
• 47:34
  house to the dinner table and bedtime.
• 47:38
  His new best friend was everything the young man wanted
• 47:42
  and much more. Besides constant companionship,
• 47:46
  Eugene began to confide in the doll, often speaking to him as
• 47:50
  if he was a person and his own right.
• 47:53
  His parents, who were first just as elated as their young son was
• 47:57
  at his excitement over his new toy, began to grow concerned
• 48:01
  over how close their son was to the doll.
• 48:04
  But they would initially write off the behavior as most would,
• 48:09
  since lonely children with their imaginations still very much
• 48:12
  active will typically invent imaginary friends or adventurous
• 48:17
  stories to fill the void or lack of friends and real adventures
• 48:22
  within their daily lives. But over the months since Robert
• 48:26
  had arrived, they noticed a bizarre shift in Eugene's
• 48:30
  personality. He began to grow extremely
• 48:33
  possessive and obsessive over Robert and would lash out at his
• 48:37
  parents, sometimes violently, if the doll was not in his sight at
• 48:42
  all times. It would soon appear that
• 48:45
  Eugene's obsession with his cloth companion and shift in
• 48:48
  behavior wasn't the only strange activity that was taking place.
• 48:53
  One night, as she tucked her son into bed, Maria overheard Eugene
• 48:58
  whispering to Robert, something that at this point had become a
• 49:02
  daily occurrence. But as she.
• 49:04
  Closed the door to his room and began to walk away.
• 49:08
  She heard a deep, guttural voice respond to her son.
• 49:13
  Shocked and terrified, she rushed back into her son's room
• 49:18
  only to find him laying with the doll.
• 49:20
  As per usual. When she asked him just who was
• 49:23
  speaking, he simply answered Robert.
• 49:28
  This scary happening wouldn't be the last.
• 49:32
  About a year into Robert the Doll inhabiting their Key West
• 49:36
  estate, the Ottos noticed yet another shift in their son's
• 49:40
  behavior, but this time it was almost the exact opposite of
• 49:44
  what the initial shift had been. Eugene had gone from a quiet and
• 49:49
  shy but charming young man to a belligerent, angry, and
• 49:54
  possessive boy. But now he had become one that
• 49:58
  was meek, full of anxiety, and constantly seemed like he was
• 50:02
  walking on egg shells. He had now also taken to violent
• 50:07
  fits on occasion, as if something was trying to overtake
• 50:11
  his body and soul. The guttural voice that Maria
• 50:15
  had heard a year ago could be heard much more frequently now,
• 50:20
  and just as frequently, almost nightly, it became commonplace
• 50:25
  to hear what sounded like glass breaking and constant commotion
• 50:29
  coming from Eugene's room. Upon hearing the turmoil, his
• 50:34
  parents would rush to discover the source.
• 50:37
  Upon opening their son's door, they would find his furniture
• 50:40
  dumped upside down. Other toys of his would be
• 50:44
  smashed or in pieces, and Eugene would almost always be in the.
• 50:50
  Corner of the room. In his bed, petrified, while
• 50:55
  Robert the doll would be in his usual space nearby.
• 51:00
  Upon asking just what had happened, they would be met with
• 51:04
  an all too familiar answer. At this point they would ask
• 51:08
  just who did this? Eugene and his answer would
• 51:11
  always be Robert. Noticing the activity becoming
• 51:16
  more and more intense and being a God fearing woman herself,
• 51:21
  Maria was deeply disturbed by what was taking place in her
• 51:24
  home and what was taking place to her family, particularly her
• 51:29
  son. Besides the nightly terror that
• 51:32
  now plagued them, she was very much disturbed by this guttural
• 51:36
  voice that she kept hearing. Knowing that her son had not yet
• 51:39
  matured, she knew that there was no way his voice could reach
• 51:43
  that deep level of tonality and malice that she often heard.
• 51:49
  At times, the voice would even shout and speak over Eugene, and
• 51:54
  unless he was exceptionally good of ventriloquism, something was
• 51:58
  horrifically wrong. It was if the devil himself now
• 52:01
  occupied the walls of their home like a stain or a liquid, the
• 52:07
  presence had slowly seeped in and permeated throughout their
• 52:12
  lives. One night, as per usual, the
• 52:16
  family settles down to sleep. As the clouds spiral and the
• 52:21
  moon now haunts the sky above them, gleaming down overhead,
• 52:26
  the family's peace is shattered by the horrific screams of their
• 52:30
  son and the echoes of the sounds of things being broken.
• 52:36
  Wide eyed and terrified, Eugene's parents rushed to their
• 52:40
  son's aid, Lantern in hand. The closer they get to his room,
• 52:45
  the louder the low and horrible voice becomes, and the louder
• 52:50
  the screams of Eugene become as well.
• 52:54
  The deep voice that had been growing louder suddenly was
• 52:57
  silent like the winter's snow as hands touched the doorknob.
• 53:03
  Quickly overcoming their fear for the sake of their boy, the
• 53:07
  couple throw the door open to find their son huddled
• 53:09
  underneath his sheets. His room was almost completely
• 53:14
  destroyed. Most of his belongings were in
• 53:17
  pieces or tatters, from what was left of his toys to his
• 53:22
  furniture to even his clothes. Poor Eugene was shaking in the
• 53:27
  corner of his room opposite his bed, and Robert, along with his
• 53:33
  beady eyed companion were in his bed staring at them all
• 53:37
  silently. By this point, Maria knew that
• 53:41
  whatever Robert was or whatever inhabited him was truly evil.
• 53:46
  But unsure of how to handle the situation or what exactly they
• 53:50
  were dealing with and a fit of rage, she grabbed the doll and
• 53:55
  rushed to the attic, casting Robert and his canine companion
• 54:00
  into the darkness above. This would remain his home until
• 54:04
  a better idea presented itself as to what to do with him.
• 54:08
  The low groans and screams and breaking ceased in Eugene's
• 54:13
  room, but would frequently be heard in the attic.
• 54:18
  With having such a large estate to care for, the family did have
• 54:22
  a team of servants to care for the property, but their loyal
• 54:26
  crew, having experienced the strangeness themselves, up and
• 54:31
  quit. The servants soon became a
• 54:34
  revolving door with new faces almost always coming and going
• 54:39
  just as quickly as they started, despite his banishment to the
• 54:43
  attic. Alongside the occasional
• 54:45
  crashing sounds and yelling, the family said that they would also
• 54:49
  hear Robert walking around, the pitter patter of his small feet
• 54:54
  often being heard echoing all throughout the house, especially
• 54:59
  at night when he seemed to truly come alive, so to speak.
• 55:04
  As the years passed, and despite all of the childhood trauma and
• 55:09
  fear inflicted on him by the demonic doll, unbeknownst to any
• 55:13
  rational mind, after his parents passing, Eugene would choose to
• 55:18
  take Robert back into his possession as an adult.
• 55:22
  Perhaps he did this to ensure that Robert wouldn't inflict
• 55:25
  terror upon anyone else. Maybe he felt like he had the
• 55:29
  most experience dealing with him and therefore he was the most
• 55:33
  equipped to handle anything that could possibly happen as a
• 55:36
  result of his presence. Eugene in his adult years became
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  an artist and would later marry and have a family of his own.
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  He kept Robert propped up in the window of his art studio known
• 55:49
  as the Turret Room, which overlooked his front yard.
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  And then Eugene's wife was said to disapprove of Robert's
• 55:57
  presence in the house and demanded that he be gotten rid
• 56:00
  of or banished into the attic or basement.
• 56:04
  For a short time this took place, but naturally Robert
• 56:08
  didn't take kindly to this and apparently began to make threats
• 56:12
  towards her by visiting her in her dreams and verbally telling
• 56:17
  Eugene that if he was not moved back, horrible things would
• 56:21
  happen to his family. So eventually Robert was placed
• 56:26
  back in the turret room. Aside from this, I couldn't find
• 56:30
  any additional information on the happenings that took place
• 56:33
  during those years inside the home.
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  I would hope and imagine that perhaps Robert had gone dormant
• 56:39
  during this time, especially since Eugene did eventually have
• 56:43
  children of his own and hopefully didn't allow them to
• 56:46
  be compromised by having such a thing in the house.
• 56:50
  There were, however, reports of passerby's, school children and
• 56:54
  neighbors feeling a strange presence when passing by the
• 56:57
  house on a daily basis. Others would say that they could
• 57:01
  see Robert move, but in the blink of an eye, he'd be back to
• 57:05
  where he was sitting. Eugene Otto would continue to
• 57:09
  spend the rest of his life painting in the turret room with
• 57:11
  Robert the Doll until his death in 1974.
• 57:16
  However, this bizarre legend does not stop with his death.
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  Upon Eugene's passing, his family sold the house to a woman
• 57:25
  named a Myrtle Reuter. Upon moving into the home, she
• 57:29
  noticed sitting in the window of the turret room was a small doll
• 57:34
  with a sailor's uniform. She thought this to be strange
• 57:38
  since the Otto family had not left any other belongings behind
• 57:42
  when they'd moved, but regardless, she decided to keep
• 57:46
  it. Myrtle soon began to realize
• 57:49
  that there was something different about this doll.
• 57:52
  Upon house cleaning, she would typically notice that he moved
• 57:56
  around the room, seemingly by himself.
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  At night, she would hear what she described as small footsteps
• 58:05
  all throughout the house. Guess who would visit her?
• 58:09
  Claimed too that Robert would move of his own volition and
• 58:13
  that his blank expression would change to one of rage if anyone
• 58:17
  discussed him in a negative way. Myrtle would eventually reach
• 58:21
  out and speak with the widowed Annette Otto, who would confirm
• 58:25
  her worst fears that something otherworldly inhabited Robert
• 58:30
  the doll. After dealing with his antics
• 58:33
  for years, she finally decided to reach out to a local museum
• 58:38
  and would donate Robert in 1994 to the Fort E Martello Museum in
• 58:43
  Key West, FL, where he remains today.
• 58:47
  But as with each previous relocation, his story does not
• 58:51
  end here either. Placed inside his own glass
• 58:54
  display for the public to see him each and every day, one
• 58:58
  would think that perhaps Robert's antics would cease.
• 59:02
  He was of course a natural source of curiosity and would be
• 59:06
  seen and admired by many people daily.
• 59:09
  But you would be very wrong. Staff at the museum have claimed
• 59:13
  to find Robert in various positions within his case, as if
• 59:17
  he was attempting to break out of it or had been out of it
• 59:20
  prior and had just re entered it.
• 59:24
  The Phantom Footsteps is previously claimed by all three
• 59:27
  families has also been reported, as well as the dolls expression
• 59:32
  changing from neutral to nasty in an instant.
• 59:37
  The afflictions first started with the staff themselves, from
• 59:41
  horrible bouts of rare diseases to relationship breakdowns and
• 59:47
  marriage failures, as well as unique instances of psychosis.
• 59:52
  Over the years the Curse of Robert the Doll began to take
• 59:56
  shape and become a well known phenomena, but it would soon
• 1:00:01
  spread to many others besides the staff themselves.
• 1:00:05
  Many people upon visiting Robert's exhibit finding him
• 1:00:09
  strange to say the least, but often mock him, berate him, or
• 1:00:15
  just laugh at his appearance. Little did they know that they
• 1:00:18
  would be inviting the wrath of something otherworldly.
• 1:00:23
  Shortly after their visit, droves of people began to
• 1:00:26
  experience shockingly similar happenings to that of the staff,
• 1:00:31
  varying in intensity, almost as if their punishment was being
• 1:00:36
  tapered to fit their crimes. From less serious experiences
• 1:00:41
  like paranormal activity beginning in their home,
• 1:00:44
  horrible luck and job loss to name a few, to much more serious
• 1:00:50
  experiences like exotic disease diagnosis, rare cancers,
• 1:00:56
  relationship disintegration and others, car accidents, falls,
• 1:01:03
  and even untimely death. Eventually, a warning would be
• 1:01:08
  added to Robert's exhibit explaining the alleged curse and
• 1:01:12
  the proper etiquette to approach him with, whether that's to
• 1:01:16
  observe or take a photo is to not offend whoever or whatever
• 1:01:21
  inhabits the doll itself. Over the decades, an entire wall
• 1:01:26
  has been dedicated to the letters people have dropped off
• 1:01:30
  or sent the museum if they weren't able to come in person,
• 1:01:34
  begging for Robert's forgiveness, hoping to end
• 1:01:37
  whatever horrible situation they found themselves in after their
• 1:01:42
  visit. To this day, there are over 1000
• 1:01:45
  letters, with more continuing to be added each and every year.
• 1:01:50
  Could there be more to this legend?
• 1:01:52
  As I mentioned in the beginning of the video, there is another
• 1:01:56
  origin story that could explain just what inhabits the doll and
• 1:02:00
  how it got there. I will also add several elements
• 1:02:03
  that I found interesting relating to the case itself.
• 1:02:08
  The alternative origin story says that a young woman of
• 1:02:11
  Bahamian descent gave Thomas Otter the doll as a retaliation
• 1:02:16
  for a misdeed. As to why this would have taken
• 1:02:19
  place is not known, but speculation has led many to
• 1:02:23
  believe that the girl, or perhaps a relative, had been a
• 1:02:27
  member of staff at some point or another at the family's Key West
• 1:02:31
  estate. The retaliation was that the
• 1:02:34
  doll had been imbued with a spirit that had been conjured
• 1:02:38
  using voodoo, and by trapping the entity within the doll,
• 1:02:42
  making it its vessel, it became aware of its surroundings and
• 1:02:46
  knew what it was sent there to do.
• 1:02:49
  Although with many details in this case, lots of details can't
• 1:02:53
  be corroborated due to the age of the story itself, but there
• 1:02:57
  are a few details that I managed to dig up that are interesting.
• 1:03:01
  The doll itself appears to have been manufactured by the Stife
• 1:03:04
  Company, a German family company that was headed by German
• 1:03:08
  designer Richard Stife, the original designer of the beloved
• 1:03:12
  teddy bear. And the original design of the
• 1:03:15
  doll in particular, and others that were similar to it were not
• 1:03:19
  designed as toys, but rather stage props for the time.
• 1:03:23
  So it's hard to say if Robert was ever intended as a toy in
• 1:03:26
  the 1st place. The family tree of the Ottos
• 1:03:30
  also has conflicting information in regards to birth and death
• 1:03:34
  dates as well as names, but I did my best to corroborate this
• 1:03:38
  information and I'll be linking the info in the description
• 1:03:42
  below. Today, Robert continues to be on
• 1:03:45
  display and his antics continue to persist.
• 1:03:50
  He seems to be just as powerful as he was all those years ago.
• 1:03:54
  The museum keeps a catalogued record of all ailments that have
• 1:03:57
  been reported as a result of offending him for future
• 1:04:01
  reference. His reach also continues to
• 1:04:04
  expand as his legend grows and becomes more and more well known
• 1:04:09
  across the world. Robert the doll has been the
• 1:04:12
  inspiration behind many books, movies and podcasts as well as a
• 1:04:18
  local legend in Florida. And this lesson truly applies to
• 1:04:22
  anyone and everyone. Have respect when you meet
• 1:04:26
  someone because you never truly know who or what you could be
• 1:04:31
  dealing with. And please.
• 1:04:34
  If you find. Yourself at the East Martello
• 1:04:37
  Museum in Key West, FL and you happen to come into contact with
• 1:04:41
  the entity known as Robert the Doll.
• 1:04:45
  Be respectful, because if you're not, you may just pay the
• 1:04:49
  ultimate price. Could an item, if given enough
• 1:05:03
  energy, devotion and focus, begin to take on a life of its
• 1:05:09
  own? Could it begin to exhibit human
• 1:05:11
  like characteristics as if it has been imbued with or contains
• 1:05:16
  some kind of soul or entity inside of it?
• 1:05:20
  This act of magic has been practiced by multiple religions
• 1:05:23
  and cults throughout the ages. This is just one very strange
• 1:05:28
  example that it could indeed be possible.
• 1:05:31
  After a gracious gift was placed into the arms of a little girl,
• 1:05:36
  tragedy would strike and what follows would continue to haunt
• 1:05:40
  the family, the citizens of the village, and would soon cross
• 1:05:44
  far beyond the barriers of land and sea.
• 1:05:48
  This is the untold story of Akiku, the haunted Japanese
• 1:05:53
  doll, and the bizarre paranormal force that possessed it.
• 1:06:06
  Japan is a very mystical and spiritual place, a place where
• 1:06:11
  the souls of the past seem to interact with the living.
• 1:06:16
  Such places where the spiritual energy seems to be most visible
• 1:06:21
  is throughout many of Japan's spiritual temples, home to many
• 1:06:25
  religions, the two main ones being Buddhism and Shintoism.
• 1:06:30
  Thousands of temples exist all over the country, but one in
• 1:06:35
  particular houses a spiritual artifact that has a tragic back
• 1:06:39
  story and an even more terrifying story that continues
• 1:06:43
  to be written to this day. Located in Hokkaido, Japan at
• 1:06:48
  the Menenji Buddhist Temple is a doll with a bizarre and tragic
• 1:06:54
  back story. Indeed.
• 1:06:56
  Although there are several origin stories of how the doll
• 1:06:59
  came to be and how the temple became its final living space,
• 1:07:03
  so to speak, all of them have most of the main details in
• 1:07:07
  common. Therefore, I'll be telling the
• 1:07:10
  most agreed upon origin story to try and be as true to the legend
• 1:07:15
  as I can. The years 1918 in Hokkaido,
• 1:07:19
  Japan and a 17 year old boy by the name of Ikiki Suzuki is in
• 1:07:25
  search of a gift for his little sister's birthday.
• 1:07:29
  As he pursues the different vendors and small shops,
• 1:07:33
  something soon catches his attention and one of the store
• 1:07:37
  windows. He spots a small childlike doll
• 1:07:41
  wearing a traditional Japanese kimono.
• 1:07:44
  Knowing that he had finally found something his sister will
• 1:07:47
  love, Akiki quickly purchases the doll and makes his way back
• 1:07:52
  home through the countryside. As the family celebrates their
• 1:07:56
  little girl's birthday, Akiku is presented with the doll and
• 1:08:01
  almost immediately, as soon as her eyes meet hers, she falls in
• 1:08:06
  love with him. The two from this point become
• 1:08:09
  inseparable. Wherever Okiku is, her doll is
• 1:08:13
  right by her side. She Combs her hair, bathes her,
• 1:08:18
  dresses her, and treats her as if she was her little sister.
• 1:08:23
  The two even share meals and sleep side by side.
• 1:08:27
  The joy that the doll brought Okiku must have filled Ekiki's
• 1:08:31
  heart with such happiness. But soon that happiness would
• 1:08:35
  change to tragedy. 1 hot day. As the little girl played
• 1:08:40
  outside with her doll, she was bitten by a mosquito.
• 1:08:44
  This benign insect by it would soon manifest itself into a
• 1:08:48
  horrible case of malaria. Although the family did
• 1:08:52
  everything they could possibly do, Okiku would pass away scared
• 1:08:58
  and gasping for air as she clutched her special doll all
• 1:09:02
  the way until the moment she took her last breath devastated.
• 1:09:07
  The Suzuki's plan to have their little girl buried with the doll
• 1:09:10
  since she loved it so much, but unfortunately, due to either
• 1:09:15
  governmental or religious oversight at the time, this
• 1:09:18
  wasn't an option. Instead, after they had laid a
• 1:09:22
  Kiku to rest, the doll would be placed on a small family shrine
• 1:09:26
  located within the living quarters of their home as a
• 1:09:30
  tribute of sorts to their late daughter and their love for her.
• 1:09:34
  But shortly after the doll was placed on the shrine, very
• 1:09:38
  strange things began to happen. A Kiki, upon walking past the
• 1:09:42
  shrine one day, noticed that the dolls hair seemed significantly
• 1:09:46
  longer than what it had been when it was placed there.
• 1:09:50
  The hair which was originally shoulders length on the doll
• 1:09:53
  itself and black was now overgrown with differing shades
• 1:09:59
  of brown hair also coming through and splitting at the
• 1:10:02
  ends. Finding this bizarre to say the
• 1:10:05
  least, he brought the discovery to his parents attention and
• 1:10:09
  unsure of what else to do, they trimmed the dolls hair as the
• 1:10:14
  days came and when the family began to have distressing dreams
• 1:10:17
  at night of their departed Okiku.
• 1:10:20
  Sometimes she would be scared and alone in the darkness,
• 1:10:24
  calling out to them, only being recognized by her voice.
• 1:10:29
  Other times she would blame them for what happened to her.
• 1:10:33
  Each member of the family at differing times had these
• 1:10:36
  dreams, and they would soon lead all of them to believe that
• 1:10:40
  Akiku's soul wasn't peacefully resting.
• 1:10:43
  These disturbing dreams soon became all the stranger when the
• 1:10:47
  doll, which they began to refer to as Akiku and their daughter's
• 1:10:52
  honor, would appear by their bedsides following these
• 1:10:56
  nightmares. One such incident involved the
• 1:11:00
  father of the family waking up in a cold sweat only to be met
• 1:11:04
  face to face with a blank and lifeless stare of the doll.
• 1:11:11
  Unsure of what was taking place, the Suzuki's turn to their
• 1:11:15
  faith. After contacting a local
• 1:11:18
  Buddhist priest and having a cleansing ritual be performed on
• 1:11:21
  their home and the doll, the activity seemed to grow and
• 1:11:26
  become stronger. Accompanying their ever frequent
• 1:11:29
  nightmares and random movements of the doll, the chilling events
• 1:11:34
  grew into full blown spiritual manifestations during their
• 1:11:38
  waking life. They soon began to hear banging
• 1:11:41
  noises all throughout the house and the whispers of a little
• 1:11:45
  girl. Strange disembodied voices
• 1:11:49
  varying from high pitched like those of a child to the low
• 1:11:53
  groans of something unexplainable began to be heard.
• 1:11:58
  Their lights began to flicker on and off, and the paranormal
• 1:12:02
  activity seemed to happen more frequently as the calendar
• 1:12:06
  ticked closer to the birth and death dates of Akiku.
• 1:12:12
  These strange and terrifying happenings would continue over
• 1:12:15
  the course of the next 20 years, with multiple religious, priests
• 1:12:20
  and shamans being contacted and all coming to the same
• 1:12:24
  conclusion that after the cleansings failed time and time
• 1:12:27
  again, that the restless spirit of Akiku now inhabited the doll
• 1:12:32
  she once loved so much. Finally needing a major change
• 1:12:37
  and unable to deal with the ever intensifying spiritual presence
• 1:12:42
  that seemed to haunt their home, the Suzuki's relocated to a
• 1:12:46
  different district. Believing the doll to be the
• 1:12:49
  source of their various ailments and emotional torture that they
• 1:12:53
  had endured over the last two decades, they had no desire to
• 1:12:57
  take it with them. The family had reached the
• 1:12:59
  conclusion that if their daughter's soul wasn't at peace,
• 1:13:03
  what could perhaps be helping to fuel Akiku's power or magic was
• 1:13:08
  the close proximity of her grave to their home where the doll
• 1:13:12
  resided. So in order to distance the doll
• 1:13:15
  from the grave, the family approached the Meninge Buddhist
• 1:13:18
  Temple in Hokkaido and over the years the dolls reputation for
• 1:13:23
  being haunted had spread throughout the community and
• 1:13:27
  indeed the majority of the country.
• 1:13:29
  This was more than likely due to the various interactions between
• 1:13:33
  the spiritual community and the Suzuki family, finding the doll
• 1:13:37
  to be mesmerizing and possibly a unique opportunity to commute
• 1:13:42
  and interact with the dead. If the.
• 1:13:44
  Stories were true. The leaders and priests of the
• 1:13:47
  Menenji temple agreed to home Okiku permanently.
• 1:13:51
  As with many legends, we find lots of details to be
• 1:13:55
  exaggerated over time, and perhaps some of the details to
• 1:13:59
  not be true at all. And this is what the priests
• 1:14:02
  were originally thinking, that perhaps due to grief, the family
• 1:14:06
  was dealing with other spiritual ailments.
• 1:14:09
  Perhaps unrelated to the doll, or causing the doll to be a
• 1:14:13
  vessel of sorts for restless spirits.
• 1:14:16
  However, as the years came and went, as Akiku now called the
• 1:14:20
  temple her home, they began to slowly but surely experience the
• 1:14:25
  same strangeness the Suzuki's had for all of those years.
• 1:14:30
  Akiku's hair continued to grow and this baffled the priests.
• 1:14:35
  They would eventually have the hair trimmed and tested, and the
• 1:14:39
  hair was said to belong to a little girl.
• 1:14:43
  They found that the entity seemed to be appeased when her
• 1:14:45
  hair was trimmed and combed, and this led to less activity for a
• 1:14:50
  time. But the same activity?
• 1:14:53
  The knocking, banging, and disembodied voices which soon
• 1:14:58
  plagued the temple as well. No, Kiku's power only seemed to
• 1:15:03
  grow. Any priest who seemed skeptical
• 1:15:06
  of the doll or attempted to cleanse it themselves soon had
• 1:15:09
  their dreams haunted as well, turning their sleep into
• 1:15:13
  restless fits. Their homes and rooms soon also
• 1:15:18
  began to manifest the very same activity that the temple was now
• 1:15:22
  exhibiting. With no remedy seeming to work,
• 1:15:25
  the leaders turned to appeasement instead, hoping that
• 1:15:29
  gestures of goodwill would keep the entity at Bay.
• 1:15:33
  As years turn to decades, and as we've come into the 21st
• 1:15:37
  century, the priests of multiple generations now have overseen
• 1:15:42
  and cared for the Dahl known as Akiku.
• 1:15:45
  And though some of the more violent activity has faded, the
• 1:15:49
  general consensus is that she is now just as powerful as she was,
• 1:15:53
  or is perhaps more powerful as she's continued to age.
• 1:15:58
  It seems like as the more her fame and notoriety grows, the
• 1:16:02
  more visitors she has, the stronger she becomes.
• 1:16:06
  She continues to invade the dreams of those who come to
• 1:16:09
  visit her, and her hair is growing faster and more frayed.
• 1:16:15
  She's said to drive tourists mad who doubt her, with many people
• 1:16:19
  even reporting that besides seeing her.
• 1:16:22
  Strange. Hair.
• 1:16:23
  And feeling a malevolent presence when visiting.
• 1:16:25
  Her. They've also had her stalk.
• 1:16:28
  And appear in their dreams. Some more disturbing and recent
• 1:16:32
  reports have even suggested that her mouth is slowly opening and
• 1:16:37
  that if you dare to appear inside of it, you may just catch
• 1:16:40
  a glimpse of baby like teeth sprouting from her porcelain
• 1:16:44
  gums. As if whoever or whatever she is
• 1:16:49
  is slowly turning to flesh and bone.
• 1:16:54
  The paranormal displays of her power continue to occur as well.
• 1:16:58
  Her permanent home, located within the menaging temple, is
• 1:17:01
  her own private shrine where she sits in a small wooden box on
• 1:17:05
  display. It is here that she watches and
• 1:17:09
  waits for anyone and everyone who dares to play with fire and
• 1:17:15
  invoke the power of the entity known as a Kiku.
• 1:17:20
  But what are your thoughts? Was a Kiku the girl trapped
• 1:17:23
  inside of the doll? In my opinion, although her
• 1:17:27
  spirit would be much older now, at the time of her death she was
• 1:17:31
  either close to or was three years old, and no person at that
• 1:17:35
  age is capable of true malice to the point to where she would
• 1:17:39
  become aware enough to begin to blame her parents and then
• 1:17:43
  torment them for decades to come as children.
• 1:17:47
  Our parents, or our family, or our entire world.
• 1:17:51
  So I find it incredibly difficult to think that these
• 1:17:54
  bizarre happenings were the result of her soul being
• 1:17:57
  restless and imbuing the doll. What I find more likely, and all
• 1:18:02
  the more interesting really, is the thought of invocation or the
• 1:18:06
  imbuing of the doll. Like a conduit or a vessel of
• 1:18:10
  sorts. Akiku the girl was, as they
• 1:18:14
  said, inseparable from the stall.
• 1:18:16
  She fed it, bathed it, took naps with it, and everything else a
• 1:18:21
  small child would do with that wonderful imagination that they
• 1:18:24
  have. But could all of this dedication
• 1:18:27
  and focus accompanied with the tragedy that took place allow
• 1:18:31
  for a portal to open for an entity, whether non human or a
• 1:18:36
  restless human spirit to inhabit the doll?
• 1:18:40
  And by non human I mean a demon. This would make sense to me.
• 1:18:45
  Something that enjoys and grows more powerful off of pain and
• 1:18:48
  misfortune or the emotional torment of others.
• 1:18:52
  As it causes the pain, it feeds off of it and grows ever
• 1:18:56
  stronger. This would not only explain the
• 1:18:59
  malevolent manifestations of whatever entity is present, but
• 1:19:03
  would also explain the still present force and the alleged
• 1:19:07
  ever growing power of it. And depending on the entity
• 1:19:10
  strength, it could also explain why the cleansings thus far have
• 1:19:15
  failed. However, if you find yourself
• 1:19:18
  taking a trip to Japan anytime soon, or you happen to call
• 1:19:22
  Japan home if you find yourself in Hokkaido, you may want to
• 1:19:26
  steer clear of the Managing Temple.
• 1:19:29
  Because if you don't, the entity that inhabits the doll known as
• 1:19:33
  a Kiku may just use you as its next feeding source, where it'll
• 1:19:39
  begin to plague your dreams, making you twist and turn, sweat
• 1:19:45
  and fear as it grows ever stronger and attempts to cross
• 1:19:50
  from its world into ours, making our plane of existence its
• 1:19:57
  permanent residence. When you think of the paranormal
• 1:20:10
  realm, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
• 1:20:14
  Is it a haunted place, a person who's being tormented by unseen
• 1:20:18
  forces, or an object like a doll that has seemingly taken on a
• 1:20:23
  life of its own? Or perhaps a little of all three
• 1:20:28
  and more? But have you considered that a
• 1:20:30
  vehicle could be haunted? Considering if objects could be
• 1:20:34
  haunted, it seems possible to me that this story may just
• 1:20:38
  convince you that something inhabits this vehicle, in
• 1:20:41
  particular something malevolent. This strange tale over the
• 1:20:46
  decades has seemed to take on a life of its own and not only has
• 1:20:50
  it been requested but deserves its very own rendition.
• 1:20:54
  Here on Mystery Archives, this is the haunting story of James
• 1:20:58
  Dean's cursed car and whether or not it continues to plague the
• 1:21:02
  lives of those who possess its parts.
• 1:21:07
  James Dean, both in the 50s at the height of his fame and even
• 1:21:11
  today, is widely considered a Hollywood icon.
• 1:21:15
  Born James Byron Dean in 1931, he was born into a humble
• 1:21:20
  background in Marion, IN, the only child of Mildred Wilson and
• 1:21:25
  Wynton Dean. Growing up, he excelled in
• 1:21:28
  school both academically and athletically, playing varsity
• 1:21:32
  baseball and basketball, as well as becoming an avid student of
• 1:21:37
  drama. His efforts would eventually
• 1:21:40
  land him at UCLA in 1949 after his high school graduation,
• 1:21:45
  where he began to truly pursue his passion for acting.
• 1:21:49
  He had first started out as a pre law major, but would soon
• 1:21:53
  switch his major to drama. His first role in college that
• 1:21:58
  truly made him consider becoming an actor was when he was
• 1:22:01
  selected out of a group of 350 other actors to portray Malcolm
• 1:22:07
  in the play Macbeth. Shortly after this he also began
• 1:22:11
  acting in James Whitmore's workshop.
• 1:22:14
  Although he loved acting, his father didn't and his choice of
• 1:22:18
  major would soon alienate the two from each other.
• 1:22:22
  But refusing to give up on his dreams, James would drop out of
• 1:22:26
  UCLA in January of 1951 to pursue a full time career as an
• 1:22:31
  actor. It was during this time that he
• 1:22:34
  began to pay his dues so to speak.
• 1:22:37
  First starring in a Pepsi commercial, then landing a
• 1:22:40
  series of walk on roles in various movies such as Fixed
• 1:22:44
  Bayonets, Sailor Beware and Has Anybody Seen My Gal While
• 1:22:49
  struggling to pay the bills whilst chasing his dreams, James
• 1:22:53
  also worked as a parking lot attendant at CBS Studios where
• 1:22:57
  he would eventually meet Rogers Brackett, a radio director and
• 1:23:02
  agent who offered him professional advice and guidance
• 1:23:06
  to assist him in furthering his career.
• 1:23:09
  Brackett would open a major door for James, a starring role in
• 1:23:12
  the Broadway play See The Jaguar, which would indeed
• 1:23:16
  continue to open many other opportunities for the aspiring
• 1:23:20
  actor. Moving from walk on roles and
• 1:23:22
  movies to several television appearances and soon a major
• 1:23:26
  role in a major film, he would finally receive his big break in
• 1:23:31
  1953 where he starred in the movie East of Eden.
• 1:23:35
  It was here that his complexity as an actor and improv skills
• 1:23:39
  were finally able to shine. Almost immediately after East of
• 1:23:43
  Eden premiered, Dean would quickly pick up another and an
• 1:23:47
  even bigger role in Rebel Without a Cause, as well as
• 1:23:51
  another film called Giant following soon after.
• 1:23:55
  Rebel Without a Cause is what seems to make Dean a cultural
• 1:23:58
  icon, becoming not only an admired actor to many, but a
• 1:24:02
  heartthrob as well to thousands. In 1954, shortly after East of
• 1:24:08
  Eden had concluded being filmed, James began to take an interest
• 1:24:13
  in auto racing. He purchased several vehicles
• 1:24:16
  for the hobby, including a Triumph Tiger T110 and a Porsche
• 1:24:21
  356. James competed in his first
• 1:24:24
  professional event at Palm Springs Rd.
• 1:24:27
  Races held in Palm Springs, CA where he achieved first place in
• 1:24:31
  the Novice class and 2nd place for the main event.
• 1:24:36
  He continued to race and would race at Bakersfield a month
• 1:24:39
  later where he would take first in his class and 3rd overall.
• 1:24:44
  Really taking to the motorsport. He hoped to compete in the
• 1:24:48
  Indianapolis 500, but his busy filming schedule unfortunately
• 1:24:52
  made this impossible. His final race would occur in
• 1:24:56
  Santa Barbara on May 30th, 1955. During this race he was
• 1:25:02
  unfortunately unable to finish due to a blown piston.
• 1:25:06
  His racing career was then placed on hold by Warner
• 1:25:09
  Brothers, the studio in charge of the film Giant, until filming
• 1:25:14
  was finished. Dean would finish his scenes and
• 1:25:17
  while Giant was in post production.
• 1:25:19
  With the ban lifted, he decided that he would race again.
• 1:25:24
  However, this time he wanted something stronger and faster.
• 1:25:29
  On September 23rd of 1955, James purchased a new 1955 Porsche 550
• 1:25:36
  Spyder and brought it to the legendary Flim Flammer George
• 1:25:40
  Barris to have it personalized before his next race.
• 1:25:45
  During the customization process, he chose Tarden seats,
• 1:25:49
  the number 130 emblazoned upon the hood and the name Little
• 1:25:54
  Bastard painted on the. Back.
• 1:25:56
  Just underneath the Porsche emblem on the engine cover.
• 1:26:00
  Almost as soon as his car was done being customized and James
• 1:26:04
  began to drive it around, there was a series of omens that
• 1:26:08
  should have alerted him that something wasn't quite normal
• 1:26:12
  with Little Bastard. Later that day, on September
• 1:26:15
  23rd, James was driving his new car around Los Angeles, where he
• 1:26:20
  met up with British actor Alec Guinness to show him his new
• 1:26:24
  toy. Almost immediately, Alec became
• 1:26:27
  very wary of the car. In his personal diary, he said
• 1:26:31
  this in regards to seeing it for the first time, and this is also
• 1:26:35
  a summary of what he told James himself in person that day.
• 1:26:39
  The sports car looked sinister to me.
• 1:26:42
  Exhausted, hungry, feeling a little ill tempered.
• 1:26:46
  In spite of Dean's kindness, I heard myself saying in a voice
• 1:26:50
  that I could hardly recognize as my own.
• 1:26:53
  Please never get in it. If you get in that car, you'll
• 1:26:57
  be found dead in it by this time next week.
• 1:27:01
  After being told that his car seems sinister and that he would
• 1:27:04
  be found dead in it by this time next week, all James did was
• 1:27:09
  laugh. Exactly one week later, on
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  September the 30th, James Dean and Rolf Vuterach, a former
• 1:27:17
  Luftwaffe pilot and factory trained Porsche mechanic, we're
• 1:27:22
  at Competition Motors in Hollywood preparing Little
• 1:27:25
  Bastard for racing that week at the Salinas Rd. races in
• 1:27:30
  Salinas, CA. The intent was for Dean to
• 1:27:33
  transport the car via trailer to Salinas behind his 1955 Ford
• 1:27:39
  Country Squire with his photographer Bill Hickman.
• 1:27:43
  But before it could be raced, the car needed some break in
• 1:27:46
  miles on it to make sure everything was in working order.
• 1:27:50
  Rolf suggested driving the car to Salinas to break in the
• 1:27:54
  engine and familiarize himself with his new vehicle.
• 1:27:58
  He would also ride with him. After having a cup of coffee
• 1:28:02
  across the street from Competition Motors at 1:15 PM,
• 1:28:06
  the group departed for Salinas at 3:30 PM.
• 1:28:11
  Patrolman OV Hunter said he stopped and wrote Dean a ticket
• 1:28:15
  just South of Bakersfield, CA for driving 65 mph and a 55.
• 1:28:22
  Hickman, who was towing the trailer, would receive a ticket
• 1:28:25
  for 20 miles over the speed limit because he was towing a
• 1:28:29
  trailer in which the maximum speed allowed would have only
• 1:28:32
  been 45 mph. The crew would then stop at
• 1:28:35
  Blackwell's Corner on Route 466 for drinks.
• 1:28:40
  Here they also met up with Lance Raventlow and Bruce Kessler, two
• 1:28:44
  other racers who would also be competing in the Salinas Rd.
• 1:28:48
  races. Once they had departed at about
• 1:28:51
  5:15 PM, Dean and Hickman drove W towards Paso Robles 1/2.
• 1:28:56
  An hour later, a black and white 1950 Ford Tudor Coupe was headed
• 1:29:01
  E on 466. The vehicle was being driven by
• 1:29:06
  a 23 year old California polytechnical student, a man
• 1:29:09
  with a strange name of Donald Turnip Seed.
• 1:29:14
  Donald made a left on Route 41 and as he crossed the center
• 1:29:18
  line, Dean, who was traveling around 85 mph, tried to avoid
• 1:29:23
  him. However, despite his best
• 1:29:26
  efforts, the two vehicles collided head on.
• 1:29:30
  The Ford coupe upon the collision slid 39 feet down
• 1:29:33
  Route 466 and the westbound lane.
• 1:29:37
  Dean bore the brunt of the collision, but stayed within the
• 1:29:40
  car. Voutirage, however, was thrown
• 1:29:44
  from the spider and was laying on the shoulder multiple feet
• 1:29:47
  away from the scene. Upon the arrival of emergency
• 1:29:50
  personnel with Little Bastard completely totaled, they would
• 1:29:55
  have to pry James from the mangled vehicle using a crowbar.
• 1:29:59
  An unconscious and dying James Dean was then placed into the
• 1:30:02
  ambulance along with a heavily injured Rolf.
• 1:30:07
  The closest hospital was 30 miles away and as the ambulance
• 1:30:11
  rushed towards Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital, they too, as
• 1:30:16
  if they had been stricken with the worst luck imaginable, would
• 1:30:20
  also be involved in a car accident.
• 1:30:22
  Despite the horrible circumstances surrounding the
• 1:30:25
  initial accident, the ambulance did eventually make its way to
• 1:30:29
  the hospital roughly 45 minutes later, and although it would
• 1:30:33
  take months of recovery, Rolf would live.
• 1:30:36
  But despite the emergency crew's best efforts, Dean, however,
• 1:30:41
  would be pronounced dead on arrival at 6:20 PM.
• 1:30:45
  His final cause of death upon autopsy would be determined to
• 1:30:49
  be a broken neck and internal hemorrhaging as a result of the
• 1:30:53
  crash. He also had sustained multiple
• 1:30:56
  broken bones, including his legs, arms and jaw, as well as
• 1:31:02
  multiple severe external lacerations.
• 1:31:05
  Donald Turnip Seed, however, despite his vehicle also being
• 1:31:10
  totaled, walked away with barely a scratch after his death.
• 1:31:15
  James Dean would be nominated for two Academy Awards in 1956
• 1:31:20
  and 1957 for his roles in East of Eden and Giant.
• 1:31:25
  He would also become the first actor to post Humanistly win an
• 1:31:29
  Academy Award for one in 1956, seemingly being cut down in his
• 1:31:35
  prime at the young age of 24. Dean's death was an
• 1:31:38
  unprecedented tragedy, but the story of Little Bastard, despite
• 1:31:43
  being crumpled in the crash, would be far from over.
• 1:31:47
  A man by the name of George Beres purchased the wrecked
• 1:31:50
  Porsche remnants for $2500 later that year, likely with the
• 1:31:55
  intent to host some sort of an exhibit with it and to sell
• 1:31:59
  tickets. But after he purchased it, while
• 1:32:02
  transporting the remains, upon arriving at his shop, the car
• 1:32:07
  slipped off the trailer and broke the leg of his mechanic
• 1:32:11
  once it was secured in one of the shops garages.
• 1:32:15
  In approximately 1 month's time, while Beres was arranging for
• 1:32:19
  the first exhibit to open, the garage housing the car
• 1:32:23
  mysteriously caught fire and burned to the ground.
• 1:32:27
  Even more mysterious, upon surveying the damage, the
• 1:32:32
  Porsche had sustained no damage from the fire itself.
• 1:32:36
  Barris would eventually arrange for a second exhibit, which was
• 1:32:40
  held at a local high school in conjunction with the California
• 1:32:44
  Highway Patrol. But this showing, too, was
• 1:32:47
  unexpectedly cut short. When the car was surrounded by
• 1:32:50
  onlookers and students, it suddenly fell off of its display
• 1:32:56
  and broke a young student's hip. Getting an eerie sense that
• 1:32:59
  something was off with this car, Barris then began to sell its
• 1:33:04
  parts. He would sell the engine to a
• 1:33:07
  man named Troy McHenry and the drivetrain to William Eskrid.
• 1:33:12
  The two used parts to build cars of their own and had even once
• 1:33:16
  raced one another, and both would experience horrendous
• 1:33:20
  accidents during a street race. Troy would lose control of his
• 1:33:25
  vehicle, veer off the street, and slam directly into a tree.
• 1:33:31
  The impact would kill him instantly, and shortly after
• 1:33:38
  Troy's tragedy, William, who was casually driving his vehicle
• 1:33:43
  containing the drivetrain of Little Bastard, suddenly had his
• 1:33:47
  wheels lock up for no reason, and upon turning while
• 1:33:51
  experiencing this, the car began to roll, leaving him critically
• 1:33:57
  injured in the crash. He, however, despite his
• 1:34:00
  injuries, would live while parting out what was left of the
• 1:34:05
  car. Barris would also sell two of
• 1:34:07
  the Porsche's tires, which have been untouched since the
• 1:34:10
  accident that claimed Dean's life.
• 1:34:13
  After selling the tires, he also installed them on the customer's
• 1:34:17
  vehicle at his shop. However, upon driving home both
• 1:34:22
  of them, not one or the other, but both simultaneously
• 1:34:28
  exploded, causing the driver to lose control and drive off the
• 1:34:33
  road. They would fortunately regain
• 1:34:36
  control of their vehicle and despite being shaken up or
• 1:34:40
  unharmed, George Barris, after selling what parts he could,
• 1:34:44
  will continue trying to arrange exhibits for the remnants of the
• 1:34:48
  car to be shown. The 3rd and final exhibit that
• 1:34:52
  was set to happen was going to be held by the Los Angeles
• 1:34:56
  Chapter of the National Safety Council as a traveling display.
• 1:35:01
  However, the truck driver who was hired to transport Little
• 1:35:04
  Bastard to the exhibit on a flatbed truck, a man named
• 1:35:08
  George Barkas, would be involved in an accident while heading
• 1:35:12
  there. He would be ejected from his
• 1:35:14
  vehicle and would land to the side of the flatbed, and whether
• 1:35:19
  it was a failure of securing the remnants or something more
• 1:35:22
  sinister, he would be crushed and killed when the Porsche
• 1:35:27
  rolled off the flatbed and on to him.
• 1:35:30
  There would be other mishaps as the twisted Porsche would be
• 1:35:33
  loaned out to various exhibits across the country and the years
• 1:35:37
  to come. But when it was on loan to a
• 1:35:39
  safety exhibit in Miami, FL in 1960, following the conclusion
• 1:35:44
  of the exhibit, as it was being hauled back to Los Angeles, the
• 1:35:49
  truck that was carrying what was left of the vehicle would once
• 1:35:52
  again be involved in a fatal crash, killing the driver.
• 1:35:56
  What remained of the Porsche, known as Little Bastard vanished
• 1:35:59
  from the scene that day. And to this day, all these years
• 1:36:03
  later, it has never been seen again, nor has any of its parts,
• 1:36:09
  despite collectors and enthusiasts alike willing to put
• 1:36:12
  up big money for even a genuine scrap of its remains.
• 1:36:16
  But before we speculate on what could have happened to it, I
• 1:36:20
  would first like to give my take on the bizarre activity that
• 1:36:23
  surrounds this now infamous legend.
• 1:36:25
  To me, if there was ever something that could be
• 1:36:28
  considered cursed, this once prized Porsche of James Dean
• 1:36:32
  very much fits the bill, given all that we've learned.
• 1:36:36
  But just why would? It have been.
• 1:36:37
  Cursed and how? These are questions that I've
• 1:36:41
  pondered while researching this topic.
• 1:36:44
  There, of course. Doesn't seem to be a proper
• 1:36:46
  answer or even a real speculated one that would genuinely make
• 1:36:50
  sense that I could find. There doesn't seem to be any
• 1:36:53
  crazy occult ties to anyone he was involved with, but one
• 1:36:57
  theory that I did come across could possibly explain why.
• 1:37:01
  But of course this is just a theory, I don't want people
• 1:37:04
  getting mad at me. James Dean decides, being an
• 1:37:07
  acclaimed actor by the young age of 24, was most definitely a
• 1:37:11
  heartthrob with the ladies. It's been rumored that among his
• 1:37:15
  various affairs with rich and powerful women, he also had
• 1:37:18
  multiple escapades per week. The theory I came.
• 1:37:22
  Across was this. Could it have been possible that
• 1:37:25
  some star crossed lover or fling of Deans could have placed a
• 1:37:29
  curse on him? Curses, of course, like anything
• 1:37:33
  paranormal in nature, are subject to a sense of belief in
• 1:37:36
  these kinds of things, or so most think.
• 1:37:40
  Perhaps Dean broke the heart of the wrong person, with Dean
• 1:37:43
  hitting the big time and also taking up car racing in between
• 1:37:47
  films or the filming of those films.
• 1:37:50
  Perhaps one of his girlfriends, rather jealous or heartbroken or
• 1:37:54
  both, placed a curse of sorts on him, either on him or something
• 1:37:59
  to do with his new found love for Motorsports.
• 1:38:03
  How this would have exactly imprinted specifically upon the
• 1:38:07
  newly purchased Porsche of 1955 goes far beyond my expertise,
• 1:38:12
  but it is the only explanation I could find that would remotely
• 1:38:16
  make sense aside from a horrible string of unfortunate
• 1:38:20
  coincidences. And strangely enough, the man
• 1:38:23
  who hit Dean having the name of Donald Turnip Seed.
• 1:38:27
  Turnip Seed, in my opinion, is all too close to turnip speed.
• 1:38:32
  It's kind of weird, don't you think?
• 1:38:34
  With all of the darkness surrounding this car, Rolf had a
• 1:38:38
  very tragic ending as well. Upon his post rec recovery, he
• 1:38:43
  began to receive horrible letters from James Dean's fans
• 1:38:47
  blaming him for the actor's death.
• 1:38:50
  This eventually led to a terrible drinking problem as he
• 1:38:53
  felt responsible for what had happened.
• 1:38:56
  He would eventually move back to Germany where he experienced
• 1:38:59
  many lows including multiple divorces and his final marriage,
• 1:39:04
  however, seemed to be at the lowest point in his life, having
• 1:39:08
  been depressed for years coupled with other psychological
• 1:39:12
  problems stemming from the guilt of the accident with too much
• 1:39:16
  alcohol in his system. In 1969, Rolf attempted to end
• 1:39:20
  his fourth wife. He stabbed her 14 times with a
• 1:39:24
  kitchen knife while she slept. Afterwards, he attempted to take
• 1:39:29
  his own but failed. He was however arrested and
• 1:39:34
  would spend a lengthy term in a mental institution instead of
• 1:39:38
  prison. This would also be his last and
• 1:39:41
  final. Divorce.
• 1:39:43
  He would for a short time bounce back as both a Porsche mechanic
• 1:39:47
  and would also be a racer himself once again, but again as
• 1:39:51
  well he succumbed to psychological issues, falling
• 1:39:55
  back on hard times. In July of 1981, he signed a
• 1:40:00
  contract for 20,000 Deutsche Marks for a feature in ATV show
• 1:40:05
  discussing the accident and the death of James Dean as he
• 1:40:09
  contemplated what he was going to discuss.
• 1:40:12
  He would become heavily intoxicated and later that night
• 1:40:16
  he would crash his Honda Civic into the wall of a residence and
• 1:40:20
  Kupfersev. Ironically, like James, he too
• 1:40:25
  had to be cut from the wreck. It would be pronounced dead on
• 1:40:28
  arrival at the hospital. Now, where exactly could the
• 1:40:32
  remains of the Porsche have gone?
• 1:40:35
  The most likely explanation in my opinion, had to have been
• 1:40:38
  bystanders who witnessed the crash, and my guess is that
• 1:40:43
  perhaps they didn't know exactly what they had, but rather saw
• 1:40:47
  dollar signs. This could perhaps explain why
• 1:40:50
  it didn't show back up. Perhaps people who owned the
• 1:40:52
  parts and or the vehicles with the parts didn't know what they
• 1:40:57
  indeed possessed. But what also makes this strange
• 1:41:01
  is that they've never shown back up at all.
• 1:41:04
  There is one transaxle that was rumored to be from James Dean's
• 1:41:08
  car that was found in a wooden box in rural Massachusetts, but
• 1:41:13
  from what I could find, it has yet to be confirmed as genuine.
• 1:41:17
  It was either that people didn't know what they had or something
• 1:41:21
  terrible happened to them as well and what remains they did
• 1:41:24
  possess or parts that they had put in their cars could have
• 1:41:28
  ended up scrapped somewhere, never to be seen again.
• 1:41:32
  Although I don't want to persuade you one way or another.
• 1:41:35
  With all the strange, dark and terrible events that surround
• 1:41:40
  the Porsche 550 Spyder known as James Dean's little bastard, one
• 1:41:44
  certainly has to consider that there is something otherworldly
• 1:41:48
  or cursed surrounding this case. But is it a curse, is it
• 1:41:53
  something evil? Or is it just a horrible?
• 1:41:55
  String of coincidences. Let me know down in the comments
• 1:41:59
  below. Either way, this is 1 car I have
• 1:42:02
  absolutely no desire to see, let alone ride in one that contains
• 1:42:07
  any piece of it. In a museum dedicated to and
• 1:42:20
  filled with eerie artifacts, one stands out as the most
• 1:42:25
  terrifying of them all. Her name is Elizabeth, and she's
• 1:42:29
  garnered the title of the world's most haunted doll.
• 1:42:33
  She's said to be possessed, but by what?
• 1:42:38
  That is the real question. Her story is 1 of unexplained
• 1:42:42
  attacks, mysterious phenomena and a deep seated hatred.
• 1:42:48
  Despite her ordinary, even docile appearance, Elizabeth has
• 1:42:53
  left a trail of physical and psychological scars on those who
• 1:42:58
  have dared to cross her path. We will be telling her story
• 1:43:02
  today and the truth, well, that's up to you to decide for
• 1:43:08
  yourself. I did want to quickly mention
• 1:43:14
  that I don't know Lee Steer, Sarah Carter or their team
• 1:43:18
  personally, but having dug into this story and their content, I
• 1:43:23
  found them to be genuine in their approach.
• 1:43:26
  I emailed Lee and to my surprise he messaged me back, so I'd like
• 1:43:31
  to thank him not only for permission to cover Elizabeth's
• 1:43:34
  story, but for all of the videos and photos used that he's posted
• 1:43:40
  and overall for just being a supportive and nice guy.
• 1:43:45
  I think especially with how shady people can be,
• 1:43:48
  particularly in this field of work, that when you find genuine
• 1:43:51
  folks you definitely should support them and or support one
• 1:43:56
  another. With that being said, check out
• 1:43:59
  all of Lee's links which I will show here and in the description
• 1:44:03
  and subscribe to his YouTube channels especially and tell him
• 1:44:07
  Mystery Archives sent me when you do.
• 1:44:10
  Thanks again to the Ghosts of Britain team.
• 1:44:12
  And personally, to Lee. Now let's get to today's
• 1:44:15
  content. The listing wasn't flashy.
• 1:44:26
  No dramatic title, no haunting back story typed in blood red
• 1:44:30
  font like so many other so-called cursed objects peddled
• 1:44:35
  online. But that was precisely what
• 1:44:38
  caught Lee Steers his attention. He had seen hundreds, maybe
• 1:44:43
  thousands of haunted dolls for sale in his years as a
• 1:44:46
  paranormal investigator and curator of the Haunted Objects
• 1:44:50
  Museum in South Yorkshire, England.
• 1:44:54
  Most were amateur attempts at cashing in on people's
• 1:44:57
  fascination with the supernatural.
• 1:44:59
  A few candles, some fake blood, sloppy stories attached.
• 1:45:05
  But this one felt different. The dolls photos showed a
• 1:45:09
  Victorian style figure seated stiffly against a neutral
• 1:45:13
  background. Her face was pale porcelain.
• 1:45:17
  The wedding gown she wore had yellowed with age.
• 1:45:21
  The veil was intact, draped over her synthetic Auburn curls.
• 1:45:27
  Her eyes, however fixed and glossy, seemed to hold something
• 1:45:32
  ancient, even bitter. But what truly set the listing
• 1:45:36
  apart was its warning. It was simple, direct, and
• 1:45:41
  unsettling. Possessed bridal doll.
• 1:45:44
  Malevolent energy. Men, beware.
• 1:45:49
  The seller had little to say beyond that, but what was
• 1:45:52
  included? Intriguedly, the doll had
• 1:45:56
  reportedly passed through multiple owners, all of whom
• 1:45:59
  were men. Each had returned her, some
• 1:46:03
  within days, citing unexplained injuries, illness and an
• 1:46:08
  overwhelming sense of dread. The seller themselves claimed
• 1:46:12
  they had acquired it from someone in Wales, but refused to
• 1:46:16
  keep it after experiencing activity that they couldn't
• 1:46:21
  explain. Lee knew the signs.
• 1:46:25
  He had encountered haunted items before, objects that carried
• 1:46:29
  traces of emotion, trauma, or, more rarely, what he believed
• 1:46:35
  were genuine spiritual attachments.
• 1:46:38
  But this Dolls behavioral pattern was disturbingly
• 1:46:41
  specific. It targeted men.
• 1:46:45
  That detail alone made it exceptional.
• 1:46:48
  So he placed a bid. The auction ended quickly.
• 1:46:53
  Lee watched as the bidding slowly ticked up.
• 1:46:56
  Other paranormal collectors must have noticed the listing, but
• 1:47:00
  none seemed willing to challenge him too aggressively.
• 1:47:03
  The final sale price was 866.66 LB.
• 1:47:11
  The number gave him pause, the 666 at the end, a sequence many
• 1:47:17
  associate with biblical evil. It was likely a coincidence, but
• 1:47:23
  still, in the world of the paranormal, coincidences often
• 1:47:28
  take on darker meanings in hindsight.
• 1:47:31
  Within a few days, the seller confirmed shipment and the doll
• 1:47:36
  was on her way to the museum. Lee Steer and his partner Sarah
• 1:47:41
  Carter had curated the Haunted Objects Museum as both a center
• 1:47:46
  of investigation and public education.
• 1:47:49
  Unlike Taurus styled haunted attractions, this one was a
• 1:47:53
  serious endeavor. A collection of over 60
• 1:47:57
  documented haunted items from across the UK and beyond.
• 1:48:02
  Each item came with history, alleged activity, and in many
• 1:48:07
  cases, physical or video evidence of manifestations
• 1:48:13
  they'd seen furniture that moved without explanation, music boxes
• 1:48:18
  that played went untouched. Mirrors that refused to reflect
• 1:48:24
  what they were about to encounter with the doll named
• 1:48:27
  Elizabeth would. Eclipse.
• 1:48:29
  All of it. They didn't yet know her name.
• 1:48:32
  That would come later. At this point she was simply
• 1:48:36
  another item in the catalog, a doll with a warning.
• 1:48:42
  The package arrived on a quiet Wednesday morning.
• 1:48:45
  Sarah met the Courier at the front gate, and the box was
• 1:48:49
  surprisingly light for its size. Carefully packed, no strange
• 1:48:55
  smells and no obvious signs of damage.
• 1:48:59
  Just a plain cardboard container with fragile scrawled on the
• 1:49:02
  side. Inside, surrounded by layers of
• 1:49:06
  crinkled paper and bubble wrap, was the doll.
• 1:49:10
  Even out of her packaging, she was unassuming.
• 1:49:14
  No overt sense of malice, no inexplicable chill in the room.
• 1:49:19
  Yet Sarah, who has always trusted her instincts, felt it
• 1:49:24
  instantly to quote her here. I remember thinking, she later
• 1:49:29
  told a reporter, This one doesn't want to be here.
• 1:49:34
  They placed the doll in a freshly prepared display case
• 1:49:37
  inside the museum's so-called bridal room, a chamber housing
• 1:49:42
  other feminine themed haunted artifacts, wedding veils,
• 1:49:46
  mirrors and two vintage photographs with their own
• 1:49:51
  rumored histories. The doll was placed behind a
• 1:49:54
  clear Case. No identification plaque, no
• 1:49:58
  label, just a camera overhead in a motion sensor nearby,
• 1:50:04
  connected to their internal alarm system.
• 1:50:07
  Nothing happened that first night.
• 1:50:10
  By the end of the week, everything would change.
• 1:50:14
  The museum was quiet at night by design.
• 1:50:17
  The Haunted Objects Museum didn't allow overnight guests,
• 1:50:21
  though. Lee Steer and Sarah Carter had
• 1:50:24
  both spent countless evenings doing after hours investigations
• 1:50:28
  within its walls. The building itself, housed in
• 1:50:31
  an unassuming structure in South Yorkshire, had rarely produced
• 1:50:35
  the kind of activity Hollywood films LED people to expect until
• 1:50:40
  now. It started small, as most
• 1:50:43
  genuine paranormal events do. The fire alarms were the first
• 1:50:48
  to misbehave 3 nights after the dolls arrival.
• 1:50:52
  Museum's internal system triggered just after 3:00 AM.
• 1:50:57
  Lee had just fallen asleep when his phone buzzed with an
• 1:51:00
  automated alert. Fire alarm Zone 4.
• 1:51:05
  Zone 4 was the bridal room. He rushed to the location
• 1:51:10
  flashlight. In hand, expecting to find a
• 1:51:13
  tripped smoke detector or a possible electrical short, but
• 1:51:18
  instead the room was still untouched and most importantly,
• 1:51:24
  cold. There wasn't a trace of smoke
• 1:51:27
  anywhere, no signs of anything being out of place.
• 1:51:31
  It was the first time the fire alarm had ever activated without
• 1:51:35
  cause, but it wouldn't be the last.
• 1:51:39
  Over the next several days, the alarms continued to trip, always
• 1:51:43
  in the same room, always between 2:00 and 4:00 AM.
• 1:51:48
  No matter the weather, time of week or number of people
• 1:51:52
  present. The pattern was consistent.
• 1:51:57
  Lee checked the wiring, replaced the detector, even called an
• 1:52:01
  electrician to verify the system's health.
• 1:52:05
  Nothing was wrong. Still, the alarms went off.
• 1:52:10
  Lee and Sarah kept a meticulous record of their investigations.
• 1:52:14
  They began placing digital recorders and motion sensors in
• 1:52:18
  the bridal room overnight. They didn't expect much.
• 1:52:23
  Paranormal Evps or electronic voice phenomena are notoriously
• 1:52:27
  elusive, but it was a standard part of their process.
• 1:52:32
  One morning, Sarah received the audio files from the night
• 1:52:36
  before. The recording was mostly
• 1:52:38
  silence, punctuated by faint environmental noises.
• 1:52:44
  But at 3:17 AM, the audio spiked.
• 1:52:49
  At first it was just a low hum, like interference from a
• 1:52:53
  shortwave radio. But then came the whisper, a
• 1:52:58
  low, unmistakable female voice that said get OUT.
• 1:53:04
  Sarah listened to it a dozen times.
• 1:53:07
  She played it for Lee. Then, through software filters,
• 1:53:12
  there was no mistaking it. A voice had spoken when no one
• 1:53:17
  was in the room. They tried to debunk it.
• 1:53:21
  External radio interference, intermodulation.
• 1:53:26
  Or perhaps it was an equipment malfunction.
• 1:53:29
  While the recording device was battery powered, shielded from
• 1:53:33
  ambient interference, and had never picked up a voice before,
• 1:53:38
  there had been no human presence within 50 feet of the room at
• 1:53:42
  the time. It was the first direct
• 1:53:45
  communication. The doll had apparently begun to
• 1:53:50
  speak. The sixth night after her
• 1:53:53
  arrival, Lee conducted a solo walkthrough of the museum, live
• 1:53:58
  streaming to a modest group of his online followers.
• 1:54:01
  He moved from room to room, narrating each item's history.
• 1:54:06
  When he entered the bridal room, the air was noticeably cooler,
• 1:54:11
  not freezing, but just felt off. He approached the case
• 1:54:17
  containing the bridal doll and began explaining the recent
• 1:54:20
  disturbances, the alarms, the voice recording, and the dolls
• 1:54:25
  curious warning label. Halfway through his sentence, he
• 1:54:30
  winced, his hand moved to the back of his neck.
• 1:54:34
  He continued speaking, brushing off the sudden discomfort, but
• 1:54:38
  within a minute he excused himself from the stream.
• 1:54:43
  His skin felt as if it were burning.
• 1:54:46
  Back in the main room, he turned on the overhead lights and
• 1:54:49
  checked the mirror. His neck bore a deep red mark,
• 1:54:54
  forming A curved, almost sigil like shape.
• 1:54:58
  Sarah arrived shortly after and upon further inspection they
• 1:55:03
  found some marks across his upper back.
• 1:55:06
  Three fresh scratches then, parallel and precise.
• 1:55:13
  There were no nails, there's no contact with any sharp objects,
• 1:55:18
  and no one else had touched him. Lee knew what he had
• 1:55:21
  experienced. He didn't say it out loud, not
• 1:55:25
  right away, but later on camera, he confirmed the obvious.
• 1:55:31
  Something scratched me in that room, he would say.
• 1:55:34
  I've been doing this for over a decade and that was a first.
• 1:55:40
  From that moment. Forward, the atmosphere in the
• 1:55:42
  museum shifted. Staff noticed it.
• 1:55:46
  So did visitors. Some reported intense headaches
• 1:55:50
  near the bridal room. Others described feelings of
• 1:55:54
  dread, particularly men. Sarah herself, though never
• 1:55:59
  attacked or touched, remarked how the dolls seem to watch her.
• 1:56:04
  And the more male visitors passed through her presence, the
• 1:56:08
  more aggressive the activity became.
• 1:56:12
  Lee documented each event. The pattern was undeniable.
• 1:56:17
  Elizabeth, as she would soon be called, didn't like men.
• 1:56:23
  By mid 2024, rumors about the doll had begun to spread beyond
• 1:56:28
  the museum's inner circle. Paranormal enthusiasts, skeptics
• 1:56:33
  and curious locals took to social media to discuss the
• 1:56:37
  strange activity linked to the recently acquired bridal doll.
• 1:56:42
  Lee and Sarah had shared evidence online, fire alarm
• 1:56:46
  incidents, the EVP recording and Lee's own scratches.
• 1:56:51
  But it was a live stream on TikTok that brought the world's
• 1:56:54
  attention to what many would soon call the world's most
• 1:56:58
  haunted doll. The event was meant to be a
• 1:57:02
  casual late night walkthrough, part of the series Lee had been
• 1:57:06
  producing to showcase the museum's collection.
• 1:57:10
  His live streams had modest success, drawing in thousands of
• 1:57:14
  viewers from the UK and beyond. But the Bridal Room was about to
• 1:57:18
  take on a reputation all its own.
• 1:57:22
  On a Thursday evening in late June, fellow investigator John
• 1:57:27
  Paul Kinney joined Lee and Sarah for a collaborative session.
• 1:57:31
  John Paul, a paranormal researcher and content creator,
• 1:57:35
  was well known for his rational approach to ghost hunting.
• 1:57:39
  He didn't frighten easily. The trio planned a TikTok live
• 1:57:43
  session inside the museum, a special attention given to the
• 1:57:47
  bridal doll. Viewers tuned in from around the
• 1:57:50
  world and watched as John Paul entered the room alone while Lee
• 1:57:55
  and Sarah monitored from outside.
• 1:57:59
  The setup was simple. The doll was displayed upright
• 1:58:02
  in her case, surrounded by other feminine relics.
• 1:58:07
  John Paul addressed the camera calmly, describing the alleged
• 1:58:11
  reports of physical attacks, particularly toward men.
• 1:58:17
  He was only a few minutes into the stream when something
• 1:58:20
  happened. John Paul was mid sentence when
• 1:58:24
  he abruptly paused. His eyes widened and he reached
• 1:58:29
  behind him, gripping his shoulder in the back of his
• 1:58:32
  shirt. What the hell was that?
• 1:58:34
  He said out loud. Something just grabbed me.
• 1:58:38
  He stepped forward, turning to check the room behind him, but
• 1:58:43
  it was empty. The doll remained motionless in
• 1:58:47
  her case. Viewers flooded the comments
• 1:58:50
  section, asking what had happened.
• 1:58:53
  Some thought that he was joking, and others immediately believed.
• 1:58:58
  It felt like someone just yanked my shirt, he said to the camera.
• 1:59:02
  Right here at the back of my neck.
• 1:59:05
  He pulled the shirt forward to show his collar.
• 1:59:08
  Moments later, he complained of a sharp stinging sensation near
• 1:59:13
  his shoulder blade. The live stream ended shortly
• 1:59:16
  after, and later that night John Paul posted an update video.
• 1:59:22
  The area where he had been grabbed now bore a long then
• 1:59:25
  scratch, red and fresh, just beneath the neckline of his
• 1:59:31
  shirt. He hadn't scratched himself.
• 1:59:34
  He hadn't touched any objects. And.
• 1:59:37
  There had been no one else in the room.
• 1:59:40
  It was the first documented attack on camera, and the proof
• 1:59:45
  was rather undeniable. The TikTok clip was reposted
• 1:59:49
  dozens of times. Other creators stitched the
• 1:59:53
  footage into their own videos, offering analysis, commentary or
• 1:59:58
  simply reacting in horror. Paranormal Forms.
• 2:00:01
  Picked up the story, a Reddit thread dissecting the moment
• 2:00:05
  frame by frame, searching for signs of trickery.
• 2:00:10
  Skeptics debated the possibility of static discharge or staged
• 2:00:14
  events, but no evidence of deception was ever found.
• 2:00:20
  And all the while, more stories began to emerge.
• 2:00:25
  Visitors who had been scratched, men who left the museum feeling
• 2:00:29
  nauseous or lightheaded, people who had experienced nightmares
• 2:00:35
  after visiting the doll for the first time.
• 2:00:39
  The world was paying attention, and the doll, soon to be called
• 2:00:43
  Elizabeth, seemed to thrive on it.
• 2:00:47
  Sarah and Lee tightened their protocols.
• 2:00:51
  Access to the bridal room was limited, especially for male.
• 2:00:54
  Visitors warning signs were posted at the entrance,
• 2:00:59
  surveillance equipment was upgraded and every new incident
• 2:01:03
  was carefully logged. But nothing could stop the
• 2:01:07
  activity. If anything, it intensified.
• 2:01:12
  Lee noticed that during busy days, when more mail energy
• 2:01:15
  passed through the room, the nights were more volatile.
• 2:01:20
  Fire alarms would trip. Objects would be displaced.
• 2:01:24
  The dolls case once shifted 2 inches forward on the display
• 2:01:28
  shelf overnight despite being on a non sloped vibration free
• 2:01:34
  surface. The attacks too began
• 2:01:37
  escalating. The live stream was only the
• 2:01:40
  beginning. By late summer of 2024, the name
• 2:01:45
  Elizabeth was being whispered by investigators, whispered by
• 2:01:49
  visitors, and scrawled across social media platforms.
• 2:01:54
  The Haunted Bridal doll had crossed the threshold, but began
• 2:01:58
  as a curious eBay acquisition, had now become a national and
• 2:02:02
  soon international paranormal phenomenon.
• 2:02:06
  Her behavior was consistent, targeted and now statistically
• 2:02:11
  undeniable. At least 17 men had reported
• 2:02:15
  experiencing unexplained physical harm in the dolls
• 2:02:19
  presence. Each story had its own details,
• 2:02:23
  but the pattern was always the same.
• 2:02:26
  The injuries varied in nature but shared common traits.
• 2:02:30
  Scratches. Most victims reported long, thin
• 2:02:33
  abrasions on their back, shoulders or neck.
• 2:02:37
  Often a male visitor would feel a sudden heat or pain while
• 2:02:41
  standing near the doll. Several described feeling
• 2:02:45
  invisible fingers tugging at their hair or clothing, and a
• 2:02:49
  handful of men were so affected that they had to leave the
• 2:02:53
  museum all together, complaining of dizziness and nausea.
• 2:02:58
  The attacks happened in plain daylight, under camera
• 2:03:02
  surveillance and often with multiple witnesses present.
• 2:03:07
  None of the injured had touched the doll, some hadn't even
• 2:03:11
  spoken aloud in the room. And the vast majority or
• 2:03:15
  skeptics, people who entered laughing, mocking or challenging
• 2:03:20
  the dolls supposed powers, they didn't leave laughing.
• 2:03:26
  The 17th documented victim was a middle-aged man from Nottingham
• 2:03:30
  who had visited the museum during a weekend tour.
• 2:03:33
  His wife was a fan of the paranormal, but he had no
• 2:03:37
  interest. He'd spent most of the tour
• 2:03:39
  making quiet jokes, calling Elizabeth a prop, a fake, and
• 2:03:45
  just a doll in the bridal room. He stood beside the display for
• 2:03:50
  less than 3 minutes before wincing.
• 2:03:53
  He told Sarah, who was leading the tour, that his neck hurt.
• 2:03:58
  By the time they stepped into the hallway, his wife gasped. 3
• 2:04:02
  distinct raised claw marks were visible across his neck and
• 2:04:08
  upper back. Man hadn't touched anything.
• 2:04:12
  He hadn't leaned against a. Surface or rubbed his skin.
• 2:04:15
  And the marks were fresh and deep.
• 2:04:19
  When he was shown photos of similar injuries experienced by
• 2:04:22
  others, he turned pale. He didn't speak again for the
• 2:04:27
  rest of the tour. His wife later sent an e-mail to
• 2:04:30
  the museum. In it, she said he's never
• 2:04:34
  believed in any of this. He won't even say her name out
• 2:04:38
  loud anymore. As events continued to unfold,
• 2:04:44
  Lee and Sarah documented each case meticulously.
• 2:04:47
  It took high. Resolution photographs of every
• 2:04:50
  injury. In many instances, they
• 2:04:53
  interviewed the victims within several minutes of the event,
• 2:04:57
  capturing first hand reactions while the physical marks were
• 2:05:01
  still present. Some of the wounds healed
• 2:05:04
  quickly, fading within hours. Others lingered.
• 2:05:10
  Several of the scratches followed a parallel pattern,
• 2:05:14
  thin and deliberate, as if from fingernails.
• 2:05:18
  Others appeared jagged or chaotic, resembling symbols or
• 2:05:23
  sigils, particularly when the victims had taunted or insulted
• 2:05:29
  the doll. One of the most disturbing marks
• 2:05:32
  resembled a crooked triangle, a shape often associated in occult
• 2:05:36
  circles with binding or vengeance.
• 2:05:41
  Each incident was reviewed by staff.
• 2:05:43
  Video footage was cross referenced.
• 2:05:46
  None of the victims had been alone.
• 2:05:48
  In some cases the attacks occurred live on stream.
• 2:05:53
  The evidence was overwhelming. Continuing with the pattern, not
• 2:05:58
  a single woman had ever been harmed by the doll.
• 2:06:01
  Sarah had worked in the bridal room for hours, both with and
• 2:06:05
  without Lee. She had never.
• 2:06:07
  Once been scratched. Other female guests reported
• 2:06:11
  discomfort, headaches or anxiety, but never physical
• 2:06:17
  contact. This gender specific aggression
• 2:06:21
  wasn't merely A coincidence. The suggested intention theories
• 2:06:26
  began circulating. Was Elizabeth the spirit of a
• 2:06:30
  betrayed bride, A woman murdered on her wedding day?
• 2:06:35
  Or was she something older, darker, an entity that had
• 2:06:40
  chosen a doll as its vessel and fed on the emotional energy of
• 2:06:45
  fear and anger, particularly from men?
• 2:06:51
  No one could say for sure, but Elizabeth was gaining power and
• 2:06:56
  the museum had become a stage. By the time the museum
• 2:07:01
  documented its 17th male victim, it was clear that Elizabeth's
• 2:07:05
  presence extended far beyond subtle chills or passive
• 2:07:09
  aggression. The injuries were real, the
• 2:07:13
  whispers were audible, and now objects began to move.
• 2:07:18
  As the summer of 2024 gave way to early autumn, the dolls
• 2:07:23
  activity escalated from personal attacks to classic poltergeist
• 2:07:28
  phenomena, the kind of violent, unpredictable movement of
• 2:07:32
  objects that had for decades marked only the most extreme
• 2:07:37
  hauntings. One of the first major displays
• 2:07:40
  of Elizabeth's physical power occurred during a routine
• 2:07:44
  walkthrough of the museum. Sarah Carter had been alone,
• 2:07:48
  tidying up displays while preparing for a weekend event.
• 2:07:53
  As she entered the bridal room, a glass perfume bottle, which
• 2:07:57
  had rested undisturbed for weeks, launched itself across
• 2:08:01
  the room. Sarah described it later in
• 2:08:04
  detail. It didn't fall, it didn't slide,
• 2:08:09
  it lifted and hurled through the air.
• 2:08:12
  I saw it move with a. Force.
• 2:08:14
  That didn't make sense. It didn't just drop, it was
• 2:08:18
  thrown at the wall. The bottle struck the opposite
• 2:08:22
  side of the room with enough velocity to shatter on impact.
• 2:08:27
  The scent clung to the air like a warning.
• 2:08:31
  There was no wind, no structural vibration and no one else
• 2:08:36
  present. The footage from the overhead
• 2:08:39
  surveillance camera showed the object leaving the shelf and
• 2:08:43
  sailing in a horizontal arc, not dropping downward.
• 2:08:48
  It was proof not just of energy, but of directional force.
• 2:08:54
  Something had aimed it. After the bottle incident, the
• 2:08:59
  museum began experiencing electronic disturbances,
• 2:09:02
  especially near the bridal room. Motion sensors would blink
• 2:09:07
  rapidly, indicating movement when the room was empty.
• 2:09:11
  Cameras set to infrared and sometimes black out, showing
• 2:09:15
  only static or sudden white flares of light.
• 2:09:20
  Batteries and recorders and handheld devices that were fully
• 2:09:23
  charged would inexplicably drain within a few minutes of entering
• 2:09:28
  the room during one live stream. A simple digital word generator,
• 2:09:34
  a device commonly used by investigators to measure energy
• 2:09:38
  fluctuations and produce corresponding words, flash 2
• 2:09:42
  messages in quick succession. Those were bride and haunting.
• 2:09:49
  Lee and Sarah later confirmed that neither had entered the
• 2:09:51
  word bank manually. The device had never produced
• 2:09:55
  those words before. The moment was captured live,
• 2:10:00
  with thousands watching it happen in real time.
• 2:10:03
  It seemed to be one of the most direct messages.
• 2:10:06
  Yet another troubling incident occurred late 1 evening.
• 2:10:10
  As Lee reviewed security footage.
• 2:10:13
  At approximately 3:38 AM, the surveillance camera in the
• 2:10:17
  bridal room recorded something subtle but unmistakable.
• 2:10:22
  Elizabeth's glass case shifted. There was no one in the
• 2:10:26
  building. No seismic activity had been
• 2:10:29
  recorded in the area. Yet on camera, the heavy
• 2:10:33
  plexiglass display case moved forward nearly two inches.
• 2:10:39
  There was no vibration, no imbalance.
• 2:10:43
  The floor was solid concrete. The next morning, Sarah noticed
• 2:10:48
  it first. The case is off center, she
• 2:10:51
  said. It was flush with the edge.
• 2:10:54
  Yesterday, reviewing the footage confirmed it.
• 2:10:58
  The case hadn't fallen or been struck, and it slid with
• 2:11:03
  delivery control toward the center of the room, as if
• 2:11:07
  further seeking attention, as if Elizabeth wanted to be closer.
• 2:11:13
  By now, the fire alarm phenomena had become so frequent that the
• 2:11:17
  system had to be temporarily deactivated during certain
• 2:11:21
  hours, always the same zone and always around 3:00 AM.
• 2:11:28
  In tandem with these events, the emergency lighting system
• 2:11:32
  malfunctioned twice in September, plunging the bridal
• 2:11:35
  room into total darkness. Electricians could find no
• 2:11:39
  wiring issues. Paranormal teams brought in
• 2:11:43
  electromagnetic frequency detectors, or EMF, which
• 2:11:47
  routinely spiked near Elizabeth's case far beyond
• 2:11:51
  typical background levels. Every attempt to isolate a
• 2:11:55
  natural cause was seeming to fail.
• 2:11:58
  During one particularly active week, Sarah placed a motion
• 2:12:02
  activated digital recorder near the doll for a 48 hour test
• 2:12:06
  period. On playback, the most common
• 2:12:10
  sounds were soft taps, 3 taps in a row, repeating several times.
• 2:12:17
  But at 4:12 AM on the second night, a voice broke through.
• 2:12:22
  Not a whisper, but a voice, One that was female, clear and
• 2:12:28
  sharp, it said. Why did he lie?
• 2:12:34
  Those 4 words were isolated and looped and reviewed by multiple
• 2:12:38
  investigators. No radio signals interfered.
• 2:12:42
  No background sounds could be attributed.
• 2:12:46
  There was no logical explanation.
• 2:12:49
  Some would later suggest the voice was residual energy, an
• 2:12:53
  echo from a traumatic event. Others believed that it was the
• 2:12:58
  entity speaking directly. By October, staff members,
• 2:13:03
  especially male employees, began reporting something new.
• 2:13:07
  The feeling of being watched outside of the bridal room.
• 2:13:11
  One man claimed to see Elizabeth's reflection move
• 2:13:14
  independently of her posture inside the case.
• 2:13:17
  Another described seeing her veil flutter despite the absence
• 2:13:22
  of airflow. 1 even claimed that her eyes had shifted direction
• 2:13:27
  overnight. A photo comparison showed a
• 2:13:30
  subtle but disturbing difference.
• 2:13:34
  The gaze had moved slightly left.
• 2:13:37
  These events were not confirmed scientifically, but they added
• 2:13:41
  to the growing fear. Elizabeth was no longer content
• 2:13:45
  to simply sit behind glass. She wanted out.
• 2:13:51
  The doll had a name now, though no written tag accompanied her
• 2:13:55
  when she arrived, and no official documentation had ever
• 2:13:58
  identified her as such. The staff and visitors began
• 2:14:02
  calling her Elizabeth. The name emerged organically, as
• 2:14:08
  though whispered collectively and unprompted.
• 2:14:12
  Some claimed they simply felt that it was her name.
• 2:14:15
  Others said it was the only word that came to mind when standing
• 2:14:19
  near her. And so Elizabeth she became.
• 2:14:24
  But just who or what was Elizabeth?
• 2:14:28
  What spirit or force now occupied the worn porcelain
• 2:14:32
  shell of a Victorian bridal doll?
• 2:14:36
  Theories abounded. None could be proven.
• 2:14:39
  But taken together they painted a picture more disturbing than
• 2:14:43
  anyone had expected. The most commonly circulated
• 2:14:48
  explanation was the most human. Elizabeth had once been a living
• 2:14:52
  woman, possibly from the late 19th or early 20th century, a
• 2:14:58
  young bride, one that was wronged and betrayed.
• 2:15:02
  Her behavior, particularly her aggression towards men,
• 2:15:06
  suggested personal trauma. Some guests who had spoken aloud
• 2:15:11
  to her claim to hear tapping in response, but only if they asked
• 2:15:15
  emotionally charged questions such as did he hurt you?
• 2:15:21
  Were you left at the altar? Was it your wedding day?
• 2:15:26
  While the doll had never spoken her origin aloud, patterns and
• 2:15:30
  behavior supported the idea of heartbreak, vengeance, and a
• 2:15:34
  gender specific trauma. The fact that no woman had ever
• 2:15:38
  been scratched, burned, or otherwise harmed by Elizabeth
• 2:15:43
  was difficult to ignore. If the spirit attached to the
• 2:15:46
  doll was indeed that of a betrayed bride, she was reliving
• 2:15:51
  her fury, and every man who entered the room was a potential
• 2:15:55
  stand in for the one who had wronged her.
• 2:15:59
  Another, less personal theory suggested that the doll may have
• 2:16:03
  become a vessel for displaced grief.
• 2:16:07
  Historically, dolls have been used as mourning objects, gifts
• 2:16:11
  to children after the death of a sibling, or keepsakes buried
• 2:16:15
  with the deceased. Some researchers in the
• 2:16:18
  paranormal field theorize that extreme grief, particularly
• 2:16:22
  sudden and violent loss, can act as a magnet for spiritual
• 2:16:27
  energy. If the doll had once belonged to
• 2:16:30
  a woman who died tragically, perhaps on or near her wedding
• 2:16:34
  day, it's possible that the energy remained gradually
• 2:16:39
  growing stronger as the doll passed from one home to another.
• 2:16:44
  Several owners, according to the original eBay listing, had
• 2:16:48
  returned the doll in haste after experiencing disturbing energy,
• 2:16:52
  including visions, oppressive moods and physical attacks.
• 2:16:58
  Notably, all owners were male. The timeline of ownership was
• 2:17:03
  never fully disclosed, but it was confirmed by the seller and
• 2:17:07
  Lee Steer that multiple men had indeed returned the doll in
• 2:17:11
  fear, and some within days. Whatever her origin, the force
• 2:17:16
  within Elizabeth was consistent in its hostility.
• 2:17:21
  A more ominous possibility has been floated by several
• 2:17:24
  investigators, including Lee himself.
• 2:17:27
  Could Elizabeth be a host to a non human spirit?
• 2:17:32
  Demonology teaches that certain malevolent entities can mimic
• 2:17:36
  the behavior of ghosts, adopting personas, names, or emotional
• 2:17:42
  triggers to gain attention or energy from their hosts.
• 2:17:47
  Over time, their behavior becomes more violent,
• 2:17:51
  manipulative, and dangerous. The pentagram like Scratch that
• 2:17:56
  appeared on Lee's back during an early encounter raised concerns.
• 2:18:01
  While pentagrams are not inherently satanic, their misuse
• 2:18:06
  or sudden appearance during a haunting is often interpreted as
• 2:18:10
  a sign of spiritual deception or darker forces.
• 2:18:15
  Other signs, too, support this theory.
• 2:18:18
  Objects being thrown across the room.
• 2:18:21
  Dramatic temperature fluctuations.
• 2:18:23
  The fire alarms triggering at precise hours, voice recordings
• 2:18:28
  that include cryptic, disturbing phrases and attacks that seem to
• 2:18:33
  escalate with attention. It is known that Elizabeth's
• 2:18:38
  aggression intensified after the doll began gaining popularity
• 2:18:41
  online. The more views, comments, and
• 2:18:44
  reactions that she garnered, the more incidents occurred in the
• 2:18:48
  museum. Could the entity be feeding off
• 2:18:52
  the energy of fear and fascination?
• 2:18:55
  And if so. Was it always there?
• 2:18:59
  Had something darker found its way in?
• 2:19:02
  To this day, no definitive identity has been confirmed for
• 2:19:06
  Elizabeth. No registry, no birth record.
• 2:19:10
  No violent death tied to the doll's specific form has ever
• 2:19:14
  been uncovered, but those who've encountered her rarely leave
• 2:19:19
  unaffected, and those who mock her often regretted.
• 2:19:23
  Whether she was a grieving woman, an angry bride, or
• 2:19:28
  something far older and darker, the entity known as Elizabeth
• 2:19:33
  has made her purpose clear. She was not finished.
• 2:19:37
  She was only just beginning. By the first half of 2025,
• 2:19:43
  Elizabeth had become a contender as one of the most infamous
• 2:19:47
  haunted objects in the world. The longer an obscure eBay
• 2:19:51
  curiosity, the doll had risen to full blown notoriety.
• 2:19:56
  Through hundreds of thousands of views across TikTok, YouTube,
• 2:20:01
  Instagram and paranormal forums. Journalists from major outlets
• 2:20:06
  began covering her story. She was featured in articles
• 2:20:09
  across the UK, India and the US, often accompanied by headlines
• 2:20:15
  branding her as the world's most haunted doll.
• 2:20:19
  The bridal doll that hates men in a possessed relic that's left
• 2:20:23
  17 men injured. And all the while, she sat in
• 2:20:27
  her case in the Haunted Objects Museum and Rotterdam, completely
• 2:20:32
  still, entirely silent, and somehow more alive than ever.
• 2:20:39
  The museum remained open to the public, though it operated under
• 2:20:42
  stricter protocols when it came to Elizabeth.
• 2:20:46
  A formal warning sign was posted at the entrance of the bridal
• 2:20:49
  room. This exhibit includes a haunted
• 2:20:52
  bridal doll associated with numerous unexplained injuries to
• 2:20:56
  male visitors. Physical contact is prohibited.
• 2:21:01
  Enter at your own risk. Museum also implemented a gender
• 2:21:05
  based advisory. Male visitors were advised to
• 2:21:09
  keep a distance from the display.
• 2:21:11
  Some were required to sign the disclaimer if they wish to enter
• 2:21:15
  the bridal room during solo investigations or live stream
• 2:21:19
  events. Tour guides, including Lee
• 2:21:22
  himself, began avoiding long stays in the room, especially
• 2:21:27
  when alone. The bridal display case remained
• 2:21:31
  secured behind plexiglass motion sensors and infrared cameras
• 2:21:36
  were installed permanently recording around the clock.
• 2:21:40
  The system logged countless anomalous events, temperature
• 2:21:44
  shifts, light fluctuations. The most unsettling of all the
• 2:21:50
  movement of the case itself. Elizabeth, it seemed, continued
• 2:21:55
  to shift inside. Her display even went untouched.
• 2:22:00
  Though most of the documented attacks occurred in 2024, new
• 2:22:05
  incidents continued into 2025. Male visitor #18 entered the
• 2:22:10
  bridal room in early January. A university student visiting
• 2:22:15
  from Birmingham, he had heard of Elizabeth online and wanted to
• 2:22:19
  see what the hype was about. Within 10 minutes, he felt a
• 2:22:24
  sharp pain in his ribs. He lifted his shirt in the
• 2:22:27
  hallway, revealing 3 thin, bloody scratches that were
• 2:22:32
  carved into his side. Security footage showed he had
• 2:22:36
  not touched anything. No sharp surfaces were nearby.
• 2:22:40
  He had been alone in the room except for the doll.
• 2:22:45
  He declined medical attention but left the museum immediately.
• 2:22:50
  His only words on the way out were.
• 2:22:53
  She did it. A few weeks later, a staff
• 2:22:57
  member, newly hired, reported his ID badge being pulled off
• 2:23:01
  his neck and flung to the door while adjusting lighting in the
• 2:23:05
  room. He would quit three days later.
• 2:23:09
  To this day, the staff logs each new experience and the list
• 2:23:15
  continues to grow. Elizabeth's reputation became a
• 2:23:19
  draw on its own right. Visitors flock from across the
• 2:23:22
  UK to Sere. Lee and Sarah were invited to
• 2:23:26
  speak at conventions and online panels, and Elizabeth was always
• 2:23:30
  the centerpiece of the discussion.
• 2:23:33
  She's unlike anything else in the museum, Sarah said in 2025
• 2:23:37
  during an interview. Most haunted items, they act
• 2:23:41
  once, maybe twice, then go dormant.
• 2:23:45
  Elizabeth is consistent. She's deliberate.
• 2:23:49
  The Dolls presence also inspired a surge in spiritual interests.
• 2:23:53
  Mediums, demonologists and psychics requested private
• 2:23:58
  sessions to read the energy around her.
• 2:24:01
  Some claims she contained not one but multiple entities, a
• 2:24:06
  blend of human grief and something far darker. 1
• 2:24:10
  sidekick, after spending 6 minutes near her case, abruptly
• 2:24:14
  left the museum and refused to return.
• 2:24:18
  She later wrote in a private message that there's a woman in
• 2:24:21
  that doll, but there's something else, something behind her.
• 2:24:27
  As of now, Elizabeth remains behind plexiglass, still within
• 2:24:31
  the museum. No cleansing rituals have been
• 2:24:34
  attempted. Lee and Sarah fear provoking
• 2:24:38
  her. No spiritual medium has
• 2:24:40
  suggested moving her, and no one, not even skeptics, have
• 2:24:45
  attempted to remove her from the building.
• 2:24:48
  She's considered the museum's most dangerous item, not because
• 2:24:52
  of what she says or how she looks, but because of what she
• 2:24:56
  does consistently, quietly, and without warning.
• 2:25:03
  Elizabeth doesn't need to scream.
• 2:25:05
  She doesn't need to cry, really, she doesn't even need to move.
• 2:25:10
  Her silence is enough. And for those who dare to
• 2:25:14
  question her power, she's always just watching.
• 2:25:19
  Elizabeth seems to represent a rare type of haunting, not
• 2:25:23
  simply a residual energy bound to an object, but a conscious
• 2:25:28
  and reactive force, one that responds to attention, targets
• 2:25:33
  specific victims, and behaves with recognizable patterns.
• 2:25:39
  For investigators and researchers in the field, she is
• 2:25:42
  considered a case study in intelligent haunting behavior.
• 2:25:47
  Her consistency, visibility, and repeatable phenomena have made
• 2:25:51
  her one of the few haunted objects to offer real time,
• 2:25:55
  publicly viewable activity. Elizabeth has also forced some
• 2:26:00
  skeptics to re evaluate the limits of their belief.
• 2:26:04
  While no scientific body has confirmed the paranormal origin
• 2:26:08
  of the phenomena surrounding her, the sheer volume of
• 2:26:12
  documentation makes her difficult to ignore.
• 2:26:16
  She may not prove the existence of spirits, but she certainly
• 2:26:20
  challenges the idea that all haunted stories are made-up.
• 2:26:26
  Also, as of today, visitors who enter the bridal room report
• 2:26:29
  feeling a pressure, as if the air itself tightens.
• 2:26:33
  Some continue to feel watched, Others describe hearing distant
• 2:26:38
  whispers, always just behind them.
• 2:26:41
  Men especially. Describe a heat on their backs.
• 2:26:46
  Breath or fingertips. And every few months, without
• 2:26:50
  warning, someone new is scratched.
• 2:26:54
  As Sarah Carter once said, you can walk past dozens of haunted
• 2:26:58
  objects in our collection and feel nothing.
• 2:27:02
  But when you stand in front of Elizabeth, it's different.
• 2:27:06
  You feel her. She knows you're there.
• 2:27:10
  A tourist from Germany visited the museum in the late spring of
• 2:27:13
  this year. He spoke little English and
• 2:27:17
  understood even less of the dolls.
• 2:27:18
  Back story. He entered the bridal room with
• 2:27:21
  a small group and took a photo of the doll and quietly exited.
• 2:27:27
  That night, while reviewing the image in his hotel room, he
• 2:27:31
  noticed something strange behind the glass.
• 2:27:35
  Through the veil there was another face, not the dolls, and
• 2:27:40
  not his reflection was that of a woman.
• 2:27:45
  Her eyes were dark, her mouth was open, and it was watching
• 2:27:52
  him. He decided to delete the photo
• 2:27:56
  and couldn't sleep for the rest of the night.
• 2:27:59
  When he returned home, he mailed the museum a note.
• 2:28:03
  Only three words were handwritten in German on the
• 2:28:06
  postcard. She leaped.
• 2:28:08
  Knock. She is still alive.
• 2:28:24
  Can a toy be haunted, let alone cause harm to anyone who comes
• 2:28:29
  into contact with it or views its image with seemingly unknown
• 2:28:35
  origins but possessing an energy that radiates pure evil?
• 2:28:40
  The item, specifically the doll that we will be discussing
• 2:28:43
  today, is rumored to be able to not only affect people who come
• 2:28:48
  into contact with it in the flesh, but to even have the
• 2:28:52
  ability to reach you through the screens of your device.
• 2:28:57
  So if this is something you fear, a risk you potentially
• 2:29:00
  don't want to take, then I highly suggest you find another
• 2:29:04
  video to watch. This is the untold story of
• 2:29:09
  Peggy the doll and the malevolent presence that
• 2:29:12
  surrounds it. There is only so much
• 2:29:16
  information available on this particular case.
• 2:29:19
  All information has been researched using a variety of
• 2:29:22
  sources including books, websites and first hand
• 2:29:26
  accounts. Please be aware that some names
• 2:29:29
  have been changed to protect the identity of those involved and
• 2:29:32
  with such little information found, I have done my best to
• 2:29:35
  form the most cohesive story possible.
• 2:29:38
  I would also like to warn you that supposedly viewing photos
• 2:29:42
  of Peggy or videos have caused distress, physical issues, and
• 2:29:47
  more. Shrouded in mysterious allure,
• 2:29:51
  the toy known as Peggy the Doll is said to house an otherworldly
• 2:29:55
  essence that radiates A profound feeling of evil intertwined with
• 2:30:01
  chilling terrors that have ensnared the collective
• 2:30:04
  curiosity of the public. Believed to be in a perpetual
• 2:30:08
  state of unrest, it has captivated the minds of many
• 2:30:12
  since its initial discovery. Now nine years ago, the true
• 2:30:16
  origin of Peggy is unknown, but the world became aware of its
• 2:30:20
  existence in 2015. This very year, a woman who
• 2:30:26
  wishes for her identity to remain anonymous have been out
• 2:30:30
  at a local garage sale in her area in search of something cool
• 2:30:34
  to take home at a fair price. As she perused the various bins
• 2:30:39
  sat upon tables seeing if anything interested her, out of
• 2:30:43
  the corner of her eye she spotted an adorable looking doll
• 2:30:47
  with blonde hair, beaded blue eyes and a small wide dress
• 2:30:52
  adorning her. Feeling some kind of pull
• 2:30:55
  towards the doll, and feeling as if she would enjoy the presence
• 2:30:58
  of a new companion, she quickly purchased the toy that in due
• 2:31:03
  time, she would start calling Peggy.
• 2:31:06
  But almost as soon as Peggy entered her life and was placed
• 2:31:09
  inside of her home, strange things began to happen.
• 2:31:14
  The woman began to have horrendous nightmares every
• 2:31:17
  single night, ones that were so bad that when she woke up, she'd
• 2:31:22
  be laying in a pool of her own sweat, unable to catch her
• 2:31:26
  breath. Day after day, the increasingly
• 2:31:30
  ominous empty gaze of Peggy stared into her soul, slowly but
• 2:31:35
  surely increasing her anxiety. And night after night, these
• 2:31:41
  horrendous nightmares would continue to induce terror.
• 2:31:46
  In a short period of time, the persistent force made the air so
• 2:31:50
  thick that you could cut it with a knife.
• 2:31:54
  Roughly 3 weeks upon the purchase of the doll and the
• 2:31:57
  start of the nightmares, the woman dreaded inevitably falling
• 2:32:01
  asleep each night. She had also come to the
• 2:32:05
  personal conclusion that something was indeed very wrong
• 2:32:09
  with Peggy. Each night in her nightmares she
• 2:32:13
  was being pursued by some kind of entity that for the longest
• 2:32:17
  time she was unable to see. And yet, each night's sleep
• 2:32:22
  would mirror the last, and each one the story seemed to
• 2:32:26
  progress. Upon drifting off into
• 2:32:29
  dreamland, she would find herself back in the same
• 2:32:32
  terrifying circumstances in which she had been in
• 2:32:35
  previously, and what she saw was truly disturbing.
• 2:32:40
  Slowly, the entity that pursued her, which at first was massed
• 2:32:45
  by darkness, began to reveal itself.
• 2:32:49
  It formed a figure, the figure of a doll, and over time the
• 2:32:55
  doll began to become a hideous amalgamation between that of a
• 2:33:00
  doll and an old woman, A grotesque monstrosity, one that
• 2:33:05
  would leave her shaking in utter distress.
• 2:33:09
  This shook this poor lady to her core, especially since she had
• 2:33:13
  never experienced anything like this before.
• 2:33:16
  But leaving this to be a manifestation of evil, she tried
• 2:33:20
  various methods to quell the abyss that seemed to take such
• 2:33:24
  great interest in her. After Peggy entered her life,
• 2:33:28
  she tried moving the doll to various spots within her home,
• 2:33:32
  but that didn't seem to work. She consulted 2 priests at two
• 2:33:36
  different churches, both of which whose blessings didn't
• 2:33:41
  seem to work. If anything, this seemed to make
• 2:33:44
  the circumstances so much worse. Peggy began to move around on
• 2:33:48
  her own and in conjunction with this she began breaking multiple
• 2:33:53
  items within the home as well. She finally out of desperation
• 2:33:57
  moved Peggy into her shed, hoping that with the doll being
• 2:34:00
  outside of the home that her torment would cease.
• 2:34:05
  This however failed and if anything seemed to anger
• 2:34:10
  whatever entity was present. Seemingly exhausting all known
• 2:34:14
  options at the time, and out of desperation and hours of
• 2:34:18
  research, she found and emailed someone who she believed be
• 2:34:23
  equipped to help her and or figure out just what was taking
• 2:34:27
  place. A renowned British paranormal
• 2:34:29
  investigator, a woman by the name of Jane Harris who ran the
• 2:34:34
  organization Haunted Dolls. After a brief correspondence,
• 2:34:39
  Harris agreed to accept Peggy the doll, so it was placed in
• 2:34:43
  the post and mailed to her. But as the doll made its long
• 2:34:47
  journey to Harris's residence, little did she know that she too
• 2:34:52
  would become one of the entity's victims.
• 2:34:56
  The doll would arrive in a tan box upon Harris's doorstep
• 2:35:00
  roughly 3 weeks later when she brought the box inside of her
• 2:35:04
  home as soon as her foot crossed the threshold.
• 2:35:07
  She would later say that it was if the whole energy seemed to
• 2:35:11
  shift within her house. As she unboxed the toy and
• 2:35:15
  presented it to the first rays of light it had seen in nearly a
• 2:35:18
  month, she almost immediately began the induction process.
• 2:35:22
  She set aside a space for Peggy and attempted to establish a
• 2:35:26
  baseline to see if anything abnormal seemed to be coming
• 2:35:29
  from the doll. Placing her within a glass
• 2:35:32
  stand, her and several of her colleagues began to set up night
• 2:35:36
  vision cameras, digital cameras, and motion detectors.
• 2:35:40
  After this was done, they examined it with an EMF meter,
• 2:35:45
  but nothing at first seemed to be odd about the doll other than
• 2:35:49
  the feeling Harris had upon bringing it into her home.
• 2:35:53
  They left the doll for an overnight examination to see if
• 2:35:56
  any of their cameras or motion detectors picked up on anything,
• 2:36:00
  but after the first night they would discover nothing.
• 2:36:03
  Despite the lack of findings, the team's protocol would
• 2:36:07
  dictate that the next step would be to bring in several mediums
• 2:36:11
  to try and see if they felt anything in regards to the
• 2:36:14
  object. This, however, takes time and
• 2:36:17
  schedule, so in the meantime it would have to essentially sit on
• 2:36:21
  the back burner. It was now November of 2015, and
• 2:36:26
  approximately 6 weeks after Peggy the doll had arrived on
• 2:36:29
  the doorsteps of Jane Harris. Strangely, almost out of the
• 2:36:34
  blue, because she wasn't known to have issues like these
• 2:36:37
  before, Jane was suddenly hit with an unyielding, debilitating
• 2:36:42
  fatigue. Barely able to move, she
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  remained bedridden for roughly 2 weeks, and that's when her body
• 2:36:50
  began to be wracked with horrible migraines accompanied
• 2:36:54
  with nausea. This would cause her to not only
• 2:36:57
  put a pause on her normal paranormal works, but she was
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  also unable to care for her two young children, despite getting
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  8 to 9 hours of solid sleep a night plus naps due to the
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  exhaustion and suffering for several weeks.
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  Eris's condition was not improving. 3 doctors had ran all
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  sorts of tests and yet nothing was coming back.
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  Abnormal blood tests ruled out thyroid issues.
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  She had no signs of anemia or any other kind of illness for
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  that matter. Left with no other explanation,
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  Jane had to consider the possibility, since it was the
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  only factor that had recently changed in her life, that
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  perhaps her ailed state was a result of the presence of Peggy
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  the doll. Wanting an outside opinion, she
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  decided to contact a friend and clairvoyant whom she had worked
• 2:37:50
  with on other cases, a medium named Patricia Redmond.
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  On November 13th, roughly a week after being asked, Patricia
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  would agree to take and examine Peggy, and for the first time in
• 2:38:04
  over a month, Jane slowly but surely began to feel better.
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  She wasn't drained of energy, her constant migraines and
• 2:38:13
  nausea were gone, and her skin, which had taken quite the Gray
• 2:38:17
  tone since she had fallen I'll began to go back to normal.
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  Redmond would have the doll for approximately 3 weeks and agreed
• 2:38:25
  to return it to Harris, but not before casting a spell of
• 2:38:29
  protection upon it in hopes that if the doll was affecting her
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  that it would no longer bother her during her studies.
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  Her conclusion, and strangely what would become the conclusion
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  of three other sidekicks over the course of the investigation,
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  was that Peggy contained the spirit of a woman from London,
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  England. It is thought that she is
• 2:38:51
  possessed by the spirit of a woman born in 1946 in London's
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  Holland Park. Who died of?
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  A chest related condition, possibly an asthma attack.
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  The readings would further. Uncover that the woman was
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  persecuted and had a very hard life, that she disliked clowns
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  and cats, and that she died horribly and alone of
• 2:39:15
  asphyxiation, cold and by herself.
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  Could this perhaps be why she was so angry in death?
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  And why did she inhabit the doll to begin with?
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  These questions perhaps will never be answered or have yet to
• 2:39:30
  be uncovered. During the course of the
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  investigation through her social media for haunted dolls, Jane
• 2:39:37
  began to post updates regarding Peggy the doll, as she would
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  with any of the items or other objects the group would be
• 2:39:44
  involved with. The photos and videos of Peggy
• 2:39:47
  began to draw visceral reactions from those who viewed them in
• 2:39:52
  conjunction with strange manifestations of the
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  paranormal, and not just a handful of people.
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  Over the years, hundreds have poured in, leading most to
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  believe that there has to be some kind of correlation.
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  These experiences people have had range from horrible
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  headaches, anxiety and nausea to shortness of breath, abnormal
• 2:40:14
  heartbeat and more, with others, their computers freezing upon
• 2:40:19
  the image of Peggy, light bulbs exploding and in one instance.
• 2:40:24
  A candle falling over and causing a small fire.
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  These are just some of the comments that have been said
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  upon viewing the images and videos.
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  Upon viewing the doll I had a full blown asthma attack which
• 2:40:39
  hasn't occurred in almost a decade.
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  Are Troomans. I've had a migraine and
• 2:40:44
  palpitation since seeing your doll.
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  Please contact me. J Claire.
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  This is so strange. Can dogs and cats sense evil?
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  Since I opened the photo of that doll, my little terrier Molly
• 2:40:59
  has been snarling and growling at the screen.
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  I'm a bit freaked out. Jay Carlton.
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  One woman, upon viewing an image of Peggy, had a dream of some
• 2:41:10
  kind of figure was chasing her cat and eventually caught it as
• 2:41:15
  it was running up to her door. Upon waking up and going to
• 2:41:19
  check on her beloved pet after not finding it within her home,
• 2:41:23
  she checked her front door and found the cat no longer alive.
• 2:41:27
  It was if it had been mauled. Eventually, the doll would find
• 2:41:32
  a new home at the Haunted Museum owned by controversial
• 2:41:36
  paranormal investigator Zach Pagans.
• 2:41:39
  Here she resides in her own space in a glass display where
• 2:41:43
  people continue to experience strange feelings and occurrences
• 2:41:48
  as a result of being within her presence.
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  But before we go, this case to me poses several questions which
• 2:41:56
  I'd like to address. First of which, if we take
• 2:41:59
  things at face value, if Peggy was possessed, why would the
• 2:42:03
  spirit choose to inhabit a doll and then also cause so much
• 2:42:07
  torment? I found that if a spirit is
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  restless and angry in life, then odds are they become lost souls
• 2:42:14
  when they die. They may seek something to
• 2:42:17
  inhabit that would allow them to gain access to people and or
• 2:42:21
  their homes to which they can take out their frustration just
• 2:42:25
  like people which they were. If they're evil or angry in
• 2:42:28
  life, odds are they will be in death as well.
• 2:42:33
  Were the nightmares the result of an overactive imagination?
• 2:42:36
  It is pretty well known that some entities like to infiltrate
• 2:42:39
  dreams. Why this is a thing is
• 2:42:42
  uncertain. Perhaps to cause distress in
• 2:42:45
  which they can feed upon. And what about the physical
• 2:42:48
  ailments? This perhaps could have been a
• 2:42:50
  coincidence if it hadn't affected so many people over the
• 2:42:54
  years, or so they claim. The odds that so many people
• 2:42:58
  would express physical issues or strange manifestations as a
• 2:43:02
  result of seeing or being in contact with the doll is indeed
• 2:43:06
  odd. And lastly, was it even a human
• 2:43:09
  spirit inhabiting the vessel at all?
• 2:43:11
  Or perhaps something inhuman? These questions and more of
• 2:43:15
  course, will likely never be able to answer, which leaves
• 2:43:18
  this case shrouded and yet more mystery.
• 2:43:22
  So if you find yourself being pulled towards a particular
• 2:43:25
  item, unless you are vastly experienced, you may want to
• 2:43:29
  give it's allure a second thought, because this calling
• 2:43:32
  could potentially open up a nightmare's world of torment,
• 2:43:37
  harassment and terror. Curses.
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  An incantation or seal which when broken or disturbed, is
• 2:43:55
  claimed to cause things such as bad luck, illness or even death.
• 2:44:01
  Although most of the claims have been written off as simple
• 2:44:04
  superstition, there is one curse that caught the attention of
• 2:44:08
  many and disturbed the world for a time.
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  Today we will be heading to the Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
• 2:44:17
  and discussing the curse of the Pharaohs and more specifically
• 2:44:22
  the curse of King Tutankhamun here on Mystery Archives.
• 2:45:09
  Ancient curses in Egyptian culture were not typically too
• 2:45:12
  common, but when someone like a great leader or a pharaoh passed
• 2:45:16
  away and rare circumstances, curses were placed on the tombs
• 2:45:20
  and the surrounding chamber walls.
• 2:45:23
  This was to keep any grave. Robbers or threats?
• 2:45:26
  Away from the bodies and away from the leaders as they entered
• 2:45:30
  the afterlife. One of the earliest curses
• 2:45:34
  discovered was that of the Old Kingdom, which when translated.
• 2:45:38
  Red. Cursed be those who disturb the
• 2:45:41
  rest of a pharaoh. They that shall break the seal
• 2:45:44
  of this tomb shall meet death by a disease that no doctor can
• 2:45:49
  diagnose. Many others warn of various
• 2:45:53
  godsmiting the trespassers and or causing immense physical and
• 2:45:57
  spiritual harm to anyone who dare break the seal.
• 2:46:01
  These, of course were not taken literally most of the time, and
• 2:46:04
  although there were many stories of misfortune befallen people in
• 2:46:08
  the past who had disturbed the various tombs of the Pharaohs,
• 2:46:12
  several particular events closer to the modern day.
• 2:46:15
  Is what we will. Be focusing on In the 1940s, a
• 2:46:19
  young archaeologist named Zahi Hawass was excavating at Kaam
• 2:46:24
  Abdul Bilo and had to transport several artifacts from the Greco
• 2:46:28
  Roman site. That day his cousin died in
• 2:46:32
  exactly 1 year to the day his uncle died and on the 2nd
• 2:46:37
  anniversary of moving the artifacts, his aunt passed away
• 2:46:40
  as well. All those that he was disturbed
• 2:46:43
  at the realization, he continued his work.
• 2:46:47
  Years later he was excavating the tombs of the builders of the
• 2:46:50
  pyramids of Giza and he encountered a curse which read
• 2:46:55
  all people who enter this tomb, who will make evil against this
• 2:46:58
  tomb and destroy it? May the crocodile be against
• 2:47:01
  them in the water and the snakes against them on the land.
• 2:47:05
  May the hippopotamus be against them in the water and the
• 2:47:08
  scorpion on the land. Though not superstitious, he
• 2:47:14
  decided to not disturb the mummies.
• 2:47:17
  However, he was later involved in the removal of two child
• 2:47:22
  mummies to a museum near the site and from the day the
• 2:47:25
  children's mummies were moved he began to have haunting dreams.
• 2:47:30
  He dreamt that two children would lead him into the pyramid
• 2:47:34
  and then into a hidden chamber and once inside the chamber they
• 2:47:38
  would decay, taunt him and attempt to drag him into the
• 2:47:43
  afterlife. The disturbing dreams were
• 2:47:46
  unceasing and they continued until the mummies were reunited
• 2:47:50
  with their father at the museum they were being moved to.
• 2:47:54
  But the curse that arguably got the most attention was that of
• 2:47:58
  King Tutankhamun. A-Team, led by archaeologist
• 2:48:01
  Howard Carter, unearthed Tutankhamun in 1922, thus
• 2:48:06
  launching the modern era of Egyptology.
• 2:48:09
  During this discovery, Egyptologist James Henry
• 2:48:12
  Breasted. Worked.
• 2:48:13
  With Carter. After opening the tomb, he was
• 2:48:16
  approaching his home and he heard a faint, almost human cry.
• 2:48:20
  Upon reaching the entrance, he saw his bird.
• 2:48:22
  Cage, which was occupied by his pet.
• 2:48:24
  Canary, but not hearing any noise from the bird when he came
• 2:48:28
  in, he became concerned. Upon approaching the cage, he
• 2:48:32
  was frightened to find a cobra in place of his beloved pet and
• 2:48:36
  his pet in its mouth. Word soon got out and local
• 2:48:40
  rumors began to suggest that the team had indeed been cursed,
• 2:48:45
  especially after killing and further examination of the
• 2:48:48
  snake. It was found to be a royal
• 2:48:50
  cobra, the same that was worn on the King's head to strike his
• 2:48:55
  enemies. The strange news made it all the
• 2:48:58
  way to the New York Times on December 22nd of 1922, but that
• 2:49:03
  was really just the beginning of the mysterious happenings.
• 2:49:07
  The first death to take place was that of Lord Carnarvon.
• 2:49:12
  During the dig, he had been bitten by a mosquito and later
• 2:49:15
  that night had accidentally cut the bite while shaving.
• 2:49:18
  Just several weeks later, it had become infected, resulting in
• 2:49:22
  blood poisoning, which Carnarvon then perished from.
• 2:49:26
  Another strange event tied to the original dig was that of
• 2:49:30
  Henry Field. Field had been a part of the
• 2:49:32
  team, and he had found a bracelet inscribed with a curse.
• 2:49:36
  The curse read, He who moves this body shall have fire,
• 2:49:40
  water, and pestilence upon him. Paying no attention, he went
• 2:49:44
  ahead and adorned the bracelet for the rest of the dig.
• 2:49:47
  Just two days later, Field's house burned down, and then
• 2:49:52
  during its reconstruction, it was then swept away by a flood.
• 2:49:56
  Several more people would die under strange circumstances.
• 2:50:00
  George J Gould, a visitor to the tomb during its excavation, died
• 2:50:05
  five months later due to complications of a fever he had
• 2:50:08
  developed several days after his initial visit.
• 2:50:12
  AC Mace, a member of the excavation team, died in 1928 of
• 2:50:16
  arsenic poisoning from an unknown source.
• 2:50:20
  Richard Bethel, Carter's secretary, died six years later
• 2:50:24
  by smothering, which the person or cause was never determined.
• 2:50:29
  And lastly, Howard Carter, who died from a rare and aggressive
• 2:50:33
  cancer. Though many of these deaths
• 2:50:36
  could be written off as bizarre and circumstantial, it certainly
• 2:50:39
  makes one believe that there could be something to those old
• 2:50:42
  Egyptian curses after all. So if you find yourself in front
• 2:50:46
  of a mummy's tomb, you may not want to open because what lies
• 2:50:51
  inside could be your doom.