But why do I, and so many other people, find dolls so creepy - and have such an easy time believing that a malevolent spirit would choose to call their tiny, stuffing-filled bodies home? Well, it probably helps that humanity and supernatural dolls have a long and somewhat uneasy history - magical dolls, which are known today by magic practitioners as "poppets," have been recorded as far back as ancient Egypt, where dolls made to look like Ramses III were said to have been used by his enemies to bring about his death. OK, perhaps I'm overselling it (I personally had a traumatic experience with a Baby Alive in 1990 that I'm still clearly not quite over). lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes"? He is saying that dolls are scarier than sharks. Their expressionless little faces! Their freaky, limp limbs that splay out all weird and make them look like a crime scene photo from CSI every time they tip over! Remember in Jaws, when Quint is describing what is so terrifying about a shark, and he says, "Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got. These “mass sellers” tend to be fraudsters.Let's be honest: even when they're not haunted, dolls can be creepy as hell.
Among the advice offered: don’t buy a haunted doll from someone claiming to have found 100 of them in an abandoned building. The British branch of eBay actually provides “A Common Sense Guide to Buying & Selling Haunted Items”. The seller claimed that the eight year old MacBook could levitate and write notes with a pen and paper.The laptop went on to earn bids of over $3,000.Īlso, knowledge is power. A reportedly possessed laptop was put up for auction on eBay earlier this year. While dolls tend to be the most popular haunted items that you can buy online, there’s also other stuff like haunted cabinets and computers. There are also other meters that can supposedly measure abnormalities in electromagnetic fields (but they tend to get messed up by radio signals).Įxperienced collectors also tend to keep holy water handy if they wind up with an evil doll and a backup plan for disposing of them if things get out of hand.
HUNTED DOLLS PATCH
These scary toys are allegedly capable of insulting people, running around, and breaking things.īut how does a collector know if the doll they’re buying is the real deal or just another boring old Cabbage Patch Kid? They test them with electronic devices like the ones used by ghost hunters that (take this with a grain of salt) can record the voices of the supernatural.
While most of these ghostly toys are reportedly harmless and nice, there are others that are closer to Chucky, the evil doll from the Child’s Play movies. A quick search on eBay will turn up lots of listings for “haunted dolls.” As ridiculous as all of this might sound, some of these toys have sold for upwards of $1,500.Ĭollectors who believe that the dolls are actually haunted say that they’re “adopting them” and are trying to help out the spirits trapped within them.
In recent years, a strange subculture has emerged on the internet involving dolls that supposedly contain the spirits of the dearly departed. Most fans of all things creepy and mysterious might enjoy the occasional horror film or a night in a haunted inn. Who would want to bring a toy possessed by a ghost into their home? Here’s a look at the very strange world of haunted doll collecting.
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