During my lifetime I have had several personal encounters with the paranormal, or supernatural as some people prefer to say. I shared this experience with several members of my family when I was about 12 revolved around a set of antique dolls. Although I was not the one who actually encountered the ghost I was there while it was going on.
My grandmother found a set of antique dolls somewhere and she bought them and brought them to her house. The bodies of the dolls were made of porcelain and their dresses and hats were a combination of silk and feathers.
She put the dolls into a large walk-in closet at the top of the stairs. My older sister lived with our grandparents, her bedroom was just next to the walk-in closet. Right away she started having nightmares. She also told us that she heard an old woman humming and a creaking noise like a rocking chair while she was trying to go to sleep. She prayed and tried to ignore it until she finally fell asleep, but when she did she had nightmares.
Naturally, the adults did not believe her. They said that she had only imagined it and it was natural for a child to have nightmares sometimes. She continued to hear the old woman and to have nightmares. We were all starting to get worried about her and, of course, my other sisters and I believed her. It seems that adults are often closed minded to the possibility of such things.
I should say that none of us made any kind of connection between the dolls and what my sister was experiencing. I remember seeing my grandmother bring the dolls in, but I never paid much attention or thought much about them. It was only later that a connection was discovered.
My grandmother attended a Pentecostal church. She had some people from the church get together during a service to pray for my older sister to try to stop her nightmares.
After the prayer one of the ministers came up to my grandmother and asked her if she had brought anything different into the house. He said that he felt like there was a spirit that was causing the problems. Naturally, she thought of the antique dolls and decided to remove them from her house.
To this day I do not know what she did with the dolls, but I do know that as soon as they were gone my sister stopped hearing the old woman and having the bad dreams.
Written by David Slone, Copyright 2008
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i own two porcelain dolls and they seem scary. like if i stare at them i get a creepy feeling! but i have not seen that they are haunted. i really like those dolls and especially my younger brother because he is a big fan of the paranormal and unexplainable things. he does not get scared of the dark. i like those dolls because they are from the late 1900’s. i have always loved those times even oldies music!
when i was a child i had a dream my dolls were chasing me around the bedrooms in my house i was very scared even though i loved my dolls the strange thing is that the next morning my parents said they had heard me sleep walking and they had gone upstairs and found me in their bedroom and put me back in bed so the running around wasnt a dream after all i only hope the doll bit was
IT’S SCARY BUT SORRY TO SAY THAT I FIND IT FAKE……………
it is so scary!!!!:-(
Kinja, your entitled to your opinion but I find it very funny when someone says this story is fake. I know what hapened and I know it is true, so when people say it is fake it doesnt really mean anything to me. I can understand though, this stuff is difficult to believe unless you experienced it yourself.
i said i probably dreamed it but it was strange so get ya facts right kinja
Well I have a story to tell. I don’t necessarily believe in the paranormal world but after this happening I’m seriously questioning it. Its not like all the other crap your pants stories on this blog, in fact it was actually quite heart warming.
In my bedroom on the opposite side of the room to my bed is a big armchair in which are five soft toys which I loved dearly as a child. One happens to be a teddy bear bought by my father just before he passed away. I am just about to finish my MA and my thesis is due in on Tuesday. I’ve had a terrible week and am close to splitting from my long term boyfriend. On Thursday night I was almost at breaking point from work and relationship pressures, and I cried myself to sleep. That night I had unusually intermittent sleep, and I felt some weird interference in the night but passed it off as a dream as I have very bizarre dreams on the whole. When I finally woke up in the morning it took me a while to realize that I had the bear that my father gave me tucked under my arm. No one had been in my room and put the bear on my bed, I actually can’t remember when I last moved it from the arm chair. I can’t explain it at all. It certainly wasn’t a scary experience, if anything I found it very comforting. Later on (just before I wrote this entry) I was looking at the bear and was playing with the washing instructions tag at the back, as I straightened it out I saw on the back the words ‘my bear’ which I must have written when I was a little boy, and on the other side was a smiley face again which I must have written but have absolutely no recollection of. It was a very bizarre experience, but has calmed me down immensely from what was literally my breaking point the night before.
If anyone would like to interpret this for me, or would like to tell me that I’m a bloody liar I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts.
Richard.
you just sound like an angry man to me
I don’t know why you people are saying this story is Fake. Were you THERE? No. It just burns me up at the people who can say with such self-righteous certainty that a story is not true when they really don’t know at all. Nothing in this story seems fake to me, and I hope you’re all haunted by creepy dolls tonight you JERKS.
Thank you Nikki!
I WAS there
and I wrote this and it is completely true but I really dont care if anyone believes it or not. I told the story and those who read can do as they wish. Whether they believe or not it doesnt change the facts
Anyone who questions, argue’s or insults someones beleifs and stories in this site should not be on it, so all you you people out there who have done this, ask your self, if you don’t believe why are you on this site?
well richard i dont want to believe thats dolls can come alive because i find it scary but i believe it is possible
i totally believe this story im 16 and have hav many experiences when i was about 12 or 13 my grandma bought this doll from a yard sale and it wasnt exactly porcelin but it was still a doll but any ways it workek without batteries and blinked it eyes like one of those fake dolls that little kids play with except i dont know if this was a doll or a demon but my grandma threw that thing in the trash…
wWOW ITS SOOO SCARY! Ive always been spooked out by dolls i just hate theyr eyes and i bet it was quite horrid to accturly experince it! lol it was god, and im sure its not a fake.
my mom used to collect old porcelain dolls. i was terrified of them… she had over 10 of them all around the living room. when i would sit and watch tv i would feel them looking at me.. i have always been scared of them ever since i can remember. so im positive ur not lying
I’m a medium, and yes! I feel alot of truth in this story. But after all my paranormal experiences; this story anit scary. I would agree with yall that say it’s scary if I hadn’t had scary things.
I’ll post my experiences. Thank yall and may God and Jesus be with yall.
Oh, by the way, whoever posted this I feel sad for your sister
Hello Medium – I am very sure that it would have been scary for you if you went through this when you were around 12 or 13 years old. Heck, I imagine it would be scary even for most adults. Anyway, it is all true even though not all that scary
Thanks for your comment and my sister is doing well these days.