Saturday, February 21, 2015

Haunted Dolls?

This report will be a difficult one to do because I was not aware it was going on. My wife told me about it today. This all occurred in my wife's store. The report covers about 4 months. So I'll try to present it as coherently as possible. About 4 months ago, a friend of my wife brought in two dolls that her husband's grandmother had won in the Euclid Beach amusement park back in the 1940s. She was hoping my wife could sell them for her. Personally I never paid much attention to the dolls. I sell a few old dolls but mine are the older, collectable sweet and cute variety. These dolls were not even in the area of the store where I display the ones I have for sale. These dolls were placed toward the front of the store on the high shelves that run down the right side of the store. The dolls could be displayed there because the were rather large (about 4 ft tall). The friend wanted to sell them because she said they "Creep me out". They were in excellent shape and even had the original boxes they came in. I said, "What was so creepy about them", and my wife said it was the "eyes", they were large, kinda evil looking and seemed to follow you. Frankly I only vaguely remember them. I thought they were rather garish but I don't remember their eyes at all. I guess I'm not that observant. The dolls didn't sell right away and my wife said they creeped her out so much that she was ready to ask the friend to take them out of the store. So I said to my wife, They were creepy looking" is that all?" She replied, "You are going to think I'm silly but do you remember the towels we almost wrecked the store looking for and they suddenly appeared in an empty basket I had asked you to take to the backroom?" "Yes' so?" "That basket, she replied was on the floor in front of those dolls". "A coincidence", I replied. " Maybe so, she responded," however one morning when I came in and as turning on the lights around the store I almost stepped on six red candles laid out in a perfect row on the floor". The box they were displayed in was still on the shelf where it was supposed to be". "Those candles were directly under the dolls". They were not on the floor when I closed because either you or I would have seen them when we were shutting off the lights. You couldn't help seeing them because you would have stepped on them if you didn't see them". "another day as I was opening I found a candle globe broken in the floor. How did the globe get off the candle in the holder and fall on the floor and break?" I admitted I couldn't see how and she said, "That candle globe was directly under those dolls." Then she said several other items have been found on the floor. Not broken but not where they should have been. I would have said it is all circumstantial, but thought better of it. I did say, "Where are the dolls now?" My wife replied the dolls finally sold, just after the wringer incident to a lady who was traveling on south. She use to live in Cleveland and as a child had wanted those dolls very much but her Dad wasn't good enough a that game of chance to win one, although he had tried several times. She was very excited to find them in such excellent condition and my wife was very excited to get rid if them. Then my wife pointed out, "There hasn't been anything unusual happening in that part of the store since". So I guess the reader will have to decide for themselves if we were selling a couple of haunted dolls.

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