Haunted doll that is creepier than Annabelle

A Haunted doll?

In 2014, I found a cloth rag doll at a thrift store one evening and decided to give it to my 3-year-old granddaughter, Jayla. The doll was in fair condition and had a few faded spots. She was wearing a long dress that looked like something out of the Antebellum era, and I visualized a little girl running through the yard playing with her.

After I got home and took the doll out of the bag, I wished I had never made the purchase. She had looked like an innocent rag doll while inside the store, but in my kitchen, she gave me the creeps. In the brighter light, I wondered how I ever could have brought something this evil-looking home with me.

Every time I looked at her, I got this ominous feeling as if she was looking right back at me. I could not turn my back on this doll without quickly looking over my shoulder. Chills went up my spine, and there was something in the facial expression that made me feel there were evil spirits inside this doll waiting to be invoked to come out.

I wondered who originally owned her, what her name was, and how she ended up in the thrift store? I imagined the doll causing all kinds of accidents, and the parents of the little girl who owned it giving her away. (Yes, I know I have watched too many episodes of Hauntings and The Haunted).

Was this doll cursed or possessed?

I decided to find out if I was perceiving correctly or if it were my imagination going into overdrive. I showed the doll to my husband, who is the one in the family who is the least likely to consider anything to be paranormal.

He took one look at her and told me she looked really creepy and asked me not to give her to Jayla. I next showed the doll to my youngest son, and he said in a loud voice that I needed to get that thing out of the house.

He added that it made his skin crawl and looked demonic. When my oldest son came by, I asked his opinion. He said the doll looked like it had an evil spirit and he also asked me to get rid of it quickly.

I took a picture to see how people would react and put it on Facebook. Three or four individuals said the doll looked possessed. My daughter said it made her think of Annabelle the doll from the movie.

Annabelle

Annabelle was a Raggedy Anne doll that was supposedly possessed by the spirit of a little girl named Annabelle. The doll is said to now be residing in the basement of the home of paranormal investigator couple Ed and Loraine Warren.

I was praying that whatever was in that doll would stay there and that myself and my family would remain safe. I've spent much time in antique shops, thrift stores, and at yard sales.

This is the first time I ever got an item that not only gave me cold chills, but troubled everyone who saw it. I decided that I could not allow this evil looking doll to spend the night in my house so I put it inside of a box and took it to a nearby store where I dropped it in the dumpster and prayed it would remain there.

On the way back home I kept looking at the seat and in the rearview mirror to make sure she did not escape and ride home with me. I had seen such things on the Twilight Zone and in movies and now it was all coming back to me with clarity.

Just before updating this story, I showed the image to my granddaughter, who is now 13. She said the doll looked hideous, as if spirits were trapped inside. Her older brother agreed that the doll looked creepy. I believe this doll looks scarier than Annabelle.