Supernatural Doll Stories

This one isn't really creepy, but - Fawn, my DT Seola, has a rather downcast expression. Her real-life backstory is that she started out as one doll in a large collection, but her first owner decided she didn't care for her and boxed her up for a long time before either selling or consigning her to DDE, where I think she stayed for awhile before my friend bought her. Then, a couple of years later, she came here. Right after my friend got her, someone else commented that "she's so pretty, but she's the saddest doll I've ever seen. Can you imagine how beautiful she'd be if she could smile?" Well, a couple of months ago, I took some quick group shots of some of my on and off-topic dolls, and while deciding on the pic I wanted for the blog, I kept thinking, "How cute. Fawn looks like she's smiling." (Not a huge grin, just a Mona Lisa kind of smile, but it looked like a smile nonetheless.) I figured it was just my imagination, though. But after the post went up, several people commented "How on earth did you do that? Fawn's smiling!"

I do adore her. She's not very stable on her feet, but she's the sweetest poser, and if she's yellowed, which I'm sure she has being nine or ten years old by now, it's perfectly even and she just looks peachy. She's perfect in her own way.

 

I love this thread! when my DC Queena comes, she'll become a ghost. I wonder if she'll attract any...?

 

Just for fun, have you heard of/read about/experienced any mythologies, beliefs, or supernatural stories about dolls?

I was watching the Korean movie, Dollmaster, a couple days ago and in the movie it was mentioned that sometimes dolls can gain souls when they are loved by their owners. And that to kill a doll with a soul one would need to decapitate the doll and destroy its eyes. I'm not sure if this is based on anything or just a plot device for the film.

 

Well there's that one urban legend about "Hide and Seek Alone", but that's with fabric dolls. Basically the doll is filled with rice (among other things) and given a knife and you hide and it comes and tries to find/attack you. Spooky stuff~

And if you're looking for a more-or-less doll themed spooky movie, check out "Dead Silence"...very creepy, focuses on marionettes/dolls/dummies

 

I heard in some Oriental mythologies if you lovingly care for an object /doll it will come to life for one day and throw a party with you and your family.

 

Sometimes when I wake up, Yo's head is turned towards my bed (I always make him look forward - to the window). And I never had bad dreams when I sleep with him in the same room.

 

I read that in Japan, the belief exists that a doll or toy that is loved gains a soul, and when the owner grows up and moves on, there's this festival where they cremate the dolls so that the souls can move on to other toys that are loved by children. I love that idea, a kind of doll reincarnation. I'm partial to animism anyway, I love the idea that everything has a soul, even though I don't actually believe in souls myself. It's just such a lovely thought.

 

I am not sure if this counts but have you guys heard of the 'island of dolls' ; u ; really creepy but interesting read! It's literally an island full of dolls and they say a spirit of a girl haunts that place?

http://www.isladelasmunecas.com/

 

Oh! Speaking of Japan, there's a belief that once an object is 100 years old, it gains sentience and becomes a yokai called a "Tsukumogami". I'm sure this also can be applied to dolls

 

According to the Velveteen Rabbit you can love a toy or a doll enough to make it real. If you no longer want a doll that has found it's spirit give it to someone who needs a doll friend. There is a wonderful video Jim Henson's Living With Dinosaurs about a living plushie who isn't going anywhere any time soon.

 

I have seen some flims about doll,the most of flims always let me scared,I dont believe my doll have a soul,but I feel some special feeling when I see my doll,that make me very love my dolls!

 

I have had Abbi less than a month and I've already got several good stories with her. '

When I first got her, I tried to put her in this really cute little white skirt with a matching yellow cardigan. She absolutely hated it and literally got bent out of shape with her joints popping out of the sockets until I took it off her. Bear in mind that I was being very careful with her, so I have no idea how that happened. Once I put her back in her casual clothes, she was just fine.

I had another outfit for her but did not have shoes that I thought suited her and they were not actually made for BJDs. Nonetheless, I put the shoes on and told her that if she could stand in said shoes, she could wear them. Without any problem, she stood in them.

And I hear all of these stories of dolls throwing themselves off of high perches, which sounds scary. Lillyth sits on top of a 7 foot high bookshelf, but she has never once moved an inch. Even when I put her in a ridiculous outfit, she doesn't move. I think she likes that she is in a place of honor and attention, for she does like getting some attention. I have also noticed that ever since I've had her, Lillyth will "strike a pose" in an outfit that she likes.

 

After reading some of the stories on this thread, I became worried about my first incoming doll (he'll be here in less than two weeks, yay!), especially since his character has a very sadistic side to him.

Paranormal things have happened to me for the last decade, and became so bad that just over a year ago, I was getting bitten, scratched (I could feel them happening as I sat still, and they burned like crazy), and getting my hair pulled. Buying dolls with no previous owner was very important to me for this reason, I didn't want to invite anything else negative home.

When I slept last night, I dreamt of my boy sitting quietly on my bed. His girlfriend's image flashed through my head (she'll likely arrive a week or so after he does), and was wearing everything I've bought for her as of yet, eyes closed, her hands covering her mouth as she giggled. Between fits of laughter, she'd managed to say 'He's going to be okay' and faded from my mind, as a shadow bounded around the corner and was absorbed into him. There was no ill intent behind her words whatsoever, she seemed so genuinely happy and bubbly, and radiated warmth strong enough I could feel it. Perhaps he'll be quite the opposite, and that's why she was laughing. Needless to say, I feel a lot better.

 

Ceri-Ethereal Yeah~ I finally found someone who has the same worries as me!!
I also don't buy second-hand dolls for those EXACT reasons as you. I'm worried about unwanted tagger-alongs. I have, however, traded a head that was never played with by its owner. I haven't given it a faceup and it has no body yet so I'm not sure what the outcome would be.
I'm not as bad as you, so far, nothing attacks me in broad daylight and nothing inanimate invades my dreams as yet. I have enough troubles with dead people and seeing weird stuff at night when I go out.
This is one of the reasons I'm not allowed to display a doll or keep it in my room, especially overnight.
Human objects are easy for unwanted visitors to settle in so I always have to store them away or cover their heads.

 

Wow, Ceri-Ethereal, that is really scary and I completely understand why you want to buy new. I feel the same way as you and yuan, and try to buy straight from the company whenever possible. I also have a thing about not having dolls displayed in my bedroom, though I am fine if they are in their boxes. Thankfully all of my secondhand dolls have been totally fine, and I have never personally experienced any paranormal activity.

 

[MENTION=68997]Ceri-Ethereal[/MENTION] - Ever since I was very small, I thought my dolls and bears were my protectors. Maybe you will find this true for you as well!

 

Weird one- I used to have a Pipos Baha fox head modded to an MSD body, and he was painted up as an anthro Coyote...
except I am Native American, and in my tribe Coyote is considered a bit more than a trickster- He's the kind of "trickster" who'd poison a well, or cause murder out of spite. After a while I started to find the doll rather unsettling to have around, so ended up having to sell him.

 

@yuan_mdx Yay! Someone else who's like me! I'll see how badly keeping Subaru in my room freaks me out, there's plenty of plushies for him to sit with. You see the dead and weird stuff? Uck, that's terrible, but I want to hear about it. I haven't seen anything since I was a kid. My mom doesn't let me buy antiques because of all the 'experts' I've gone to. They think it's my fault. It started when I began puberty and gets worse when my mental state does. I appear to invite them home without meaning to, sometimes when I come home my dog looks at me in the doorway and keep looking over my shoulder at something, then he runs away.

I've been bothered in broad daylight a few times. Once I was sitting in my car, before class, and something started tapping loudly on the windows. I got out of the car and looked around, and nobody was there . It wasn't windy either. And another time, as I was sitting in my Public Speaking class, I became nauseous all of a sudden and something hugged me tightly from behind. A scratch happened to me on the way to club (a paranomormal one I'd joined to get help), I was sitting in my car with my family, since we'd gone out to eat that night, and my brother, who doesn't believe in this stuff, literally saw the scratch appear on my hand. After a while, it's more bothersome than scary, but I still hate it.

@AmberLeigh, I hope I can be as lucky as you! And, of course, that it stays that way for you. I'm going to be making a coffin/backpack for my two coming in to stay in, but in the meantime, Subaru will have to sit in his box. (I'm still trying to figure out what I want to keep it rigid with. Cardboard? Craft foam? Wood?)

@mollym That's so cute! I bet they've been fending off bad stuff for years while you've slept.~ For me, it was my baby blanket as a kid, and my dog after I got him. Just being around what makes you feel safe is a great comfort. If I treat him right, maybe my boy will protect me too.

 

I'm on the same boat as the rest of you, though it hasn't stopped me from buying secondhand dolls, just being more picky about the previous owners, praying over things once I receive them and giving things a trial period before I get too attached. I don't want to assume any of you are religious or otherwise, but perhaps 'dedicating' the doll with words spoken out loud would help.

For me that involves asking things to be covered in the blood of Christ, but even just saying "this vessel is sealed against intruders, and it is blind and cannot be used to watch, it is bound and cannot be used to move, it is deaf and will not listen, it is my property now and let nothing attach itself other than positive feelings that are uplifting to people." ... etc. You might do it a few times, and again if you feel as though your words have been tested. For a secondhand object, include something about washing the vessel clean and breaking any ties that were on it before, because now it has a new purpose.

I was very bothered as a young teen by things like that, and I'm still quite sensitive to objects, situations or people that are 'unsafe'. I was having terrible nightmares, half-waking to look down on my sleeping self from the ceiling in the middle of the night, suddenly feeling like I needed to get out of the bedroom NOW on a quiet afternoon in the middle of the day - at the worst time something chased me out of the room, snapping at and electrocuting my feet. It was an unhappy time. :/

This all got better for a while and then got tremendously worse when it attached itself to a rag doll I had made. I did not find out until later that the doll had been controlling what I saw and heard, including causing me to become completely unresponsive to family members, so what seemed pleasant to me for quite some time was terrifying for my family to watch. We did manage to bind the thing to the doll and burn it. If anyone is interested in the rest of that particular story, you can read it here.

@Ceri-Ethereal, that sounds awful, I'm so sorry you've had to deal with it. It does sound like they have some sort of hold on you for some reason, but that may just wear off as you grow and change as a person, I don't know. I had a friend who went through similar things in his late teens; once he got out of the shower because the water began to sting all of a sudden and he turned around to the mirror to see bloody claw marks down his back. He would hear voices, lights and fans would turn off and on, he would be grabbed or find random bruises on himself. I haven't talked to him in a long time but I know as he got into his early twenties and he was able to really reject what was happening and take charge of other areas in his life, as well as get rid of some people who were bad for him, things occurred less and less.

Things might try to attach themselves to your boy just for the simple reason that you will love him and give him attention and I think being housed by something that is treated that way makes them feel 'real' and important. But as long as you put your foot down from the start as to what will be allowed, and ensure that what you do put into him is positive, it really should be okay. I'm rooting for you and congrats on the upcoming arrivals. ^^

 

It appears to me that dolls are less likely to retain stuff than objects made from metal - especially if said metal objects have been handled directly, not like the S-hooks that barely ever get touched. Anything metallic I get second-hand, I clean. My one second-hand doll didn't feel like they brought anything with them, but unlike my new, straight-out-of-the-mold dolls which always feel sort of "cold" and a bit lifeless to me for the first couple days, he felt "warm" and "alive" (in a "this shell represents my OC" sense) from the start.