Famous Haunted Doll

Original E-Bay Listing for the Famous Haunted Doll:

"Our Haunted Items Auction is run by one of The Mohawk Valley Ghost Hunters. It is some of the collection the members acquired while doing various ghost hunts, attending Ghost Fairs and such. Many of the items have been seen in paranormal magazines,books and some televised on tv. Each of the items has a story of it's own and some handed down through various paranormal groups, after they have experienced many things. A lot of the items are being sold because the activity in the home and attached store has become so strong that they came to the conclusion to get rid of many of the items, in hopes that the paranormal activity will come to a cease.

MVGH works on a scientific basis, and their readings have all been documented over time.

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This auction is for a doll known to society as Chandra and an envelope of particles that seem to follow the doll. Chandra was purchased from a haunted touring museum in Mebane, North Carolina. The doll was also written about in a book called, Possessed Possessions : Haunted Antiques, Furniture and Collectibles. When MVGH bought the doll it was bought at a Ghost Convention in Goshen Virginia, where the museum had things on display. At the time of purchase there were papers that were handed out to people who stopped at the booth regarding each of the items the museum owned. The next few lines are from the museum staff itself:

Chandra was donated to the museum in 1991. At that time her clothing was dirty, her body was stiff. The saying around the museum is, 'She may seem like an ordinary stuffed doll, but she is much more than that.'

The woman who donated Chandra, told the museum curator that she would wake up in the middle of the night hearing a woman crying from the basement. When she investigated, she would find a window near the doll open where it had previously been closed and the curtains blowing in the breeze. The donor later told the curator that after the doll was given to the museum, she was no longer disturbed by the sounds of a woman in the night.

Some say Chandra has unusual powers. Many speculate that the doll has acquired these powers over the years, but since little is known of the doll’s history nothing can be said for certain. What is certain is the unusual effect she seems to have on everyone around her.

As soon as Chandra arrived at the museum, staff and volunteers began to have weird and unexplainable experiences. Lunches would disappear from the refrigerator and later be found tucked away in a drawer; footsteps were heard when no one was around; pens, books, photos and many other small items would go missing , some were never found and some turned up later. The staff passed these events off as absent-mindedness, but this did not account for everything. Chandra did not have a permanent "home" inside the museum when she first arrived. She was placed in the museum entranceway, facing the public, and visitors would stare and talk about the doll. Eventually, Chandra was moved to another part of the museum where she was carefully placed alone in a display case because museum staff had been told that she should not be placed with other dolls because she would harm them.

Since her permanent placement there have been many stories about encounters with the haunted doll. One visitor was videotaping Chandra only to have the camera light go on and off every 5 seconds. When the visitor’s camera was turned on another exhibit, it functioned just fine.

On certain occasions visitors and staff have found some sort of substance on the dolls dress or next to it, or even on the shelf where the doll sits, and it has nothing to do with the doll nor the stuffing of the doll. Most people think the doll has a tear in it somewhere, but this is not the case. We had the substance tested in 96 to see what it was and they claimed it was of a wood substance. The substance has since been collected in an envelope.

Some visitors are very disturbed by the doll’s eyes, some have even claimed that there was a glow of a green haze around the eye area. Others claim to have seen the doll appear blurry like something was moving it very quickly but in tiny movements, and still others say they have seen the doll in one position and minutes later she will appear to have moved.

Although they’re used to it by now, museum staff and volunteers still prefer not to be the last one working or locking up the museum at the end of the day.