What object would you haunt if you could? Is an object actually haunted or is it just residual energy from someone's love of said object? These are just some of the things I ponder looking at my shelf of oddities and haunted things.
It started when I was a young child, a love for old things. Growing up I wanted to be an archeologist and collected all the fossils and old things I could get my hands on. A lot of my family were/are scientists and a grandfather was an archeologist in Colorado. I relished every min I got to spend listening to his stories about a current dig or something he was studying. In my teenage years I would spend hours exploring the mountains looking for fossils and old artifacts. Leading to becoming enthralled with urban exploring and spending more time at antique stores.
Fast forward to my late 20s early 30s, I saw the hit tv show Oddities. For most of my 20s I had been a punk rock pagan and was familiar with such things but it never occurred to me as something to collect. With my love for old it just became a fit. I collected the odd thing here and there, until Voodoo Odd Shop opened his new shop. I was 38 and my then girlfriend, now beautiful wife, went in to look. This was right as covid was starting to hit the news, we had been exploring haunted places like Malvern Manor and the Museum of Shadows. This is when I realized my love for funerary oddities.
I'm no stranger to death, for reasons I wont get into during this blog, and I've always had a love for old contraptions. The strange devices intrigued me and the skulls fascinated the old archeologist side of me. We went in to Voodoo Oddities Shop and he had just picked up the old wooden Embalming table from Hamburg, Iowa. To be honest it slightly frightened me yet at the same time intrigued me. Looking back at things it was almost fate as well.
You see at the time the world was just starting to get crazy. I had to decided to try my hand at livestreaming and being a game streamer. The ghost stuff was still a year off, but it eventually lead to that. I've always loved paranormal and strange stuff, history, old artifacts. In comes fate and it all combined to jumping head first into the world I'm in now. Like I've been preparing my entire life.
For the last 2 years I've collected a few what I would call haunted objects. Most I picked up from other oddities collectors that don't particularly believe in such things. You see if you're not already in the paranormal world and collect funerary items, people don't like to think about it I guess.
The haunted Dolls.
The doll in the middle I purchased first. The lady running the auction was a taxidermist and collected funerary oddities. She didn't believe in haunted objects and didn't seem like the type to be creeped out by dolls. She actually had a whole shelf full of old strange dolls. She got to this one though and expressed it "creeped" her out. She couldn't explain exactly why and the price was under $20 so I jumped at the chance. After receiving the doll the researching began. We found that she was made in the 1930s and she had a rather expensive custom dress made by a famous doll maker.
Shortly after I tuned into another online auction and found the faceless applehead doll on the right. The story was and older lady in Pennsylvania had passed and the family found an old trunk that the grandmother had said no one could open till she passed. Inside the family found the old doll, the all claimed it made them uneasy. Wanting nothing to do with it they gave it to their friends to sell at their oddities store. I was somewhat skeptical but at a price of $30 I took another chance. The first night my wife and I researched the old doll, finding they are called Skookum Dolls. The more we looked the more I realized this particular Skookum was an old one, maybe even an original from Mary McAboy herself. The value is in the hundreds of dollars... but the most intriguing part for me happened the day I received the doll.
My daughter is somewhat sensitive to things, like I believe most children are, and saw something the day the doll showed up. She asked my wife who the strange old lady standing upside down on the ceiling was... She didn't seem to be scared of the lady, but it concerned us for sure. After that one occurrence however nothing else has happened.
The second Skookum doll with the face still then showed up. This one isn't claimed to be haunted but a guy reached out after seeing one of my livestreams investigating the dolls. His grandfather collected them and he had passed, leaving this gentleman with a bunch of Skookums. One myth with the dolls is the ones that are looking to their lefts are bad luck or haunted. Of course I bought this one because of that fact.
Then the Dybbuk Box fell into my lap.
I had just listened to the Newkirks podcast about their Dybbuk Box and investigation into it. Needless to say I was intrigued with the idea it was just a box that fed off emotions. If you feared it and gave it negative energy, it would curse you... On the flipside if you tried to give it positive energy would it null the cursing? Then I found this beauty from a seller in France for a crazy $45. If your at all familiar with Dybbuk Boxes online, the cheapest usually goes for the price of $200 plus. It showed up in a French wet cat food box wrapped in tape after the long journey. A part of me refuses to actually open it "just in case" but as of yet nothing paranormal has happened.. We shall see.
Around the same time I happened on some interesting corpse tags.
Harlem Valley Mental Asylum, with my long history in the Urban Exploring world its a place I'm very familiar with. I've dreamed of going there so when these popped up on my radar I had to buy them. It is a crazy place and story that I suggest you look into, or I can go more in detail in future blogs. To date this is one of my more haunted objects.
Any time I experiment with the tags I get strange happenings. From strange voices on my ghost radios and screaming, that only seem to happen if you handle the tags, to rem pod hits. The amount of energy attached is a mix of residual and intelligent.
Needless to say all these things have lead to my collecting of haunted objects. As I delve deeper into investigating the paranormal the more I search for true haunted things. I apologize for a somewhat rambling blog, its been awhile since I've written, and I wanted this to just be a primer into future blogs. I want to write more detailed investigations into the items in my collection and future objects I find. I also want to hear your stories or about items you collect!
I can be cautions when it comes to haunted objects and what I will purchase (there are lots of fakes looking to make a buck) but if you have an object you feel is haunted reach out. I will gladly take it and keep it safe (or you safe) and investigate things. Otherwise stay tuned for a further in-depth look in the haunted objects shared above as well as many more already in my collection or I might come across.
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