Jack Wagner

I think a lot of people who grew up in very religious households end up having a complete reversal like Connor, and they end up being a person who goes out of their way to try to disprove other people's beliefs.

So Connor had a hardline skeptical belief until one day some strange things begin to happen in his house that seemed to be connected to a certain family heirloom that was being stored in the closet.

This episode is titled Heirloom and you're listening to Otherworld.

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Thank you to Connor and also Lacey for sharing this experience with us.

You know, I've mentioned on episodes in the past that haunted dolls were one of those things that I really did not expect to be a thing people actually experienced.

I put haunted dolls into the same category as floating pumpkins and skeletons walking around.

You know, the type of stuff that you see in Goosebumps books and on Halloween decorations

not something you actually hear about people experiencing in the real world.

But we have had so many stories written in to the show about situations like this, and a lot of them have similarities.

In fact, we've had enough haunted doll stories sent in to us that we only have recorded a few of them, and the ones we do record, I kind of have to space out because I don't want Otherworld to accidentally become...

a show entirely about haunted dolls, but we'd get a lot, which is worth noting.

Whenever we do have one of these stories, I'm always left wondering where the doll ended up, because the story usually ends with the person getting rid of it.

In the case of Connor and Lacey, they donated this doll to Goodwill,

You have to wonder who might have bought this doll, what they did with it, and whether or not this presence that seemed to come with it carried on into the household of whoever purchased it.

That being said, if you go on eBay right now, you'll find a lot of people trying to sell dolls that they claim to be haunted, and apparently,