Jack Wagner

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,

There are also a lot of people out there in the world who want to buy dolls that they think are haunted.

The market does exist, so maybe it ended up with a person

who actively wanted a haunted doll, I'd say that would be the best case scenario.

Either way, I think the fact that all of Connor and Lacey's problems disappeared the moment they got rid of this doll is the most interesting part of this whole thing.

That brings us to the end of this episode.

Thank you once again to Connor and Lacey.

This episode has been called Heirloom, and you've been listening to Otherworld.

Otherworld is executive produced and hosted by myself, Jack Wagner.

Our producers are Theo Schaefer, Theo Krantz, Haley Pearson, and Nikki Kate Delgado.