7 of the World’s Most Terrifying Haunted Dolls

No one knows where Caroline originally came from but she eventually ended up in an antique shop in Salem, Massachusetts. She’s thought to be possessed by three different ghosts that fight over who gets ultimate control of the doll and supposedly, if you hold her close to your ear, she’ll whisper things to you.

A family doll passed down generation after generation, Joliet is thought to come with a terrible curse. As the story goes, each generation of women to own the doll have had a girl and a boy child, but lost the boy child exactly three days after birth for varying mysterious reasons. The doll is known to make terrible wailing sounds and it’s believed that the spirits of each boy child lost down the family line are trapped inside of it

This is thought to be high on the list of most haunted dolls in the world and can be dated back to 1910. She was donated to Quesnel Museum in British Columbia by her original owner who grew tired of her endless ghostly crying at all times of the day or night. Since being put on display at the museum employees hold her responsible for their lunches and office supplies mysteriously disappearing.

An antique bisque doll purchased on Ebay several years ago, Amanda has since been sold and bought almost a dozen times. Several of her owner’s have claimed that she causes trouble around the house when she’s not happy and her current owner, in Atlanta, Georgia, says she can often be heard scratching inside her glass case as though she’s trying to escape.

Found blindfolded on the side of the road in Singapore, this doll is thought to be possessed and have the ability to move around on its own. As the story goes, the last known owner of the doll covered it’s eyes before dumping it in the road so it couldn’t find its way back home.

Given to her current owner by her grandmother, who believes the doll to be possessed by the spirit of her dead best friend, Alice is known to move her head and eyes to watch people, and whispers creepy things like “I want to be left alone to suffer.”

Peggy is an unusual case in that she affects people via video. After paranormal investigator Jayne Harris posted a video of the doll online 80 different people claimed to have suffered severe headaches and overwhelming feelings of anxiety. Warning: watch the following video at your own risk.