There Are 'Haunted' Dolls for Sale Online and They Cost a Fortune
In DepthCollecting dolls is intense enough. Collecting HAUNTED dolls? That’s really graduate-level eccentricity. And yet, if that appeals, the Internet is ready and waiting to facilitate your interest.
NPR picks up on the phenomenon, first reported by Jak Hutchcraft at Vice. One day he was browsing the “Everything Else” section on Ebay and spotted a listing for a “nasty perverse possessed doll,” which netted an astounding $1,500. Digging a little deeper, he discovered that with the 2004 sale of a “haunted” wine cabinet “came an abundance of purportedly possessed objects; plenty of online vendors were suddenly keen to shift the dozens of devilish dolls they conveniently had stored away in their garages, some for £30 [$45], some for £300 [$450].”