Dutch Doll of Finedon
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In 1901, Mary Ozier, headmistress of The Charity Girl’s School, wanted to do something special for the school to commemorate its building in 1717.
So, she had a three-foot wooden doll made that not only looked almost too realistic, but was dressed in the manner of a Dutch doll.
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Within days of the doll being brought into the school, rumours of the doll coming to life began to spread.
Several girls believed the doll to be demonic and claimed that it would come to life at night and terrorised them as they tried to sleep.
It wasn’t uncommon for the girls to complain about hearing the unmistakable sounds of the doll walking the halls at night and stealing their personal belongings.
The nocturnal visitations by the doll became so bad the girls refused to sleep at night for fear the doll would attack them in their beds
For over 60 years several generations of girls lived in terror of the demonic Dutch Doll.
That was until the school closed in 1961 and the possessed doll was mounted on the wall of St Mary’s Church in Finedon.
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But not before some unknown person took a saw to the doll and amputated its legs ensuring the doll would never again terrorise the living. Or so they thought.
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For 20 years the doll hung on the wall of St Mary’s Church until the 1980s when it mysteriously vanished from its spot.
According to the church’s former priest, Richard Coles, a former member of the 80s pop group The Communards, the doll suddenly just vanished.
Dutch Doll of Finedon
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In 1901, Mary Ozier, headmistress of The Charity Girl’s School, wanted to do something special for the school to commemorate its building in 1717.
So, she had a three-foot wooden doll made that not only looked almost too realistic, but was dressed in the manner of a Dutch doll.
~
Within days of the doll being brought into the school, rumours of the doll coming to life began to spread.
Several girls believed the doll to be demonic and claimed that it would come to life at night and terrorised them as they tried to sleep.
It wasn’t uncommon for the girls to complain about hearing the unmistakable sounds of the doll walking the halls at night and stealing their personal belongings.
The nocturnal visitations by the doll became so bad the girls refused to sleep at night for fear the doll would attack them in their beds
For over 60 years several generations of girls lived in terror of the demonic Dutch Doll.
That was until the school closed in 1961 and the possessed doll was mounted on the wall of St Mary’s Church in Finedon.
~
But not before some unknown person took a saw to the doll and amputated its legs ensuring the doll would never again terrorise the living. Or so they thought.
~
For 20 years the doll hung on the wall of St Mary’s Church until the 1980s when it mysteriously vanished from its spot.
According to the church’s former priest, Richard Coles, a former member of the 80s pop group The Communards, the doll suddenly just vanished.