94 CREEPY DOLL

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MEET GEORGE, THE CREEPY DOLL

Nottingham’s Haunted Museum is home to many macabre and scary attractions, but few are as disturbing as George, a 1930s doll, made using a dead person’s eyes and hair.

Marrie Wesson, who founded the Haunted Museum of Nottingham with her husband in 2018, recently met antique expert Charlie Ross on BBC’s popular TV show, Bargain Hunt.

She brought along a couple of her most disturbing exhibits, one of which was George, a strange-looking doll, dating back to 1930s Texas, that managed to freak out Ross with its sulking expression and bright blue eyes. As it turns out, there is more to George’s creepiness than his facial expression.

He comes from a time when people made such dolls in memory of their loved ones; in George’s case, the person who made him used the loved one’s actual hair and his glass eyes.

“He came to us from Texas and, back then, they would make things like George in memory of deceased loved ones,” Wesson said on the show. “The difference with George is that George now has the dead loved one’s glass eyes and hair.”

Asked about George’s origins, Marrie Wesson said that the person they got George from came to them because his family was experiencing “a lot of paranormal things with him,” and they apparently wanted nothing more to do with the doll.

“They would get headaches, and their eyes would start hurting, so they took him to a few mediums. Apparently, George wants his eyes and hair back; he can’t rest without them,” the museum owner added.

All this paranormal stuff is impossible to prove, but judging by viewers’ reactions, most people would rather that George had remained in Texas, just to be safe. Would you want him anywhere near you?

“That doll should have stayed in Texas. I can’t look at the TV. I hate that doll,” one Bargain Hunt fan tweeted.

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