Man claims his collection of dolls is HAUNTED by the spirits of dead people… including a seven-year-old girl who drowned in a lake and a governess burned in a fire.
- Ian Rogers has spent hundreds of pounds on his collection of nine dolls
- The dolls are said to be haunted with the spirits of dead people
- He says each doll has their own unique story
- He used to share them with his sister but she found them too mischievous
One man has curated a spooky collection of nine old dolls, which which he claims each have their own personalities.
Ian Rogers, 36, became hooked on all things paranormal as a child and took part in his first ghost hunt in the year 2000.
Since then he has spent hundreds of pounds on the creepy collection... and he's on the hunt for more to add.
'It started when I was a kid and I was looking into the Loch Ness Monster and ghosts.
'I went on a couple of ghost walks and then went on a hunt. It got me hooked.'
The £50 haunted dolls, which Ian gets from Jayne Harris, a professional in paranormal activity, are said to contain the spirits of people who have passed on.
Jayne keeps the dolls for around six months to get an idea of their personalities before selling them on.
Ian says that he always goes to Jayne for the dolls because that way he can be sure of their authenticity.
'I know that I can trust her,' he says. 'If I bought them from eBay then there's no guarantee that they're actually haunted and I could just be being ripped off.
'Jayne is able to give me a bit of background about the dolls but I enjoy learning about them myself.
Although he is fond of his whole collection Ian definitely has a favourite: Annabel, a doll who he believes is haunted by the spirit of a seven-year-old girl who drowned while playing with her brother.
Ian says that each of his dolls has their own story and he often asks others to try and figure out what might have happened to them.
Ian said: 'I take the dolls with me to events that I host and get people to guess their stories.
'If someone guesses three things that we already know correctly then they get some money off.
'One lady said she could sense an 'Annie' so I went to get Annabel. She said she'd died and felt trapped.
'As soon as she picked up the doll she said she felt soaking wet, and that she knew Annabel had drowned.'
Ian holds sessions with the dolls where guests interested in the paranormal can undertake a variety of activities.
The dolls were previously shared between Ian and his sister, but his sister wanted to get rid of them after they started causing her too much mischief, for example hiding her keys.
However Ian says that he hasn't been put off in the slightest and is even looking at investing in other supernatural souvenirs.
'I would love to get more haunted dolls, and I'm looking into other items. I would love to get a haunted mirror.'
Article > The Daily Mail by Martha Cliff
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Decorator catches ghostly doctor on camera while exploring haunted hospital
- Jamie-Leigh Brown took chilling photo at St Thomas's Hospital, Stockport
- She didn't realise at the time as her group were too spooked by footsteps
- The building was once a brutal Victorian workhouse called The Grubber
- It later became a hospital and treated thousands of psychiatric patients
A woman exploring a derelict hospital was left stunned after a photo she took in the spooky building appeared to show the ghostly figure of a doctor.
Jamie-Leigh Brown, 21, was walking the abandoned corridors of St Thomas's Hospital in Stockport - which closed down in 2004 - when she took the chilling picture.
She did not check the photo at the time as she and her and friends were too concerned with the footsteps they were hearing above them - despite the hospital having no usable staircases.
The group became spooked and fled the building after only a few minutes and it was not until later that Ms Brown discovered the haunting figure lurking in the background of the shot.
She told The Sun: 'It freaked me out. It's standing in a lift shaft. It's really creepy to think my friend was just heading towards the area where the ghost was.
'We'd only gone into the workhouse for a laugh and to look around. We kept hearing noises above us like shuffling and footsteps but hadn't actually seen anything.'
St Thomas's, formerly known as Shaw Heath Hospital, closed down more than a decade ago after treating thousands of psychiatric patients over the years.
The derelict building was once a Victorian workhouse known as The Grubber and three years ago it featured in an episode of paranormal investigation show Most Haunted.
Other sightings of ghoulish figures have been made at the site, including a 'radiant woman dressed as a nurse or a nun' according to paranormaldatabase.com - a website that lists reports of ghosts.
The original workhouse is thought to have been built in the 1841 to accommodate up to 690 inmates.
In 1894, the British Medical Journal set up a 'commission' to investigate conditions in provincial workhouses and their infirmaries.
On their visit to Stockport, the commission found that due to a trade depression, inmates in the workhouse were 'packed like sardines in a tin'.
The management of the hospital appeared to be 'completely without plan or method' and the female wards were 'comfortless and barnlike'. Many wards were so crowded as to present a serious danger in the case of fire.
A new infirmary was built in response in 1905 - and the workhouse later became the Shaw Heath Hospital, before becoming St Thomas's.
Since its 2004 closure, the site has now been acquired by Stockport College as part of their campus expansion.
The main workhouse building and some other blocks are planned to be retained and refurbished.
It is estimated around 25,000 people passed through the building's doors when it was brutal Victorian workhouse. Article > The Daily M ail by Jack Crone
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