A “creepy” doll that left consumers terrified after it popped up in a thrift retailer has been purchased by a TV psychic.
The unsettling toy was put up on the market at St Columba’s Hospice store in Morningside, Edinburgh. It then went viral after an image of it was posted on-line, prompting store employees to stay up an indication that learn: “I’m not creepy.”
But Deborah Davies, who has appeared on The Unexplained: Caught on Camera purchased the doll so as to add to her huge assortment. The Real Housewives of Cheshire star went all the best way to Scotland to buy ‘Annabelle’ for £200, and now the toy will keep at her residence in Cheshire alongside about 70 extra dolls.
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Davies informed the BBC she’s going to maintain the brand new buy below “24-hour surveillance.”
Simone Varga, who runs the charity store, stated the doll was given to them by an ex-volunteer after they moved away from Edinburgh. “When I opened the box I saw its creepy long legs and real shoes and then saw its eyes had pupils and its nails had the white bits on it”, she defined.
She added the doll appeared very lifelike.
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Simone first put a £180 tag on the collector’s merchandise however dropped the worth after folks on-line branded it “creepy.” She continued: “When everyone on social media started saying it was creepy, menacing and freaking out about it I thought it’s not going to sell so I put the price down and put a sign on it saying: ‘I’m not creepy.'”
Hopefully the doll does not trigger Davies the identical dangerous luck the same merchandise appeared to convey after it was additionally purchased from a charity store. A “cursed” portray of just a little woman was beforehand purchased and returned twice to the identical charity store in Sussex after it wreaked havoc on the lives of its house owners.
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Its present house owners – the managers of the London Bridge Experience – have since revealed their premises has been flooded twice for the reason that unsettling art work arrived on the venue, the Daily Star beforehand reported.
“We’ve had small leaks previously, however nothing on this scale,” managing director James Kislingbury said. “We’re fortunate that the constructing is sort of sturdy so the harm wasn’t too dangerous, however it was just a little bit surprising.”
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