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Mandy the Haunted Doll
A haunted doll with a cracked face that now lives in the Quesnel Museum
One of the most popular haunted dolls in Canada, Mandy’s latest home is in the Quesnel Museum in Quesnel, British Columbia.
Her cracked face is twisted into a sinister-looking half-smile. Her eyes seem to track your movements, and electronics have a habit of acting haywire in Mandy’s presence.
She was donated to the Quesnel Museum back in 1991. Her previous owner said that she was plagued by the sound of a baby crying at night. Following the sound to her basement, she found nothing but the breeze blowing through an open window. After finding Mandy in storage in the basement, she donated the creepy vintage porcelain doll to the Quesnel Museum. Mysteriously, the phantom crying stopped once the doll was gone.
Mandy seems content to creeping out visitors and playing tricks on the staff of the museum. Disembodied footsteps have been heard in the museum, staff’s lunches go missing, only to be found later stuffed into a drawer. Small items go missing and later turn up in strange places.
Mandy had to be put in her own special locked glass viewing container, keeping her away from the other dolls because she would “harm” them.
Her eyes seem to follow you as you walk around her exhibit, and although she has never been seen moving, somehow her little stuffed lamb that is always sitting on her lap has been found outside of the locked exhibit on the floor.
People have had some issues even photographing or videotaping Mandy. Camera batteries go dead or devices malfunction, and the staff has started to recommend asking Mandy if it is ok to take her picture. Devices seem to work more reliably if you do so.
“You try and videotape her and your camera light will go off and on, and we have had people who have said in May 2000 the lamb that always sits on Mandy’s lap wound up underneath her display case,” Honey Affleck, chair of the museum.
