Mandy the doll

A porcelain baby doll made between 1910 and 1920, given to the Quesnel & District Museum in British Columbia in 1991, whose staff say odd things happened around it.

Wikipedia says Mandy is a porcelain doll of a baby, made between 1910 and 1920 in either Germany or England, and given to the museum in Quesnel, British Columbia, in 1991. HuffPost Canada reported that a local woman found the doll that year while clearing her grandmother's house. HuffPost, drawing on the museum's website, says that while she kept the doll at home she often woke at night to the sound of a baby crying in the basement.

The Quesnel & District Museum tells its own story of what came next. Staff say they photographed the doll on arrival and left it in the lab overnight, and by morning the room looked as if a small child had thrown a tantrum. They say a toy lamb placed with the doll later turned up on the floor outside its locked case. Wikipedia notes the claim that the doll's eyes follow visitors.

The story spread through newspapers, radio and TV on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border, the museum says. In April 1999 the doll went to New York for the Montel Williams Show, where Sylvia Browne (the museum spells her name Silvia Brown) said its owners had been twins who died of polio and held their mother's grief. According to the museum, she said that grief is the energy many visitors sense.