Posted by Samantha is a Victorian-era doll, but the stories casting her as a cursed doll date back only to the summer of 2017.
The story of Samantha, the cursed doll
Cameron and Debbie Merrick, a couple in their fifties from Norfolk, England, bought this doll and two other porcelain dolls from a second-hand shop for just £5. They put them in different rooms of the house, placing Samantha in their bedroom.
The strange things began the next morning, when Cameron took a shower as he did every morning. As soon as he turned on the hot water he felt a strange burning on his legs, and looking down he saw a dozen small scratches on his knees. The Merricks have no pets, and his nails are too short to have left such marks.
Uneasy with the doll in the house, they decided to put her in a plastic box with a lid and take her to the garage. A week later they noticed that the necklace that had been wrapped six times around Samantha’s head was now hanging from her neck.
A little frightened by the scratches, which seemed to have been made by tiny hands, and by the necklace episode, the couple decided to tell their story on the British TV programme “This Morning”. The day before filming, something strange happened again. While they were at a hotel, at night, they heard a rustling under their bed, as if someone in a dress were moving.
Right after the programme they put the doll up for auction on eBay, selling her on 20 July 2017, after 33 bids, for a whopping £866 (almost 1,000 euros). The unlucky buyer was Lee Steer, a paranormal investigator who lived with his parents in the UK.
Just two days after the purchase, Lee’s father, Paul, was also attacked by the doll, finding strange scratches on his arm. Besides the scratches, strange things began happening in the Steer household after Samantha arrived: flickering lights, swinging pictures and objects breaking without being touched.
Lee, who is part of the Ghosts of Britain group of investigators, said he had asked the doll her name using a random word app, which supposedly answered “Samantha”, and that the doll particularly hates married men. Not everyone is convinced, though: when the doll returned to “This Morning” in August 2017, the well-known ghost hunter Yvette Fielding said she was far from persuaded. Today the doll is also known as “Elizabeth” and is part of Steer’s “Haunted Objects Museum”, which he takes to exhibitions and TV shows. And who knows what the future holds for her.
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