Mandy, the Canadian cursed doll

In short
Mandy is an early 20th-century porcelain doll kept since 1991 at the museum in Quesnel, Canada. According to legend her owner donated her because she heard a baby crying in the basement, and since then objects have disappeared at the museum and phones and cameras have malfunctioned. The museum tells a simpler story and attributes the unease to her glass eyes.

A cursed doll, Mandy doll, is kept in a Canadian museum. It was donated to the museum by its former owner, tired of the strange things that had occurred at her house after bringing Mandy there.

Mandy doll

This doll was donated to the Quesnel and District Museum and Archives, a small local history museum in Quesnel, British Columbia, by its last owner.

Mandy is a china doll and it was manufactured in Europe, probably in Germany or in the UK at the beginning of ‘900.

Its last owner decided to donate it to the museum in 1991 because of the strange phenomena that, in her opinion, were caused precisely by Mandy.

Many times she happened to hear a baby crying in the basement. Every time she went to check, however, there was no child, but the window was open.

After donating the doll museum, the owner noticed that the strange phenomenon had ceased completely.

According to the museum’s website, though, the story is a little different: the woman had received the doll from her grandmother, who had kept it locked in a trunk for many years, and donated it simply because it gave her “a weird feeling”. The story of the crying in the basement does not appear on the museum’s site and may have arisen later. The doll’s full name is said to be Mereanda.

Mandy at the museum

The strange eventsat the house of Mandy’s former owner stopped, but started again at the museum.

Since the arrival of the doll a lot of strange things have happened, for example the lunch of employees disappeared from the fridge only to reappear in the drawers.

In addition, various items such as pens, books and pictures mysteriously disappeared. Some were later found, others disappeared forever.

It is now preserved in a glass case, on its own because it is said that if put with other dolls it can damage them.

She also likes to play with electrical and electronic equipment and many tourists who go to see her can experience strange malfunctions with their phones or cameras.

Mandy’s curse

Not much is known of Mandy’s history before being in the hands of its last owner, but a legend circulates on this curse.

It is said that Mandy was the doll of a girl who was locked up in a basement.

At the child’s death, her spirit is said to have entered the doll and remained trapped in it.

This too, however, is just a legend, with no evidence. The museum’s manager, Elizabeth Hunter, has said she doesn’t believe it and attributes Mandy’s unsettling effect to her glass eyes. Yet every year visitors come from all over the world, including groups of psychics and even TV crews, and Mandy has become Canada’s most famous haunted doll, the “Canadian Annabelle”. If you want to see her, you can visit the Quesnel museum.

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