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As a little girl, I was given a beautiful doll named Lucy.

By my grandmother, she had long, curly hair and wore a frilly dress.

I immediately fell in love with her, but soon after I had Lucy, strange things began to happen.

I would wake up in the middle of the night to find she had moved from where I had left her.

And sometimes, I swear I could hear her whispering to me, though I couldn't make out what she was saying.

It was unnerving, and I soon stopped playing with Lucy altogether.

As I grew older, the occurrences became less frequent, and I chalked them up to an overactive imagination.

Then, many years later, when I returned home to visit, I found Lucy in a box in my old room.

I was flooded with nostalgia, and asked my mom for more information about her.

She said she had belonged to my great-great-grandmother, who had passed away when my grandmother was just a child.

I knew all of that already, but she went on to tell me that my great-great-grandmother had been a deeply troubled woman,

haunted by the death of her husband, and the loss of two of her children.

According to Family Law, my great-great-grandmother believed that her children's spirits had taken up residence in Lucy,

and she would often speak to her as if she were them.

After her death, Lucy was passed down through the generations, each person experiencing strange occurrences that were attributed to Lucy's supposed haunting.

My mom was the only one who didn't experience anything.

I was fascinated by this revelation, and began to research haunted dolls and other objects.

I found that it was a common belief among many cultures that objects could be imbued with supernatural power or spirits,

and that these objects could have both positive and negative effects on those who possessed them.

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