Goldie

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The doll was ugly. Cracked face and patches of hair missing but dark yellow eyes made her stand out. The moment Annie saw the doll she fell in love with it so I brought it for her. Had I known its past I would have dragged my daughter away from the wretched thing but I didn't ~ Annie's father.

Annie's father believes the doll's past played a big part in the events of July sixth.
It's hard to not to see the similarities between the two.

But is the doll really haunted?

Was Annie possessed or was she just a disturbed little girl?

Over the week I've spoken to the people who knew her best. Those that saw what happened that day and will let you decided for yourself.

Annie called her Goldie. I once asked her how she come up with the name she told me “That what the bad man called her and she can no longer remember her real name,”. The way she said it was chilling and when I tried to press her for more details, she claimed up. ~ Annie's mother 

Alexandria “Goldie” Smith was murdered in the early eighteen hundreds. The seven-year-old went into the woods with her doll and four days later her body was found.

They accused a local man Thomas Thompson when her father saw Thomas's daughter with her doll.

When a mob broke into his home they found Thomas dead, his daughter clutching the doll and a  knife. 

She was always such a sweet girl. But the last few months there were incidents. She bit other children, locked one boy in a cupboard and the most disturbing were her drawings. Annie kept drawing people being murdered. I was worried and talked to her parents they were worried she wasn't herself either. ~ Annie's teacher.

In 1905, Lucy Driver owned Goldie and like Annie turned from a sweet girl to attacking other children and drawing people being murdered. 

Lucy was sent to an institution after trying to drown the neighbor boy. Lucy blamed Goldie. A week in to her stay the institution caught fire, Lucy was killed as were eight other children. It's believed Lucy Driver started the fire.

I saw Annie running out of the toilets covered in blood and holding a knife. When I went inside, I found Gary dead. Stabbed to death. I phoned the police right away ~ a local man (wished to remain anonymous)

Annie had never met Gary before that day. But Gary had a connection to Goldie.

He was the great grandson of the boy Lucy Driver tried to drown, that boy was the great grandson of Thomas Thompson. Is it just coincident that both Annie and Lucy targeted Thomas descendants or was Goldie carry her out revenge?

Annie wasn't a suspect in the beginning. We thought she found Gary and the knife, got scared and ran. We just wanted to talk to her then we got a call saying Annie had started a fire at the school. ~ Police Officer 

Like Lucy, Annie started a fire. Going back through records I found that so did Thomas daughter two days after murdering her father. Like Lucy the girl died. Annie didn't, two children were badly injured. Annie was missing, one man dead and two children injured by her hand at this point both the police and her parents knew there was no denying this girl was dangerous.

Annie called me. Told me she and Goldie were at a graveyard a few miles away. She was my daughter, and I knew if I could find her, I could bring her without anyone else getting hurt ~ Annie's mother.

When Annie's mother got there. She found Annie body on the grave of Alexandria Smith. Goldie was missing, Annie was dead. No one knows her cause of death. The police and Annie family refuse to release that information.

Perhaps all these girls were suffering from insanity or maybe they were possessed. No one will ever know for sure.

Goldie is missing. Will she reappear again and will these tragedies happen again at the hands of another little girl?

 Will she reappear again and will these tragedies happen again at the hands of another little girl?

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