Theresa came into our collection 4 years ago through a member of our local spiritualist church we go to , named Lionel. Lionel knew we were collectors and told us that this doll was handed to him from his deceased Aunt's home in Yorkshire, who had just passed away, she add over 400 dolls in her home as well as many possessions , which were passed on to her family who she left all her possessions to in her will. Lionel and his family were given quite a few of her dolls as his wife also collected them , but Lionel explained that he and his wife believed that this doll had a spirit attached , the reason they thought this is because the doll would be found on the floor numerous times , Lionel's wife put the doll in her bedroom and would find it all the way downstairs, would put her back in the room to find her in another room , this continued to happen as well as doors slamming and objects moved and thrown on the floor, Lionel and his wife would wake in the night to find all the lights in the house turned on.
They had never had activity in their house like this and were worried as they had recently had a baby so decided to donate the doll to us. The doll itself is antique and in very good condition , Lionel's Aunt had looked after her very well. Michelle and I took turns at keeping the doll in our house to see if she was spirited and to look out for signs of activity. In the first 2 weeks of bringing her into my home I noticed activity such as hearing someone running around upstairs and opening and closing doors, I also heard sobbing and someone sniffling on quite a few occasions. I also picked up faint sobbing in the EVPs. I asked many questions when taking EVPs but i wasn't given any answers, all that was picked up was sobbing. In the few weeks that Michelle had the doll in her house, she felt someone repeatedly tapping her on the shoulder whether she was watching TV, Ironing or asleep, she also heard the sobbing and kept finding the doll on the floor every morning when she woke up. We continued to make attempts to communicate with her and after a while we finally managed to find out that the spirit was female , her age being about 9 or 10 and her name being Theresa. She was very distressed and this showed in the activity , I can remember finding a glass vase had fell from the window and smashed in the room where i kept her , when it was my turn to have her in my house. My son also heard the sobbing as well as my husband. After many attempts of trying to find out why she was so distressed , we decided to seek the help of one of our friends who is a spirit medium. She picked up straight away that Theresa was a very distressed spirit and after quite a few sessions , we managed to find out about Theresa's sad life and why she was so upset. Theresa was from Yorkshire she was a child laborer who worked in the coal mines in the 19th Century. She tells us that there were children younger than her who also worked there , some as young as four and five. She and her older siblings , as well as her mum carried the coal from the coal-face to the pit-shaft. She told us how she hated the darkness and hardly saw day light as she worked long hours. She tells us how she and other children were cruelly harnessed to trucks like animals crawling on their hands and knees pulling the heavy load. Lot's of the children were left barely able to walk and most struggled and became very unwell. The conditions were terrible and they worked long hours for very little money. Home life was not much better Theresa and her family shared their small home with other families, they shared a toilet , walls were damp and they had very little food. Theresa sadly passed after being struck by lots of falling rocks in the mines. She is a sad little spirit who often gets quite distressed , she can show this through activity ; sobbing can be heard a lot of the time, doors can be slammed, objects can be broken or fall down and you can feel the sadness. But she is not sad all the time , when she is given love , care and lots of attention and most of all reassurance, she can be happy and playful , running playful footsteps can be heard running around and sometimes laughter. She likes to be around other spirit children and likes a fuss made of her. She likes to let you know that she is here by tapping you on the shoulder repeatedly. |