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The Doll That Sat Up

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The antique dealer swore the porcelain doll was only a doll. The new owner found it each morning facing the bedroom door, though she left it facing the wall. She set up a camera. At 3am the footage showed only static — and in the last frame before the static cleared, the doll was standing.

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18+ fiction · entertainment only

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