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| Joliet |
For over a century a doll, named Joliet has been passed from mother to daughter in this family. They believe this doll is both cursed and haunted. So why do they keep Joliet?
Their reason is simple they feel their son’s spirits are attached to this doll.
The present owner of the doll, a woman named Anna has experienced the same tragedy that her mother, grandmother and great grandmother all experienced.
Each woman had two children—one daughter, one son. Each son died exactly 3 days after being born. Each son appeared to be healthy after birth so their deaths are mysterious.
The family believes the doll cursed them. Joliet was given to Anna’s great grandmother as a gift at the time she became pregnant.
But this gift was not given with love but instead out of jealousy. The great grandmother’s husband scorned this woman so the family believes Joliet is cursed with a hateful bitterness that brings them bad luck.
So again, why keep a doll that they believe brings death?
Each of the four mothers has heard Joliet cry. These cries sound like their son’s cries. For this doll cries with four distinct sounds.
Anna’s great grandmother identified her own son’s cry and then her daughter identified her own son’s cry as well as her mother’s son cry. In the present generation Anna hears four distinct cries, which she believes are the four family sons that have died.
Sometimes these cries are heard together, at other times separately. All four mothers have had trouble convincing others that Joliet holds at least part of their son’s spirits for they are the only ones who have ever heard these cries.
Even creepier–these cries have acted as a reminder to these women of their tragic losses.
Anna wonders if her daughter will hear 5 cries. Unfathomable.
But they have kept the doll for they believe family spirits haunt it.