My Corn Doll Experience
Hello everyone. My name is Rosanna and I’m 13. I would like to share my story with you to see what you think. Please don’t tell me I’m making this up because it really did happen to me and even my parents didn’t believe me.
I live in the midwest in the U.S. When I was 12 years old I had a freind who’s grandma used to make corn dolls out of corn husks that were dried, she had alot of them and I always thought they were cute. One day my friends grandma said that I could have one anyone I wanted. They even had little dresses on them. I picked out one and took it home, I put it on the dresser in my bedroom and I guess I forgot about it. One day I noticed it wasn’t there so I asked my mom and she said she didn’t see it, well I found it under my bed later that day, so I put it back on the dresser.
About a couple weeks later I woke up in the middle of the night because I thought I heard someone tapping on my window and when I looked out of the corner of my eye I saw something like a small shadow run across the floor. I didn’t think anything and went back to sleep. I told my mom the next day she said I was probably dreaming, but I know what I saw! After that night I started to feel strange in my room I can’t explain it, it was lke I wasn’t really alone or someone else was with me. It was kind of like when you get goosebumps. I started to hate going in my room I asked my mom if I could sleep on the couch but she told me there was nothing wrong with my room it was my imagination. A few weeks after that night I saw the shadow on the floor I noticed that the corn doll would not always be on my dresser, it would be on the floor or on my bed once I even found it in the doorway to my room. We have a dog and my mom said it was probably the dog who got a hold of it but I didn’t think so.
A couple of nights later I woke up because I heard someone singing softly, I couldn’t understand the words, I could hear it but didn’t know what it meant. I went into my moms room to tell her, she came in my room and said she didn’t hear anything. My dad and mom divorced so it was just me and here in the house with the dog. The next night I woke up because I was getting hard to sleep in the room and I saw the corn doll dancing and spinning around in the middle of my bedroom floor. I sat upright in my bed and at that exact moment the corn doll fell on the floor and just lay there. I screamed and my mom came running in my room and I told her everything she just told me I was having a nightmare but I swear I saw it, it was right there in my bedroom, my mom still doesn’t believe me!
I took the corn doll back to my friend’s grandma and told her I didn’t want it anymore, she didn’t even ask me why. She had a strange look when she took it from me. The next thing she did was took it outside and burnt it, I didn’t even tell her anything about that doll but she said after she burnt it that there were things that can’t be explained. I will never have anymore dolls ever again!
true story by Rosanna Northwood
Copyrights Rosanna Northwood 2010 @ World mysteries and true ghost tales
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You should ask your friend’s grandmother why she burnt the doll, do you still see your friend?
that is creepy! a corn doll of all things. i know this sounds far fetched, but could it have something to do with native american legends? maze was a important part of there culture and i know they made corn dolls for their children.
That was interesting. Here in the UK Corn Dollies were originally a symbol of fertility, which is one of the reasons they are given at weddings, as well as for good luck. They are a sign of the full and fruitful harvest, and in this way are also considered good luck. Made the traditional way in England,Wales and Scotland they have names of English counties or places in Great Britain and Northern Ireland..
It was once believed that a spirit lived in the cornfield and died when the corn was cut. A corn dolly was plaited from the last sheaf of corn thereby providing a resting place for the corn spirit and ensuring the continuity of the harvest the following year.
That is spooky. I wonder if the Grandmother maybe knew something more but wasn’t saying??
Hi everyone, thank you for your comments. I am still friends with my friend but I don’t every go to here grandma’s house anymore it just creeps me out!!
Sounds a scary experience, I had one once with some wanga voodoo dolls I bought from the united states of america. There are spirits that moved from one flat to another with me and chat to me at night.
that spirit of the doll, the spirit of gods and goddesses
Before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn (in modern American English, “corn” would be “grain”) lived amongst the crop, and that the harvest made it effectively homeless. James Frazer devotes chapters in The Golden Bough to “Corn-Mother and Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe” (chs. 45-48) and adduces European folkloric examples collected in great abundance by W. Mannhardt. Among the customs attached to the last sheaf of the harvest were hollow shapes fashioned from the last sheaf of wheat or other cereal crops. The corn spirit would then spend the winter in this home until the “corn dolly” was ploughed into the first furrow of the new season. “Dolly” may be a corruption of “idol” or may have come directly from the Greek word eidolon, that which represents something else.
Very spooky…so what nationality is ur friend and her grandmother? Has ur friend ever shared any stories like this with you that she’s experienced? And have u experienced anything else in ur room since u returned the doll? I wonder why the grandma burned the doll, very suspicious if u ask me, she obviously knows more…
I would definitly try to ask the grandmother. these things don’t just happen. It has long been thought that inanimate objects could be used to catch spirits or appease them. Maybe something got attracted to you I don’t know. It seems to be fixed with the burning of the doll, and the fact that the grandmother actually went trough the trouble to burn it indicates she knows something.