HELLO AGAIN, DOLLY
Nathalie admits she got rid of mum’s plaything on quiet.. only to be rumbled by social media
A WOMAN attempted to get rid of her mum’s creepy doll, but was rumbled when the story went viral.
Nathalie Ramirez thought she had managed to ditch the figurine, named Hannah, by donating it to an Edinburgh charity shop. But the doll soon caught the eye of passers-by as it gazed out of the window, becoming a “creepy” social media hit before it was snapped up by a celebrity psychic. Nathalie, 51, said mum Angela was not pleased to discover Hannah’s fate, but is now seeing the funny side. She told the BBC how Angela was an avid doll collector and had more than 100 mini-figures in a glass cabinet at the family home near Oxgangs. Angela, 74, had recently moved to Mull to live with Nathalie, who while clearing out her mum’s house “accidentally” slipped the doll into a package bound for the St Columba’s charity shop in Morningside.
She said: “I always thought it was horrifying and that she would never notice if I just stuffed it in a box.
“St Columba’s came round to take stuff off to the shop and the doll was in the first box I gave to the guy. But I did think whoever opened it, it would give them a heart attack.”
Her plan was foiled when the doll, now renamed Annabelle, started to draw attention on social media after claims it was haunted.
Manager Simone Varga even said she “wondered if the doll would come alive” before it was sold.
In an effort to sell the doll the shop reduced the price from £180 to £90 and gave the doll a sign saying “I’m not creepy”.
Eventually, after the story went viral, the doll was bought for £200 by celeb psychic Deborah Davies.
“I thought I had managed to get away with it and the next thing is it is on the front page of the paper,” said Nathalie.
“Poor Mum was not amused. She volunteered with St Columba’s for many years so she is coming round to see she has actually done something good by raising money for charity.”
Another lifelike doll of Angela’s, Baby Emily, did make the journey to her new home.
Nathalie said the dress worn by the doll belonged to her kid sister Michelle when she was a child.
Psychic Davies, who has appeared on Unexplained: Caught on Camera and Real Housewives of Cheshire, will carry out an “investigation” into the doll as she reckons she has a human soul.
I thought whoever opened it might have heart attack NATHALIE RAMIREZ