Mandy, the Haunted Doll

About this episode

This episode explores the haunted history of Mandy, a doll at the Quesnel Museum, through an interview with the museum's manager, Elizabeth Hunter.

Deep in the heart of British Columbia's Cariboo Gold Rush country sits a community museum with a sixty-year history — and one very famous resident who has never technically been alive. Her name is Mandy. She is a cracked-faced composition doll dating back to the early 1900s, and since arriving at the Quesnel Museum and Archives in 1991, she has allegedly made a child faint dead in front of her case, sent a mysterious text message to the museum's new manager on her very first week on the job, and may or may not have burned down the house of a woman who put her magnet in a junk drawer. In this episode of Haunted Canada, host Nadine Bailey speaks with Elizabeth Hunter, manager of the Quesnel Museum and Archives, about Mandy's haunted history, her national television appearance with psychic Sylvia Brown on the Montel Williams Show, and the night a back emergency door blew open the instant an ex-military investigator told a ghost soldier he was out of uniform. Guest info: Elizabeth Hunter, Manager Quesnel Museum and Archives Email me your ghost story: hauntedcanadapodcast@gmail.com Support the Show: Donate:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ buymeacoffee.com/hauntedcanadapodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Donate…

People in this episode

Host: Nadine Bailey

Guest: Elizabeth Hunter

Topics covered

• haunted doll
• ghost stories
• museum history
• psychic phenomena
• Canadian folklore

Keywords

• Mandy
• haunted doll
• ghost stories
• Quesnel Museum
• Elizabeth Hunter
• psychic Sylvia Brown
• Montel Williams Show

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Quesnel Museum and Archives

Places: British Columbia, Cariboo Gold Rush

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