#haunted objects

So, a friend sent this to me from their venture downstate a bit. My guess is that it has something to do with making hats...

My wife says it's for making doll heads.

Regardless of what it is, what it needs is to be melted down in the nearest active volcano.

A Google image search reveals that other folks are equally disturbed by this. And if anyone knows what it is...let me know.

Reddit folks have similar wonders about it.

For witches who move, rebuild, and are never truly unguarded.

1. Light the candle.

Black, blood-red, or bone-white - doesn’t matter.

The flame knows what you are.

2. (Optional, but we all love a tangible token):

Place something near the flame that belongs at your door:

a decorative key, a stone, a pinch of soil.

Put it where the fire can see it.

3. Speak the following spell.

Edit as needed. Slow your voice. Say it like you mean it.

You do.

“To the earth below and the wind above, know this:

I ask no permission. This place bends to me.

No envy, no curse, no whisper of malice

shall cross this threshold and remain whole.

I - or we, as it fits - and my loyal ones (seen or unseen, demons or not)

hold the rings. Seal the cracks.

As we move, as we build, as we become,

nothing may follow that seeks to harm.

We carry the hearth. We carry the pact.

We carry the knives, if needed.”

4. Blow gently over the flame. Let it flicker, not fail.

Then whisper:

“So it is. So it watches. So it holds.”

5. Let the candle burn down in one sitting if you can.

If you're disturbed, pick it back up later, the spell doesn’t break.

Your spirits will wait, return, or be called again.

6. Leave your token at the main door until everything’s settled.

Repeat as needed, especially if something dares knock.

WLS Channel 7 Eyewitness News - “Curse of the Evil Devil Stones” - October 28th, 1980

“Many people scoff at ghost stories and imaginative tales of the supernatural, but tonight our Chuck Goudie has some rock-hard evidence to back up some reports…”

“Joel, has the devil been dug up in Glen Ellyn? That’s a question some folks out there are asking tonight. Whatever it is they’ve unearthed, it may be causing death, sickness, accident, fire, and bad luck…”

A local news clip from the Chicago area, preserved by the vital Museum of Classic Chicago Television.

A family in Glen Ellyn, IL digs up a mysterious terracota stone with infinity and snake symbols on it. Soon lights are flicking on and off, radios are changing stations, and presences are being felt in bedrooms. Gilbert has a heart attack and his wife goes blind for three months. In 1978, they give the stone away to a friend...

...who says she suffered, among many other incidents of bad luck, an infestation by bees in the middle of winter. She also contracted Hepatitis three times. But a friend who photographed the stone got off worse: she died of cancer...two years exactly after the stone was given away.

So it's given away to a parapsychologist, Evelyn Paglini, who says, yeah it's cursed, but she's more concerned about the symbols. The snake and infinity symbols represent a battle between good and evil, but the checkerboards are a complete mystery. She also freaks out the squares with some ominous Latin.

Her assistant, meanwhile, saw two red eyes floating by the stone.

We return to the studio in time to learn that someone else who photographed the stone had their house burn down in mysterious circumstances - oh well, next up is a story about a superfan of the pre-Jordan Bulls losing weight and teases of various other Chuck Goudie investigations into the unknown that don't appear to be online.

Autopsy of a Dying Girl

What we carry is what we eventually must leave behind. Breadcrumbs of thought and feeling and routine. I was here. I was here!

Each artifact, a tomb. Each day, a new death.

These are the steps I took. I may walk them again— but I can never go back.

Ungaikyō: The Yokai That Shows Your True Reflection 🔮🪞

The earliest record of the Ungaikyō comes from 1784, when Toriyama Sekien included it in his illustrated collection Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro. Sekien drew inspiration from the Chinese Shōmakyō, a legendary “demon-revealing mirror” said to expose the true forms of disguised spirits. He imagined that a mirror which reflected countless yōkai and supernatural beings might absorb their essence over time, eventually transforming into a yōkai itself.

According to folklore, the Ungaikyō has several strange abilities. It can reveal monstrous or hidden versions of those who gaze into it, sometimes showing a reflection of what someone truly is inside. It has also been used in ritual practices to trap spirits, particularly during the fifteenth night of the eighth lunar month when moonlight and water were believed to activate its power. Some tales describe it as a sacred mirror that can reflect not only people but also distant landscapes and even other mirrors.

In modern interpretations, the Ungaikyō is often described as a tsukumogami, an object that gains a soul after reaching one hundred years of age. Its association with distorted reflections and hidden truths ties it to a wider global tradition of mirrors being seen as mystical or uncanny objects.

One yee olde thing I remember hearing about that I think has been somewhat forgotten in current craft is about dealing with hauntings.

Nowadays it’s often talked about witches doing exorcisms or passing on the spirit to end the haunting. Job done.

But I’ve heard tales that imply that old spirit doctors or cunning people used their haunted house calls as a way to gain a new spirit familiar.

So instead of casting out the spirit. if it’s a powerful spirit you should instead negotiate with the spirit to come live and work with you. Or getting their ‘contact method’ so you can call them over if needed with another issue. Imagine how useful it is to have a poltergeist protect your home from thieves or curses.

But always know the details of what you’re agreeing to: always make payments on time, and have a ‘never bother me and my family again exit clause/ritual.’ (Like throwing a coin at the room’s corner). Don’t cut deals with a spirit you can’t handle or ones that require a malicious payment. You might have to bind them to something to come along but don’t do this without consent. You can store their item somewhere they like away from your home and call upon them when needed.