An elementary school teacher is shocked when he discovers a scary doll inside the wall of his new home bearing a chilling “threat” note.
Jonathan Lewis, 32, got the keys to his new home in Walton, Liverpool, on Friday 17 September, when he decided to examine the space under the plastered staircase.
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The teacher broke the wall with a hammer and soon discovered a rag doll, inside the cavity, in a striped dress and a hat on her head, clutching an “evil” message.
The letter mentioned how the doll stabbed the original property owners in 1961 before saying, “I hope you sleep well.”
But the real estate agent told Mr. Lewis that the kitchen was only built “four or five years ago” and said it must have been the previous owners who put the memo in that hollow of the wall.
The letter adds: “Dear reader/new homeowner, thank you for freeing me! My name is Emily. The original owners were living in this house in 1961. I didn’t like them so they had to go.. All they did was sing and have fun, and that was disgusting. It was my choice to challenge. For their death, so I hope you have knives. And I hope you sleep well.”
Lewis told Liverpool Echo: “I just bought the house and got the keys on Friday. I noticed there was a void under the stairs which was covered in plaster. There is a wire coming out where the previous owners put a fridge, but I didn’t know where to plug the wire in so I broke a bit of plastered to see what was there. I broke a fist-sized hole, shone a light inside, and the doll was sitting there.”
Friends urged Lewis to leave his new home, and demanded that he return it, but he said he found the discovery “funny”.
“Some of my friends told me to take my house back to the market and get out, but I think it’s just funny,” he said.
And the teacher added, “I’ll be honest, I found the whole thing funny. I would probably have done the exact same thing.”
The letter says it dates back to 1961, but after the real estate agent explained that the kitchen was completed only four or five years ago, Lewis believes that by this date the doll placed the letter because it “does not look very old and looks relatively modern”.