As we’re already established, I’m fascinated by curses, so let’s explore three more of the creepiest cursed objects around the world.
Uluru
Although it’s a stretch to call this an “item”, Uluru is a magnificent sandstone formation in the Northern Territory, Australia. Known as Ayers Rock by European settlers, Uluru is a site of incredible spiritual importance for the local Aṉangu people and as such, disturbing the rock is wildly considered a dick move.
Although the Aṉangu don’t recognise a formal curse on the rock. Those who have taken articles have reported a variety of accidents and runs of general bad luck including accidents, ill health and expensive vehicle and home repairs.
According to Australian Geographic, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park receives more than 350 packages of rocks and sand per year, from foolish mortals the world over who have fallen foul of the apparent curse. Due to Australian Quarantine laws, these packages are inspected for outside pathogens before being returned.
So if you happen to be one of the many tourists visiting Uluru every year, be sure to leave things as you found them and remember that you’re visiting an area of immense cultural and spiritual value and should respect it as such.
The Annabelle Doll
Anyone with a passing interest in the unknown will be familiar with Annabelle, one of Ed and Lorraine Warren’s most profitable narratives.
According to the Warrens, Annabelle belonged to a student nurse, who was gifted the Raggedy Ann doll as a present from her mother in the 1970s. Soon enough, strange activity began to occur and the girl and her roommate would find Annabelle in various rooms and so on.
They supposedly enlisted the help of a psychic medium who reported the spirit of a little girl named Annabelle had attached itself to the doll. The girls accepted this, and welcomed the spirit in the doll, but as time went on, Annabelle’s behaviour worsened, alleged culminating in an attack on one of the girl’s boyfriends.
Here the Warrens entered the picture, and declared (as always) that a demonic entity had attached itself to the doll. They took it into their possession (pun intended) and Annabelle now resides inter Occult Museum in Connecticut, where she sits locked up in a wooden case anointed with holy water, where she can do no harm.
Still, Annabelle has been said to cause mischief and malevolence to those who question her power. One story in particular tells of a young couple on a visit to the museum who poked fun at the doll, only for them to meet with swift tragedy. On their way home, they crashed their motorcycle leading to the death of one of them.
Of course – because it’s the Warren’s we’re talking about – no proof, images or evidence has been released to support their claims, but nevertheless, the story of Annabelle has transacted to the modern consciousness through film franchises, merchandise and more.
Wether or not the story’s true, the original Annabell doll is definitely a creepy looking critter.
The Conjured Chest
This beautiful mahogany chest of drawers has supposedly caused the deaths of 18 people. According to legend, the chest was made in Kentucky sometime around the 1830s for the Graham family.
Supposedly, the chest itself was hand carved by an enslaved man named Remus, however, Jeremiah Graham – who wanted the chest for his first born child – was unsatisfied with the result and beat Remus to death.
In response to this cruelty, the family’s other enslaved people put a curse on the chest, sprinkling dried owl blood in the draws.
The chest was used for the new born baby, who then died in infancy.
Next, the chest was used for Jeremiah’s brother’s son, who was stabbed to death on his 21st birthday, and so the pattern began.
It seemed that whoever’s clothes were placed in the chest met with a swift death or disturbance. From gun accidents, premature births, polio, stabbing and deadly falls, the chest seemed to make it’s way through generations, until it fell into the care of Virginia Cary Hudson Cleveland. Whilst in her possession, the chest was blamed for numerous deaths and tragedies so with the help of her life-long maid, Sallie, they set about breaking the curse.
Sallie explained that Virginia needed to be gifted a dead owl by a friend – without asking, so who knew how long that took. Next, she needed to boil the leaves of a willow tree (planted by a friend) in site of the aforementioned owl, then bury the liquid in a jug, with the handle facing east, under a flowering bush. If the counter spell worked, either Virginia or Sallie would die before the leaves fell from the bush. As it happened, Sallie died first, in 1946, and the curse was evidently broken.
The chest was donated to the Kentucky Historical Society in 1976 and owl feathers are still kept in the top drawer to this day, just to keep the curse from harming anyone else.
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