ByGrabtharsHammarWhatASaving
Haunted items, including creepy "haunted" dolls, are products sold and advertised on eBay and other sites by various grifters and some dangerous organised criminal networks that target the most vulnerable people in society.
The most ruthless of these networks operate by selling items so ridiculous that only someone with a serious mental illness would put their hands in their pocket to buy them.
So, for example, a networks offers a cheap item of costume jewellery, something that would cost £1.50 from a charity shop, made of brass and coloured glass. Or a doll that the seller claims is haunted by the spirit of a long dead, murdered child. The doll is broken and in poor condition and also cost £1.50 from a charity shop.
The seller makes a video complete with creepy music where they create a narrative for their item, the jewellery contains the spirit of a djinn or vampire or something and the doll's history of being haunted by a murdered child is described in gory detail.
Vulnerable people see the video and feel that their life is not complete without said djinn containing ring / brooch or haunted doll.
Implicit within the purchase of these items is the promise of "transformation".
You buy the jewellery / doll and you get to develop a relationship with the supernatural entity inhabiting the item and this transforms your life.
Astute readers will understand that through history criminals and unethical entrepreneurs have made money by selling various items that promise to "transform", whether it is a product that changes a skinny man into a Mr Universe, a moisturiser that reverses ageing, a cream that enlarges the penis or prolongs erection, a cream that whitens or tightens the vagina, a cream that turns dark skin light, a pill that changes light skin tanned, a pill that makes vaginas smell of roses, a pill that turns fat people into slim people, you name it, whatever human anxiety exists there is a snake oil product to remedy it via a magical transformative process.
Since the start of the millennia lifestyle television programmes have had the process of "transformation" at their core. Makeovers, makeunders, ugly house to beautiful house, how to look good naked, various programmes focussing on weight loss, SAS Who Dares Wins, so many programmes focus on the before and the after, the ordinary, ugly, person / house before and the money shot being the final "reveal" where the once dowdy, plain Janes strut their stuff respite with new surgery enhanced face and body and designer clothes.
Anyone who has studied depth psychology will be familiar with the concept of the "transformational object".
The transformational object is the magical thing that transforms everything and solves all problems.
In advertising it is common to show a family in a state of fragmentation, kids all off to their friends or their rooms, nobody wants to sit down together until the mother crumbles an Oxo cube into the meat juices at which point the kids' nostrils twitch, they smile. Dad decides not to go to the pub, the kids no longer want to go to their room, the whole family sits down together smiling and happy thanks to the transformative powers of Oxo.
In advertisements for skin whitening cream transformation object promises to end racism not by addressing and challenging racism or by white people stopping being racist but by magically transforming dark skin into light skin.
The cults I have been warning people about here use collective unconscious fantasies about transformation to turn vulnerable women into "goddesses". The transformative process involves a pseudo-educational "empowerment" process in which women's consciousness is transformed and women feel completely transformed. Then they go on to become new age sex workers, honey traps, blackmailers and recruiters of more women. See Jeffrey Epstein, NXIVM and a zillion other similar cultish arrangements where vulnerable females (and sometimes males) are "transformed" via a bait and switch process. Epstein promised to transform the lives of his victims as did Raniere. The "training" the women and girls received promoted to liberate them but enslaved them. This is how it works.
Back to the creepy dolls issue
So you have extremely vulnerable, often psychotic, people spending silly amounts of money on cheap jewellery and dolls that they believe are haunted or contain vampires / unicorns / whatever.
Obviously someone in the midst of a florid psychosis is more likely to experience a connection with a unicorn or whatever than someone who is not psychotic.
With this in mind the most ruthless of the criminals selling these items harvest contact details from their victims and persuade them to join online groups for collectors of haunted items.
Then the process of familial alienation starts. In the groups an insular echo chamber exists in which the powers that be conspire to prevent magical special people from bonding with unicorns and other supernatural beings by prescribing anti-psychotic meds. Obviously in order to better bond with the supernatural beings people have to stop taking their meds.
For details of what happens next I would recommend this blog
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I hope this helps