Podcast "Spooky Hour"
Justine Leah Hince for Clair
Clair is the narrator in the eleventh episode called "The talking doll"
Everything changed till my daughter turned four years old. She was very smart and spoke English fluently. One day, my husband and I were on Christmas break, so after putting Amy to sleep we could cuddle together. All of a sudden I heard my daughter talking. It was 3 am and I thought maybe she had a bad dream that woke her up, so I went to check up on her.
She wasn’t scared at all. She was talking to someone about an old house in North Carolina, which used to be the house of a little girl who had died in the 1800s. I opened the door quietly, hoping I’d get a better pick of who was she talking too. At first I was terrified, cause I thought she was talking to a robber that might have broken in. I was terrified. What if the robber killed my baby?
I behaved myself and moved slowly, opening the door. As I got a better view of my daughter, I noticed the doll my dad had bought to Amy. The doll was talking for real. I could not believe my eyes and ears.