Jim Gerrish, you gave me chill bumps. She is no longer suitable as a collector doll. Shirley has 'gone evil' and needs to work in the creepy-show I am developing. If I had found her while looking in my closet with a flashlight I would not have recovered. Her eyes shine brilliantly when illuminated!

Yes, Don, this is such a great description of Forever! I think consensus is that I send Shirley to Outlaw (wrapped tightly, of course) and have her imprisoned. I will save my pennies...a custom imprisonment of Shirley might set me back, lol!

Being imprisoned in the dark changes both eyes and mind. THe horror of the confinement alters a child or a doll to their very soul, . Perhaps shirley can be used as in intermediary, a spir it conduit with past children of the dark who dwell now in the shadows of the great beyond.

If Shirley truly is now evil, ask her for yourself Autum,

Hold her up so her mouth is near your ear. IF the voice has a demonic tinge, perhaps she is.

If you hold her to a spectators ear, a message recorder might give her voice



In a room lit by a sonhle candle, her eyes will shone ominously.


If she were placed in a small rocking chair she might add motion to the mix.



Kotah

I read your post and combined with the suggestions by Jim Gerrish, I think we have a winning routine! Something just clicked! The idea of a child being locked in the dark is impetus for the premise (Locked in the dark...such a dreadful thing to do to ANYONE OR ANY BEING, yet it happens). "Shadow children of the past, darkness altering to their very soul, smoking box with burn holes, candle and glowing eyes" These are really good mental fuel and I am getting an old-fashioned pen and paper and doing some brainstorming!

More ideas? I will check back later today.
Shirley awesome, gentlemen!
Shirley awesome!

I considered a routine a while back, about a young girl being punished by getting locked in a bedroom closet.

There forgotten too long by a drunken step father, the summer heat took the girls life.

Her large porcelean doll watched from the top closet shelf above, Helpless as the child who adored her perished.

I envisioned the doll having gone into shock. Unable to speak, she could only open and close her eyes. once for yes, twice for no. INn answer to questions concerning the way the little girl had passed in the darkness.


Good fodder for a seance premise. Then too objects such as a childs te cup set could be props as well

When my daughter Jenny was young, I sipped many cups of make believe tea as she poured it.

NDM under the table,or discs onteacup bottoms and rods in sppns coild cause many spirit manifestations.



Kotah