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WATCH: The Doll’s Ghost

In the great British tradition of ghost stories at Christmas, we want to share this video on Christmas Eve.

“The Doll’s Ghost” by American author F. Marion Crawford was first published in 1897. It is read by Tony Walker of the Classic Ghost Stories podcast, who is a brilliant reader with a great voice.

In their ongoing bid to drive all creativity, originality, individuality and humanity from their platform, YouTube recently demonetized his channel. So we’re promoting him as a show of moral support.

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Sam - Admin2
Admin
Sam - Admin2
Dec 25, 2025 11:53 AM

Happy 25th December to everyone celebrating on this day!! Have a fantastic time and lots of love from Offg Admin 🎄❤️🎄

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Dec 26, 2025 12:42 PM
undergroundpoet
undergroundpoet
Dec 25, 2025 12:16 PM

likewise.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Dec 25, 2025 11:39 AM

We need to stand together against injustice – or fall, the time is coming for you to make your choice – stand or fall, what will it be?
 
 
Today In History (@historigins): “One of the greatest lecture in the world.” | nitter.poast.org

Brian Sides
Brian Sides
Dec 25, 2025 10:18 AM

In the story the doll has yellow hair but the illustration used has black hair
The story mentions smoking and matches in this overprotected world a possible no no
How many servants do they have in this story , to many
The diagonal scar across the face the doll has reminds me of a fencing scar often associated with German fencing, The disfigurement itself is scary making a person look evil and thus making us think they are evil.
One plot gap when he leaves the house to look for his daughter he hears children playing
but does not go and see of his daughter is amongst them or enquire if they have seen them also it is nearly dark so late for children to be playing outside.
He accepts the brush off by the doorman to easily. Maybe trying to keep the story short.
The ending is a kind ending with no penalty except the broken doll, One twist is his daughter could have a similar diagonal scar across her face maybe with the portent that it might have an evil connotation and glow forcing the girl to do evil things.

Serapis
Serapis
Dec 25, 2025 8:36 AM

Media Attack Jesus and Mary—While the Hanukkah Myth is Protected from Scrutiny
The T****d in S*****t 104b teaches Jesus was born of the adultery which His mother committed with the Roman soldier Panthera, while Sanhedrin 106a declares that Mary was a wh~re.
At Christmas time the New York media perpetuate this disgusting hate speech which upsets each mindcontrol group who believe in fake skygods.

In great British tradition of ghost stories at Christmas is MINDCONTROL like
religion.

About time the believers all grow up.

Paul
Paul
Dec 26, 2025 11:31 PM
Reply to  Serapis

Presumably you don’t believe there’s a creator and thus believe in some kind of ‘evolution’. Which means it’s you who needs to grow up!

The Real Edwige
The Real Edwige
Dec 25, 2025 8:33 AM

Bloke in a school board meeting reads out sections from one of the school’s library books… and gets kicked out for obscenity:
https://substack.com/@justindeschamps/note/c-191107627

(He’s probably a masonic actor given that he manages to get a reference to “23” in there – but still the point’s well made).

antonym
antonym
Dec 25, 2025 7:52 AM

Never more Christmas for ~60,000 kids till 1993, many more now, ‘thanks’ to Medical Doctor B. Spock, who advocated belly sleeping for babies in 1958. After it was found out that it risked deadly SIDS his book was not with drawn and the medical community barely nudged, This 2011 publication explains it but was cited only 3 times.
Where are the genocide wokes when you need them?

Medical science is a $ick puppy, hungering for endless money. Snake oil was its precursor, but without the white dresses, Latin secret language and very expensive machinery.

les online
les online
Dec 25, 2025 8:33 AM
Reply to  antonym

“Epidemiological evidence” and “metadata analysis”… “SIDS'” from sleeping on their
little bellies… Why not include: Spock was also blamed for the “permissive ” 1960’s
youth rebellion, post WW2 juvenile delinquency, and protests against the USA war
in Vietnam…
The entry reads like it was written by one of the bought editors at Wikipedia ?

Aloysius
Aloysius
Dec 25, 2025 9:58 PM
Reply to  antonym

I once saw Dr. Spock talking familiarly with Abby Hoffman (with a bloody bandage on his nose), William Kunstler, and Leonard Weinglass in a makeshift prison compound long long long ago. All dead now.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 25, 2025 6:26 AM

If you can be bothered, or have the time, the Epstein files can be seen ‘unredacted’ because someone messed up:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/DctYBppKZ13I

Some nasty stuff in there.

mgeo
mgeo
Dec 26, 2025 4:21 AM
Reply to  Johnny

The word mossad sent my reply to pending.

les online
les online
Dec 25, 2025 6:23 AM

Is singing Christmas carols antisemitic, too ?

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 25, 2025 5:03 AM

It’s Christmas day here in aUStralia Folks. Hope you all have a pleasant one.

Here’s a Christmas song I wrote and recorded with my now defunct band, ‘The Buttons’, back in 2014:

https://thebuttonsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/last-christmas

It ain’t your standard Chrissy ditty.

Penelope
Penelope
Dec 25, 2025 3:09 AM

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-down-the-american-health
The new US Health Care Bill really changes a lot! To see how it affects YOU, take a look at the summary. Some alternative & nutritional therapies will be covered. Health cooperatives rather than insurance companies will probably be emphasized.

A different site claims alternative medicine is now billing 4 times the amount of Big Pharma; not sure that’s true.

A personal anecdote: Over the years I’ve watched the progressive incompetence of each generation of doctors. At a recent appt the neurologist did not know how to do the patellar reflex test– the one where you hammer the knee and the foot flies forward. This dummy neurologist kept returning to hammer my knee 5 separate times. Apparently he did not know that the foot has to be clear of the floor, typically w the patient sitting on the side of the exam table. How could he not know that?

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 25, 2025 5:51 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Doctors don’t have patients anymore.
They have cu$tomer$.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 25, 2025 6:01 AM
Reply to  Johnny

‘Would You’ is a song I wrote about twenty years ago.

It seems a tad prescient now, given the current clampdowns on free speech and the iron-fistedness of the lockdowns during the $camdemic:

https://thebuttonsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/would-you

Penelope
Penelope
Dec 27, 2025 11:41 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Thank you, John Boyle: That’s a great resistance song. You must’ve awakened early.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 28, 2025 12:50 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Thanks Penelope.

Serapis
Serapis
Dec 25, 2025 8:38 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Maybe he wanted to touch you up as your so intelligent.
Your lucky it was your knee.

mgeo
mgeo
Dec 26, 2025 4:28 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Scientific and Sole Official Medicine is killing or crippling more people than ever. Fortunately, Dr. J Mercola, Dr W Makis, etc. are going great guns.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Dec 26, 2025 12:39 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Education and power politics. In my Engineering Company they said the Engineers before 1968 could make anything standing in Sahara with a check and a bag of cement.

The education after 1968 was divided (and conquered) so each Engineer only were able to their own specialisation; Ventilation, Electrical, Structural, m.m.

I anticipate it was the same for the medical profession. The increased centralisation with Boards and Institutions issuing public Rules and Recommendations has devaluated the professions even more. And now comes the Digital Neurologist………

Penelope
Penelope
Dec 28, 2025 12:00 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Erik, y’know it’s really true that education has gone straight downhill. When I first came from Ohio to California in 1962 I got a temp job where I was writing “Thanks but-no-thanks” letters to job applicants. I could tell the age of the applicant from his letter thanking the company for the interview: The applicant was younger than 35 if his sentence structure was brief and simplistic– childish really. I was amazed that I could correctly guess the approximate age from reading his letter, then verifying it by looking at the application materials.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 25, 2025 12:20 AM

Thanks Folks, a nice story.
My granddaughter’s name is Nina, so there was a connection I didn’t expect.
Cheers.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 24, 2025 11:37 PM

Don’t ‘cry for Argentina’, they’re coming to their senses:

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 24, 2025 11:38 PM
Reply to  Johnny
Aloysius
Aloysius
Dec 24, 2025 7:34 PM

There are no ghosts. Stories about ghosts are hard to believe because there are no ghosts.

Rara Avis
Rara Avis
Dec 24, 2025 7:47 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch…

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Dec 24, 2025 9:41 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

If There are no ghosts then why do stories and movies about ghosts frighten people ? People dont get frightened by things that aint !

correspondencecommittee
correspondencecommittee
Dec 25, 2025 6:38 AM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

Specters of all sorts, and not just commies, are constantly created to haunt us. It’s what all the ‘science’ of social engineering and psywar is about, from manufactured enemies of military warfare to invisible enemies of germ warfare (convid one of the biggest boogeymen of all time). Nowadays terrorists are like ghosts appearing out of thin air. I’m sure you can come up with many more (e.g., the climate is changing!!!). The imagination is inexhaustible when mind control taps into fear. All this in turn shows how people don’t get frightened, or fired up, by things that are, like the psychopaths behind the psyops and the fucked-up ways the world is run. (Btw, that down vote wasn’t me; just sayin’.)

mgeo
mgeo
Dec 26, 2025 4:33 AM

Unlike ghosts, terrorists appear when convenient, and then “leave the stage”. If not loaded up with pills that make them violent, they do whatever they are paid for.

Birisi
Birisi
Dec 24, 2025 10:46 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

May those non-existant ghosts never haunt you. Merry Christmas!

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Dec 24, 2025 10:49 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

Ghost’s Lives Matter (GLM) !

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 24, 2025 11:07 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

Try telling that to those poor buggers hearing voices in their heads.

les online
les online
Dec 25, 2025 2:33 AM
Reply to  Aloysius

What about The Holy Ghost ?

Sonny-Raye Hayes
Sonny-Raye Hayes
Dec 25, 2025 2:45 AM
Reply to  les online

I doubt there’s any such thing as a ghost, holy or otherwise; but, in a way, I hope there is ‘ cause there are some people( alive and dead), institutions and places I want to haunt wicked bad……

The Real Edwige
The Real Edwige
Dec 25, 2025 8:20 AM
Reply to  Aloysius

No ghosts – but there are spooks….

Paul
Paul
Dec 26, 2025 11:33 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

There are spirits. Not “ghosts”.