Haunted Dolls?

One of the most haunting things I have seen recently was a story on Chernobyl, and the surrounding towns evacuated after the disaster nearly three decades ago. I think of Pompeii, and all that took place there. The children let their dolls and toys where they fell; they look as sweet as before, but more like something out of Coraline of The Shelter for Misfit dolls. It is voyeuristic to see them, and to know could just walk on someone's house, and see life cut off there this way. I wonder what these kids felt when they had to leave so quickly, and I wonder how long the dolls will stay there, part of a haunted museum indeed, because they are contaminated and cannot be moved.

Are Dolls haunted; in a way. They are symbols of childhood, and the confidantes of the children who loved them. They keep memories and are keepsakes, and they are often the first things grabbed in a disaster, and are even buried with children, as the ancient and not so ancient cemeteries tell us. Happy Halloween!