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Mom convinced her home is haunted after capturing ‘ghost’ emerging from mom’s 1950s doll on security camera
A "FREAKED out" mom claims her house is so haunted she is now too scared to even enter her basement alone – after capturing spooky footage of a GHOST emerging from a doll and CHASING her cat.
Kathy Gallinger said that since moving into her home back in August 2018 she's experienced a series of "scary" supernatural incidents, including objects moving on their own and shadow figures appearing in the darkness.
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But the 45-year-old was stunned when a CCTV camera she'd set up in her basement captured a "black mass" emerging from her mother's old doll from the 1950s – which she believes could be a ghost.
Footage captured shows three-year-old cat Salem visibly distressed and staring intently at her dolls before what appears to be "black mist" appears from one of them and drifts in the moggy's direction – sending the fearful feline scarpering.
Although the call center operator has "become used" to the paranormal "scaring the life" out of her in her own home, she's since avoided venturing down to the basement unaccompanied at all costs.
The footage is so freaky that some suggested the family had digitally "edited" the clip but Gallinger says that they work hard to "debunk" anything they capture on camera and is adamant it is real.
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Gallinger, from Quinte West, Ontario, Canada, said: "My husband and I were really freaked out.
"I immediately called my psychic medium friend and she made me feel a little better because she said she wasn't getting any vibes where it's something that's out to get us, it's just something that wants its presence known.
"I think my house must be haunted.
"I love this house. The only way we'd consider moving was if it became violent or if anything was to harm any of us, of course.
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"But as it stands right now, other than a few things moving and just scaring the life out of us, we've become used to it really."
After the mom-of-one discovered her home was a hive for paranormal activity, she started capturing videos and her daughter 20-year-old Jayden Carveth soon convinced her to set up a TikTok account to share them, which has amassed more than 600,000 followers and likes.
Gallinger said: "My TikTok followers asked to put the camera in with the dolls overnight in the basement as that's where most of the activity is.
"The cat was down there and my daughter's bedroom is down there and she said the cat ran to her door.
"She heard him outside and let him in and he was clearly afraid of something.
"She said: 'Mom, you might want to check those cameras because the cat's crazy scared'.
"The next day we checked the cameras and what I saw was my cat staring at these dolls clearly frightened of something and then all of a sudden a black mass or mist formed from one of the dolls.
"I think it could be a ghost.
"Salem is my protector. That cat goes everywhere with me so if I do have to go downstairs and I'm nervous, he follows me.
"It's uncommon for him to show signs of being afraid like that."
The clip captured last month has received more than 10,000 likes and comments on TikTok – with one user remarking that it's a "spirit" while another said it gave them goosebumps.
Gallinger said: "A few days after the video I was like: 'I don't want to go down into the basement, I absolutely don't want to go down there' and of course I would take my husband if I had to go.
"The basement is the hot spot so I don't love going down there.
"We have a family room set up in the basement but we never really use it because no one wants to be down there, it's too uncomfortable.
"As soon as you go down there you feel this uncomfortable vibe, almost like you're being watched.
"If my husband is here, I'm fine.
"If I have to go downstairs to do a little laundry, I'll say to him: 'Do you have anything you've got to do in the basement?'
"I just feel more comfortable if I'm not alone.
"But I mean I have gone down there alone and had experiences.
"It can be really scary and unnerving at times."
Gallinger claims that she's been told by a psychic that the freaky happenings are connected to an incident which occured back in the 1980s with teenagers who possibly used a ouijia board in her home.
She said that a week or two can pass by without any activity, but during the last fortnight her home has been "very active", which she was told by a friend could be due to the upcoming Easter holiday.
Gallinger said: "We started noticing little things right away when we moved in.
"I'd get up in the morning and two or three kitchen cupboards would be open and back then we didn't even have security cameras set up and I'd blame my husband and would be like: 'You got up in the night and didn't shut these cabinets' and he was like: 'No I wasn't up in the night'.
"Or I'd look for my hairbrush which I keep in the upstairs bathroom and find it in our basement and my daughter was like: 'I didn't take the brush down there'.
"It wasn't until one night we were sitting in our bedroom, I was reading a book and my closet doors started opening and closing by themselves.
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"That's when my husband was like: 'Ok, something weird is going on here'.
"We've lived here four years and had a lot of spooky stuff happen and we've seen a lot of scary stuff – shadows figures even, but nothing has ever physically touched or harmed us."
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