The House of Strange

The Attic Files: Haunted Objects and Memory

Vincent Strange Season 1 Episode 6

We return to The Attic Files to examine the strange bond between memory and the objects we leave behind.
Some seem ordinary at first glance — a chair, a mirror, a doll. But look closer, and the edges blur. These pieces of wood and fabric and glass become containers for fear, grief, superstition… and the emotions people poured into them long before they were called “haunted.”

In this episode, we uncover the dark reputation of the Busby Stoop Chair, a simple wooden seat tied to a string of mysterious deaths. We peer into the tarnished surface of the Myrtles Plantation mirror, where a family’s tragedy refuses to fade. And we explore the eerie persistence of Annabelle — a doll whose quiet gaze sparked decades of supernatural lore.

Some stories insist these objects are cursed. Others claim they’re simply misunderstood. But beneath every tale lies a deeper truth about how humans imprint meaning onto the things they fear, the things they want, and the things they cannot let go.

This week, The Attic Files asks a simple question with complicated answers:
Can an object truly be haunted… or are we really just haunting ourselves?

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