The Creepy Doll (Vamp's True Story)

 ⚠️TW:(fear of dolls, wooded area)⚠️

So, let's start off by saying as someone who doesn't like dolls, it makes it 10x scarier than what I make it out to be. One day I was adventuring in the woods close to my home and i am the one to adventured off to places I shouldn't be. This was soon to be a popular hike trail but at the time it was just trees and a couple small paths. At the time we would have to make our own paths to go further back and soon there wasn't a path, but you can see where a lot of people have been, or even where they were planning on building a path. I never stayed closes to these said paths I always went deeper to explore. I would go almost every day rather it was only or with someone and every day I would find a new way through. (KEY CONTEXT: The night before I had a dream about this doll and the location which I've been plenty of time and passed.) This day I went deeper than I should, and I went alone which was a mistake because I got lost, like really lost. It was getting close to dark, and I needed to get back home, so I was trying to make my trace, but I kept coming back to this specific tree. Something seemed offed and I had marked it with a sharp object to keep track where I've been. I paused to take a quick breather and think, when I seem like I'm making something difficult for myself I tend to take a step back and think, it helps a lot. I sat down and looked up and seen some broken wood, I got up and stepped back for full vision and it looked like a broken tree house. I circle the tree and on the other side by the trunk there was this creepy doll. It had red yarn hair and a blue dress. Like a Raggedy Ann doll (if you haven't seen one, I placed an image as a reference) It was old and torn but it didn't look dirty just how a normal doll looks if you had it for a while (You know) I looked around thinking maybe a little kid is near and lost. I heard children laughing and seen some run past. I called out to them asking if they lost a doll. after no one answered and it got quiet I threw it up on the broken wood up in the tree and continued to get home. I made another circle back to the same tree, but the doll nailed to the tree. the children were laughing again. It scared me I've seen too many horror movies to stay but I calmly walked out and eventually got back to the path. when I got home, I told a few people about it and I found a few people had a similar experience in the same woods. A couple older folks said there was a tree house there when they experienced it. the younger ones or my age said it was just broke pieces of wood. (I feel like it adds to the lore there's so much I don't know apparently) later that night I had a dream but it was one of those dreams that feel like your awake but clearly I see my body on the bed so clearly I'm in a dream (rule: don't let your dream know you're in a dream) so I went around the house and I had seen this doll in my house and i heard children laughing from it. I walked pass it and turned to look at it and it ran at me yelling "You made me dirty, you will pay" but I couldn't move. It jumped on me look in the eyes and asked if I wanted to play a game. I guess that was my breaking point because I officially woke up. the rest of the week I was having a bad week. I felt like my world was falling apart for no reason. I just wasn't right in the mental state, and I kept having these weird dreams. As the person I am who believes my dreams happen for a reason and they come true i went back and it was in a tree hole. I didn't know what to do so I kind of just stared it at and left it alone. I heard children laughing again and I seen a kid come up to me asking to give the doll to her (she said it was hers I am not fighting with a kid) I gave her the doll and she whisper thank you and she kind of disappeared. after than I went back to my normal self and I never seen her or the doll again. The "tree house" is also gone and it looks like nothing happen. The only proof I have that was left is my tree markings.