GHOSTS: Mandy the Doll

 

In 1991 a woman donated a doll to the Quesnel & District Museum in Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada. She told them that she received it from her grandmother and it had been in a trunk for many years. The doll was fragile as it was around 100 years old and it gave her a weird feeling so she donated it immediately. 

The doll was named Mandy, and her first day there was surprising to the crew. Her photo was taken and was added to her collection. She was left in the lab overnight. In the morning The crew would find the lab in disarray as if a small child had a temper tantrum. She was given a lamb toy with her inside in her case and it was found outside of it later. 

It is said the Mandy gives off a feeling. She is also said to follow people with her eyes. 

Silvia Bowne, a medium, stated that the doll belonged to a set of twins. The Twins would unfortunately pass from polio. This would cause the mother to severely grieve her children and it was implanted in the doll this is the energy.

SOURCES:

Quesnel & District Museum

MISSING: Humphrey "Albert" Wilkison

 

On Jan. 23, 1957, 30-year-old Humphrey "Albert" Wilkison was last seen at his workplace. He had failed to pick up his last paycheck and was reported missing on Jan. 29, 1957. At his home in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, it was determined his wallet and ID were left at his home and his dog and gun were missing from the home. At the time Albert was working as a carpenter at Martin Paper Co. in New Westminster and was also a part-time commercial fisherman.

On Jan 29. 1957 an employee of Woolworth in New Westminster believed that she saw Albert, and she stated that he went by Al.

Albert did not mention that he was planning to leave or go anywhere. He had no sought employment insurance but did tell personnel with employment insurance that he wished to seek employment in Cache Creek. He also had a dream that he wanted to tour the world, and it was thought possible he joined the military to do so. These lead to nothing Cache Creek failed to turn up a trace of Albert and he never joined the military. 

Investigators were also told that he may have gone to Northern BC to go fishing with a friend only known as "Old Man" whom he spoke of often. This lead nowhere as the friend couldn't be identified and it couldn't be determined where said friend lived. 

Albert had also been trying to convince a married woman to leave her husband. He had introduced the woman to his family as someone he had married. He had bought her a diamond solitaire ring and a plain wedding ring. They were not married though. She stated that she didn't know why he had left or gone missing, but he wouldn't hurt himself. 

It's unknown what had happened to Albert. His family spent a considerable amount of money in newspapers looking for him. None of the tips from these ended up being any good. 

Albert is a white male and was 30-years-old at the time. He's 5'5" to 5'6" and 140 lbs and described as having a medium build. He has blue-grey eyes and brown hair with sideburns. He was known to suffer from headaches, stomach aches, but it's unknown if he suffering from this at the time. In the past year, he was known to be drinking quite heavily in the last year. He was an avid cartoonist. 

When he was last seen he was wearing a dark green toque, a green jacket, a black wool jacket, black plaid shirt, and knee-high gumboots. He was known to wear expensive clothing. 

SOURCES:

Doe Network

RCMP

UNIDENTIFIED: Jan. 14, 1953 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Babes in the Woods

On Jan. 14, 1953, the bodies of two young boys (initially believed to be a boy and a girl) were found in a brush-filled area of Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. They were covered by what looked like a woman's rain cape. They were laying in a straight line with their feet almost close together and heads in opposite directions. They could have been dead for up to the fall of 1947. 

There was a hatchet found at the scene. Both boys had wounds to their heads. One of the victim's skull had a wound in the back of the head that the hatchet fit perfectly. The other skull was fractured by what may have been the hammer of the hatchet. It's believed that the killer was the mother. 

It's believed that the body of Boy A was laid down first where they were found. He was faced down in a shallow depression. Boy B was then placed down where he was found and it's believed that the killer (a woman) lost her shoe underneath his left shoulder and between a log. Before she left she covered the boys in her coat and in a panic left her shoe where she lost it. 

The boys weren't identified. It wasn't until a DNA test in 90's that Boy b was found to be a boy instead of a girl. 

There was a possible lead to identifying the children. In 1949 or 1950 a man working in a logging camp, and his companion picked up a woman and two children. During the ride, she told them that she had been in trouble with Mission Police for vagrancy charges. They learned that one or both children at some time attended Cedar Valley School and she lived on Cherry St. in Mission B.C. It's possible that the men mistook "Vag C" instead of vagrancy which was the code for prostitution at the time. 

The woman was described as having red hair. The two boys were around 6 or 7 years old with one of them wearing an aviator flying helmet. The lead managed the find the family name of Grant, but this lead was exhausted after speaking to family members. 

There was a report a few years before the bodies being found of an adult male and female walking in the woods with two young boys. One of the boys was carrying a hatchet. Later that day the couple was seen again this time without the boys and the woman was without one of her shoes. 

Police don't believe that they'll catch the person who murdered these young children. It's likely that the killer would be deceased by now anyway. They just want to give the children back their names. 

Boy A is a white male between 7 and 10 years old. He was described as having a sturdy build. He had many cavities. Clothing deteriorated. He was wearing brown oxfords with white crepe rubber soles, a belt and a leather aviation helmet with goggles, and a zipper jacket or sweater (one article states it's a red Fraser Tartan Jacket). 

Boy B is a white male and was between 7 and 10-years-old. He was described as having a slender build. He had more cavities than his brother. He was wearing identical brown oxfords with white crepe rubber soles, but 1/2 an inch longer, a belt, a zipper jacket or sweater, an aviator helmet with goggles, and the underwear he was wearing was deteriorated but believed to be too big as a safety pin was used in the elastic to keep them up. 

The hatchet at the scene was typically used by shinglers and lathers. It was rusty and the handle was broken into two by the time it was found. 

The coat was a cheap dark brown (dyed rabbit) with leg-of-mutton shoulders that were popular in 1943. The coat is a size 16 and is 40 inches long. The lining material of the coat indicated it had been worn for 2 or 3 years. The woman's show was a moccasin style size 5 1/2 with crepe soles with a light grey plastic quarter lining and a red plastic quarter binding. 

There was a light blue with white trim children's lunch box by the bodies. It isn't stated if there was anything inside the lunchbox when the children died. 

There is no mention of a bracelet that I could find, but one article has a picture of a piece of a child's bracelet with a button from the coat. 

SOURCES:

Doe Network Boy A

Doe Network Boy B

Mysterious Universe

Wikipedia

The Globe and Mail

Global

The Vancouver Sun Jan 19, 1953

The Vancouver Sun April 15, 1953

Unsolved Murder of the Pauls Family

 

47-year-old Helen and 53-year-old David Paul were Russian Emigrants and lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. During their 16 years of marriage, they lived in Saskatchewan and Aldergrove, before buying a home in Vancouver in September of 1956. They lived in a home on the 1000-block of E.53rd Avenue with their 11-year-old daughter Dorothy.

Around 11:30 p.m. on June 10, 1958, David was leaving the home to go pick up Helen from the bus stop after she finished work. He was surprised by an attacker right outside the rear basement door. He was shot in the head and was seriously injured, but did not die. 

The murderer went upstairs to where Dorothy was sleeping in her bed. They entered her bedroom and bludgeoned her to death. She was still in her bed when she was found. Her P.J. bottoms were found laying on the floor next to the bed. There was no sign of sexual assault on the body. Sexual motivation hadn't been rejected though. 

They had gone back downstairs and possibly found the Paul was still alive so they dragged him to the basement.  They proceeded to beat him and then shot him twice in the head killing him. Then they patiently waited for Helen to arrive home. 

Helen was attacked in the front hallway. She was beaten and shot to death. 

On June 11 when David and Helen didn't show up to work officers arrived at the house. Seemingly from the outside, it seemed normal, but when they entered the house they knew something terrible had happened when they found Helen's body. 

The murder weapons were not recovered or identified. The object used to beat them was described as heavy. The bullets from the 22. caliber revolver more than likely a Rohn Rg-10, colt-style, six-shot. 

A heavy instrument of some kind was used to beat the victims. The bullets recovered from the bodies were sent to more than one lab, which concluded they came from a .22 caliber revolver – likely a Rohm RG-10, colt-style, six-shot.

Robbery may have been a motive as David's wallet, house key, and the vehicle was missing and Helen's purse was open. 

SOURCES:

VP Cold Cases 

City News 1130

Vancouver Sun

Evelazarus

Murder of William Robinson

Canadian Mysteries 

William Robinson had immigrated from New Jersey in the United States to Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Canada. He lived alone in an isolated cabin and had planned to have his wife and kids join him in 1868. He lived in a black community on the island. He was considered an inoffensive and harmless man. He was last seen on Sunday, March 15, 1868, at church.

A man who would help out William had goods for him. For almost a week he tried a few times to get in contact with William. On Saturday the man then peeped into the home by removing some of the packings between logs, because the home had no window. He saw a pair of boots near where he was peeping through and tried to touch them with a stick, there was no response and this alarmed him. Other settlers were notified and came, but it wasn't until Monday that the resident constable came. 

As the door had been locked they removed a log near the door. This was when William's body could be seen, He was laying on his back, with a box between his knees. He had a knife in his hand.

He had been shot in the back with the exit wound being through his chest. His clothes were burned from gun powder. It was likely he was eating and his killer was sitting at the hearth with a double-barrel shotgun. He was then killed and several things were taken from the home including account books, and some clothes. 

A local man named John Norton was told by an anonymous Indian fishing near his home that a Chemanius Indian named Tom and that an Indian of Plumpers Pass was with him. Tom had killed William. Soon a local Chemanius Indian named Tshuanahusset (Tom)  and Sue Tas was the other Indian.

Sue Tas claimed that the two had gone to William's cabin in Salt Spring Lake. Sue Tas stayed in the canoe as Tshuanahusset went to William's home. He had started getting cold and came to the cabin. When he entered William was cooking food. Tshuanahusset was sitting by the fire with a gun. He said that Tshuanahusset told him along the lines of "if I shoot the black man I was to look for all the good things"

Sue Tas claimed this scared him. William had already sat down with his food by this time. Sue Tas decided to leave the cabin. He wasn't very far out when a gunshot rang and Tshuanahusset called out to him to come back inside. He saw William lying on the ground with blood coming out of his nose and back. 

Sue Tas refused to help him. Tshuanahusset then took a saw, an auger, a box, a cart and then brought the items to the canoe. He also found a key and locked the door before throwing the key into the water. The two then rode the canoe back to Chemainus. Sue Tas watched as Tshuanahusset placed the things in his home. Sue Tas stayed in Chemainus for 5 days before returning to Plumpers Pass. He was scared of him but still told his friends at Plumpers Pass of what had happened at the cabin.

Tshianahusset was charged with the murder and Sue Tas was not charged. He was quickly put on trial. He was found guilty and was given the death penalty in June of 1869. On July 24th he was executed by hanging. He had suffered little to no pain when he died. 

Historians have questioned whether or not. Tshuanahusset was actually responsible for the murder. There was certainly evidence that did point towards him being the murderer, but the holes in the case were questionable like for example the auger found in Tshuanahusset's home was supposedly dropped into the water by accident from the Constable's Canoe.

Much of the evidence found against Tshuanahusset probably wouldn't have been useable in today's standards. The trial was also done in an irregular way. He was also one of the only focuses on this crime, even though there were better suspects to be found. 

William was also not the only African American murdered in the small community in the mid to late 1860s. Several other African American's had been killed.

SOURCES:

Canadian's Mysteries

Wikipedia

Albany

Revolvy