As if the parents of our towns haven’t enough to worry about, it appears that someone or something, is sending a threatening message to their children. Over the past several months there has been an increasing number of reports of children’s toys gone missing. Normally a few lost dollies isn’t enough to capture any interest, but the manner in which the toys are returned is quite disturbing.
Children have been complaining of lost toys that have reappeared a few days later with deep gashes under their left eye. The markings look as if they have been carved into the faces of the missing toys. When asked to elaborate on her family’s traumatic experience, a young mother, who requested to be kept anonymous, had the following story.
“At first we thought Andrew was playing one of his silly games with us when he told us Sir Peter, his wooden toy Knight, vanished right before his eyes. Three days later Andrew came running into the kitchen waving Peter. ‘He’s back! He’s back! But I don’t want to play with him anymore…’ He dropped the doll at my feet and ran out of the room. The doll looked as if it had been badly abused and the wood was split open under it’s left eye. My husband burned the toy right away.”
Rumors have been circulating but no one is ready to put forth a theory on these mysterious events. Random acts such as these do not seem to be the work of professional criminals but an inexperienced, almost childish person or persons trying to send an as of yet to be determined message.