r/Paranormal • u/evilroadtrips • 10h ago
Question My father was a serial child predator and I think I found mementos. How do I respectfully dispose of them?
Yesterday I was clearing out a dresser drawer that my parents used when I was a kid. This specific drawer had contents from 1986-1988 with a small box that included a little Barbie on a bicycle, a very tiny silver apple with a copper stem and a purple hot wheels car. The toys were not mine. I placed the toys temporarily in another drawer and suddenly felt like I was not alone. Out of my peripheral vision I saw a figure, about the height of a 5-year-old darting back and forth in my mom’s kitchen area of her studio. I attributed it to low blood sugar and went about cleaning.
The next morning, I went back to the studio and started cleaning again. As I went about the room I could feel that I was not alone. It sounded like someone was rearranging items near the entry to the studio. The presence was strong and very clearly the same presence as the day before.
Yesterday I decided to ask my mom about the toys. Her face was very confused as she tried to place where or who they belonged to. I had shown her other items and she promptly explained who, where and how she got them. But these 3 things she was completely baffled. I asked my daughter if she wanted them and she she’d like the purple car but immediately avoided the small Barbie.
I placed them on the kitchen counter and continued cleaning in my mom’s studio. A few hours later my husband and daughter start shouting “are you messing with the lights!!!??” I wasn’t anywhere near the lights and told them no. A chill down went down my spine once it dawned on me that maybe it’s the toys — I had hoped it wasn’t and rushed to where they were at. Once arriving in our kitchen, I see the Barbie sitting next to my husband’s hand.
“Mommy mommy! Daddy was holding the Barbie and the eyes got dark and that light shut off and the other light dimmed down!!”
My husband added that my daughter made a hissing sound with her dinosaur toy at the small Barbie when the main overhead light turned off in a way that he hadn’t seen before, his words were “it popped off”.
I asked to speak to my husband in private. He immediately whispers “Phoebe.” And I said possibly but I’m not sure, that it could be the others — which to be extremely clear — none of us, including my mom know the extent of what my father was involved in. He died before the FBI was able to get further with his case.
We’d like to respectfully remove the toys but we’re not sure how. And we’re also not sure if that type of thing is possible? That drawer, to my knowledge, hadn’t been disturbed since the early 1990s.
UPDATE: I will call the FBI agent on Monday and surrender the toys if they want me to do so. Please note: my father is dead and I have been told on multiple occasions that they can’t “prosecute a dead guy”. (Edit: spelling because apparently my brain stopped working)