The "Talk About Being Creepy!" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Reading a rather creepy story about a lumber company in East Drumore Township, which is in Southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  They had just made a nightmarish find when they had cut a large maple log in half.  Two employees had just finished cutting the log in half when they looked at the center of the log and there, wedged in the center of the log, were the remains of a young girl.  Upon examination, they realized it was a large doll, a really creepy large doll.  The owner of the Groff & Groff Lumber Company, Douglas Grove, said to a newspaper reporter that "We find stuff in logs all the time, but this was a really odd thing.  It was very disturbing to find a doll looking out at you through the log."  Can you imagine what the two workers, who were cutting the large log in half and seeing what probably looked like a real child staring back, must have thought?  I'm sure I would have been scared to death, thinking it was a real child that had been placed in the tree years ago.  The dismembered head, torso and legs of the aging toy doll were said to be about 50 years old, based on the size of the tree's growth and size.  

The two employees removed the toy doll from the log and placed it in Mr. Grove's office.  He told the reporter that he doesn't want it to stay much longer.  "Let it go creep somebody else out," he said.  They did have a good clue as to the age of the doll based on the date of 1971 that was stamped on the back of the doll's head.  So, what company made dolls that matched this doll in 1971?  Mr. Grove estimated that the doll was in the tree for 30 to 40 years before it was recently sliced open.  He said that he thinks somebody's mean older brother stuffed the doll in the crotch of the tree and it grew over it and was completely forgotten until they recently cut open the tree.  Many of the company's customers stopped to look at the doll and offered to buy the slab of log with the doll imbedded in it.  Others suggested the unique find be preserved in epoxy.  Mr. Grove said he doesn't want the creepy thing in his house.  The wooden slab will be dried for another two years and then treated in a kiln before it's available for sale.  As for the creepy find...the doll will be kept with the log in the meantime.  I suspect that it will be placed somewhere where no one will be able to see it.  I certainly wouldn't want the creepy thing staring at me all the time.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.