Carol Finwall's children sometimes got a little creeped out by the room where she kept supplies for her hobby and home business: They would see disembodied heads, arms and hands and jars full of shiny ...

Not long after Christmas in 1897, little Verna Pitts of Roanoke, Ala., accidentally broke the beautiful China doll she’d received as a gift. Her heart shattered along with the doll. Verna went to her ...