Speaker 1: It's three am in can and you're listening to Night Call. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: welcome to Nightcall, a podcast for your strange nights and
Speaker 1: lonely days. I'm Molly Lambert and here with me in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles is Test Lange and no one else because
Speaker 1: Emily is in France. It's true, she's in France and
Speaker 1: we're not, and we're so jealous. Right now, Molly's wearing
Speaker 1: a shirt that says can on it. I bought a
Speaker 1: shirt fore it. Well, we were talking about imagining what
Speaker 1: she was up to. Emily saw I Guess for No
Speaker 1: a movie that I think is called Climax that she
Speaker 1: really liked, and she was posting some Instagram video of
Speaker 1: the party, which she texted me because La La from
Speaker 1: vander Pump Rules was there and I was so proud
Speaker 1: of her for recognizing La La. Did she explain why
Speaker 1: it seemed like what I imagine can to be like,
Speaker 1: which is that it was like a fancy silly bottle
Speaker 1: service party. They were like that thing they do at
Speaker 1: big clubs where it's like a champagne bottle of sparklers
Speaker 1: coming out of it, Just like a lot of that
Speaker 1: and bubbles and sparkles she said, like John Travolta was
Speaker 1: at the party also just like a random collection of
Speaker 1: like famous and was flown out well, I mean la
Speaker 1: Las plotline. When she first got on vander Pump pools
Speaker 1: with that, it was controversial that she had taken a
Speaker 1: vacation from working at Sir to go be on a
Speaker 1: yacht somewhere in the French riviera, I think, And is
Speaker 1: that a wink wink, nudge nudge. Everybody was kind of
Speaker 1: being like, she's a yacht girl, um, and then she
Speaker 1: basically like admitted to it and was like yeah, so
Speaker 1: what And the other vand Pump girls didn't really know
Speaker 1: what to do with that because they were like, wait,
Speaker 1: we can't let shame her. She's like self aware, um,
Speaker 1: And she became like the coolest person on that show
Speaker 1: kind of because of that. But CAN is like a
Speaker 1: great week for blind items. That's I was going to say,
Speaker 1: I live for the blind items in CAN week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they go on and on, and it's it's interesting because
Speaker 1: you can't really differentiate, like you could lump them all
Speaker 1: together from like the past ten years of CAN coverage
Speaker 1: and just kind of read it seamlessly as if no
Speaker 1: time had passed. You know, it's just like the yachts,
Speaker 1: the parties, Like, just like this model was spotted lounging.
Speaker 1: This B list mostly sitcom actress was on a yacht.
Speaker 1: So Emily, we hope you're having fun and can. Um.
Speaker 1: My prediction of what Emily might be doing, because we
Speaker 1: were guessing, was that she might be in a wine
Speaker 1: cave with Agnes Varda. That's a good one talking about Eurovision.
Speaker 1: I really liked Emily's missives from Berlin before she got
Speaker 1: to Can not like we're stalking Emily, just lightly. We
Speaker 1: are stalking kind of our friends go on vacation. It's
Speaker 1: like we're going on vacation. We don't have to go anywhere,
Speaker 1: which is great. Um. We put out a call a
Speaker 1: night call for stories about haunted dolls. It's true, and
Speaker 1: we we had a bunch of topics. But then when
Speaker 1: we started thinking it over, we were like, maybe we're
Speaker 1: just going to talk for the bulk of this podcast
Speaker 1: about haunted it's true, but first an appartif if you will.
Speaker 1: I wanted to just talk about the episode of Jonesy's
Speaker 1: Jukebox I listened to on the way over to record
Speaker 1: this podcast because one of the great things about when
Speaker 1: we record this podcast is it's always in a time
Speaker 1: when I can listen to Jonesy on the drive over
Speaker 1: to Tessa's house, it's um, it's Steve Jones from the
Speaker 1: ex Pistols. I feel like we've talked about it before
Speaker 1: on the podcast on Kalos And it's basically it's a
Speaker 1: free form radio show and then also like a long
Speaker 1: form interview show. And one of the fun things about
Speaker 1: it is it's also like a mystery show sometimes because
Speaker 1: they take a really long time to I d the
Speaker 1: guests sometimes and it's not on the scroll e thing,
Speaker 1: it's not on the sculling thing, and you have to
Speaker 1: figure it out from context clues. So I always like
Speaker 1: listen at least long enough to figure out who he's
Speaker 1: talking to. UM. And a lot of the best interviews
Speaker 1: are that he does are with old British rock and
Speaker 1: roll guys of the six season seventies who are his
Speaker 1: his friends. They almost always talk about what is it
Speaker 1: black betties? Yeah, they talk about like what kind of
Speaker 1: speed they did, how late they stayed up? Yes, t
Speaker 1: they like he He talks a lot about what he
Speaker 1: puts in a blender. Yeah, baths, I feel like I've
Speaker 1: heard to talk about. Um. He spends a lot of
Speaker 1: time talking with the old British guys, also about like
Speaker 1: fish and chip shops. They're just all such like old
Speaker 1: British gents, you know, They're so like delightful to listen to.
Speaker 1: And then they all talk about how they took so
Speaker 1: much speed because they were teddy boys. That's my favorite
Speaker 1: thing is that before he was in the Sex Pistols,
Speaker 1: he was like a mod not amount of teddy boy,
Speaker 1: and he talks about his teddy boy phase a lot.
Speaker 1: He also had a very rough upbringing. It's a great show.
Speaker 1: Everybody should listen to it, So tell us about this one.
Speaker 1: So this episode was with an American rocker, Carmine a Piece,
Speaker 1: who is a drummer, a famous rock drummer from the
Speaker 1: band Vanilla Fudge and some other bands. And then he
Speaker 1: was like Rod Stewart drummer for a billion years. Um.
Speaker 1: But he's from Brooklyn and he also has a great accent.
Speaker 1: Jones has like a great British accent, and then Carmine
Speaker 1: a Piece had like a Brooklyn accent and they were
Speaker 1: just talking about love and hard rock and Carmine and
Speaker 1: his brother Vinny Uh have a band together that's like
Speaker 1: the Peace Brothers, and so they're playing songs from the
Speaker 1: new a Peace Brothers album and it was so funny
Speaker 1: and good because it was like, Okay, it's a band
Speaker 1: with like two drummers for style who have the biggest
Speaker 1: kits in the world. Like no, he was saying. He
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I don't use my uh. He like
Speaker 1: was famous, I think for putting the symbol up top
Speaker 1: and he was like I can't do that and I
Speaker 1: don't do the hanging symbol anymore because my rotator cuff.
Speaker 1: Oh my mom um. But you know he was like
Speaker 1: Jonesy was like, well, you know, what, what kid do
Speaker 1: you have? And he's like, oh, you know, I'll go
Speaker 1: like two bass drums, a kick drum, a five drum,
Speaker 1: like a symbol rud. He just like went on for
Speaker 1: so long. I was like, He's like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a pretty it's a pretty good kid. Um. Spring into
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Speaker 1: were just like Tenacious D songs because the first one
Speaker 1: was like about how the Peace Brothers came to be
Speaker 1: as a band, and so it was like it started
Speaker 1: in broken Listen into Gene Coo Ball because Krmine and
Speaker 1: Peace was really into Gene Crooper and wanted to be
Speaker 1: a jazz drummer. Uh. And Jones was like, did you
Speaker 1: invent like the drum solo? Like who invented the drum solo?
Speaker 1: And Karmine Piece was saying, He's like, no, Jeane Crooper
Speaker 1: invented that. These jazz guys invented it. And Jones was like,
Speaker 1: oh is he like, so the lead singer can go
Speaker 1: do a line of blow? He's like, no, no, marijuana,
Speaker 1: that's what they did in those days. Didn't coke yet? Um?
Speaker 1: He's like no, you know, he invented like the amazing
Speaker 1: drum solo that people would like come to see the
Speaker 1: show just to see the drum solo. He was in
Speaker 1: I'm going to get it wrong. It's back a piece
Speaker 1: and somebody, uh, which he was talking about they did
Speaker 1: Superstition Stevie wonderstthing and he was like, it was originally
Speaker 1: written for us, and then Stevie's label heard it and
Speaker 1: they were like, he's got to release this as a single,
Speaker 1: so he did. Uh, And then they were just reminiscing
Speaker 1: about like you could still ten million records. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: There's so much of that. There's a lot of that.
Speaker 1: They're like, you could sell so many records and buy
Speaker 1: so many cars with all the records you sold. There's
Speaker 1: Jonesy is like, there's a deep melancholy. It's also weird
Speaker 1: because yeah, it comes on at noon, it's like noon
Speaker 1: to two. It's also a deep melancholy because he plays
Speaker 1: like the Kinks a lot. He plays a lot of
Speaker 1: the Kinks. He played off at the Junction by Squeeze
Speaker 1: the other day and I was like he also he
Speaker 1: also has like the exact taste of Tests and I,
Speaker 1: which is why it's also our favorite just old men
Speaker 1: old rockers we are. But he he was talking about
Speaker 1: his fear that a texting driver would kill him and
Speaker 1: he was like, I was driving girls the canyon and looko,
Speaker 1: I'll think, like he's texting, it's the end, this is
Speaker 1: the end. And he does the long pauses after he'll
Speaker 1: say something really disturbing where there's just like some dead
Speaker 1: air for way too long. It's a little bit in
Speaker 1: the love and it's so good. Yeah, it feels real.
Speaker 1: It's it's just somebody talking to you out and but
Speaker 1: it is. It is funny that it comes on. That's
Speaker 1: it also is funny because he like in the vein
Speaker 1: of not knowing who he's talking to, he sometimes appears
Speaker 1: to like almost on purpose, not know that much about
Speaker 1: the person he's talking to, and like, um, he had
Speaker 1: someone on a while ago who had I guess it
Speaker 1: was the lead singer of the Eels, and he was
Speaker 1: kind of like leading him to talk about his divorce,
Speaker 1: which had been covered I think in some interviews recently.
Speaker 1: It just seemed like it was catapulting towards this like
Speaker 1: horribly awkward confrontation. But because he's Jonesy, he was able
Speaker 1: to just kind of feign like Oh you live alone,
Speaker 1: you've got you've got a kid. Oh what happened to
Speaker 1: your bird? Float? Flew away? And I was like, Jesus
Speaker 1: is so intense, but Jones is so likable that, like,
Speaker 1: you can't even blame him. Yeah, he's such a good
Speaker 1: interviewer and you just enjoy. He does talk about the
Speaker 1: apocalypse lot, but so do we, So do we. That's
Speaker 1: one thing we have in common. Well, anyway, if you
Speaker 1: want to listen to I mean, you know you're allowed
Speaker 1: to listen to Night Call at noon, but well, I
Speaker 1: mean I wouldn't say aloud, not not incouraged, allowed, Um,
Speaker 1: but this haunted doll content might be too spooky. It's
Speaker 1: going to be spooky, might be too spooky for the
Speaker 1: daytime listeners. Save it for a nighttime, for the night Call.
Speaker 1: I started thinking about this, and then I realized that
Speaker 1: I was going to force my husband to tell his
Speaker 1: story about his haunted doll, and so I made him
Speaker 1: type it up. Uh, this is a story that he
Speaker 1: told me like right when we first started dating, and
Speaker 1: I thought he was bullshitting. I was having a really
Speaker 1: hard time at that period in our relationship differentiating between
Speaker 1: like his joking and his his not joking at all,
Speaker 1: and this was like I assumed he was kind of
Speaker 1: putting me on, but it was real. So I will
Speaker 1: read that. And then we also have some from readers
Speaker 1: and some calls as well. Yes, let's let's start with
Speaker 1: Tess his husband's haunted doll, the haunted doll, hated dolltail. So, um,
Speaker 1: this is there's a doll called a Kachina doll, and
Speaker 1: this was a Native American warrior Cachina doll, so he said.
Speaker 1: When I was living in New Orleans, I found the
Speaker 1: doll at the back of our driveway, like a hundred
Speaker 1: feet from the street, on the handle of a garbage
Speaker 1: can in a zip lock bag. He was about ten
Speaker 1: inches tall and three inches wide. I brought the doll
Speaker 1: inside and we kept him in our family. A run
Speaker 1: of bad luck led my family to move to Arizona.
Speaker 1: A few years later. He was prominently displayed in our
Speaker 1: two son living room. My family continued to fall in
Speaker 1: difficult times, with work in Arizona drying up. My family
Speaker 1: was now going to be moving to the East Coast
Speaker 1: after having spent about six years in Arizona. As we
Speaker 1: were packing up to move, we all looked at the
Speaker 1: cachina doll, and thought, man, this has brought us nothing
Speaker 1: but bad luck. So my brother and I perched him
Speaker 1: atop a pipe and left him leaning up against a
Speaker 1: neighbor's wall. We felt he needed to be placed somewhere
Speaker 1: where he could be found and taken in the same
Speaker 1: as we had done. Within an hour, a terrifying windstorm
Speaker 1: coupled with light rains, swept through our neighborhood. It blew
Speaker 1: garbage cans over and sent them flying down the alleyway.
Speaker 1: When the storm had passed, we went outside to see
Speaker 1: not only had all the cans been blown over to
Speaker 1: the end of the alley behind our town home, but
Speaker 1: a large sequoia tree and the alley had been uprooted,
Speaker 1: with chunks of cement attached to the roots. The tree
Speaker 1: was leaning against our neighbor's house. It had smashed through
Speaker 1: the cinder block wall. We all stood their mouths a
Speaker 1: gape at the site. But what my brother and I
Speaker 1: noticed most was that the Native American warrior still stood
Speaker 1: perch precuriously atop the pipe, leaning against the wall where
Speaker 1: we placed him, the same wall that was now smashed
Speaker 1: by a massive uprooted tree four feet away from where
Speaker 1: he stood. I think we were released from the curse
Speaker 1: that day. What did they do with the doll? Then?
Speaker 1: They just ran away, They moved, they were moving, so
Speaker 1: they left it. They just left it there for someone
Speaker 1: else to find. And he felt bad. He was like,
Speaker 1: I feel really bad and like worried because we like
Speaker 1: passed on the curse, but we didn't want to like
Speaker 1: disrespect the doll by destroying. Destroy, can't destroy because the
Speaker 1: doll of the spirits, though, they totally just passed it
Speaker 1: on to someone else, and it was like, it's your
Speaker 1: problem now exactly. Well, that is a real, a true
Speaker 1: haunted doll story. But we have more. We do have more,
Speaker 1: but weight there's more. So here we go. My maternal grandmother,
Speaker 1: who just to set the scene here, looks and acts
Speaker 1: like a four ft ten libya soprano, has an enormous
Speaker 1: porcelain doll collection. Each room of her house has anywhere
Speaker 1: from three to seven dolls, and they are grouped by
Speaker 1: themes e g. Victorian era dolls, dolls that wear red,
Speaker 1: dolls that are somehow affiliated with the Catholic Church. That
Speaker 1: she then co ordinates the decor of their room around
Speaker 1: acquiring more dolls as her main hobby other than chain smoking,
Speaker 1: and she spends a lot of time at antique stores
Speaker 1: and estate sales. So even though no porcelain doll has
Speaker 1: a good vibe, some of my grandma's dolls are actively
Speaker 1: cursed vessels for the souls of their deceased owners. Needless
Speaker 1: to say, my family did not have fun during the
Speaker 1: first weekend we spent at my grandparents house. I was
Speaker 1: about twelve at this point. They lived out east prior
Speaker 1: to this, but all their kids are still in Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: so they always came to us. We never visited them.
Speaker 1: I had to sleep in the Catholic room, which housed
Speaker 1: a nune doll who had eyes that followed me. In
Speaker 1: the morning, she was in a completely different spot than
Speaker 1: she was when I went to bed. I know no
Speaker 1: one came in and moved her to prank me. I'm
Speaker 1: a light sleeper under the best circum stances, and obviously
Speaker 1: could barely sleep in that house full of dolls. It
Speaker 1: was the most terrifying experience of my life. I told
Speaker 1: my parents, who believed me because they were also creeped
Speaker 1: out by the dolls, and my mom asked my grandma
Speaker 1: if she could please put the dolls in storage for
Speaker 1: the rest of our stay. My grandma refused, and the
Speaker 1: argument escalated to the point where my mom thought, outside,
Speaker 1: it's us are the dolls. My grandma doubled down and
Speaker 1: said the dolls were staying out in the open, and
Speaker 1: we went to go stay with my uncle. My grandma
Speaker 1: didn't talk to anyone in my immediate family for seven
Speaker 1: years after that. She missed my parents divorce, my mom's remarriage,
Speaker 1: and most of my and my brother's teenage years. Things
Speaker 1: have bounced back to a more tolerable level of dysfunction
Speaker 1: in the intervening years, but we've never set foot in
Speaker 1: her house again, and none of us wants to forge
Speaker 1: any kind of real relationship with someone who once picked
Speaker 1: her fucking haunted doll collection over her human progeny. That
Speaker 1: was such a good one. Thank you to our listener,
Speaker 1: missed doll head. We're taking care not to reveel your
Speaker 1: identity because we don't want to offend your grandmother. We
Speaker 1: don't want your grandma's haunted dolls to come for us.
Speaker 1: What what on earth is your grandmother thinking? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's absolutely crazy. Maybe she knows the dolls have powers,
Speaker 1: and she's like we can't offend the dolls because well,
Speaker 1: we should back up and say that one of the
Speaker 1: reasons that we started talking about this in the first
Speaker 1: place was because Molly found a video of a haunted doll. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I sent you a link to a YouTube that's like
Speaker 1: two British goths on the sofa with a doll talking
Speaker 1: about whether the doll is haunted and using this device
Speaker 1: that they claim like channels the doll's voice, which is
Speaker 1: very creepy, and uh, neither of us watched the whole thing. Actually,
Speaker 1: we're like, what's a good podcast idea? Haunted dolls jump off?
Speaker 1: So I sent Tests a bunch of stuff about Robert,
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Speaker 1: have the receipts here because I was like, could not
Speaker 1: believe that this was real. But Robert is um. He
Speaker 1: was profiled in Atlas Obscura, and he is over a
Speaker 1: hundred years old, and he lives in the Fort East
Speaker 1: Martello Museum and Key West. So at one point he
Speaker 1: was the property of some guy named Robert Otto. Who
Speaker 1: was at this is from the Atlas Obscure article, an
Speaker 1: eccentric artist and a member of a prominent Key West family.
Speaker 1: So because the doll was also named they had the
Speaker 1: same name, Robert and Robert. At some point the human
Speaker 1: Robert was like, you know what, just called me Geen,
Speaker 1: and so Robert became the doll's identity. So Otto's grandfather,
Speaker 1: I guess, had given him the doll. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just a very terrifying looking doll. It
Speaker 1: has very like, you know, kind of featureless. It has
Speaker 1: like little nicks, and it's dressed in a sailor outfit
Speaker 1: that I us at one point belonged to Robert, but
Speaker 1: I guess he became haunted early on, and like you know,
Speaker 1: I guess Jean, formerly Robert the human boy, would blame
Speaker 1: everything that he you know, he'd be like, Robert did it,
Speaker 1: Robert did it, and everyone was like sure, sure, And
Speaker 1: people could hear like footsteps and laughing that seemed to
Speaker 1: be coming from the doll. Um. So he then went
Speaker 1: to go live in this museum where now people send
Speaker 1: him candy and like fan letters, and he has this
Speaker 1: you know, one of the people who works at the museum.
Speaker 1: Access is kind of like messenger, and she'll right back
Speaker 1: to the The letters he gets as Robert Um, some
Speaker 1: of them are like very heartwarming. She was like, you know,
Speaker 1: a girl was being bullied and wrote to the haunted doll.
Speaker 1: Nobody's eating the candy because they worry it's poisonous. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Robert, you should look up pictures of Robert
Speaker 1: the Haunted Doll. I guess he inspired a movie that
Speaker 1: didn't get good reviews. So I didn't because I was like,
Speaker 1: he's the most famous haunted doll. And you're like, what
Speaker 1: about Annabelle? Real? Yeah, what is where's Annabelle at? I
Speaker 1: think she's also in a museum? Well, I feel like
Speaker 1: what's cool about haunted dolls? That a lot of them
Speaker 1: probably were like roadside attraction things of like, hey, a
Speaker 1: reason for you to stop at this weird key West
Speaker 1: lime taffy stand, like look at the doll in the
Speaker 1: creepy pasta. Like some examples of how Robert was haunted,
Speaker 1: household objects would be found thrown across the room, Jean's
Speaker 1: toys turned up mutilated, and giggling could be heard, so
Speaker 1: Jean would always blame it on Robert. And the boy
Speaker 1: took the punishment but always insisted that the blame was Roberts.
Speaker 1: So all of the people who worked in this household,
Speaker 1: because they were a prominent family, would just be like,
Speaker 1: funk this ship. I'm out, like I'm not going to
Speaker 1: deal with this doll and this weird boy, like I'm
Speaker 1: over it. So then I guess Jean like brought he
Speaker 1: brought the doll with him, like he grew up and
Speaker 1: got married and like his wife was like, I don't
Speaker 1: want this doll in my house and he was like no,
Speaker 1: like I'm bringing it all everywhere. And so it says
Speaker 1: the turret room in in grown up Jean's house became
Speaker 1: Robert's domain after his wife moved him back to the attic.
Speaker 1: Their marriage slowly became sour until Mrs Auto supposedly went
Speaker 1: insane and died of unknown reasons. Jean followed soon behind. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's super, it makes for super It is creepy pasta,
Speaker 1: but it's this is all about. It says that Robert
Speaker 1: sometimes would lock people in the attic. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just there's too much to even go into. Well,
Speaker 1: my favorite they also is like the things the haunted
Speaker 1: dolls seem to do is like they turn the lights off,
Speaker 1: we're on, they moved themselves around the room. Yeah, they're like,
Speaker 1: oh what chairs in a different day, but it's like gaslight.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what's really scary is that they're driving
Speaker 1: you insane. Yeah, my friend had said that's her biggest
Speaker 1: fear is that someone will move things around slightly. Well,
Speaker 1: we didn't we talk about the like mom and daughter
Speaker 1: in that like scary story about the hotel where like
Speaker 1: I think we talked, but it's in the scary stories
Speaker 1: of tell in the dark. Was like, oh, I know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about there. I don't know, Testy, you
Speaker 1: have any haunted doll stories or is Peter your husband's
Speaker 1: honed doll story the most haunted doll story you like
Speaker 1: claim to that's the main one. But every year roughly
Speaker 1: I will kind of like Marie condo objects that I
Speaker 1: feel like are bringing me good. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: There are definitely certain things like I got some like
Speaker 1: my mom has been cleaning out the attic and so
Speaker 1: shall occasionally send like a big huge box of toys
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, like I went through Madam Alexander
Speaker 1: faced the old toys and I just some of them.
Speaker 1: It's like I don't know what to do with them
Speaker 1: because they they they're old, and you're supposed to take
Speaker 1: care of old things, right, Like I love old things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But like I, dolls are scary. Dolls are scary. Dolls
Speaker 1: are just scary. Stuffed animals are cool, They're fine animal.
Speaker 1: In fact, we're sitting at the desk in my garage
Speaker 1: where there's a picture of my mom as a kid.
Speaker 1: She's like, you know who who like riding a horse
Speaker 1: Western style and the horse looks like it's very animated,
Speaker 1: when in fact it was a taxidermied horse. And there
Speaker 1: are a bunch of pictures of her and her siblings
Speaker 1: as if they are in a western with like the
Speaker 1: hat in the air, and it looks like a real
Speaker 1: good time and that is a dead ass horse. Is
Speaker 1: so weird. It's so funny when you post to the
Speaker 1: picture of your mom yesterday from Mother's Day. I was
Speaker 1: going to be like, please post the horse picture. It's
Speaker 1: uncanny Valley to me because I'm like, it's it's strange
Speaker 1: also to see like five year old kids who are
Speaker 1: able to have such fun on a dead animal. Their
Speaker 1: posts on a prop. It's just that the prop happens
Speaker 1: to be a taxidermaid horse. And once you know that,
Speaker 1: you cannot unknow it. Uh. I was telling to us
Speaker 1: that I went yesterday to um A Toys rs as
Speaker 1: the toys r s is are all closing r I P.
Speaker 1: I was looking for something there, and I also obviously
Speaker 1: just saw the big like shutting down sign and was like, oh,
Speaker 1: a dying store to wander, not even deal, It's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to wander those like half empty aisles under
Speaker 1: that weird flickering light. And one of the aisles was
Speaker 1: full of brand new Teddy Ruxpan's, you know, and they
Speaker 1: were all like state of the art, looked exactly the same,
Speaker 1: like they don't have a cassette in their stomach anymore,
Speaker 1: which was the original thing about them. Uh teddy Ruxpan,
Speaker 1: in case anyone did not know, is a Teddy Bear
Speaker 1: with a state of the art toy in the eighties
Speaker 1: when we were kids, and uh, it still exists somehow.
Speaker 1: And was like there was a shelf full of them
Speaker 1: at this super eighties store that is shutting down. I
Speaker 1: felt like I was an AI. But you know what's
Speaker 1: weird is that this is the like aunt. The stuffed
Speaker 1: animal with a cassette in it is being kind of
Speaker 1: like reappropriated with just a chip in it so that
Speaker 1: you can tell your kids bedtime stories and stuff. They
Speaker 1: pach one on sharp tank, that one black mirror. That
Speaker 1: is it? My thing is it's too creepy. It too.
Speaker 1: This is a really good lead into our next night email.
Speaker 1: Oh yes it is. Uh. This one comes from Brandon.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll mind because his grandmother is not
Speaker 1: being called doll hoarder. So I feel like the danger
Speaker 1: threshold is looked high night collars. I just saw Tessa's
Speaker 1: tweet about haunted doll stories. My sister bought my tolder
Speaker 1: niece a veggie tale singing asparagus bedtime doll, which one
Speaker 1: squeezed would say I'm not scared, and then gently singing
Speaker 1: the child to sleep. But when the battery life on
Speaker 1: the doll wore down, the singing turned into into a
Speaker 1: garbled satanic chant. My sister heard the demonic voice coming
Speaker 1: from her daughter's bedroom one night and pulled back her
Speaker 1: covers to the creepy green face staring back at her
Speaker 1: as it cycled through. I'm not scared. Satanic chanting, scary
Speaker 1: then and hilarious. Now wow, I love veggie tales. Okay,
Speaker 1: well this is also like a this is a glitch
Speaker 1: that will happen to all children's toys. I don't remember
Speaker 1: it happening to my own toys, but I'm sure it did.
Speaker 1: But you know, kids love like plastic things that talk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it ever happened toys, but I
Speaker 1: remember that as like a future of car singing cards, yes,
Speaker 1: singing car where they start to go and it has
Speaker 1: like a like weird tinge to the point. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: my my kids had this house with like a fridge
Speaker 1: that you could open. It would be like night night
Speaker 1: and like birds that would tweet. But at some point,
Speaker 1: like it wasn't even that the batteries we changed the batteries.
Speaker 1: It was just like it was old. It had been
Speaker 1: like hurled across the room. It would just like cycle
Speaker 1: through of like good morning, good morning, good morning, and
Speaker 1: it would start to sound just like twist. It was
Speaker 1: so scary. And then we had another thing like a
Speaker 1: own that would just say thanks for calling. But it
Speaker 1: seemed to be affected by like changes in light, so
Speaker 1: like you turn off the lights and thanks for calling,
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. And it's so creepy. It's like, how
Speaker 1: could you not think this through when you're making kids
Speaker 1: toys that they're going to become these scary um That's
Speaker 1: how that Black Mirror was so scary too with the bear,
Speaker 1: because it was like it had like what was it
Speaker 1: was like, well, it wasn't that was in the it
Speaker 1: was featured in the Black Museum, and then it was
Speaker 1: after the apocapal spoiler alert, after the apocalypse where all
Speaker 1: the machines took over. It was like, you know, people
Speaker 1: trying to like get the bear for like the kid
Speaker 1: who needed the bear, and you know it was a
Speaker 1: weird doll baby Alive. Oh yeah. I was never into
Speaker 1: baby dolls or like figurative dolls really. I was always
Speaker 1: just into like soft animals and like Legos boring, no,
Speaker 1: not boring, non haunted doll story. There's haunted Legos. That's
Speaker 1: like a kind of I guess that's like in a
Speaker 1: sense Lego movie. I'm gonna turn on did by the
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Speaker 1: we have any more night emails. Let me see. Um oh,
Speaker 1: this one comes with pictures. Hello, nightcall. I'm a real
Speaker 1: estate photographer and I've come across some very weird homes
Speaker 1: in my line of work. I've even made the occasional
Speaker 1: contribution to Molly Lambert's glass brick hashtag thank you for
Speaker 1: your service. But nothing has been more troubling than encountering
Speaker 1: scary dolls. The worst, in particular, is the reason why
Speaker 1: I'm writing today, The goats Doll. The house was in
Speaker 1: a remote part of northern Oakland County, Michigan. I met
Speaker 1: the homeowner, an elderly German woman. She was very kind,
Speaker 1: but as soon as I arrived, she told me that
Speaker 1: she had to leave. She said that I should take
Speaker 1: my photos and lock up. When I was done, the
Speaker 1: realtor wasn't there, which was odd because this was a
Speaker 1: large house, and typically for expensive properties they always show
Speaker 1: up in person. Her house is immaculate. In one of
Speaker 1: the bedrooms, I turned a corner and find my self
Speaker 1: staring straight at a doll with red eyes. She attached photos.
Speaker 1: It's arms were stretched out as if to beckon me
Speaker 1: toward it. I'm normally pretty chill. I don't let things
Speaker 1: get to me, but I was thoroughly freaked out. No
Speaker 1: one was home and this was a big house, so
Speaker 1: it was just me and the doll. For a few moments,
Speaker 1: I thought I was in the House of the Devil situation.
Speaker 1: I'm not superstitious, but I had to check the tag
Speaker 1: on the doll because I reckoned if it came from
Speaker 1: a manufacturer, it couldn't be a demon in doll form.
Speaker 1: The tag said goats, which is g O was an
Speaker 1: oom lot t Z. I may even have experienced the
Speaker 1: memory laws because I normally take thirty minutes to finish
Speaker 1: the house, but this house took me a lot longer.
Speaker 1: I wasn't checking the clock, but it could have taken
Speaker 1: me something like ninety minutes to finish. I remember thinking
Speaker 1: it was odd that the old German woman never came
Speaker 1: back with me taking so long. It seemed like she
Speaker 1: was just going to the store. But I never saw
Speaker 1: her again. Best Tad from Detroit. We will attach these
Speaker 1: pictures in some form or maybe put them on our
Speaker 1: social media annals so that you guys can see. But like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so scary, it's pretty scarce. Will definitely be the
Speaker 1: image for this week's episode. Oh, speaking of which, Speaking
Speaker 1: of which, Speaking of which, you should follow us on
Speaker 1: social media at Nightcall Podcast UM on Facebook, Nightcall Podcast
Speaker 1: on Instagram, and Nightcall Pod on Twitter. And also, if
Speaker 1: you would like to share any stories of being haunted
Speaker 1: by a demonic doll, you can call or text us
Speaker 1: at two four oh four six Night or email us
Speaker 1: at Nightcall Podcast at gmail dot com. And we just
Speaker 1: found out you can also text to our phone number.
Speaker 1: I said text, but good to remind them that if
Speaker 1: you feel more comfortable texting, Yeah, if you want to
Speaker 1: text a really long message to to four oh four
Speaker 1: six Night, it will also happen if it just feels
Speaker 1: if you feel more like texting than emailing or calling.
Speaker 1: And let us know if you want to be anonymous
Speaker 1: because you want to protect your grandmother or for whatever
Speaker 1: other reason. Yeah, if you want to make sure the
Speaker 1: haunt adults don't come for you, please tell us. So. Um.
Speaker 1: Before we wrap up, and after having exhausted the doll topic,
Speaker 1: I do have to share. We got a really interesting
Speaker 1: heads up on Twitter from Michelle about the Rhode Island
Speaker 1: vampire scare, which is something I had never heard about.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Michelle, Michelle was writing me late night when
Speaker 1: we were soliciting late night night calls last night. Uh,
Speaker 1: and she was saying that, first of all, her mom
Speaker 1: is from the most haunted town in America, which is
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. Perhaps not surprisingly because New England is the
Speaker 1: spookiest place. Yeah, it's creepy. It is like the birthplace
Speaker 1: of all the tropes of spookiness. I mean, for somebody
Speaker 1: who grew up in California, the East Coast is just
Speaker 1: so full of old things that you can't believe are
Speaker 1: still there, you know that they haven't been demolished to
Speaker 1: a Californian gold rusher. Yeah, I'm just always like, wow,
Speaker 1: you guys, just how like haunted hospitals and they just
Speaker 1: like stay up for two hundred years after nobody uses
Speaker 1: them anymore, like just so people can go explore them,
Speaker 1: I think. Uh. And so Michelle was also saying that
Speaker 1: she was talking about maybe the Haunted Mental Asylum in
Speaker 1: Rhode Island or somebody else was saying they shot a
Speaker 1: movie there and that it was very creepy and that
Speaker 1: the attic was full of mummified birds. Uh. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: this generally just leads into our our creepy creepy New
Speaker 1: England corner that this fits into that Michelle sent us,
Speaker 1: So I think she just told us that she either
Speaker 1: told us to Google or just sent us to the
Speaker 1: Wikipedia for the Rhode Island vampire scare. But Molly and
Speaker 1: I went to college in Rhode Island, and so it
Speaker 1: was weird to me that we had never we didn't
Speaker 1: know about this. Yeah, but I guess back in the
Speaker 1: eight nineties in Exeter, Rhode Island, Um, this is like
Speaker 1: you can also find out more about it by googling
Speaker 1: Mercy Brown. But tuberculosis and consumption. We're making the rounds,
Speaker 1: so it says in Exeter, Rhode Island, several members of
Speaker 1: George and Mary Brown's family suffered a sequence of tuberculosis
Speaker 1: infections in the final two decades of the nineteenth century.
Speaker 1: Tuberculosis was called consumption at the time and was a
Speaker 1: devastating and much fear of disease. So Mary was the mom.
Speaker 1: She died first, then Mary Olive, the oldest daughter, died,
Speaker 1: and then um, their daughter Mercy and their son Edwin
Speaker 1: got sick. And I guess that, you know, people believed
Speaker 1: that for some reason that they one of the people
Speaker 1: who had died must have been a vampire, maybe because
Speaker 1: it was so contagious. Um. There was also a lot
Speaker 1: of like folklore at the time that we're kind of
Speaker 1: thinking like, well, you know, diseases are spreading, like, probably
Speaker 1: a vampire anyway, George, the dad uh was basically they
Speaker 1: were like, you need to like exhume the bodies to
Speaker 1: see if they're vampires. So Mary and Mary Olive were
Speaker 1: like decomposed. But Mercy I don't know how she was stored,
Speaker 1: but she had been like refrigerated somehow, and her blood
Speaker 1: was still in her body. Like she didn't appear to
Speaker 1: be decomposed at all. So they were like, oh, look,
Speaker 1: she's the vampire. She's the vampire. One of the crazy things.
Speaker 1: And I guess that this is like what they did
Speaker 1: back then was that you had to burn the organs
Speaker 1: of the person you thought was who was a vampire,
Speaker 1: and then you mix it up, you make like a
Speaker 1: slurry and you can you know, give it to the
Speaker 1: sick members of the family to cure them. I don't
Speaker 1: think that worked anyway. Yeah, her her brother died. Um.
Speaker 1: But basically, the other interesting thing about this story is
Speaker 1: that there's like an addendum in the Wikipedia that's like, well,
Speaker 1: when rural Rhode Islanders moved west into Connecticut, locals perceived
Speaker 1: them as uneducated and vicious because they were like, who
Speaker 1: would believe in vampires? I feel like I did know
Speaker 1: that a little bit that Rhode Island was like the
Speaker 1: other parts of the other states in New England were
Speaker 1: like Rhode Islands were like the rubes go No, It's
Speaker 1: true because even like to this day, I feel like
Speaker 1: there's a little shade thrown at Rhode Island for some reason,
Speaker 1: like a kookie, little weird place, weirder than Connecticut. But
Speaker 1: maybe like Salem was like, oh, they're trying to get
Speaker 1: our shine, trying to like have their own little like
Speaker 1: which scare. But with vampires, they're just like the witches.
Speaker 1: We just burn them, like they're burning them and then
Speaker 1: making them into slushies. That's just a bridge too far.
Speaker 1: Like that. Some person was like, well, you just have
Speaker 1: to take the bodies of them, make them into a slurry.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows, but I guess like HP Lovecraft was like
Speaker 1: very inspired, obviously very inspired by that, but it's a
Speaker 1: to me. I was like, how did I not know?
Speaker 1: Like there's so many things, you guys, there's so much weird,
Speaker 1: creepy folklore in Rhode Island. It's just it takes a
Speaker 1: long time to learn about all of it. There's like
Speaker 1: some Edgar Allan Poe stuff in there. Are you in
Speaker 1: a Girland poe head? That's your feet? Creepy New England
Speaker 1: place that you've been to, Oh, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: The creepiest place I've ever been in New England that
Speaker 1: was the most like what I imagined New England to
Speaker 1: be like is this place called Little Compton, Rhode Island,
Speaker 1: where we went to see my friend Lydia perform at
Speaker 1: like a church that was like the oldest church um
Speaker 1: and had like a gravestone, uh, and the gravestone was
Speaker 1: like the first white woman born in the colonies. I
Speaker 1: was like, this is a weird, bad vibe. It was
Speaker 1: like so foggy you couldn't see, and then everything is
Speaker 1: lit by like one lantern and it's like out in
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere across the bridge. I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna die here for sure. But we just saw
Speaker 1: some choral music and it's a better ending. I remember.
Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly where it is, but when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I used to ride horses, and so
Speaker 1: there were like some strange days and lonely nights out
Speaker 1: there in rural Connecticut, and I somehow talked my at
Speaker 1: at one point into taking me to visit this Arabian
Speaker 1: horse farm. Before you learn to drive, it's hard to
Speaker 1: know where you are when you're driving around the like
Speaker 1: upstate New York, which is not technically New England, but
Speaker 1: it's like very close to like the Boones, like it
Speaker 1: all kind of looks the same, say that, just it
Speaker 1: is hard differentiate when you're driving through the woods or
Speaker 1: you're just like on root four and you're like this
Speaker 1: could go on for him. But yeah, he took me.
Speaker 1: It was winter and we went to this Arabian horse
Speaker 1: farm and it was like four o'clock in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: but it was like pitch black and it was like
Speaker 1: this shack with like nothing around it, and then like
Speaker 1: all of these like very kind of like fancy looking,
Speaker 1: like spooky looking horses, and I was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is cool that like we can go home right now,
Speaker 1: Like they were like we're getting ready for the ice
Speaker 1: wash par exactly. It's like this seems like I was
Speaker 1: like thinking more like heading zoo and now I'm just like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's drive like two and a half hours to go
Speaker 1: meet a horse and drive home. I feel like all
Speaker 1: of your weird stories are about like I was gonna
Speaker 1: go look at an animalum places weird. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: also there was a place that was in It's like
Speaker 1: maybe five minutes from my parents house, somewhere in Connecticut
Speaker 1: or maybe Massachusetts border in Connecticut whatever. It is a
Speaker 1: place that sells dolls and it's also a wild animal
Speaker 1: like rehabilitation place. So we would go look at like
Speaker 1: the creepy dolls and then feed fawns baby bottles. And
Speaker 1: at first it was like really fun, and then you
Speaker 1: could just kind of were like what kind of people are?
Speaker 1: Like why not ditch the dolls and like focus on
Speaker 1: rehabilitating me. It's just seemed like such an odd marriage.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, have you ever been to the Bunny Museum? Oh? Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's Englandy thing about about California. It's like the weird,
Speaker 1: weird old time. It's the Rhode Island of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: The Bunny Museum is a museum. A woman runs out
Speaker 1: of our house that is all like bunny memorabilia and
Speaker 1: some real bunnies and then a bunny graveyard in the backyard.
Speaker 1: Have you been eighth grade? Oh, that's so. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: he didn't go with you. I'm surprised you didn't go.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know. I can't believe I'm just finding
Speaker 1: out that you went in eighth grade. I want like
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Oh you did. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: probably less cool as it's the same. It's good. I know.
Speaker 1: What makes it cool is that the woman who runs
Speaker 1: it is kind of like a David Lynch character, and
Speaker 1: she takes you through the tour and she tries to
Speaker 1: sell you a copy of her husband's book about conspiracy theories,
Speaker 1: and it's just like a room. There's like a dark
Speaker 1: room full of stuffed animals that feels very like you're
Speaker 1: in like a Mike Kelly thing, but it's just somebody's
Speaker 1: house that they made into a museum. I don't think
Speaker 1: I was adequately. I didn't know what I was walking into,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was more like you're going to
Speaker 1: go play with a bunch of moneys. And then I
Speaker 1: was like, death hangs heavy over this place, that feeling
Speaker 1: of like someone's weird collection of things which I like
Speaker 1: to because I'm like, this woman is like she's got
Speaker 1: a plan. Yeah, she's got it, but what is her plan? Yeah?
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