WEBVTT - Haunted Dolls 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:18.560 It's three am in can and you're listening to Night Call. Hey, everybody, 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.520 welcome to Nightcall, a podcast for your strange nights and 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.239 lonely days. I'm Molly Lambert and here with me in 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.800 Los Angeles is Test Lange and no one else because 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:34.239 Emily is in France. It's true, she's in France and 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.800 we're not, and we're so jealous. Right now, Molly's wearing 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.080 a shirt that says can on it. I bought a 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.800 shirt fore it. Well, we were talking about imagining what 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.320 she was up to. Emily saw I Guess for No 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.440 a movie that I think is called Climax that she 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.559 really liked, and she was posting some Instagram video of 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:58.480 the party, which she texted me because La La from 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.040 vander Pump Rules was there and I was so proud 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.720 of her for recognizing La La. Did she explain why 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.360 it seemed like what I imagine can to be like, 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.080 which is that it was like a fancy silly bottle 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.880 service party. They were like that thing they do at 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.680 big clubs where it's like a champagne bottle of sparklers 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.759 coming out of it, Just like a lot of that 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.720 and bubbles and sparkles she said, like John Travolta was 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.119 at the party also just like a random collection of 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:33.840 like famous and was flown out well, I mean la 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.720 Las plotline. When she first got on vander Pump pools 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.040 with that, it was controversial that she had taken a 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.120 vacation from working at Sir to go be on a 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.680 yacht somewhere in the French riviera, I think, And is 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.800 that a wink wink, nudge nudge. Everybody was kind of 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.200 being like, she's a yacht girl, um, and then she 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.680 basically like admitted to it and was like yeah, so 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.000 what And the other vand Pump girls didn't really know 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.480 what to do with that because they were like, wait, 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:08.160 we can't let shame her. She's like self aware, um, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:12.400 And she became like the coolest person on that show 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.120 kind of because of that. But CAN is like a 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.480 great week for blind items. That's I was going to say, 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.800 I live for the blind items in CAN week. Yeah, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.040 they go on and on, and it's it's interesting because 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.440 you can't really differentiate, like you could lump them all 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.240 together from like the past ten years of CAN coverage 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.680 and just kind of read it seamlessly as if no 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.919 time had passed. You know, it's just like the yachts, 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:40.120 the parties, Like, just like this model was spotted lounging. 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:45.560 This B list mostly sitcom actress was on a yacht. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:51.240 So Emily, we hope you're having fun and can. Um. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.800 My prediction of what Emily might be doing, because we 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.520 were guessing, was that she might be in a wine 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:01.160 cave with Agnes Varda. That's a good one talking about Eurovision. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.639 I really liked Emily's missives from Berlin before she got 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.560 to Can not like we're stalking Emily, just lightly. We 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.399 are stalking kind of our friends go on vacation. It's 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.160 like we're going on vacation. We don't have to go anywhere, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:22.320 which is great. Um. We put out a call a 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.840 night call for stories about haunted dolls. It's true, and 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.160 we we had a bunch of topics. But then when 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.560 we started thinking it over, we were like, maybe we're 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.000 just going to talk for the bulk of this podcast 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:38.480 about haunted it's true, but first an appartif if you will. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.000 I wanted to just talk about the episode of Jonesy's 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.320 Jukebox I listened to on the way over to record 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.000 this podcast because one of the great things about when 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.640 we record this podcast is it's always in a time 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.880 when I can listen to Jonesy on the drive over 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.480 to Tessa's house, it's um, it's Steve Jones from the 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.200 ex Pistols. I feel like we've talked about it before 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:02.040 on the podcast on Kalos And it's basically it's a 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.560 free form radio show and then also like a long 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.040 form interview show. And one of the fun things about 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.280 it is it's also like a mystery show sometimes because 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.840 they take a really long time to I d the 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.040 guests sometimes and it's not on the scroll e thing, 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:16.279 it's not on the sculling thing, and you have to 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.359 figure it out from context clues. So I always like 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.000 listen at least long enough to figure out who he's 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.720 talking to. UM. And a lot of the best interviews 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.320 are that he does are with old British rock and 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.360 roll guys of the six season seventies who are his 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.720 his friends. They almost always talk about what is it 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.200 black betties? Yeah, they talk about like what kind of 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.600 speed they did, how late they stayed up? Yes, t 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.240 they like he He talks a lot about what he 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.960 puts in a blender. Yeah, baths, I feel like I've 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.200 heard to talk about. Um. He spends a lot of 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.600 time talking with the old British guys, also about like 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.520 fish and chip shops. They're just all such like old 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.720 British gents, you know, They're so like delightful to listen to. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:56.839 And then they all talk about how they took so 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.479 much speed because they were teddy boys. That's my favorite 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:01.840 thing is that before he was in the Sex Pistols, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.520 he was like a mod not amount of teddy boy, 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.640 and he talks about his teddy boy phase a lot. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.320 He also had a very rough upbringing. It's a great show. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.640 Everybody should listen to it, So tell us about this one. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:18.680 So this episode was with an American rocker, Carmine a Piece, 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:23.200 who is a drummer, a famous rock drummer from the 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:27.039 band Vanilla Fudge and some other bands. And then he 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.320 was like Rod Stewart drummer for a billion years. Um. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:34.559 But he's from Brooklyn and he also has a great accent. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.880 Jones has like a great British accent, and then Carmine 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.920 a Piece had like a Brooklyn accent and they were 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:46.320 just talking about love and hard rock and Carmine and 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:51.080 his brother Vinny Uh have a band together that's like 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.120 the Peace Brothers, and so they're playing songs from the 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.880 new a Peace Brothers album and it was so funny 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.240 and good because it was like, Okay, it's a band 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:05.920 with like two drummers for style who have the biggest 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.159 kits in the world. Like no, he was saying. He 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.760 was like, oh, I don't use my uh. He like 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.120 was famous, I think for putting the symbol up top 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.080 and he was like I can't do that and I 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.440 don't do the hanging symbol anymore because my rotator cuff. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.440 Oh my mom um. But you know he was like 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.839 Jonesy was like, well, you know, what, what kid do 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.240 you have? And he's like, oh, you know, I'll go 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.520 like two bass drums, a kick drum, a five drum, 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.160 like a symbol rud. He just like went on for 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.000 so long. I was like, He's like, you know, it's 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:43.040 a pretty it's a pretty good kid. Um. Spring into 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.280 Better Sleep. Lisa is an innovative, direct to consumer online 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.560 mattress brand that's also socially conscious. 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Like who invented the drum solo? 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.160 And Karmine Piece was saying, He's like, no, Jeane Crooper 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.920 invented that. These jazz guys invented it. And Jones was like, 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.200 oh is he like, so the lead singer can go 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.920 do a line of blow? He's like, no, no, marijuana, 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.559 that's what they did in those days. Didn't coke yet? Um? 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.160 He's like no, you know, he invented like the amazing 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.559 drum solo that people would like come to see the 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.000 show just to see the drum solo. He was in 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.160 I'm going to get it wrong. It's back a piece 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.400 and somebody, uh, which he was talking about they did 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.880 Superstition Stevie wonderstthing and he was like, it was originally 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.079 written for us, and then Stevie's label heard it and 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.160 they were like, he's got to release this as a single, 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.440 so he did. Uh, And then they were just reminiscing 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.960 about like you could still ten million records. It was crazy. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.760 There's so much of that. There's a lot of that. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.800 They're like, you could sell so many records and buy 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.319 so many cars with all the records you sold. There's 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.320 Jonesy is like, there's a deep melancholy. It's also weird 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.760 because yeah, it comes on at noon, it's like noon 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.000 to two. It's also a deep melancholy because he plays 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:43.800 like the Kinks a lot. He plays a lot of 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.239 the Kinks. He played off at the Junction by Squeeze 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.599 the other day and I was like he also he 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.840 also has like the exact taste of Tests and I, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.240 which is why it's also our favorite just old men 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.880 old rockers we are. But he he was talking about 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.960 his fear that a texting driver would kill him and 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:09.280 he was like, I was driving girls the canyon and looko, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.199 I'll think, like he's texting, it's the end, this is 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.360 the end. And he does the long pauses after he'll 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.559 say something really disturbing where there's just like some dead 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.680 air for way too long. It's a little bit in 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.480 the love and it's so good. Yeah, it feels real. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.360 It's it's just somebody talking to you out and but 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.480 it is. It is funny that it comes on. That's 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.120 it also is funny because he like in the vein 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.680 of not knowing who he's talking to, he sometimes appears 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.640 to like almost on purpose, not know that much about 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.160 the person he's talking to, and like, um, he had 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.880 someone on a while ago who had I guess it 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.679 was the lead singer of the Eels, and he was 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.600 kind of like leading him to talk about his divorce, 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.360 which had been covered I think in some interviews recently. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.520 It just seemed like it was catapulting towards this like 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:04.120 horribly awkward confrontation. But because he's Jonesy, he was able 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.199 to just kind of feign like Oh you live alone, 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.439 you've got you've got a kid. Oh what happened to 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.320 your bird? Float? Flew away? And I was like, Jesus 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.840 is so intense, but Jones is so likable that, like, 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.760 you can't even blame him. Yeah, he's such a good 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.880 interviewer and you just enjoy. He does talk about the 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:23.920 apocalypse lot, but so do we, So do we. That's 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.600 one thing we have in common. Well, anyway, if you 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.120 want to listen to I mean, you know you're allowed 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.000 to listen to Night Call at noon, but well, I 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:36.720 mean I wouldn't say aloud, not not incouraged, allowed, Um, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.559 but this haunted doll content might be too spooky. It's 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.839 going to be spooky, might be too spooky for the 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.559 daytime listeners. Save it for a nighttime, for the night Call. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.560 I started thinking about this, and then I realized that 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.760 I was going to force my husband to tell his 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:59.040 story about his haunted doll, and so I made him 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.960 type it up. Uh, this is a story that he 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.800 told me like right when we first started dating, and 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.440 I thought he was bullshitting. I was having a really 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.160 hard time at that period in our relationship differentiating between 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.559 like his joking and his his not joking at all, 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:15.720 and this was like I assumed he was kind of 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.480 putting me on, but it was real. So I will 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.280 read that. And then we also have some from readers 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.440 and some calls as well. Yes, let's let's start with 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:31.360 Tess his husband's haunted doll, the haunted doll, hated dolltail. So, um, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.920 this is there's a doll called a Kachina doll, and 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:38.839 this was a Native American warrior Cachina doll, so he said. 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.440 When I was living in New Orleans, I found the 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.800 doll at the back of our driveway, like a hundred 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.040 feet from the street, on the handle of a garbage 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.680 can in a zip lock bag. He was about ten 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.640 inches tall and three inches wide. I brought the doll 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.040 inside and we kept him in our family. A run 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.400 of bad luck led my family to move to Arizona. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.960 A few years later. He was prominently displayed in our 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.560 two son living room. My family continued to fall in 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.520 difficult times, with work in Arizona drying up. My family 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.079 was now going to be moving to the East Coast 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.120 after having spent about six years in Arizona. As we 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.000 were packing up to move, we all looked at the 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.600 cachina doll, and thought, man, this has brought us nothing 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.160 but bad luck. So my brother and I perched him 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.240 atop a pipe and left him leaning up against a 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.880 neighbor's wall. We felt he needed to be placed somewhere 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.840 where he could be found and taken in the same 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.559 as we had done. Within an hour, a terrifying windstorm 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.680 coupled with light rains, swept through our neighborhood. It blew 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.480 garbage cans over and sent them flying down the alleyway. 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.480 When the storm had passed, we went outside to see 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.880 not only had all the cans been blown over to 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.080 the end of the alley behind our town home, but 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.280 a large sequoia tree and the alley had been uprooted, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.920 with chunks of cement attached to the roots. The tree 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.200 was leaning against our neighbor's house. It had smashed through 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.360 the cinder block wall. We all stood their mouths a 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.320 gape at the site. But what my brother and I 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.520 noticed most was that the Native American warrior still stood 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.080 perch precuriously atop the pipe, leaning against the wall where 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:07.319 we placed him, the same wall that was now smashed 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.400 by a massive uprooted tree four feet away from where 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.040 he stood. I think we were released from the curse 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.840 that day. What did they do with the doll? Then? 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:21.120 They just ran away, They moved, they were moving, so 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.800 they left it. They just left it there for someone 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.760 else to find. And he felt bad. He was like, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.120 I feel really bad and like worried because we like 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.600 passed on the curse, but we didn't want to like 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.440 disrespect the doll by destroying. Destroy, can't destroy because the 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.640 doll of the spirits, though, they totally just passed it 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:39.920 on to someone else, and it was like, it's your 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:44.040 problem now exactly. Well, that is a real, a true 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.920 haunted doll story. But we have more. We do have more, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:55.440 but weight there's more. So here we go. My maternal grandmother, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.160 who just to set the scene here, looks and acts 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.160 like a four ft ten libya soprano, has an enormous 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.440 porcelain doll collection. Each room of her house has anywhere 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.880 from three to seven dolls, and they are grouped by 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:11.080 themes e g. Victorian era dolls, dolls that wear red, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.040 dolls that are somehow affiliated with the Catholic Church. That 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.600 she then co ordinates the decor of their room around 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.120 acquiring more dolls as her main hobby other than chain smoking, 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.480 and she spends a lot of time at antique stores 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.400 and estate sales. So even though no porcelain doll has 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.000 a good vibe, some of my grandma's dolls are actively 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:32.640 cursed vessels for the souls of their deceased owners. Needless 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.680 to say, my family did not have fun during the 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.280 first weekend we spent at my grandparents house. I was 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.560 about twelve at this point. They lived out east prior 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.080 to this, but all their kids are still in Wisconsin, 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.960 so they always came to us. We never visited them. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.920 I had to sleep in the Catholic room, which housed 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.160 a nune doll who had eyes that followed me. In 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.720 the morning, she was in a completely different spot than 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.880 she was when I went to bed. I know no 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.200 one came in and moved her to prank me. I'm 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.320 a light sleeper under the best circum stances, and obviously 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.600 could barely sleep in that house full of dolls. It 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.160 was the most terrifying experience of my life. I told 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.560 my parents, who believed me because they were also creeped 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.920 out by the dolls, and my mom asked my grandma 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.720 if she could please put the dolls in storage for 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.680 the rest of our stay. My grandma refused, and the 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.520 argument escalated to the point where my mom thought, outside, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:24.200 it's us are the dolls. My grandma doubled down and 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.400 said the dolls were staying out in the open, and 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.360 we went to go stay with my uncle. My grandma 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.120 didn't talk to anyone in my immediate family for seven 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:36.119 years after that. She missed my parents divorce, my mom's remarriage, 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.360 and most of my and my brother's teenage years. Things 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.040 have bounced back to a more tolerable level of dysfunction 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.640 in the intervening years, but we've never set foot in 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.640 her house again, and none of us wants to forge 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.320 any kind of real relationship with someone who once picked 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:54.400 her fucking haunted doll collection over her human progeny. That 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.800 was such a good one. Thank you to our listener, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.480 missed doll head. We're taking care not to reveel your 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.119 identity because we don't want to offend your grandmother. We 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.760 don't want your grandma's haunted dolls to come for us. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.120 What what on earth is your grandmother thinking? I mean, 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.960 that's absolutely crazy. Maybe she knows the dolls have powers, 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.880 and she's like we can't offend the dolls because well, 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.879 we should back up and say that one of the 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.520 reasons that we started talking about this in the first 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:30.080 place was because Molly found a video of a haunted doll. Yeah, 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.119 I sent you a link to a YouTube that's like 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:37.159 two British goths on the sofa with a doll talking 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.640 about whether the doll is haunted and using this device 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.520 that they claim like channels the doll's voice, which is 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:47.720 very creepy, and uh, neither of us watched the whole thing. Actually, 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:52.720 we're like, what's a good podcast idea? 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Yeah, I 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.159 have the receipts here because I was like, could not 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.679 believe that this was real. But Robert is um. He 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:17.200 was profiled in Atlas Obscura, and he is over a 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.679 hundred years old, and he lives in the Fort East 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.520 Martello Museum and Key West. So at one point he 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.960 was the property of some guy named Robert Otto. Who 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.879 was at this is from the Atlas Obscure article, an 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.440 eccentric artist and a member of a prominent Key West family. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.679 So because the doll was also named they had the 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.480 same name, Robert and Robert. At some point the human 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.920 Robert was like, you know what, just called me Geen, 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.520 and so Robert became the doll's identity. So Otto's grandfather, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.440 I guess, had given him the doll. It was like, 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.280 you know, it's just a very terrifying looking doll. It 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:57.120 has very like, you know, kind of featureless. It has 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.679 like little nicks, and it's dressed in a sailor outfit 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.360 that I us at one point belonged to Robert, but 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.439 I guess he became haunted early on, and like you know, 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.920 I guess Jean, formerly Robert the human boy, would blame 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.520 everything that he you know, he'd be like, Robert did it, 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.040 Robert did it, and everyone was like sure, sure, And 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.080 people could hear like footsteps and laughing that seemed to 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.040 be coming from the doll. Um. So he then went 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.240 to go live in this museum where now people send 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.560 him candy and like fan letters, and he has this 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:31.680 you know, one of the people who works at the museum. 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.200 Access is kind of like messenger, and she'll right back 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.439 to the The letters he gets as Robert Um, some 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.879 of them are like very heartwarming. She was like, you know, 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.720 a girl was being bullied and wrote to the haunted doll. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:51.240 Nobody's eating the candy because they worry it's poisonous. Um. 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.320 But yeah, Robert, you should look up pictures of Robert 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.639 the Haunted Doll. I guess he inspired a movie that 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.000 didn't get good reviews. So I didn't because I was like, 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:01.840 he's the most famous haunted doll. And you're like, what 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.639 about Annabelle? Real? Yeah, what is where's Annabelle at? I 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.560 think she's also in a museum? Well, I feel like 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:11.640 what's cool about haunted dolls? That a lot of them 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:15.359 probably were like roadside attraction things of like, hey, a 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.560 reason for you to stop at this weird key West 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:23.159 lime taffy stand, like look at the doll in the 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.800 creepy pasta. Like some examples of how Robert was haunted, 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:30.280 household objects would be found thrown across the room, Jean's 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.480 toys turned up mutilated, and giggling could be heard, so 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.000 Jean would always blame it on Robert. And the boy 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.359 took the punishment but always insisted that the blame was Roberts. 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:42.320 So all of the people who worked in this household, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.239 because they were a prominent family, would just be like, 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:45.960