Speaker 1: What's that at the bed? It's spookyoky. I'm really sure
Speaker 1: it's dead. It's coming this way. Wait a minute, I said.
Speaker 2: Hyrs ends.
Speaker 3: Hey boo, it's me Ra's I thought it would be
Speaker 3: fun if we did a spooky doll episode because of course,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm kind of obsessed with haunted dolls.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I have a thing about him. I'm
Speaker 4: kind of I just like it. So this whole episode
Speaker 4: today is dedicated to that. What happened was a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks back or a couple months ago. I actually
Speaker 4: happened to be late at night on my YouTube explore page,
Speaker 4: which always knows exactly what I want to be watching,
Speaker 4: which is a whole other kind of creepy we don't
Speaker 4: have to get into. But anyway, I see this video
Speaker 4: from Vice. It says creepy doll adoption agency, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: what is this all about? And it's this wonderful company
Speaker 4: called Unsettling Toys and it's these two people, Brian and Sarah.
Speaker 4: He's a bartender, she's a school psychologist, and they have
Speaker 4: this company where they rehome creepy dolls, not specifically haunted ones, but.
Speaker 1: A lot of them.
Speaker 4: Are haunted, and I'm like, these people are my kind
Speaker 4: of people. And then a bunch of listeners start sending
Speaker 4: me the video and they just have a.
Speaker 1: Great approach to it.
Speaker 4: Because I have talked many times, especially at my Patreon,
Speaker 4: about the whole industry of selling haunted dolls and how
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of scams involved in it
Speaker 4: and whatever. These people, what they do is something completely
Speaker 4: different and it's it's honestly beautiful. So we had a
Speaker 4: wonderful conversation and I reached out to them. They're like
Speaker 4: totally down and they came on. So that's what you'll hear.
Speaker 4: But for this intro today, I wanted to talk more
Speaker 4: about other haunted dolls. We've talked about a few on
Speaker 4: the show, you know, some of the famous ones, of
Speaker 4: course Anna Belle, and then I got real obsessed with
Speaker 4: the Haunted elsa doll that popped up in the news
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: But there's a.
Speaker 4: Couple more that we haven't talked about it. We never
Speaker 4: talked about Robert the doll, I don't think, but Robert
Speaker 4: the doll, that's one that I'm like genuinely afraid of
Speaker 4: and like just don't even want to talk about him
Speaker 4: because he's scary. But if you're curious about him, look
Speaker 4: him up. He's in Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida.
Speaker 4: There's this article from mentalfloss dot com about haunted dolls,
Speaker 4: and they say that Robert used to appear in windows,
Speaker 4: he would change his facial expressions, and he played in
Speaker 4: the property's attic where he originally lived before he got
Speaker 4: to the museum. It says that visitors to the museum
Speaker 4: have claimed to have fallen into misfortune after quote disrespecting
Speaker 4: the doll. So I have nothing bad to say about Robert. Robert,
Speaker 4: you are.
Speaker 1: So handsome and.
Speaker 4: The best thing going on in Florida. It even says
Speaker 4: Ozzy Osbourne once blamed his health issues on a replica
Speaker 4: Robert doll he purchased from the museum. What Robert, You're
Speaker 4: wonderful Now. One that I had never heard of is
Speaker 4: this one name renns Me.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not a Twilight person when those movies were out.
Speaker 4: It wasn't really something that I was into. But apparently
Speaker 4: in Twilight the Twilight saga Colon Breaking Dawn Part one,
Speaker 4: Bella and Edward have a baby named ren is me.
Speaker 4: I think I'm saying this right, And there's a picture
Speaker 4: of her, and I guess it was a mixture of
Speaker 4: CGI and an animatronic doll. But the prop has been
Speaker 4: accused of malevolent sentience by people near the Forever Twilight
Speaker 4: display at the Chamber of Commerce in Fort's, Washington, where
Speaker 4: the movie sets are. There's a quote from Lizzie Andros
Speaker 4: who's the executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, who
Speaker 4: says one day she might be standing up straight, and
Speaker 4: then the next you come in another day and she's
Speaker 4: in a weird position.
Speaker 1: It's like, is she moving around in there?
Speaker 4: We don't know, but we tell everybody that the display
Speaker 4: case cover is on her for their protection, all right.
Speaker 1: And then there's this one Okeiku.
Speaker 4: Who is at the Meningi Temple in Hokkaido, Japan. If
Speaker 4: you happen to be in the neighborhood and you want
Speaker 4: to go see Okiku, you're not allowed to take pictures
Speaker 4: of Okeiku. So legend has it that the doll was
Speaker 4: originally purchased in nineteen eighteen and the original owner was
Speaker 4: named Kekuko. At the time, the doll had short hair. Now,
Speaker 4: when Kikuko tragically passed away the following year. Okeiku's hair
Speaker 4: began to grow out. When the family moved away in
Speaker 4: nineteen thirty nine, they gave Okiku to monks at the temple. Today,
Speaker 4: her hair is nearly down to her knees. Some observd
Speaker 4: also report that a close inspection of Okiku's mouth reveals
Speaker 4: erupting teeth. What kind of hair products? Maybe she's using
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Speaker 4: of course there is lais lad de las Munecas, which
Speaker 4: is the island of dolls that's near Mexico City. And
Speaker 4: I've seen videos and stuff of this. To island, lots
Speaker 4: of creepy looking dolls there. Local lore has it that
Speaker 4: the island's caretaker once came across a young girl who
Speaker 4: had drowned, though some say that he simply imagined her.
Speaker 4: He then found a doll in the water he believed
Speaker 4: to have been owned by the girl. In tribute, he
Speaker 4: placed the doll on a tree and added more to
Speaker 4: begin a collection that grew until he was actually found
Speaker 4: drowned in the same spot into two thousand and one.
Speaker 4: Some visitors believe that the dolls are possessed and there's
Speaker 4: like tons of them everywhere. All right, Well, what do
Speaker 4: you think are these dolls?
Speaker 1: Are there?
Speaker 4: Is there such a thing as a haunted doll? I'm convinced.
Speaker 4: I think it actually is possible. I just don't know
Speaker 4: what they are, what a haunted doll is capable of,
Speaker 4: But we do get into that, you know. I talked
Speaker 4: to Brian and Sarah basically wondering from their experience having
Speaker 4: this company, what they've heard is possible and what they've
Speaker 4: experienced themselves, and they've got stories, And if you go
Speaker 4: to patroon dot com as dressful as my bonus clip
Speaker 4: this week is me asking them about other paranormal unexplainable
Speaker 4: phenomenals like UFOs and Ouiji boards and that kind of stuff,
Speaker 4: and they actually had some interesting things to say about it,
Speaker 4: So go check that out. And in my first tier
Speaker 4: at Patreon patreon dot com slash Ras dres Feles this week,
Speaker 4: I did a little video of me going to different
Speaker 4: stores to see who's got the best Halloween goodies this year,
Speaker 4: So check that out and let's get into the conversation.
Speaker 4: Here is me talking to Brian and Sarah of Unsettling
Speaker 4: Toys on with the show. Oh my god, you guys,
Speaker 4: I am joined by Brian and Sarah of Unsettling Toys.
Speaker 1: Hello, how are you hey?
Speaker 5: What's up? Booth?
Speaker 1: I am starstruck.
Speaker 4: I saw this vice video that you guys were in,
Speaker 4: and I saw it because actually a lot of people
Speaker 4: that listened to this podcast sent it to me, and
Speaker 4: I was like, who are these people?
Speaker 1: This is amazing love.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we have so much in common, like
Speaker 2: we were listening to your podcast. We love all the
Speaker 2: same all the same creepy stuff.
Speaker 1: Love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I I have a thing about haunted dolls, like
Speaker 4: I'm I'm obsessed with the idea of haunted dolls. I mean,
Speaker 4: I could say haunted toys to be more inclusive of
Speaker 4: the haunted object community, but particularly haunted dolls. I've just
Speaker 4: always loved. I don't want to own one, but I
Speaker 4: love the idea of them. But the fact that you
Speaker 4: guys are okay with having them in your house is like,
Speaker 4: you're kind of my heroes.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. There are so many of them in
Speaker 2: Brian's house right now.
Speaker 6: I am surrounded by them as we speak.
Speaker 2: It's true, it's true.
Speaker 4: Well, I also have to tell you something crazy that
Speaker 4: happened today, So this is like completely unrelated. So I've
Speaker 4: been watching your Vice video and I get this message
Speaker 4: today from this person about something completely unrelated, and I
Speaker 4: click on their Instagram and I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: that's that psychic that was in the Vice video with you. Yes,
Speaker 4: it was Kristen, so her the way she looked was
Speaker 4: in my mind. And then I saw it all happened
Speaker 4: today about something completely different that.
Speaker 3: Is so weird.
Speaker 6: Great with us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my mind is kind of blown by this whole thing.
Speaker 4: So is that a thing that you guys do? Often
Speaker 4: you bring in psychics to read your toys.
Speaker 2: You know, More often people will use their own psychic
Speaker 2: to do a reading because it's someone that they already
Speaker 2: know and trust. So if they're interested in a doll,
Speaker 2: then they'll either remotely or or bring someone actually, you know,
Speaker 2: to a pop up shop we do, or to where
Speaker 2: we have the dolls and do a do a reading
Speaker 2: with someone that they know.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, can you tell us all, like what it
Speaker 4: is that you guys do the whole idea just in
Speaker 4: case anyone hasn't seen any of your work yet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so we take those maybe horrifying, maybe just
Speaker 5: normal dolls that scared you when you were a child,
Speaker 5: and we take them in, give them a good home,
Speaker 5: and adopt them out to people that want to that
Speaker 5: sort of thing in their life.
Speaker 1: Well, how did that whole idea come to be?
Speaker 2: It was Brian's idea. We were just sitting there one
Speaker 2: day and Margarita may have been involved, and we were
Speaker 2: looking at some weird stuff that someone gave us, and
Speaker 2: he was like, you know, someone should make a company
Speaker 2: that takes all the creepy, haunted dolls that nobody wants
Speaker 2: and you know, gets them to the people who really
Speaker 2: want those.
Speaker 5: And yeah, and then so after that, I had my
Speaker 5: I had, I had a fortieth birthday, which you know
Speaker 5: how those can well, I don't know if you know
Speaker 5: how those can be. Those those are rough. And Sarah
Speaker 5: surprised me with the business pretty much. You made the website, Instagram,
Speaker 5: business cards, stickers, stickers, and it kind of started as
Speaker 5: a little bit of a you know, a little bit
Speaker 5: of a joke, and then more and more people jumped
Speaker 5: onto the bandwagon.
Speaker 6: And here we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was kind of abrupt, like we launched the
Speaker 2: Instagram and we didn't, you know, we expected it to
Speaker 2: be family and friends, and then and then it really
Speaker 2: just kind of took off on its own, and we
Speaker 2: were delighted and bewildered by how many people have dolls
Speaker 2: in their homes from their childhood that they're still terrified of,
Speaker 2: but they keep them.
Speaker 4: But so the people are just like trying to get
Speaker 4: rid of them, right, They're just like, take it, get
Speaker 4: it out.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, you know, some of them have pretty amazing
Speaker 5: little stories and with them, and some people just maybe
Speaker 5: they've had it for a long time and they've shown
Speaker 5: it a lot of love and it's time to move on,
Speaker 5: and they don't want to throw it away and they
Speaker 5: want maybe someone to have a good experience with it,
Speaker 5: you know, in the future.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we definitely get some that people are like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is all love and positive energy. And then some
Speaker 2: the people are like, this thing is the devil. You
Speaker 2: have to take it and don't let it know my address.
Speaker 2: I'm moving.
Speaker 4: So when you guys had this idea, did it cross
Speaker 4: your mind that some of these could be haunted?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure, Yeah, yeah, I guess you know,
Speaker 5: you think about it, but once you're staring at them
Speaker 5: in your room or in your living room, it really
Speaker 5: dawns on you that some of them are may not
Speaker 5: have your best in christ.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian was the skeptic. But now that they're all
Speaker 2: in his house, you.
Speaker 6: Know, I'm freak out all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The whole idea of just being around haunted dolls, it
Speaker 4: really scares me. And but there's something Okay, So I've
Speaker 4: always been afraid of the thought of a haunted doll,
Speaker 4: But then I got really into the whole world of
Speaker 4: eBay haunted dolls.
Speaker 1: Have you guys do you guys you know about all this?
Speaker 4: So I have gotten to this point where I don't
Speaker 4: I don't believe all.
Speaker 1: Of the ones on eBay. I'll just put it that way.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of them on eBay with really
Speaker 2: similar stories.
Speaker 4: Yes, and a lot of them now I suppose it
Speaker 4: could be from like a psychic reading, but a lot
Speaker 4: of them have these insane backstories that aren't They're not
Speaker 4: necessarily the story of like somebody owned this doll and
Speaker 4: this thing happened. It's more like these stories of like
Speaker 4: meet Belinda. Belinda was a waitress that dja I have
Speaker 4: Fridays and one day she tripped and fell in the
Speaker 4: fry cooker.
Speaker 1: And now she's a doll, and.
Speaker 4: He hates the mention of Chili's like, I don't know what,
Speaker 4: like what is what?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: Where do they come up with this story?
Speaker 5: Oh my god?
Speaker 6: Oh wow, Yeah, that's quite something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The once we get tend to be more stories of
Speaker 2: what has happened to the person while they owned them.
Speaker 2: You know, people will be like, well, I got this
Speaker 2: and then I was in a car accident, and then
Speaker 2: my lights didn't work anymore, and then like I heard voices,
Speaker 2: and you know, we hear more of the experience of
Speaker 2: the person who's sending them more often than than a
Speaker 2: history of the you know, if they if it's if
Speaker 2: they believe it's with spirit. We rarely get information about
Speaker 2: whose spirit.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Right, when you guys start this idea and you start
Speaker 4: to get submissions and you start to find out that
Speaker 4: some of these are haunted. Did you guys, had you
Speaker 4: had paranormal experiences before this or were you guys into
Speaker 4: that stuff? Where were you at on that? I know
Speaker 4: you said Brian was a skeptic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've always been. I didn't really grow up in
Speaker 5: a spiritual home, so I'm really just scratching the surface
Speaker 5: of some of the knowledge and techniques that go along
Speaker 5: with them securing these little monsters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't. I'm a little more open to everything,
Speaker 2: you know. I always tell my kids when they ask
Speaker 2: about the Easter Bunny or something, I always say, there
Speaker 2: are a whole bunch of things in this universe that
Speaker 2: I have not seen and don't know about yet. So
Speaker 2: it would be awfully, awfully presumptuous of me to think
Speaker 2: that I have any of the answers. So when we
Speaker 2: take them in, we just sort of take the stories
Speaker 2: that came with them, And it's so linked to people's spirituality,
Speaker 2: their beliefs about the afterlife, their beliefs about family, and
Speaker 2: often religion, and so we just take whatever story and
Speaker 2: beliefs they give us with the doll and pass them
Speaker 2: on as they are. We try not to filter them
Speaker 2: through our own lenses at all.
Speaker 4: Do you take precautions so that you doubt get ghosted
Speaker 4: by a doll?
Speaker 2: Or Oh, my gosh, Brian is having some trouble right now. Actually,
Speaker 2: when we have this one named Claudia, that's super She
Speaker 2: came with like this story where it was given to
Speaker 2: a little girl under strange circumstances, and then the doll
Speaker 2: broke its leg, and the little girl a week later
Speaker 2: broke her leg in the same place, same leg, And
Speaker 2: then and then some time passed, and then as the
Speaker 2: girl got older, she started hearing voices calling her at night.
Speaker 2: And the family was like, oh, no, this needs to
Speaker 2: be gone. So we have the leg and we have Claudia,
Speaker 2: and do you want to say what happened?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I keep Claudia and her leg apart. I
Speaker 5: know that kind of sounds odd, but I just, you know,
Speaker 5: out of worry. So when I brought Claudia in to
Speaker 5: the home here, I have an upstairs it's a duplex
Speaker 5: that I live in, and I have an upstairs neighbor,
Speaker 5: and she all of a sudden starting out having problems
Speaker 5: with like her electron extra computer fried and things like that.
Speaker 5: And I was like, well, that's just kind of weird,
Speaker 5: you know. I kind of shrug that off. But I
Speaker 5: have the foot.
Speaker 6: I have pour Claudia's foot in my car.
Speaker 5: And since that's happened, since since the foot went into
Speaker 5: the car, the the back window started just kind of
Speaker 5: rolling down, you know, electrically, on its own.
Speaker 2: I saw it, really, he was like, look, it's doing it.
Speaker 2: And I look in his back car window on the
Speaker 2: side that the foot is on is rolling itself down again.
Speaker 5: So now I'm afraid to put the the leg with
Speaker 5: with Claudia. I mean, I you know, I like my electronics.
Speaker 5: I don't really want him to.
Speaker 1: You know, Well, what will happen if the leg is riattaged?
Speaker 5: I don't know. Well that's the thing, right, Well, maybe
Speaker 5: we'll have to do a maybe we'll have to do
Speaker 5: a big YouTube thing about and like have it repaired,
Speaker 5: then see if it.
Speaker 2: See if it gets weirder or better. I think I
Speaker 2: think she probably just wants her foot. Her foot's trying
Speaker 2: to get out of the dang car put it back on.
Speaker 5: But a good thing just happened, Roz. So we you know,
Speaker 5: we probably do have some dolls with some negative.
Speaker 6: Energies. But I met someone today.
Speaker 2: Someone drove a very long way like and stopped by
Speaker 2: here on their way to see it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and and dropped off these these amazing little guys
Speaker 5: that are going to be we'll take pictures of They
Speaker 5: are what are.
Speaker 2: They called shrinking violet?
Speaker 5: Shrinking violet?
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen a shrinking violet doll?
Speaker 1: I can't say I have.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, they like talk and their mouths move
Speaker 2: and their eyes blink. But they're from the nineteen sixties,
Speaker 2: so their mouths.
Speaker 5: But I think they they they came from a very positive,
Speaker 5: a very positive lady and who gave it lots of
Speaker 5: love and attention. So I'm hoping maybe you.
Speaker 6: Know, she even mentioned maybe this will balance it out
Speaker 6: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, put some good energy back into Oh there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it might work that way.
Speaker 5: I think it's important to have a balance and and
Speaker 5: a lot of these, you know, we we definitely have
Speaker 5: some with with an attachment, but a lot of them
Speaker 5: just bring back memories of people, you know, in their
Speaker 5: childhood and and uh that always kind of makes me
Speaker 5: happy when you can kind of almost reunite something with
Speaker 5: with someone who you know, used to love something that
Speaker 5: it was very similar.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: See, that's what I have gathered from researching you guys,
Speaker 4: is that it's a really positive thing. It seems, you know,
Speaker 4: what you guys do. Even though it's these uh, you know,
Speaker 4: misfit toys or ever, you know, these toys that are
Speaker 4: so spooky or whatever they're cast out of society, they
Speaker 4: make people so happy. There's a certain type of person
Speaker 4: that they very positively affect it seems.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what That's really our main goal with the business,
Speaker 2: I think is to promote the idea that not being
Speaker 2: shiny and new is not a flaw, that sometimes it's
Speaker 2: the things about you that are a little bit different
Speaker 2: that really make you wonderful. And I think that applies
Speaker 2: to people, and I think it applies to the toys,
Speaker 2: like every ding, every mark or you know, tear is
Speaker 2: a story and as part of their history, and we
Speaker 2: like to value them for that.
Speaker 6: That's just well said.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's gorgeous.
Speaker 4: I'm like about to cry over here about these creepy
Speaker 4: ass dolls.
Speaker 1: That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5: Don't you want a bunch of them? Now?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well I have a thing so I am sort
Speaker 4: of one of these people that I do like creepy
Speaker 4: kind of things. Like I have this table that is
Speaker 4: made out of i want to say, paper mache seals
Speaker 4: at like two large seals and they have like fishing
Speaker 4: line whiskers and I saw it in a flea market
Speaker 4: and it's maybe the ugliest thing I've ever seen, and
Speaker 4: I love it so much. And I do feel similar
Speaker 4: to what you were saying, about that, and I see
Speaker 4: the beauty in it. There's something so beautiful about the
Speaker 4: hideousness or the I don't know, there's there's I've always
Speaker 4: been someone that's attracted to things like that.
Speaker 2: An individuality. It would be right, it always says, you know,
Speaker 2: it would be so awful if everything was the same.
Speaker 4: Of course, Oh yes, I mean absolutely, and and and
Speaker 4: I My dream has always been to own in old
Speaker 4: ventriloquis dummy that belongs that like it has a story,
Speaker 4: Like I want to know this story. Not necessarily one
Speaker 4: that's been that was like uh, mass produced, you know,
Speaker 4: in a department store.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily one of those.
Speaker 4: I want one that was somebody's livelihood at one point
Speaker 4: that they traveled around the world with, Like, you know,
Speaker 4: I want a story. And I've had no business being
Speaker 4: in some of these auctions, but I have put a
Speaker 4: couple of dollars down.
Speaker 1: I didn't win.
Speaker 4: But that's my dream is to have like a creepy
Speaker 4: old ventriloquist dummy, which is most people's biggest nightmare.
Speaker 1: But right, I just love it.
Speaker 2: You were saying you don't have any like that's quite
Speaker 2: a starter item. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: But my thing is I don't want one that has
Speaker 4: a story that it is uh what was it named?
Speaker 4: Belinda from Fridays that you know, I don't want the
Speaker 4: ghosts that's coming back to get me in the middle
Speaker 4: of the night.
Speaker 1: That's what I don't want. I'm not trying to bring
Speaker 1: that into my house.
Speaker 5: We found that people really do enjoy those. We have
Speaker 5: a couple, but we don't have super long histories on them.
Speaker 2: No, not on our ventriloquist stummies. Some of them. Some
Speaker 2: of them just travel with us because people love to
Speaker 2: see them so much. I think something about them. I
Speaker 2: think maybe they they hold their their history, the stories
Speaker 2: behind them, or people relate to them a little bit
Speaker 2: better because because a lot of people like like what
Speaker 2: you said, you know, they they give you a sense
Speaker 2: of the past a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that idea of this meant so much
Speaker 4: to somebody at one point, and I want to honor it,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it seems to me that Brian, you're no longer.
Speaker 4: A skeptic or you're skeptical, but you believe that this
Speaker 4: kind of stuff is real.
Speaker 5: I'm yeah, I'm really getting there. The more, you know,
Speaker 5: we've been at this for a couple of years now,
Speaker 5: and I am a slow learner.
Speaker 6: In just about everything in my.
Speaker 5: Life, and so you know, give me, give me a
Speaker 5: little bit more time. But I am definitely teetering towards hell.
Speaker 4: Yes, well, but is there a part of you because
Speaker 4: for me, I do believe in all this stuff, but
Speaker 4: but I choose to not like live in fear of
Speaker 4: it twenty four to seven because I talk about this
Speaker 4: stuff all the time. But I do have this thing
Speaker 4: in my head where I'm like, just say that it's
Speaker 4: possible that one of these antique items I just bought
Speaker 4: could have a ghost attach. I'm just going to sage it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get a couple of crystals. Somebody told me
Speaker 4: that this will help, Like just why not. It wouldn't
Speaker 4: hurt just to have it around. Do you does your
Speaker 4: mind go there or are you just like, well, we'll
Speaker 4: see what happens.
Speaker 5: I definitely a more of the see what happens. But
Speaker 5: I think I think, you know, yeah, man, they're just
Speaker 5: you know sometimes when you see something move out of
Speaker 5: the corner of your eye and you just you know,
Speaker 5: you kind of know that it's just your eye playing you.
Speaker 5: It's just your eye, right, You got to think it's just.
Speaker 6: Your eye hope, but yeah, you but you're in the
Speaker 6: room alone.
Speaker 5: And that.
Speaker 6: Used to not bother me, but now, man, I am
Speaker 6: ripping out.
Speaker 4: Well, what's been going on? Like, tell me about some
Speaker 4: of the things that have happened.
Speaker 2: My gosh, he has he has a couple of wind
Speaker 2: up ones that'll just like go off in the middle
Speaker 2: of the night. He'll just be, you know, like sitting
Speaker 2: on the couch and all of a sudden, like you know,
Speaker 2: a few notes of a song will drift into the
Speaker 2: front room and.
Speaker 5: And the first you know, Ross, I would, I would,
Speaker 5: I would play it off like I'm kind of a
Speaker 5: bigger guy and at hardwood floors, you know, and and
Speaker 5: the thing is on the floor, and I figured, well
Speaker 5: I moved, and you know, it just kind of went
Speaker 5: off a little bit. But the more I do this,
Speaker 5: the more I I'm getting there.
Speaker 6: I'm getting there.
Speaker 5: Ross.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like he won't have moved. That's the thing is,
Speaker 2: like it's a long ways away and hasn't been wound
Speaker 2: up in a long time, and like they'll just go
Speaker 2: off at the strangest times.
Speaker 6: I think you can tell who's the believer.
Speaker 4: Well from what you guys hear and from what you've experienced,
Speaker 4: do these ghosts run around like CHUCKI, or is it
Speaker 4: do these dolls you know do that?
Speaker 1: Or is it more.
Speaker 4: That there's a spirit that's attached to the doll and
Speaker 4: the spirit is now in your house?
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that sort of what people tend to
Speaker 1: believe on this stuff.
Speaker 2: Everyone's beliefs are so different and so individual, but across
Speaker 2: a really broad range of our clients. Is the belief
Speaker 2: in energies, you know, does it have positive energy, angry energy,
Speaker 2: you know, malicious energy sometimes? And so whether that's history
Speaker 2: sort of attaching itself to the toy, or whether it's
Speaker 2: the spirit of a person who can be named, that
Speaker 2: seems to be a common thread. Is just the sort
Speaker 2: of the tone of the energy that an object has.
Speaker 5: If I see one walk across the floor here, I
Speaker 5: am out. There's no the business is shut down and
Speaker 5: no one will ever hear from me. I will become
Speaker 5: a man nun somewhere that a monk monk, I guess
Speaker 5: that's a monk I'll become. I don't know.
Speaker 2: But you know, the first all well, not the first
Speaker 2: one of the first that we rehomed. We actually took
Speaker 2: to the Oregon Ghost Conference, and the people who were
Speaker 2: appropriate fits and who wanted this one because it didn't
Speaker 2: have major attachments or backstories or anything, entered to win
Speaker 2: this particular one. And they were going through all the items,
Speaker 2: and right when they were about to get to it,
Speaker 2: they said, and the next item is and the doll
Speaker 2: on the table just tips over. No one was near it,
Speaker 2: nothing had changed, like falls over. Right when it was
Speaker 2: her turn, it was and the whole room instead of
Speaker 2: like giggling or like any of the responses I expected,
Speaker 2: like they gasped in a horror. The whole room of
Speaker 2: like like a lot of people when like.
Speaker 5: They were clutching their crystals.
Speaker 1: Well, she was given a performance.
Speaker 4: She wanted to be like, this is what you could get,
Speaker 4: and then she wanted to pop off the table.
Speaker 2: It was pretty awesome.
Speaker 4: Well, so, okay, another thing I've heard, and I'm just curious,
Speaker 4: you know, from what you guys hear and what you experience.
Speaker 4: I've heard this thing in the past where people are like,
Speaker 4: you have a haunted object.
Speaker 1: If you give it to.
Speaker 4: Someone, it doesn't like, you know, the the spirit or
Speaker 4: the demon or whatever is is attached to you. It's
Speaker 4: not the object anymore? Is that a thing that you
Speaker 4: guys have encountered with When people give you these these
Speaker 4: allegedly haunted objects, we've we've.
Speaker 2: Had really good luck. I don't even know what that
Speaker 2: means too, I hope not right. When people send us
Speaker 2: a toy, then generally like the problems that they've been
Speaker 2: experiencing have gone away. We've had a lot of cases
Speaker 2: of that where they're like, oh my gosh, the strange happenings,
Speaker 2: my child's nightmares, whatever it is that they were experiencing stopped.
Speaker 2: And similarly, when we send a toy to someone, they
Speaker 2: often experience have experiences, uh, electronics being weird or we
Speaker 2: have a lot of people who are using sort of
Speaker 2: paranormal tools to communicate with the toys. But in our experience,
Speaker 2: I think the attachments uh have tended to stay with
Speaker 2: the doll.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would, I would agree with that. Ye as
Speaker 5: long as they don't linger here, you know too too
Speaker 5: long After we we get one rehome, then we are okay.
Speaker 1: Well imagined.
Speaker 4: It's probably hard to tell when you have a bunch
Speaker 4: of them in a room which one is causing, you know,
Speaker 4: like which whose spirit is who?
Speaker 1: And all of that, right, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We experiment. We experiment too much weird stuff is going on.
Speaker 2: Then we'll put half of them in a box and
Speaker 2: take them to my house and then see what happens then.
Speaker 2: And like, if you keep dividing them by halfs wherever
Speaker 2: weird stuff's happening, then you can sort of sort it
Speaker 2: out a little bit.
Speaker 4: But wait, so, Sarah, what do you think now here?
Speaker 4: I was sitting here thinking that Brian was the one
Speaker 4: that is, like, has volunteered to have all of these
Speaker 4: spooky ghosts dolls in his house, and now you take
Speaker 4: them to yours too.
Speaker 2: I do they're Brian's right now, because I have kids
Speaker 2: and my kids kept seeing like a shadow figure sitting
Speaker 2: on my son's bed and they were totally in agreement.
Speaker 2: And they can't live at my house if they're gonna
Speaker 2: put shadow people on my son's bed.
Speaker 1: So which one is? Do you know who? Which doll
Speaker 1: caused that to happen?
Speaker 2: We're not sure which did? We did we? I don't
Speaker 2: think we feel for it.
Speaker 6: I don't think we narrowed it that far down.
Speaker 2: I think it's one that came without a lot of story.
Speaker 2: Sometimes people will just drop them off for us and
Speaker 2: not want to talk about it. And a lot of
Speaker 2: times those are ones that we just sort of assumed
Speaker 2: they don't have a lot of backstory, but every so
Speaker 2: often they drop it offen to want to talk about
Speaker 2: it because it has the real backstory, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, That to me is the scariest version where they're like,
Speaker 4: your problem now, I don't ask any questions and they
Speaker 4: just like peel out.
Speaker 5: Your problem now.
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 2: But we we had some old composition dolls, and I
Speaker 2: think I think it's I think we narrowed it down
Speaker 2: that we thought it might be one of the older
Speaker 2: composition dolls.
Speaker 4: Well what I mean, I know your collection changes constantly,
Speaker 4: but what percentage would you say are typically believed to
Speaker 4: be haunted doll?
Speaker 1: Give or take?
Speaker 5: You know, Yeah, you know, I think it's probably in
Speaker 5: that twenty Like, if I were gonna put a percentage
Speaker 5: on it, I would say it's in that twenty percent range.
Speaker 2: Impact that's for what percent of them have like stories
Speaker 2: where people heard voices or pets were terrified, or you know,
Speaker 2: the ones with the really intense backstories where we feel
Speaker 2: like haunted is a really good descriptor for that is
Speaker 2: about twenty percent the ones that come to us where
Speaker 2: people are scared of them, or you know, they made
Speaker 2: someone really uncomfortable, or they have kind of a weird history.
Speaker 5: Or dogs seem to bark at these things. Yes, no, cats,
Speaker 5: you know, just don't like don't like. Some of them
Speaker 5: like the energy, so we get We hear a lot
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 2: Sometimes a dog, like or a pet, it's a variety
Speaker 2: of pets will like bark and bark at an item,
Speaker 2: or sometimes they'll refuse to go in the same room
Speaker 2: as it. Like there will be a doll and someone
Speaker 2: puts it on the piano, and like the dog doesn't
Speaker 2: go in that room anymore. Like pets, I think are
Speaker 2: maybe really sensitive to that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's so funny because right before we
Speaker 4: started recording, my dog was right next to me and
Speaker 4: he always has to figure out a way to make
Speaker 4: a bunch of noise when I'm recording. And now I'm
Speaker 4: sit here thinking, maybe I do want a haunted doll
Speaker 4: that when I'm recording I can just put next to
Speaker 4: me and that will keep him.
Speaker 6: Away or it'll bark more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, so I look at your website, which I love,
Speaker 4: and there's the thing that stood out to me. It says, quote,
Speaker 4: if in very rare instances, a toy reappears in the home,
Speaker 4: we will remove it promptly.
Speaker 2: That is a common fear of our clients who send
Speaker 2: us toys once a month, so we'll get someone's like
Speaker 2: I'm they ship it like fancy shipping with signature and
Speaker 2: take all these extra precautions because they're so unsettled by
Speaker 2: the toy that they're afraid it's going to come back.
Speaker 2: And toys have occasionally been too intense for their adoptive
Speaker 2: families and come back to us. But we haven't yet
Speaker 2: had a toy returned to it's to its person who
Speaker 2: said it.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, it's a pretty funny. Uh. I love
Speaker 5: that part of the website, Like, well, you know, it's
Speaker 5: our service is guaranteed, you know, and and if if
Speaker 5: that thing just ends up crawling back to you, we'll
Speaker 5: we'll take it back free of charge.
Speaker 4: That is that's very sweet of you guys. Uh, well,
Speaker 4: because I was thinking about this Elsa doll.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys heard about this like
Speaker 1: a year.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I totally saw that. I saw that
Speaker 2: on the internet.
Speaker 4: Yes, I was obsessed with it when it happened that
Speaker 4: there was this Elsa from Frozen Doll that these people
Speaker 4: had that was haunted.
Speaker 1: And they got rid of it, and she kept coming back.
Speaker 4: She kept figuring out a way to get back into
Speaker 4: their lives.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we we had so many people tag us and
Speaker 2: that everyone was like, oh my god, they need you
Speaker 2: because you have the guarantee. And I think it. Don't
Speaker 2: call us because that thing's gonna go back if the
Speaker 2: flights are expensive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my god, she's got frequent flyer miles.
Speaker 1: Well, and I think that.
Speaker 4: Annabelle, who you know, is sort of the the Kim
Speaker 4: Kardashian of the Haunted doll world.
Speaker 2: That is the best way of putting that I've ever heard.
Speaker 4: I feel like that was sort of part of her story,
Speaker 4: if I'm not mistaken, is that she kind of found
Speaker 4: her way back or I know that it's believed that
Speaker 4: she crawled on somebody and she could move around and.
Speaker 5: They just needed they needed the they needed the extended
Speaker 5: warranty on that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Well, Okay, so I look at your website and you
Speaker 4: guys have your permanent collection, and so with this permanent collection,
Speaker 4: I want to talk about some of these dolls and
Speaker 4: if anybody wants to see they can go to Unsettlingtoys
Speaker 4: dot com. And this first one is Grace, which Grace.
Speaker 4: She has got gorgeous blonde hair and it says the
Speaker 4: Queen of the side Eye and I love that. So
Speaker 4: what tell us about Grace? Because she somehow got bloodstains
Speaker 4: on her?
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's super interesting. Grace is actually sitting next to
Speaker 2: me right now. She says hello, I say hi, and
Speaker 2: you look very gorgeous. She looks very flattered. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: getting some sidey there. Okay. So Grace was owned by
Speaker 2: a lady who passed away, and when she passed a
Speaker 2: lot of her dolls were put into storage. And when
Speaker 2: they went into storage, you know, there was quite a
Speaker 2: few dolls that were put away and they were only
Speaker 2: there for I don't know a year or two. I
Speaker 2: don't think it was very long. But when her kids
Speaker 2: to go back through the box and take the dolls out,
Speaker 2: Grace was on like inside the box, but like on
Speaker 2: the top of the pile, and there's like it's blood
Speaker 2: like there's blood drops on her dress. I think I
Speaker 2: have a close up of them on the website maybe,
Speaker 2: but like if you look at it, I'm really pretty
Speaker 2: sure it's blood, just like they were. And nothing else
Speaker 2: in the box was touched. There was no blood on
Speaker 2: top of the box or on any of the other toys.
Speaker 2: Just Grace went in in good condition and came out
Speaker 2: looking like that. So they noped her right over to
Speaker 2: USK immediately.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're not in the business is sending out DNA. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we're just going to keep that one nice and safe here.
Speaker 2: Well, we like her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you would say she's got good energy.
Speaker 2: She's got maybe medium energy. She's kind of what'd you say, mischievous?
Speaker 2: Could you describe Grace?
Speaker 6: I mean that's the whole side eye in the blood.
Speaker 6: I mean that.
Speaker 2: Yeah right. I wouldn't I wouldn't call her one of
Speaker 2: our glowingly positive dolls. But she uh, but she is
Speaker 2: definitely uh, definitely a lot of energy and a little package.
Speaker 1: Oh no, she's right next to you. Just say nice things.
Speaker 2: She knows.
Speaker 5: We've had plenty of conversations with her. She knows her,
Speaker 5: she knows what is expected of her. I don't know
Speaker 5: where that came from.
Speaker 1: Well, what about mister creepers.
Speaker 5: That is our mascot, and and and Sarah is gonna
Speaker 5: tell the story about because she was there.
Speaker 6: She was she actually found it.
Speaker 5: But it is.
Speaker 6: Horrifying little.
Speaker 2: It is really strange. So I was helping right when
Speaker 2: we right when I had decided to make the business,
Speaker 2: but I hadn't given the I hadn't launched it for
Speaker 2: Brian's birthday yet. I was helping one of my friends
Speaker 2: clean out family member's home and we were clearing out
Speaker 2: a bedroom and under a child's bed was this, like
Speaker 2: was Creepertin with And I don't know you've seen Creepertin
Speaker 2: with like the mouth and the tea.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm looking at it right now. It's a little
Speaker 4: bunny holding a carrot with red eyes and a little
Speaker 4: side mouthed situation.
Speaker 1: Now, is is it like a doll? Or is it flat?
Speaker 1: It's flat.
Speaker 2: It's just a flat piece of like fake fur that's
Speaker 2: cut into the shape of like a weird rabbit. And
Speaker 2: so I pulled this thing out from under the child's
Speaker 2: bed and I'm like what is this? And my friend's like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, where did you get that? And I'm like,
Speaker 2: it was under your kid's bed and she she's like,
Speaker 2: I have never seen that before in my life and
Speaker 2: proceeded to check with the rest of the family. None
Speaker 2: of them had ever seen it before in their lives.
Speaker 2: He was just, you know, hanging out under the child's bed,
Speaker 2: and so I decided. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: can I throw it away? And she was like, please
Speaker 2: throw it away immediately, But I kept thinking of it
Speaker 2: and I'm like, you know, it's kind of perfect for
Speaker 2: what I've been thinking of. And so I went to
Speaker 2: get him back out of the trash can. I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right, can I have the ugly bunny? And she's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: take it, and I'm Whitney wasn't in the trash can.
Speaker 2: But then later as we were doing final check, we
Speaker 2: went back up the stairs and Creeperton had apparently jumped
Speaker 2: out of the trash bag and was laying on the
Speaker 2: stairs up to the bedroom waiting for me, like was
Speaker 2: not at all where I had put it, and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, this is the one and it became
Speaker 2: our mascot.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I have had this conversation with people many times, but
Speaker 4: I'm always curious. I think the only way you could
Speaker 4: figure this out really is if you witnessed it with
Speaker 4: your eyes or if you set up a camera. But
Speaker 4: do we think that like a toy? Does it crawl
Speaker 4: on the ground, does it float? Does it slither? What
Speaker 4: does it do? How does it get from one place
Speaker 4: to the nags?
Speaker 5: You're giving me the you're giving me the goosebumps there?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, speaking of goosebobs, there's also Maria who was
Speaker 4: in your Vice video and she's also on your website.
Speaker 1: And now, what is Maria crash test dummy?
Speaker 5: Or Maria is a medical dummy to practice on?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 5: Kind of taken over the show here, very very popular item,
Speaker 5: and definitely it's it's.
Speaker 6: Maria's just fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yet really it's a She's an amazing, amazing piece. Someone
Speaker 2: in Texas actually went and bought her from an older lady,
Speaker 2: and the older lady was speaking to Maria like Maria
Speaker 2: was a person and said, oh, goodbye, Maria, enjoy your
Speaker 2: new home, you know. And then our client got in
Speaker 2: the car and started driving home and promptly got in
Speaker 2: a car accident with Maria. And so I guess now
Speaker 2: she's a crash test dummy.
Speaker 6: But I hadn't thought of that. That's funny.
Speaker 2: But and so our client client was okay, made it home.
Speaker 2: And then this was a person who collects creepy things,
Speaker 2: and the plan was to make a couple of modifications
Speaker 2: to Maria, make her a little creepier and keep her
Speaker 2: as a as an item in the house. But the
Speaker 2: whole family was just wildly unsettled by Maria and her energy,
Speaker 2: Like like even in a household that was comfortable with
Speaker 2: creepy stuff, Maria was way too much. And so and
Speaker 2: so they sent her to us, and and now she
Speaker 2: has quite a following. She We get letters from people
Speaker 2: for Maria, like, there are a lot of people that
Speaker 2: are really into Maria.
Speaker 4: Is it a coincidence that this woman got into a
Speaker 4: car crash?
Speaker 1: Do you guys think or they didn't think so.
Speaker 2: In fact, I took Maria. I took Maria to an
Speaker 2: event where was maybe I was bringing her over here.
Speaker 2: I took a picture of her in my car for
Speaker 2: Instagram the other day and I got an email from
Speaker 2: the person and they were like, they were like, be
Speaker 2: really careful driving with Maria.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, have you guys had any experiences that you
Speaker 4: might think could be connected to the energy of Maria.
Speaker 5: She has been a very pleasant little.
Speaker 6: Object here. I haven't seen anything from Maria.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you look at her it you know
Speaker 5: it's a little unnerving. But she's probably thinking the same
Speaker 5: thing about me.
Speaker 2: And when Maria was at my house in my basement,
Speaker 2: she will sometimes move, like shift a little bit, her
Speaker 2: head will move, her hands will move a little bit,
Speaker 2: which is always unsettling. But also my brain always interprets
Speaker 2: her as a human. I would go down in my
Speaker 2: basement where she was, which was like a wreck room
Speaker 2: for my kids, so it wasn't like a creepy basement,
Speaker 2: and like I would startle every time because my brain
Speaker 2: reads her as a human.
Speaker 1: Is she human size?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she is totally life size and and and all
Speaker 2: of her joints move correctly, and she's she's very very lifelike.
Speaker 2: And her feet have like is there a picture of
Speaker 2: her feet on the website. They have like veins and
Speaker 2: like carefulnails. Like some parts of her are like more
Speaker 2: realistic than my actual body.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I'm looking at it right now. And then
Speaker 4: her face comes off.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah wow.
Speaker 2: At awkward times, her face if you try to put
Speaker 2: her face on, she will drop that thing at like
Speaker 2: really awkward times.
Speaker 5: I think she likes it without her face on, I think,
Speaker 5: and that's generally how we keep her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys have the best stories.
Speaker 1: These are amazing.
Speaker 4: Can you do you have other stories that might come
Speaker 4: to mind of a paranormal nature?
Speaker 5: Gosh, you know they're they're not They're not our stories.
Speaker 6: It's great because we get to pass these things on.
Speaker 2: We did just get one the other day where the
Speaker 2: person visited their childhood home across the United States and
Speaker 2: had a nightmare that she had made fun of this
Speaker 2: doll and had called the doll names, and then the
Speaker 2: doll got really mad and like started coming for her
Speaker 2: in the nightmare, and then she woke up and she
Speaker 2: could feel something burrowing into her neck, like something was
Speaker 2: trying to get into her body, and said it was
Speaker 2: really terrifying. And so even though she came home and
Speaker 2: wasn't at her parents' house anymore, she actually had her
Speaker 2: mom mail us the dolls because she wasn't comfortable having them,
Speaker 2: you know, anywhere. But I thought that was really fascinating
Speaker 2: that in her dream she was interacting with the dolls
Speaker 2: and she was the one who was unkind. I thought
Speaker 2: that was really interesting.
Speaker 4: I'm so scared by this stuff? Should I not be scared?
Speaker 4: I mean, it seems like you guys aren't that scared
Speaker 4: by it.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, if you look at it through the
Speaker 2: acceptance and inclusivity sort of lens, we we really just
Speaker 2: try to appreciate them like they are, and it makes
Speaker 2: them a little less scary.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it really does it. You know, they're just they're
Speaker 5: just misunderstood objects.
Speaker 1: I guess so. But then when they have like.
Speaker 6: Don't allow them knives or guns?
Speaker 5: No, I don't, and we are very.
Speaker 6: Kind to them, so they're not going to act out
Speaker 6: in front of us.
Speaker 2: Well, I give you Claudia back her foot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well we'll see.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah, give Claudia her foot.
Speaker 5: Okay, we'll make we'll make that a rallying point and
Speaker 5: we'll we'll we'll do something about that here soon.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, we do a thing on this show where
Speaker 4: I play ghost voices.
Speaker 1: Do you guys want to hear some?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, it's time for oh ev please. So here's what
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 4: I go to YouTube and I find electronic voice phenomenal,
Speaker 4: and then I try to make you guess what you
Speaker 4: hear the ghost saying well hard. Okay, Well, the correct
Speaker 4: answer will be what the person on YouTube believes that
Speaker 4: this ghost is saying.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what you hear. Let me pull up
Speaker 1: first one.
Speaker 4: This first one is from Smoky Valley Paranormal and it
Speaker 4: is at an abandoned house, which is terrifying. An abandoned
Speaker 4: house in rural I can never say that word. Rural. Rural, rural,
Speaker 4: ruralware Solomon, Kansas. Okay, the rural part.
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, so is the is the recording going to
Speaker 2: have an accent?
Speaker 4: Well, you'll have to tell me. There is a little
Speaker 4: bit of background noise on it. But listen in and tell.
Speaker 1: Me what you hear.
Speaker 4: All right, here we go. Okay, Wait, it's a little soft.
Speaker 4: Let me turn it up.
Speaker 1: Do you hear it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Play it one more time. We just turned our our
Speaker 2: volume up too.
Speaker 5: Okay, you know I'm hearing.
Speaker 6: Yes, I want fries with.
Speaker 1: That McDonald's, ma'am.
Speaker 4: This is an abandoned house in rural Suliman, Kansas.
Speaker 1: Let me play it again.
Speaker 5: Okay. Oh, it sounded like Cheryl to me, but I
Speaker 5: don't know or a distinct oh.
Speaker 4: Like, Well, I can give you some options, okay, Okay, Okay.
Speaker 4: The first one is is it A Where'd you Go?
Speaker 1: Is it B?
Speaker 4: Please don't? Maybe they're just being like a shady teenager.
Speaker 1: Please don't. Is it C please vote? Which?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: Maybe they're like, listen, you like to come to abandoned
Speaker 4: houses looking for ghosts. That's great, but make sure you're
Speaker 4: registered to vote. Okay, it's much more important to do
Speaker 4: with your time. Or is it D C.
Speaker 1: Low Maybe they're a fan of Sea Low Green. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Okay, let we play it again.
Speaker 6: Where'd you Go?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think where'd you Go?
Speaker 2: I think we both think number one it's.
Speaker 4: Yes, where'd you go? That's what they believe. I think
Speaker 4: it's Please don't let me do it again?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, yeah I can hear that too.
Speaker 6: Man, those are always so difficult, I know.
Speaker 1: Well, here, let me do one more.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, we want to hear another one.
Speaker 1: Okay. This one is from YouTube.
Speaker 4: The user's name is t H R M s X
Speaker 4: and it is at the Old Salem Cemetery in.
Speaker 1: Laken, l A c O n uh, Illinois. What does
Speaker 1: it saying? This one's hard?
Speaker 5: That is a hard one.
Speaker 1: Let me play it again.
Speaker 2: Okay, it sounded like, here we go again. To me,
Speaker 2: what do you hear?
Speaker 1: Well? Do you have any guesses?
Speaker 5: Brian, No, I I it just sounds like like a
Speaker 5: like a record scratch kind of to me.
Speaker 1: Well, let me give you some options.
Speaker 4: Is it a calcium maybe the reminder of me gotta
Speaker 4: get calcium?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is it B I swear? Or maybe
Speaker 1: they said a bad word? Is it C? I'm sure?
Speaker 1: Or D?
Speaker 4: Is it just somebody that's crunching on Lay's kettle cooked
Speaker 4: potato chips?
Speaker 1: I only play again.
Speaker 6: It's always the.
Speaker 2: Food I would if I had to pick from those?
Speaker 2: Maybe C.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am sure.
Speaker 6: I'm not getting anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't hear a lot in that one.
Speaker 1: They believe it says, I am sure.
Speaker 2: I am sure. I wonder what they asked.
Speaker 1: I yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It just says I am sure. I think that it's
Speaker 4: somebody eating Lai's kettle cooked.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Let me play it again. I
Speaker 1: am sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear it. It's slower words. Yeah, I can
Speaker 2: totally hear that.
Speaker 1: I guess, so I don't know.
Speaker 4: I kind of I have to change my tone on
Speaker 4: the delivery, and I have to go I'm sure. I'm sure. Well,
Speaker 4: you guys, I am so grateful that you came on.
Speaker 1: This is so fun. Thanks for doing this.
Speaker 5: This was a blast. Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Well, can you tell people where to find you and
Speaker 4: all of that stuff?
Speaker 2: Our best platform is probably Instagram and we're at Unsettling Toys.
Speaker 2: We also have our website Unsettling Toys dot com. We're
Speaker 2: on Facebook. I think that's that's the main places people
Speaker 2: find us.
Speaker 4: Well, can you just explain how it works, because you
Speaker 4: guys don't just like sell these items, right, No, people will.
Speaker 2: Sometimes people will grows through the Unsettlingly Available page of
Speaker 2: our website and see if there's something that they're drawn to.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they'll see one and they'll just be like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, that's that's mine. That needs to be part
Speaker 2: my family. Other times people won't be immediately drawn to something,
Speaker 2: and they'll send us sort of some information about themselves
Speaker 2: if they're looking for positive energy or something really spooky,
Speaker 2: if they like, you know, a particular look. Are they
Speaker 2: looking for an antique composition doll, or do they want
Speaker 2: like a goofy looking clown, you know, and then we
Speaker 2: can sort of help them find one that's a good
Speaker 2: fit for them, and give them any backstory that we
Speaker 2: have that we've received with the doll. And so it's
Speaker 2: it's sort of personalized trying to well because if there's
Speaker 2: a chance something's with spirit or has a strong energy,
Speaker 2: then it needs to be a good fit for the household.
Speaker 2: It's going to you know.
Speaker 5: And I'd like to say, just as a plea to
Speaker 5: everyone out there, just please get these clowns out of
Speaker 5: my house.
Speaker 1: I tell yeah, I saw in the video. You don't
Speaker 1: like clowns.
Speaker 6: I'm not a big clown guy, and I we have
Speaker 6: a few.
Speaker 2: If people keep sending up, we really need.
Speaker 5: To get them out of here as soon as possible.
Speaker 4: Well, I love I love clowns. And you know that's
Speaker 4: it's that Uncanny valley. You know, it's the it's all
Speaker 4: the same thing where people are scared of dolls, mannequins,
Speaker 4: ventriloquist dummies, clowns. You know, it's that it looks human,
Speaker 4: but it's not quite human. You know, It's something's a
Speaker 4: little off there. And I feel like that's that's your
Speaker 4: bread and butter. Thank you so much to Brian and
Speaker 4: Sarah of Unsettling Toys. I love them. I think they're great.
Speaker 4: I hope I become friends with them. And if you
Speaker 4: want to see there the video that we reference, just
Speaker 4: go to YouTube you a type in Vice Creepy Doll
Speaker 4: Adoption Agency.
Speaker 1: It'll come right up.
Speaker 4: But it was it was posted four months ago, so
Speaker 4: it'll be there and you get to see some of
Speaker 4: these dolls that we mentioned. Or you can go to
Speaker 4: their website and you can see them there as well.
Speaker 4: And who knows anybody willing to buy one and tell
Speaker 4: me what happens.
Speaker 1: I want to hear about it. If you do.
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