Inherited Hauntings
Inherited Hauntings is a spooky and fun filled podcast hosted by Lindsey Callan and her mom Nancy, exploring real ghost stories, creepy cryptids, haunted places, and true paranormal encounters. Tune in each week for chilling tales, paranormal investigations, and mysteries that will make you laugh AND keep you up at night.
Inherited Hauntings
History’s Haunted Dolls: Annabelle, Robert, and the Stuff of Nightmares
In this delightfully disturbing episode of Inherited Hauntings, Lindsey and Nancy take on the unnerving world of haunted dolls—from the infamous Annabelle (yes, that Annabelle) to lesser-known but equally cursed toy box nightmares from around the globe.
We dig into the real story behind the raggedy origin of Annabelle, plus we explore the legends of Robert the Doll, Okiku, and a few haunted cuties you’ve probably never heard of… but might want to avoid on eBay.
And in a shocking twist, one of us would absolutely adopt a haunted doll if given the chance. The other? Not sleeping tonight.
🧸 Creepy dolls, true hauntings, questionable decisions, and mother-daughter mayhem—it’s all in a day's pod.
THE SCARIEST STORIES ARE THE ONES THAT ARE TRUE.
Hello, everyone. I'm Lindsay, and I'm here with my mom, Nancy, as we explore the world of the paranormal. Ghosts, cryptids, hauntings, and all the things that go bump in the night. Whether you're a true believer or just love a good spooky story, you're in the right place. So grab a cup of whatever you like, turn on the lights, and let's get into it. Welcome back to Inherited Hauntings. Today we're going to talk about haunted dolls, why they freak us out, how deep the history goes, and the dolls that have terrified people for decades. You know
SPEAKER_01:what, Lindsay? I used to have a Harlequin doll. I don't know where it came from, but it was in my room when I was like a teenager.
SPEAKER_00:Just to confirm, a Harlequin is like a little jester, right? Yes.
SPEAKER_01:It had like a white face and like that weird black makeup. Okay. All right. It's
SPEAKER_00:giving clown.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. And I had that in my room for quite a while. I don't know why because it freaked me out and it was just ugly. And every time it looked at me, I thought it was telling me to clean up my freaking room. Really? It was giving you that vibe? Well, you should have seen my room when I was a teenager. So finally one day I was like, I'm done with you. I'm going to throw you away and I hope you don't come back to haunt me. Well, that's good. Did she ever come back?
SPEAKER_00:No. Oh, well, that's good. That's even better. I mean, I think we'd be doing our listeners a disservice if I didn't out that you played with dolls until you were 14.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, well, not dolls, dolls. I never was really into dolls, but I liked the Barbies for the fashion.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, okay. She has a passion for fashion. I've never had a personal experience with a haunted doll, but that is not for lack of trying. My husband will not let me get any. I've looked on eBay, Etsy, Craigslist and found all of these beautiful haunted dolls with all these stories attached to them. But he... will not have it.
SPEAKER_01:At least somebody has some sense, Lindsay. Why would you even think of doing that? That's disgusting. I'm
SPEAKER_00:just picturing like having my own like display of haunted dolls and like people, you know, there's this idea that people who sort of adopt a haunted doll and adopt that spirit can treat them with kindness like in the afterlife and like take care of them.
SPEAKER_01:I have no words.
UNKNOWN:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know where all this comes from. I
SPEAKER_00:don't know why everybody's against me all the time.
SPEAKER_01:Well, it does not sound very intelligent. Let me just put it that way.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, the gloves are off today, Mom. Good to know. When I mentioned to a friend today that we were doing an episode on haunted dolls, their immediate reaction was, dolls creep me the hell out. I really wonder where that comes from. So let's talk a little bit about... dolls through time and why they are so creepy.
SPEAKER_01:What's the history of dolls anyway?
SPEAKER_00:Well, the earliest account of dolls can be traced back to ancient Egypt. They use them in rituals and burial practices, but there was no record of hauntings attached to them. In Rome and in Greece, dolls were made of clay and wax and were used as offerings or toys. And in the Victoria era, I mean, we can all picture a Victorian doll, right? They were porcelain, eerily lifelike, wearing these very regal dresses. Some of them are even made with human hair. A whole generation raised on Uncanny Valley vibes. And for those who don't know, Uncanny Valley is this effect where something is like too human to be cute, but not human enough to be safe. And I think that's part of why dolls are so scary to people.
SPEAKER_01:Can you explain that again? Uncanny Valley effect?
SPEAKER_00:So the uncanny valley is a phenomenon where human-like robots or computer-generated images most often will be seemingly almost human, and it triggers these feelings of unease, disgust, or revulsion in observers. More often than not, you see this happening with avatars, dolls, puppets, robots. People are very disturbed by it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, okay. It's like you think a robot's cute, but you know it's a robot, so that's kind of unsettling.
SPEAKER_00:Since you're a nurse, think about like a CPR doll. It kind of looks like a dude, but you know it's not a dude. So it's a little weird to see half a torso kind of laying out in front of you.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00:So that's how people feel about dolls. They look so human-like, but they're not, and it gives people the ick. Another reason why dolls can be so scary is the symbolism behind them. Dolls are associated with innocence, and when we think about a haunted or a creepy doll like we see in media, it sort of corrupts that image. So childlike objects behaving with malice is really not a lot of people's cup of tea.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, like Chucky.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly like Chucky. And I mean, the reason we're all here today, the possession potential. They're small, human-like vessels, which is the perfect recipe for a paranormal host.
SPEAKER_01:So what's the difference between a haunted doll and a cursed doll?
SPEAKER_00:Well, here's the difference. Haunted means it's inhabited by a spirit, ghost, or other supernatural entity. Cursed means that the object was placed under a spell or a hex that causes misfortune or bad luck. Like when I think of cursed objects, I think of a lot of the valuables that were buried in the tombs with the mummies in Egypt. And when those were excavated by the English back in the late 1800s, early 1900s, they would be cursed by taking that chalice, you know, those riches out of their tomb.
SPEAKER_01:So there's a curse and if you have it, there's a hex. If you do something wrong, it causes bad luck. Sort of like taking treasure from the pirate's booty or something.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. You could take treasure right out of their booty.
SPEAKER_01:So, okay. And then haunted is basically possessed, I guess. So we have that down. Now, what are the explanations for these so-called haunted dolls?
SPEAKER_00:Well, there's always two sides to every story, right? So we have our paranormal believer and are skeptics. So the skeptic side includes this concept of pareidolia, which is seeing faces or assuming emotions in inanimate objects. So your brain interpreting something as, oh, the doll moved a little bit. It's just your brain playing a trick on you. Another reasoning, which is actually my favorite one, is confirmation bias. So if somebody believes a doll is haunted and Everything becomes evidence. And we'll see some examples of this later when we talk about some of our haunted dolls, where, you know, this precedent is set that the doll is haunted and anybody who doesn't treat it with respect, bad things will happen to them. And then so any bad things that happen to them after they feel they've disrespected the doll is, of course, the doll's fault.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, you have to be, you know, a little bit pragmatic about all of these things. So... Yeah. I mean, if something bad happened to you after you saw the doll, is it the doll or was it just the normal course of life?
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. And I like to describe myself as paranormally, cautiously optimistic. I can't believe everything that I see, but if something has validity to me, who am I to say that it's not real?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So what is the paranormal believer's view of these haunted dolls?
SPEAKER_00:So there's this object attachment theory, where spirits attach themselves to familiar items, especially if loved by a child. So for example, if a child in the 1800s loved this doll more than anything, and unfortunately they passed from a fatal disease, people believe that because they loved the doll so much that they would be attached to and thus inhabit said doll. Another view is that these haunted objects work as vessels for demonic entities. You know, you think it's a little girl in the doll, but it's not really. And also, a lot of spiritual practitioners warn against keeping dolls in bedrooms or placing them near mirrors. A lot of that comes from being so vulnerable when you're sleeping and mirrors being seen as a potential portal for paranormal activity. It
SPEAKER_01:does sound kind of makes sense, though, don't you think? Because if you put a doll like facing a mirror, isn't there just something like unsettling about that? Like instinctually? Yeah,
SPEAKER_00:I don't think I would like to see a doll looking at itself in the mirror. I also think that, you know, if we talk about some of these porcelain dolls, they have very realistic glass eyes. And I don't really know if I want to see their own reflection in them I think I'm just all set
SPEAKER_01:I guess they were you know back in the olden days when they had these porcelain dolls they probably didn't little girls probably didn't have a lot to play with and that was what their moms did they stayed home and took care of all the babies so they wanted to emulate what their moms did and they that's all they had to do it with so I guess and they look probably brand new they didn't have like cracked faces and tangled hair
SPEAKER_00:yeah I guess that's kind of cute when you think of it that way I think about all all the time that back when America was first settled, kids would play with like a hoop and a stick and be like, this is so much fun.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00:So I guess we've had to have some progress over the years. And now they make dolls that are insanely lifelike. I don't know if you've ever seen these reborn dolls that look like newborn babies. They actually have the weight, the look, the feel. They look like a baby. It's wild.
SPEAKER_01:I don't think I would like that. I
SPEAKER_00:don't blame you. So we all know the most famous haunted doll. And mom, I would love if you could tell us a little bit about her.
SPEAKER_01:Anna Bell is a movie star, and she did not start out that way. Right now, she is a faded Raggedy Ann. And I don't know if you've ever seen like a real Raggedy Ann, but they were very popular back in the 70s. People could make them themselves pretty easily with a sewing machine.
SPEAKER_00:People would make them themselves?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I had one.
SPEAKER_00:Oh,
SPEAKER_01:yeah. One of my mom's friends made it.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't know that. I thought that was like a brand.
SPEAKER_01:No, they were pretty easy to make.
SPEAKER_00:I don't think I've ever even seen one in real life, to be honest. Well, I have, but just behind a pane of glass.
SPEAKER_01:I'll tell you something, Lindsay. I had one. My mom got it for me when I was a girl. You know, the face was kind of clownish. And the hair was kind of clownish and the clothes were kind of.
SPEAKER_00:I think she is a clown. I
SPEAKER_01:guess that's why she's clown.
SPEAKER_00:With love and respect. Like she, I think that was the intention. Why
SPEAKER_01:would anybody do that? I
SPEAKER_00:don't know what happened in the course of history where people decided kids love clowns. I
SPEAKER_01:know.
SPEAKER_00:It's never worked out for anybody. Let's be real.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so she right now sits behind glass. Her stitched smile is frozen. But before she was locked away in the Ed and Lorraine Warren's Occult Museum, Annabelle lived in a small apartment in 1970s Connecticut.
SPEAKER_00:Good for her.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. A nursing student who lived with another nursing student in an apartment was gifted the doll to her for her birthday by her mom. I don't know why her mom would think a teenage girl would want a Raggedy Ann doll, but...
SPEAKER_00:I don't know. You've probably gotten me some pretty questionable gifts over the years.
SPEAKER_01:I know. I think I bought you a beach towel one year for your birthday.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_01:So anyway, she was a birthday gift, but... Almost immediately, things started to happen that were kind of funny about the doll. Like, they put the doll on the bed. And then, you know, the next time they came in the room, the doll was like, on its side or on a different part of the bed.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, I mean, I could explain that away, maybe.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So then they, you know, started talking to each other about it. And Then she started appearing in entirely different rooms. And so the girls thought they were each like playing a trick on each other with... Oh. Or, you know, it was their imagination or, you know, maybe somebody wasn't paying attention and moved it and forgot about it. But it definitely kind of spooked them. And then one day they came home and they found handwritten notes on parchment paper in like a childlike handwriting that said, help us.
SPEAKER_00:Ew.
SPEAKER_01:And they don't have any parchment paper in their apartment. Then one day, they came home to find what looked like blood on Annabelle's, what would be her hands. And they said, this is enough. They contacted a medium. And then the medium told them that, oh, it's the spirit of a little girl named Annabelle Higgins, who used to live nearby, but she died. And now she's attached to the doll. And she is not harmful at all. She is just a little girl. I
SPEAKER_00:know she's a Raggedy Ann doll in my heart of hearts, but it's so hard to not picture the Annabelle doll from the Conjuring movies.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, every time you see that nightmare of a doll.
SPEAKER_00:She looks, you know what she looks like? She looks like Slappy the puppet from Goosebumps. That's what she looks like, Slappy. You
SPEAKER_01:know, they have to do the drama, but it's like, who would ever think to make a doll that looked like
SPEAKER_00:that? Yeah, they made it pretty unbelievable. Oh,
SPEAKER_01:wait, no, we're going to talk about some other dolls that are pretty ugly. Anyway, so the medium told them that, oh, it's just a little spirit of a little girl. So they agreed to, you know, let the doll stay. They thought they were doing something nice. And then the activity intensified. One night, Angie's boyfriend woke up, felt like he was being choked. And when he woke up, he saw like scratches on his chest. And there was other unexplained situations that
SPEAKER_00:I'd like to know if he woke up with the doll on top of him or if they just like accused the doll. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01:I think if it was on top of him, of course, you know, he would have said that. But he just kind of felt like he was being attacked. And when he woke up, he had scratches.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:So there was also some unexplained knocking. And when somebody thought they even heard like a low growl.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. If you hear a growl and smell rotten eggs, it's time to go.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Or if you hear get out.
SPEAKER_00:That would do it for you?
UNKNOWN:That's enough?
SPEAKER_01:Get out. Okay, so they called Ed and Lorraine Warren. Ed and Lorraine Warren lived in Connecticut. They're famous parapsychology investigators.
SPEAKER_00:The dynamic duo.
SPEAKER_01:Trailblazers. And so Ed and Lorraine Warren stepped in. Lorraine reported to be a psychic and a medium, and Ed Warren had a lot of knowledge about demonology. And so they did a lot of investigating, and they determined that there was no child spirit in this doll, that it was a demonic entity using the doll as a conduit. The whole goal was to actually kind of possess one of the girls there, so... Yikes. They took the doll and they put her in their museum of haunted objects with a warning. Do not open under any circumstances.
SPEAKER_00:If a doll has its own security detail, it's not a toy. It's a hostage situation.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. How many dolls are unlocking key? Gosh. Yeah. Annabelle. People that have visited her, they blame her for fatal accidents involving people who mocked her or disrespected the case that she's locked in.
SPEAKER_00:She said, put some respect on my name. That's what she says.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, there's, you know, this huge story that one man tapped on the glass and then crashed his motorcycle on the way home.
SPEAKER_00:Hmm, I guess we'll never know. Well, thank you so much for sharing that, Mom. Now you tell me. So view at your own risk. I already
SPEAKER_01:looked at the pictures.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I did too. So if we're going down, we're going down together. So long before there was Chucky or Megan, which if you haven't seen that movie, there's going to be a sequel. You absolutely should. It's lovely. There was Robert, the OG doll of nightmares. So in the early 1900s in Key West, Florida, a young boy named Eugene Otto received a doll from a servant in the family's home. The servant, reportedly skilled in voodoo and angry with the family, gave the doll to the boy as a gift. Eugene loved the doll. He named it Robert and took him everywhere. Dressed in a cute little sailor suit and stuffed with straw, Robert looked innocent, but the household soon became very unnerved. Late at night, Eugene's parents heard their son talking to someone and a deep, unfamiliar voice responding. What would you do if you heard that coming out of my room?
SPEAKER_01:That sounds like every haunted movie I've ever seen, like every horror movie where they move into a new house and the child is in the bedroom talking to somebody. But actually, this is even more haunting because then you hear like a different voice. So that's really what would I do? Well, I think I would probably get rid of the doll.
SPEAKER_00:All righty. I get creeped out when I hear those stories of people like seeing or hearing things over the baby monitor. That's a big no-no for me.
SPEAKER_01:There's a lot of, yeah, that stuff. So strange voices, deep unfamiliar voices are no bueno.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. So strange accidents started happening around the house. Eugene blamed Robert. When furniture was knocked over or toys were broken, he'd say, Robert did it. Neighbors claimed they saw the doll move from window to window when the family wasn't home. Oh, my God. Could you even imagine? You're like, I'd be like, honey, come look. The neighbor's doll has moved again. That would be my favorite pastime. I
SPEAKER_01:don't understand why they kept the doll.
SPEAKER_00:I think he just loved it so much, you know? And maybe they thought it was all crap.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So today, as Eugene grew up, he actually kept the doll. Even after his parents passed, he moved Robert into the turret room of his home. He had his own room. Visitors reported feeling watched, objects moved, and cameras malfunctioning, which I have to wonder if this was the early 1900s. We're even talking like the mid 1900s. How functional are these cameras to begin with?
SPEAKER_01:No
SPEAKER_00:offense to
SPEAKER_01:you. Yeah, in the early 1900s, I was a teenager. I do remember having a camera. No, I mean, they had cameras back in the 60s. So, you know, as he grew up and he was, you know, in his 50s, then there was cameras.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, that's fair enough. So we're missing some info on what happened between when Eugene was no longer Robert's caregiver to today, where Robert lives in the East Martello Museum in Key West. He's inside a glass case, but guests are warned, ask his permission before taking his photo. People who forget to show respect, they say Robert punishes them. And here's an example of a letter they've received. This is from their website. And they have actual scans of the letters on their website too. So this one says, I would like to start off by apologizing to you for being rude and taking your picture without having your permission. When I initially asked you for permission and almost immediately started having chest pain, I should have known that it wasn't okay to take your picture. Again, I am truly sorry for not listening to you. Since visiting you about three years ago, my house has been struck by lightning three times. Also, a rental home I was scheduled to vacation at caught fire the night before I was to check in. Two nights later, the rental home we were actually able to stay at was struck by lightning as well. What do you think about that, Mom?
SPEAKER_01:That's a lot of lightning.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, they say lightning doesn't strike twice, but I guess if you disrespect Robert... It strikes four times. The museum receives hundreds of apology letters every year, just like this one, from people that are begging Robert for forgiveness after losing their jobs, getting divorced, or being injured following a disrespectful encounter with him.
SPEAKER_01:Well, that does sound pretty bad. I would never want to go actually see that thing or take a picture of it.
SPEAKER_00:Really? You want to be in the room with them?
SPEAKER_01:I want to be on the safe side, Lindsay. You're the one that would go buy a haunted doll.
SPEAKER_00:I want to live in a haunted house with my haunted dolls and my little ghosties. And I would be happy as a clam.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh. Who are you? I
SPEAKER_00:don't know. I don't even know how I'm cut from your cloth, to be honest.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, what did I do?
SPEAKER_00:You created a monster.
SPEAKER_01:Well, there's some other haunted dolls. Have you heard about Okiku?
SPEAKER_00:Okiku.
SPEAKER_01:The Japanese doll. Around the same era. Okay. In Japan, a young boy or teenager bought the doll in Hokkaido for his little baby sister, Okiku. And she later died of an illness. Aw. The family placed the doll on an altar to remember her. I
SPEAKER_00:love that about... Eastern culture, the altars that they have for those that have passed on are so beautiful. They
SPEAKER_01:do have a lot of respect for their deceased ancestors and family members. So over time, they noticed that the doll's hair seemed longer and seemed to be growing. Excuse me? The doll had long black hair. You can look it up on the internet. Very cute little doll. And they put it on the mantle and they noticed that the doll's hair was growing. So when they moved away, they entrusted the doll to the Menengi temple and the monks there accepted it. And the monks even today claim that the hair continues to grow. They've trimmed it and it grows back.
SPEAKER_00:My eyes are literally watering right now. This is terrifying. I don't like hair growing on little dolls. I don't need it. It
SPEAKER_01:makes me think, well, Maybe the doll's hair was made of actual hair, but the monks think the spirit of the Okiku child resides in the doll.
SPEAKER_00:Hmm, okay.
SPEAKER_01:And while it sounds like folklore, there was a scientific analysis in the 2000s claiming that the hair is indeed human and that of a young child.
SPEAKER_00:Holy shit!
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so there's a few unexplained doll things going around. There's another one. There's a doll in Canada. believed to be from 1910. I guess all the creepy dolls were made in the early 1900s. This one was donated to a museum in the 1990s, and this is kind of like one of those porcelain face dolls that, you know, you often see the faces cracked, and this is kind of not a very... Cuddly looking. But this doll reportedly wept at night when she was still in her previous owner's home. And when she was in the museum, they experienced strange occurrences as far as echoing footsteps in the hall. Electronic devices were failing near her. So they keep her in a glass case away from the other dolls because, according to Lore, she doesn't play nice with others.
SPEAKER_00:Ooh, okay, Mandy. At least she knows what she wants.
SPEAKER_01:I've seen so many paranormal videos of dolls that actually do seem to move on their own, heads turning. I really think that it's probably more common than we think. As far as, you know, spirits inhabiting a doll.
SPEAKER_00:But you know what? You know what? You don't see like a haunted My Little Pony. You don't see like a haunted Cabbage Patch or a haunted Beanie Baby. Why are they all creepy and old and terrifying? Do you think in the future we'll have haunted Beanie Babies? And if so, I'm in a lot of trouble.
SPEAKER_01:That's a good question.
SPEAKER_00:So the last doll that I wanted to talk about today is Letta the doll, which is short for Letta me out. She's located in Australia and allegedly dates back to 200 years ago. She was found under a house by Kerry Walton in Wagga Wagga, which I will say Australia does not sound like a real place. Wagga Wagga Australia sounds made up. I haven't been there, so I don't know, but I'm just saying. If anybody wants to fly me out there and prove me wrong, please do. So Letta, short for Letta Meow, is believed to have been made by a Romany. Strange events followed its discovery.
SPEAKER_01:Sorry, she was made by what?
SPEAKER_00:You can't say that word anymore. It's Romany.
SPEAKER_01:Really?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You can't say gypsy
SPEAKER_00:either? No, you can't say gypsy. Well, you can say Romanian, but like Romanian gypsies go by Roma or Romany now.
SPEAKER_01:Oh. So what was Romany doing in Australia 200 years ago?
SPEAKER_00:Well, maybe the doll was made there and then... Or
SPEAKER_01:sold. Yeah, I guess they travel.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So strange events followed its discovery. Dogs barked and cowered around it. I don't know if that says much because my dog is afraid of bunnies. So people fainted near it. That's a lot. Yeah. And storms erupted when it was taken outside... The doll reportedly moves on its own and changes facial expressions.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I hope it does, because if you have ever seen a picture of it, it looks like an angry librarian.
SPEAKER_00:Well, you better hope she's not listening to this right now. She might not be very happy with you.
SPEAKER_01:Well, that's just a few of these purported haunted dolls that we've uncovered in our history. This is from when we started recording history. Of course, you know, four or five hundred years ago, we don't have much as far as information about children's toys and those kind of superstition things. So
SPEAKER_00:there must be so much that we don't know.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, there's so much history.
SPEAKER_00:That's been passed down orally or through song, right? or just in languages that we will never understand that have been lost.
SPEAKER_01:I would not 100% doubt that there are or have been dolls throughout history that started to, let's just say, take on a life of their own.
SPEAKER_00:A really good way to put it, I guess. Okay, so today we talked about Annabelle, Robert the doll, Okiku, Mandy the doll, and Letta the doll. So... If you had to have one as a roommate, which one would you choose? I
SPEAKER_01:think the one with the hair growing. For real? It's the least spooky. I don't think I would like to hear a doll crying in the middle of the night. I would not want a doll that moves on its own. And I wouldn't want a doll that kind of purses you if you don't pay it respect. So and then, you know, Annabelle, she moved on her own too. So yeah, let's just go with the one that grows hair.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, that's a solid choice, I guess. I would have to choose Robert simply because I love the idea of him like going window to window in my house.
SPEAKER_01:Like your
SPEAKER_00:dog. Exactly. I feel like him and my dog would keep each other company. I pull in the driveway and I see them in the window waiting for me, loving their eyes. And I think my only sort of thing that would be holding me back from it is that my husband is on the skeptical side and I wouldn't want him to accidentally disrespect Robert if I'm not home. This past weekend was Easter and we had almost the whole family together. And I went around the room and I asked everybody on a scale of one to 10, one being no way in hell and 10 being a million percent, I believe. What would you rate yourself on believing in ghosts?
SPEAKER_01:I remember that.
SPEAKER_00:And my husband was a five right down the middle.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. And I think mine was too.
SPEAKER_00:Yep. So I guess they balance us out.
SPEAKER_01:And then I think the average was probably a seven out of everybody.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think so too.
SPEAKER_01:So I think more people believe in possibility, like it's more possible than not.
SPEAKER_00:I think maybe more than we've realized too. I
SPEAKER_01:mean, this is just anecdotal, but I mean, if we asked 100 people, I... I think we might get something close to the same. Who knows? So would you keep a doll that gives you a creepy feeling?
SPEAKER_00:I mean, I want a doll that keeps... I want a doll that gives me a creepy feeling.
SPEAKER_01:Lindsay, no.
SPEAKER_00:What if I just went to the flea market? Like, what if I... Don't. Don't go to the flea market. What about you and your antiques?
SPEAKER_01:I got some movies to show you about the Dybbuk box and all that kind of stuff. If you see a doll... A doll at the flea market. Don't buy it. We want to know if anybody else had weird childhood toy stories.
SPEAKER_00:And I know they do. I know there are people out there that have had creepy dolls that they didn't want, that their nana forced on them, or people who had a speak and spell that spoke to them in the night. And I want to know. Maybe you'll convince me not to get any haunted dolls. I'm sure mom would be really appreciative of that. Oh God, please don't. She's so scared. I wouldn't go to your house. Okay, I'm definitely getting a haunted doll then. Just kidding.
SPEAKER_01:I'd sneak in and throw it away. Oh,
SPEAKER_00:but then you'd touch it. What if you disrespected it and it showed up at your house?
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah, that would make a good movie too.
SPEAKER_00:Write that down, write that down.
SPEAKER_01:So now's a good time too to remind people if you follow our show, that would really help us out.
SPEAKER_00:Of course. And as always, just remember, the scariest stories are the ones that are true.
