Suddenly, we see Vlad has a sensitive side… Oops! Let that one slip! Poor guy just can’t throw out his demon doll.
Funny thing is, as much as I find dolls creepy, I develop and attachment to them, no matter how ugly, weird or scary. There seems to be a “living” aspect to them. This goes for stuffed animals etc… I don’t even punch my pillow because I’d feel guilty about wounding it. (Yes, call me strange… I can take it.)
There are teachings expressing everything is alive, everything is an aspect of creation and therefore, should be honored. The Native Americans (which some of my heritage comes from) felt spirit resided in everything. So, the doll having a spirit of it’s own is not too far off base.
This brings us to haunted dolls…
In the Key West Martello Museum of Florida and former resident of the Otto family in the late 1800s, there resides a doll called Robert. Robert has a reputation for talking with children, torturing, and walking around in his attic.
Robert was created by a servant of the Ottos. It was well known the family was wealthy and unkind to those who served them. There are just some folks you don’t mess with… the servant cared for their son Robert Eugene (Gene) Otto. She was a practitioner of Voodoo. The life-sized, straw-stuffed doll became the best friend of young Robert.
His parents would here him talking to his doll; answers followed, but not in the voice of their child… So who was talking back? The legend says it was Robert the doll responding to his young charge. The Ottos would hear the doll giggle and claimed to see it running about the house.
Poltergeist activity kicked up about the doll, overturning things in the boy’s room, scaring him. Subsequently, Robert the doll was relegated to the attic. Guests of the house would experience the sounds of giggling and someone walking in the attic.
When Gene died in 1972, another family bought the home. Their ten-year-old daughter discovered Robert. To this day she claims the doll tortured her.
So what of Robert now? He sits in his chair at the museum… just hanging around for the next adventure.
Is this doll haunted? I would suspect there is a spirit of a young child attached to it. Children can be mischievous and would likely create a ruckus if they did not get their way – so in spirit as they were in life…
The museum reports Robert is still actively running about and giggling away.
*Info snaked from: http://www.xomba.com/meet_robert_the_haunted_doll_story_and_picture
GUEST DRAW SUNDAY – K.J. McCormick of Ghost Hunters!
Yes, I cornered K.J., new addition to SyFy’s Ghost Hunters, for a Guest Draw on Twitter recently. He is excited to join the Guest Draw Archives of Entities-R-Us! (TO ACCESS GUEST DRAW ARCHIVES: search GD)
K.J. admitted to digging through the archives and is a new fan of Entities-R-Us. I’m sure he’ll wind up in a few more Guest Draws since If find him easy to draw! Hee hee.
Also coming up is Michelle Belanger, psychic medium from Paranormal State. She awesomely agreed to let me abuse her vampire nature. AND, Alexandra Holzer is also on deck! She’ll lead off after K.J. as her comic is inked already.
Eat Cookies, Hunt Ghosts, Read Comics!
Tj
P.S.
DUSTIN PARI GUEST DRAW of the MONTH T-Shirts, mug and poster available for a limited time only! I will switch this off next month, so get on the stick and order yours today if you are a Dustin Pari fan or just love that comic!
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AVOID THE CHRISTMAS RUSH on Entities-R-Us Books!
Entities-R-Us, Ghost Hunter Comic – Paranormal Humor for the Ghost Hunter’s Soul is available on Create Space or Amazon!
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COMING THIS WEEK, New Entities Calendars! The regular calendar will be available on the regular cafe press store: http://www.cafepress.com/EntitiesRUs
The ALL NEW GUEST DRAW CALENDAR will be available here: http://www.cafepress.com/ERUGuestDraw (I hope to have these up today or tomorrow.)
