Annabelle Isn't Alone: The World's Most Dangerous Dolls

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Annabelle is the doll everyone knows — but she's far from the only one locked behind glass for a reason. From a marionette that screamed to be let out of a car trunk to a porcelain figure that reportedly killed a man for mocking her, these are the dolls that move on their own, scratch their owners in the dark, and refuse to stay where they're put.

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Haunted dolls seems to be a dime a dozen, and can even be found on sale, but for all of the strange phenomena surrounding these creations, surely the most frightening of all, are dolls that are not only haunted, but also the residences of hateful, violent forces that seek to harm or destroy us. (Sinister Accounts of Evil Haunted Dolls) *** A woman who had never experienced anything paranormal, suddenly has odd things happen around her after visiting a spiritualist. (Has Our Home Been Invaded By A Paranormal Entity Since Visiting a Spiritualist?) *** He’s tall, he takes over your thoughts and movements – removing all free will. He has several arms… and no face. Slenderman came into being around 2009 – so what were people seeing thousands of years ago that has the same description? (Mystery of the Faceless Creature) *** Between 1986 and 1989, at least eight individuals and possibly an additional four more were killed in the Colonial Parkway area of Virginia. The serial killer has never been found and the Colonial Parkway murders remain unsolved. (The Colonial Parkway Killer) *** It is said that if she is hailed by another ship, her crew will often try to send messages to land or to people long since dead. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is reckoned by seafarers to be a sign of impending doom. Her name is The Flying Dutchman. (The Legend of the Flying Dutchman) *** The body of a young woman is found floating in the Miami River outside of Dayton, Ohio. The coroner found nothing to indicate violence; the police believed otherwise. Even after digging her body out of the grave twice, there are still questions about what happened. (The Bessie Little Mystery)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:02:14.564 = Show Open
00:04:54.201 = Evil Haunted and Cursed Dolls
00:44:05.161 = Has Our Home Been Invaded By a Paranormal Entity Since Visiting a Spiritualist? ***
00:46:12.270 = Mystery of the Faceless Creature
00:53:06.897 = The Flying Dutchman
00:57:23.269 = The Colonial Parkway Killer ***
01:03:13.971 = The Bessie Little Mystery
01:10:34.146 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Sinister Accounts of Evil Haunted Dolls” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: http://bit.ly/2m5AQor
“Mystery of the Faceless Creature – Ancient and Modern Sightings” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: http://bit.ly/2lGveAL
“The Colonial Parkway Killer” by Jim Harper for Historic Mysteries: http://bit.ly/2kboNW8
“The Legend of the Flying Dutchman” posted at Ghost-Story.co.uk: http://bit.ly/2kyNZWD
“The Bessie Little Mystery” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: http://bit.ly/2k5Ixu3
“Has Our Home Been Invaded By A Paranormal Entity Since Visiting a Spiritualist?” by Jane Lois Collins, posted at MyHauntedLifeToo.com: http://bit.ly/2k5Inmr
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Originally aired: June 19, 2018

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0:00.0	The monitor flatlines. The doctors work fast. The paddles charge. His family watches from the corner of the room.
0:11.0	And Bob Frisbee, husband, father, lifelong pilot, feels something snap.
0:18.0	He wakes in a room he doesn't recognize.
0:22.1	No windows.
0:23.4	A door with no handle.
0:25.4	Light with no source.
0:27.6	And seated across a carved antique table is a man with a file, an impossibly thick file,
0:35.6	who introduces himself only as Mr. O. You're in the waiting room,
0:41.5	he says, and we have a great deal to get through. Everything Bob has ever done is in that file.
0:51.6	Every person he wronged and never faced. Every wound he carried that quietly poisoned
0:57.8	the people around him. Every dark corner of life that looked from the outside, perfectly ordinary.
1:05.5	Above them, a golden wheel appears, and the spokes that are dark are the ones that matter most.
1:12.8	But this isn't just a life review.
1:15.9	Behind the veil of the world Bob thought he knew something has been moving, ancient, deliberate,
1:22.8	with a face that doesn't belong on anything that was ever human.
1:27.5	There are forces here that don't want Bob to finish what he has started, and the waiting
1:32.1	room has an escape tunnel, but Mr. O. won't tell him where that leads.
1:38.9	The Waiting Room, a novel by L.A. Marzuli, the researcher who has spent decades pulling
1:43.9	back the veil on the
1:45.1	supernatural world, most people pretend isn't there. Narrated by Darren Marler. You die. Then,
1:53.7	the reckoning begins. The Waiting Room by L.A. Marzuli, a new audiobook available now on the audiobooks page at
2:02.6	Weird Darkness.com.
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