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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 452: The Lore of Time Out Dolls

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Time Out Dolls, also known as Corner Dolls, Pouting Dolls, or Shy Dolls, are toddler-sized dolls posed with their faces hidden, mimicking a child being punished or sulking. These dolls became iconic at car shows, often posed against vehicles to hide dents and some owners even dress the dolls to match their cars. However, there's also an eerie and unsettling aspect to these dolls linking them to viral videos and urban legends with claims of possessions and hauntings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up you guys? I'm Andrea. And I'm Haley. And you're listening to Inhuman, a true crime podcast. Welcome. Welcome back, everybody.

0:26.3

Happy day.

0:28.0

Happy spooky season.

0:30.2

Today's episode, as you can tell by the title, is a nod to spooky season.

0:36.2

And if you guys remember, it wasn't the last listener's story, but I think it was the one

0:42.8

before that, maybe in September.

0:46.5

Yeah, I think it was, because I think I know what you're going to say.

0:50.0

One of you lovely humans sent us in a story about something that I know I had never heard of,

0:56.9

and I don't think you had either, had you?

0:58.9

No, I had not.

1:00.7

And it's something that thoroughly creeped both of us the heck out.

1:06.2

And that was something called time out dolls.

1:11.9

Even just like the saying that gives me the chills.

1:16.4

Oh, let me just tell you the whole time.

1:18.9

Okay, so basically since I heard about them, I have not stopped thinking.

1:24.3

I'm not saying like it was constantly on my mind, but just random times throughout my day,

1:29.6

it would just pop into my head. And I was like, you know what? I want to know more. I don't know

1:35.1

why I want to know more, but I need to know more. It's pretty for spooky season. It is. And I am

1:42.2

going to be deep diving, question mark, into the war of these dolls and sharing some spooky oaky tales about them as well.

1:54.4

And I know this is not, you know, our typical content, but, you know, it's spooky season, like I said. And there is one

2:03.8

true crime link that I'm going to share that may actually shock you. Okay. I have been so excited

2:12.5

since I saw you put this on our case list. I have been just waiting for the day come. Well, today is the day,

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