What's the whole actual deal with haunted dolls?

To answer that question, we have to start all the way back in ancient Egypt with little figurines called Ushaptis,

and then on to Victorian mourning dolls made to look like idealized versions of dead children.

Enter Robert the doll, who might be the first truly haunted doll on American record, from a place

none other than Key West Florida, and who, for more than a hundred years, has been independently

witnessed moving, mocking children, locking people in rooms, and cursing anyone who doesn't

ask permission before taking a picture. But why stop there? We're also talking about West African hoodoo poppets, Japanese Sukumogami, and the night parade,

where countless household objects march through the empty streets of Kyoto, which of course

brings us back to Mexico City and those damned mannequins.

But maybe none of these things are monsters.

Maybe they're part of an alternative conscious ecosystem.

Or maybe it's just phantoms and projections all the way down.

Anyway, you can come decide for yourself this week on Dodds, Ghosts, and UFOs,

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