Robert the Doll, Part Two | The Grave Talks
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🗓️ 18 January 2026
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Summary
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO
Robert the Doll is widely considered one of the most terrifying cursed objects in the world—and for more than a century, his reputation has only grown darker.
In 1904, the straw doll was gifted to a young boy named Robert Eugene Otto. What followed was a bond that went far beyond childhood imagination. Soon, strange and unsettling events began unfolding inside the Otto family home—objects moving on their own, disembodied laughter, voices that didn’t belong to any living person. Visitors claimed the doll changed expressions. Some believed something else was looking out through his glassy eyes.
To this day, legend holds that a malevolent spirit inhabits Robert, attached to him for reasons never fully explained. Now housed at the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Robert continues to leave a trail of unexplained misfortune, apologies, and warnings from those who fail to show him respect.
In this episode of The Grave Talks, we’re joined by Dan Radomski, Robert’s longtime dolltender, to discuss the history, the hauntings, and why Robert the Doll may still be watching.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the most haunted doll in America, Robert the Doll, with dolltender Dan Radomsky. |
| 0:13.0 | Robert the Doll is known as one of the world's most terrifying dolls and as Key West's most cursed object. |
| 0:21.3 | In 1904, he was a gift to Robert Eugene Otto, and they developed a strong and strange |
| 0:27.6 | bond, and before long, unexplained things started happening in their house. |
| 0:33.2 | Legend has it that this 118-year-old straw doll is still haunted by a malevolent spirit to this day. |
| 0:41.3 | Robert the doll now resides in the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, and the strange occurrences continue to happen. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm Carol Hughes, and on this episode of The Grave Talks, we'll talk more about Robert |
| 0:55.7 | the doll as well as the hauntings of Fort East Martello and Key West with dolltender Dan Radomsky. |
| 1:06.0 | Let's talk about Fort Martello. |
| 1:09.2 | When was that built? |
| 1:15.4 | This is like 18, like 50s, early 60s? They built it during the Civil War. They started in 1862. So the Civil War history in Key West is interesting. It was the only southern city that never belonged to the Confederacy. It had always belonged to the union. |
| 1:29.7 | So the war kicked off in 1861, but there was already a military presence in Key West, Fort |
| 1:37.0 | Zachary Taylor. It's a big fortress. It's still there today. It's a state park now. Early in the war, |
| 1:43.1 | this union captain, Captain Brandon, he knew that |
| 1:45.9 | Key West would be a very good strategic position for the union to hold. So he took about 30 men. |
| 1:51.5 | They came down to Key West. They claimed Fort Zachary Taylor for themselves, and nobody opposed |
| 1:56.6 | them. So the next morning, everybody wakes up and Key West belongs to the union and it remains under |
| 2:02.1 | their control for the rest of the war. They were worried, though, that the Confederacy up in Florida, |
| 2:06.9 | that they would try to come down to Key West, they would try to attack and take the island over. |
| 2:11.4 | So they started to build more fortifications to help defend it there. And that's why Fort East |
| 2:16.4 | Martello exists. And that's why they started to |
| 2:19.1 | build that. They started working on it in 1862. That's when the construction kicked off there. |
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