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We're all doing the best we can in a true shitstorm of a dystopian hellscape.

Hopefully today's episode about a creepy island full of haunted dolls will take your

mind off of things for a little while.

Are you afraid of dolls? Do their wide, insipid eyes creep you out? Do you shudder when you see

the uncanny valley in their lifeless expression?

Do you recoil at their homunculus proportions? Do you cringe at the false cry, unnatural skin

tone, false sweetness, and mechanical blinking of a fake baby?

Welcome to strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.

I wasn't much of a doll guy growing up.

I had a lot of what we used to call stuffed animals,

but are now called stuffies,

which to me either sounds like a popular dish

here in New England involving clams and stuffing

or some kind of weird sexual kink, but not a ton of dolls.

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