What's that at the foot of my bed? It's spooky and cute. I'm pretty sure it's dead. It's coming this way. Wait a minute, hey, I'm ghosted!

Hey, boo! It's me, Roz. I thought it would be fun if we did a spooky doll episode. Because of course, I'm like, I'm kind of obsessed with haunted dolls. I don't know. I have a thing about them. I'm kind of, I just like it. So this whole episode today is dedicated to that. What happened was,

a couple of weeks back or a couple of months ago, I actually happened to be late at night on my YouTube Explorer page, which always knows exactly what I want to be watching, which is a whole other kind of creepy. We don't have to get into. But anyway, I see this video from Vice. It says Creepy Doll Adoption Agency. And I'm like, what is this all about? And it's this wonderful company called Unsettling Toys,

and it's these two people, Brian and Sarah, he's a bartender, she's a school psychologist, and they have this company where they re-home creepy dolls, not specifically haunted ones, but a lot of them are haunted. And I'm like, these people are my kind of people, and then a bunch of listeners start sending me the video, and they just have a great approach to it.

Because I have talked many times, especially on my Patreon, about the whole industry of selling haunted dolls, and how I think there's a lot of scams involved in it, and whatever. These people, what they do is something completely different. And it's, it's honestly beautiful.

So we had a wonderful conversation, and I reached out to them, they're like, totally down, and they came up. So that's what you'll hear. But for this intro today, I wanted to talk more about other haunted dolls.

We've talked about a few on the show, you know, some of the famous ones, of course, Annabelle. And then I got real obsessed with the haunted Elsa doll that popped up in the news a couple years ago.

But there's a couple more that we haven't talked about. We never talked about Robert the doll. I don't think. But Robert the doll, that's one that I'm like genuinely afraid of, and like, just don't even want to talk about him because he's scary.

But if you're curious about him, look him up. He's in Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida. There's this article from mentalfloss.com about haunted dolls. And they say that Robert used to appear in windows.

He would change his facial expressions. And he played in the properties attic where he originally lived before he got to the museum.

It says that visitors to the museum have claimed to have fallen into misfortune after, quote, disrespecting the doll. So I have nothing bad to say about Robert. Robert, you are so handsome. And the best thing going on in Florida.

It even says Ozzy Osborne once blamed his health issues on a replica Robert doll. He purchased from the museum. What?

Robert, you're wonderful. One that I had never heard of is this one name.

Renis me. I don't know. I'm not a twilight person. When those movies were out, it wasn't really something that I was into. But apparently in twilight, the twilight saga colon breaking dawn, part one, Bella and Edward have a baby name.

Renis me. I think I'm saying this right. And there's a picture of her. And I guess it was a mixture of CGI and an animatronic doll. But the prop has been accused of malevolent sentience by people near the forever twilight display at the Chamber of Commerce in Fort Washington where the movie sets are.

There's a quote from Lizzie Andrews, who's the executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, who says, one day, she might be standing up straight. And then the next you come in another day and she's in a weird position.

It's like, is she moving around in there? We don't know. But we tell everybody that the display case cover is on her for their protection.

All right. And then there's this one, Okiiku, who is at the Maninji Temple in Hokkaido, Japan. If you happen to be in the neighborhood and you want to go see Okiiku, you're not allowed to take pictures of Okiiku.

So legend has it that the doll was originally purchased in 1918 and the original owner was named Kikuko. At the time, the doll had short hair. Now when Kikuko tragically passed away the following year, Okiku's hair began to grow out.

When the family moved away in 1939, they gave Okiku to monks at the temple. Today, her hair is nearly down to her knees. Some observers also report that a close inspection of Okiku's mouth reveals erupting teeth.

The hair products, maybe she's using neutrophil, our sponsor, get that hair looking right. And then of course, there is La Isla de las Muñecas, which is the island of dolls that's near Mexico City.

I've seen videos and stuff of this to island, lots of creepy looking dolls there. Local lore has it that the island's caretaker once came across a young girl who had drowned.

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