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Welcome back everyone to one thousand one heroes legends histories and mysteries podcast

this is your host John Heggdorn and it's great to be back with you today. Today's story

urban legends number 10 and yes we've done nine of them in the past five years

and I highly recommend you search one thousand one heroes for urban legends if you'd like to catch

up on them. I love them all but my favorite is shall urban legends number two titled The Legend

of Bunnyman which like all of our urban legends is really a collection of urban legend stories.

Be sure to catch the English professor which comes up as number eight in urban legends two

that's one of the funniest stories we have ever covered. I have a few more urban legends

collections coming for you in the coming weeks and months starting with today's episode

urban legends number 10 haunted dolls and lonely dummies. It might have been our Salem stories

and interviews that got me thinking about this but would really launch that was an experience I

hit up in Pennsylvania a few years ago. Before we get into that story I need to tell you that the

subject of haunted dolls is definitely not for children or for persons of all ages who collect

dolls which do not have a supposed connection to the paranormal. The discussion of dolls which

have somehow taken on the souls of the dead is a spine-gilling topic which connects with paranormal

events and dates back to early times. Today's urban legend collection begins with a personal

recollection then covers the stories of haunted dolls followed by the story of ventriloquist

Edgar Bergen and his wise cracking dummy Charlie McCarthy. The following personal recollection

is true. Some years ago my wife was notified that her uncle whom we will call Uncle Lu

had died and that she had been named executor of his estate. We were tasked with traveling

up to Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet with his attorney. The funeral home director

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