| What's more fun than traumatic childhood experiences? Nothing, that's what. Here's Michelle Rowen's entry into our Halloween of Horrors and therapy bills... ****************************  When I was a kid I went with my friend to visit her relatives for a weekend in Quebec. They were very nice but they had a whole roomful of creepy-looking china dolls. One of them had a very pale white face, black hair and a black dress on and while it was a beautiful doll, it looked very sad. I was looking at it when the husband of the collector decided to tell me that it was because the doll had lost her husband in the Second World War, she was in mourning, and she'd slit her wrists because she was so distraught over her loss. Now her spirit haunts the doll and the room I stood in. Then he turned around and shut the door behind him leaving me in the dark holding the scariest f*cking doll in the history of the universe. I freaked out, started bawling my eyes out and ran about three blocks away until they lured me back and the dude apologized for being a dick and scaring the beejeezus out of me.To this day I hate collectable china dolls. HATE THEM. I am still TRAUMATIZED by this experience. *shivers* However, I don't have a problem with Ouija boards which have given me hours of fun over the years. Just dolls. I only collected teddy bears as a kid after the above experience. **************************** Thanks Michelle! Anyone else feel like going down to the toy store with me? Christmas is only a couple of months away and we do love us some Michelle. |
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Ohh I feel your pain. I had a similar incident, but the dick was my brother.
I had a toy monkey that was made with rabbit for or some lovely animal. Apparently it was handmade.
I LOVED that monkey. It was my favorite toy. Until aforementioned dick figured out he could take the FACE off the monkey!
I was terrified of the thing. I was like 3? And I still have nightmares of the faceless monkey. Man my brother could be a kill joy.....hmmmm
Revenge 35 years later seems in order.
Great post!
I never had a creepy doll experience, but Anne Rice ruined any chance of me ever liking them. Anyone else remember Claudia's collection?
Porcelain dolls are innately creepy.
There's a story in Augusten Burroughs' Possible Side Effects about a weekend B&B getaway that is hilarious and doll-laden.
Can't remember the title.
For me it was Karen Black and Tiki dolls...*shudder*
Dolls remind me of Chuckie.
Enough said ;)
For some reason the Living Dead dolls just aren't as creepy as the dolls that aren't trying to be creepy.
http://www.livingdeaddolls.com/lddsite.html
My husband is terrified of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. No clue why but he literally freaks out at the sight of them.
Lisa - I remember that movie. Trilogy of Terror - written by Richard Matheson (I Am Legend author). That little doll freaked me out too.
I still to this day don't like clown dolls. I don't like anything to do with clowns period.
I'm from a city in California called Sunnyvale (and for you Buffy fans, no, it's not the Hellmouth---that's SunnyDALE) which has a haunted Toys 'R' Us. When I was growing up, there was talk of a baby doll that cried "mama" even though she wasn't one of those kind of dolls. That's probably the freakiest "doll" story I know.
Here's the Snopes article about it:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/toysrus.asp
We never went to that Toys 'R' Us when I was a kid.