IF EVER YOU CHANCE TO TALK TO ME I OFTEN JOKE ABOUT ROBERT THE DOLL...WATCH OUT HE MAY JUST PARACHUTE OFF THE BACK OF THE JERSEY DEVIL WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT.. OR YOU MAY WAKE EARLY ONE MORNING TO HIS EXPRESSIONLESS FACE STARING BACK AT YOU FROM THE FOOT OF YOUR BED......... OK OK IM KIDDING.. MAYBE..
SO JUST WHO IS ROBERT THE DOLL.. WELL HE IS A DOLL WHO APPARENTLY HAS A MIND OF HIS OWN...AFTER DOING SOME RESEARCH.. THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND OUT.. READ ON
ROBERT THE DOLL WAS GIVEN TO KEY WEST ARTIST, ROBERT EUGENE OTTO BY HIS PARENTS IN THE LATE 1800'S.(I FIND IT ODD THAT HE NAMED THE DOLL AFTER HIMSELF.. HMMMM. *SCRATCHES MY HEAD*). OTTO'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS DOLL SOON BEGAN TO TAKE ON SOME ODD CHARACHTERISTICS, AND OFTEN TIMES OTTO WOULD BALME THE DOLL FOR ANY WRONGDOINGS AROUND THE HOUSE, THEN THE DOLL BEGAN TO FRIGHTEN EVEN OTTO, WHICH EVENTUALLY LED TO ROBERT THE DOLL BEING BANISHED TO THE ATTIC. TORMENTED BY HIS ISOLATION, ROBERT THE DOLL BEGAN TO ACT OUT MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN OF THE NEIGHBORHOD CHILDREN WHO WOULD BE TAUNTED BY THE DOLL FROM THE ATTIC WINDOW(I WONDER JUST WHAT ROBERT WAS DOING TO THOSE POOR KIDS..LOL). EVENTUALLY THEY TOOK DIFFERENT ROUTES TO SCHOOL TO AVOID WALKING PAST ROBERTS FOUL EXPRESSIONS OF DIAPPROVAL FOR BEING LOCKED AWAY. AND THERE HE STAYED, IN THE ATTIC, ONLY HIS MANICIAL GIGGLES WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE HIS DARKENED DUNGEON, FOR THEY HAVE BEEN HEARD ON COUNTLESS OCCASION ECHOING THE HALLWAYS OF THE OTTO HOUSE.
TAUNTING SCHOOL CHILDREN WAS NOT THE ONLY DEED OF QUESTIONABLE ACTION ON ROBERT'S RESUME OF EVIL DOINGS. HE HAS BEEN LINKED TO FLYING PICTURES, DOORS THAT OPEN ON THEIR OWN, OR DOORS THAT WONT OPEN. IT HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED, THAT AFTER HIS REMOVAL FROM THE ATTIC ROBERT THE DOLL FANCIED A STROLL EVERY NOW AND THEN AND WOULD OFTEN SCARE THE HOUSE OCCUPANTS BY APPEARING OUT OF NOWHERE, OR WAS CAUGHT RUNNING THROUGH THE HOUSE OUT OF THE CORNER OF AN EYE.
WAS ROBERT THE DOLL POSSESSED? WAS ROBERT THE DOLL CURSED?..ONE OF THE IDEAS FLOATING AROUND WAS THAT THERE WAS A CURSE PUT ON THE DOLL BY A VOODOO PRIESTESS.. *SHRUGS*. BUT AS FAR AS I COULD TELL THOSE CLAIMS CAN NOT BE SUBSTANTIATED. OR PERHAPS ROBERT THE DOLL WAS SIMPLY A CHILDHOOD TOY WHO BECAME A SCAPEGOAT THAT QUICKLY TOOK ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN IN THE EYES OF HIS BOY OWNER AND THE STORIES SPREAD FROM THERE.
Subject: ROBERT THE DOLL 