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Sep 11, 2026
Mark MuncyHOST
So you probably only know me from here.
Erika LanceHOST
Or the Robert the Doll documentary.
Erika LanceHOST
Oh, the Robert the Doll documentary.
Erika LanceHOST
I get to sit here for an
Mark MuncyHOST
hour and read off my numerous credits.
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Tampa JayGUEST
It's actually the same director as A Christmas Story, Bob Clark.
Mark MuncyHOST
There's always that flip somewhere.
Mark MuncyHOST
It's like the guy who did The Haunting, 1963, Robert Wise, the next year he did The Sound of Music.
ChrisGUEST
And she described him as, like, a little maybe five or six-year-old boy that had a sailor, like, type outfit.
ChrisGUEST
You know, kinda like what you see Robert the Doll wear, that kinda like-
DayvidHOST
Yeah.
DayvidHOST
Why-
JohnHOST
the child changes around it.
ChrisHOST
Like the Robert the Doll documentary we watched, and immediately the child's characteristics changed.
ChrisHOST
Like, he gave up his name.
ChrisHOST
His name was Robert, and the doll's name was something different.
ChrisHOST
And he gave up his name.
ChrisHOST
He gave the demon his name.
Joshua ChairesGUEST
So what got me interested in the paranormal was there was a couple shows back in the 1980s called uh in search of by leonard nimoy it was one of the first real uh paranormal television shows he was spock on star trek you know with uh william shatner and mr nimoy used to cover like bigfoot and ghosts and ufos and i remember watching that show as a three four year old kid all the reruns on tv And it was a very, very popular television show.
Joshua ChairesGUEST
And then around 1988, there was a show by Robert Stack called Unsolved Mysteries, which everyone has heard of Unsolved Mysteries.
Joshua ChairesGUEST
It was very popular on NBC every night.
Joshua ChairesGUEST
And it would cover like cold cases, paranormal cases, conspiracy cases.
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Joshua ChairesGUEST
And Summerwind Mansion... is this old ruined mansion on the shores of West Bay Lake, Wisconsin.
Joshua ChairesGUEST
It was created by a man named John Frank in 1914, and you could actually stay there for $4.99 a night.
Joshua ChairesGUEST
It was originally called West Bay Lake Fishing Lodge, and then in 1916, Mr. Frank had went ahead and converted the property into, sold the property to a future U.S. Secretary of Commerce named Robert Patterson of Lamont.
Joshua ChairesGUEST
And then Mr. Lamont built onto the original fishing lodge by employing two architects, Thomas Tomelge and Vernon Watson.
Latasha MolidorHOST
🎵 Have any of you owned haunted dolls? A haunted doll is a doll that is claimed to be haunted or possessed.
Latasha MolidorHOST
So tonight on episode 42 of Midnight Ghost Stories, I will be telling you about some pretty well-known haunted dolls, such as Robert the Doll, Annabelle, a ventriloquist dummy, and more.
Latasha MolidorHOST
What are haunted dolls? Most people or museums that care for these haunted dolls will keep them in locked and secured cases and sometimes even have them blessed.
Latasha MolidorHOST
In previous episodes, I have talked about a doll my younger sister had as a little girl that we believed was haunted.
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Latasha MolidorHOST
Apparently, Mr. Fritz comes from the 1940s World War II era and has connections to a German prison camp back then.
Latasha MolidorHOST
And he was created as entertainment by a man who was a former children's entertainer and puppeteer.
Latasha MolidorHOST
Robert the Doll.
Latasha MolidorHOST
Robert the Doll was once owned by a painter and author in Key West, Florida named Robert Eugene Otto.
Dayvid SalinasGUEST
It's fine.
Dayvid SalinasGUEST
But you get on the subject of Robert the Doll, for example.
Dayvid SalinasGUEST
Robert the doll is a doll in Florida that's encased.
Dayvid SalinasGUEST
It's, you know, with the conversation I had with Chris, he has this thing where it's he doesn't think they're demons and he doesn't really believe in demons, which I don't either.
Dayvid SalinasGUEST
But he says there's this thing called thought form creation where if you give enough energy to something, it could come to pass.
Dayvid SalinasGUEST
I'm going to use that and, you know, like show myself in that form.
Dayvid SalinasGUEST
And maybe that's part of it.
Dayvid SalinasGUEST
And I think, I think it's more thought form, you know? So like Robert, the doll.
Darren MarlarHOST
Forget Annabelle.
Darren MarlarHOST
Haunted dolls have been around for ages, and few are as terrifying as Robert the Doll.
Darren MarlarHOST
The history of Robert the Doll is fascinating, encompassing an eccentric artist, a curse, and an ever-growing list of people who claim their lives have been negatively affected by Robert the Doll.
Darren MarlarHOST
Though Robert did get an eponymous movie in 2016, his story is creepy enough without all the Hollywood embellishment.
Darren MarlarHOST
Though there have been some inconsistencies among the facts about Robert the Doll, the facts of this Key West institution's mythos are as fascinating as the fiction.
Darren MarlarHOST
Throughout history, in virtually every culture, witches have played a role in the spirituality and history of civilization.
Darren MarlarHOST
Whether they were revered as healers and practitioners of arts beyond our understanding, or hunted as strange and dangerous creatures seeking to do harm to society, More often than not, witches were met with fear, anger, and, ultimately, death.
Darren MarlarHOST
Madeleine Smith had a rich fiancé, a secret lover, and one heck of a secret hot chocolate recipe – a lethal secret recipe.
Robert KalilHOST
Missing 411, yeah.
Missy HillGUEST
And it even has Robert the Doll.
Robert KalilHOST
I love the design, Missy.
Robert KalilHOST
They're really nice.
Robert KalilHOST
That's
Missy HillGUEST
like the cruise ship down in the Keys, and then Robert the Doll is in stasis.
Missy HillGUEST
See Robert the Doll? So that's what they are, and there's 48 cards plus the other side, which is my personal artwork, too.
Missy HillGUEST
So anyway, let's get into this crazy stuff, okay?
Christy WallaceHOST
I gotta ask, would you suffer the whims of a lively doll full of Excelsior? Let us know.
Christy WallaceHOST
And from episode 105, please enjoy Robert the Doll.
Christy WallaceHOST
Well, I hate dolls, and this is one of the reasons why.
Christy WallaceHOST
I was remembering way back when we discussed your porcelain dolls in your mother's attic.
Christy WallaceHOST
But something kind of a cutesy name like my little, you know, Maggie doll or whatever.
Christy WallaceHOST
This is like
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I go by Robert.
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It's my Christian given name.
MattHOST
So if you hung one on the wall, the prevailing theory was that eventually your house was going to catch on fire.
MattHOST
And, you know, like most cursed objects, it's one object that holds the curse, right? Peggy or Robert the Doll, like a single Dybbuk box, something like that.
MattHOST
If you destroy that object, you could eliminate that curse altogether.
MattHOST
Or at the very least, as we learned from Indiana Jones, if you just move the Ark of the Covenant into storage, boom, curse is taken care of.
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