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What may I ask, is it?

That was just mean!!!


ROBERRRRRRRRRRT!!!!!!!!!

I hate that thing!

jonesbeach10 wrote:What may I ask, is it?

the Cursed Robert the Doll....if you ever make it to Key West, you will know by the time you leave

That thing creeped me out last time I saw it.

That thing freaks me out.

I'm not gonna see that am I????

Can someone fill in those of us that have never been to KW?

springparrot wrote:Can someone fill in those of us that have never been to KW?

Or those that have, and still don't know what the hell it is??

been there a few times and never heard of it.

This story really gave me the creeps when I heard it. Last year, a friend of mine made a trip to Key West to visit someone he met on the 'net. They went to some sort of paranormal museum and had something strange happen to him. In a glass display case, there was a doll the size of a child sitting in a chair. He was told that this was "Robert the Demon Doll" and that it was cursed. (I did an Internet search on this, but never came up with anything.)

The story goes that a long time ago (not sure of dates) that the owner of this plantation had an only son that was very lonely. The owner had a servant (who happened to be into Voodoo) that he had upset for some reason. This servant made the doll for the boy, yet he cursed it before giving it to him. The boy and the doll were inseparable and the boy started telling his father that the doll could walk and talk and would tell him things. I think that when the boy got older and inherited the plantation, that the doll told him to build a room for it in the attic that would be his own, even after the boys' death. After the boy died, the house was then sold, but in the will it was instructed that Robert the doll was to stay in the house in his attic room.

Many owners of the house would say that they could hear movement in the attic and every now and then would go up there and the furniture and doll would always be in different places. Not sure how the doll ended up at this museum, but they said that even now the doll will be moved in different positions and that night guards can hear it moving around and pecking on the glass. He was also told that anyone who took a picture of the doll, it would drain the camera's batteries and that they felt that the doll was "getting stronger" from the energy. My friend. of course, wanted to try it and - sure enough - after he took one picture, the camera went dead.

Now here's the REAL weird part. After he got home, he got the film developed, and had not just the one picture of Robert that he took, but FIVE - all taken from different angles! He had no idea how it could have happened. He still has the pictures, and let me tell you, they give me the creeps

Thanks, Capt Flock.
Does sound kinda weird, but most things like that don't creep me out unless I've actually been the one to experience it.

Thanks for the explanation----that really is strange

You did'nt take that pic did you??

Man I spent like 40 minutes staring at him when we ewre down there, Then DKD was making fun of him. Asking for a picture and all. Of coarse I did not let her take it.

When we left Robert's room and walked to the next the power in the building went out.

speaking of scary dolls.
Here's one of the reasons I never had any life sized dolls as a kid



I wonder if a "real doll" can be possessed...
last thing I need is one of them stalking me

Quint wrote:You did'nt take that pic did you??

Man I spent like 40 minutes staring at him when we ewre down there, Then DKD was making fun of him. Asking for a picture and all. Of coarse I did not let her take it.

When we left Robert's room and walked to the next the power in the building went out.

Yup, I took the picture. My wife asked for Robert's permission.

Capt.Flock wrote:This story really gave me the creeps when I heard it. Last year, a friend of mine made a trip to Key West to visit someone he met on the 'net. They went to some sort of paranormal museum and had something strange happen to him. In a glass display case, there was a doll the size of a child sitting in a chair. He was told that this was "Robert the Demon Doll" and that it was cursed. (I did an Internet search on this, but never came up with anything.)

The story goes that a long time ago (not sure of dates) that the owner of this plantation had an only son that was very lonely. The owner had a servant (who happened to be into Voodoo) that he had upset for some reason. This servant made the doll for the boy, yet he cursed it before giving it to him. The boy and the doll were inseparable and the boy started telling his father that the doll could walk and talk and would tell him things. I think that when the boy got older and inherited the plantation, that the doll told him to build a room for it in the attic that would be his own, even after the boys' death. After the boy died, the house was then sold, but in the will it was instructed that Robert the doll was to stay in the house in his attic room.

Many owners of the house would say that they could hear movement in the attic and every now and then would go up there and the furniture and doll would always be in different places. Not sure how the doll ended up at this museum, but they said that even now the doll will be moved in different positions and that night guards can hear it moving around and pecking on the glass. He was also told that anyone who took a picture of the doll, it would drain the camera's batteries and that they felt that the doll was "getting stronger" from the energy. My friend. of course, wanted to try it and - sure enough - after he took one picture, the camera went dead.

Now here's the REAL weird part. After he got home, he got the film developed, and had not just the one picture of Robert that he took, but FIVE - all taken from different angles! He had no idea how it could have happened. He still has the pictures, and let me tell you, they give me the creeps

to clarify a little, mostly on the origin of Robert the Doll.

It was during Civil War times, when Lincoln had freed the slaves. So this family went to the Bahamas and bought new slaves. Well the owner got one of the slave girls pregnant, so they (the wife) locked in her a "house" that was no bigger than an outhouse, claimed to be 2'x2'. They gave her bread and water, but she was never allowed out. The woman owner was also pregnant during this time. The slave woman had her baby, but had nothing to wrap her in. She ripped the clothes off her own body and wrapped up her baby, but after not being allowed out of the house, the baby soon died. The very wrappings that make up Robert the Doll are the very same clothes the Bahamas slave had wrapped her baby in. She made Robert the Doll for the new baby, cursed him....and things were never the same.

And when he said inseperable, he wasn't kidding. It's said that the man carried Robert the Doll with him his ENTIRE life. Even when he was 35, he took him into restaurants and ordered food for him, etc. His wife was actually filing for divorce when he mysteriously dropped down at like 38.

for what it's worth - everything I've said can be found in the Key West Library...it's not just another spooky tale

Supposedly, you must ask Robert for permission to take his picture, not mocking him. Anybody who mocks him or does not ask permission will have bad things happen. People return home to have their loving pets attacking them mysteriously, they miss planes, get into accidents, divorces, etc.....surely this is all coincidence, as sh*t happens to everybody (though the pet thing is creepy, as it only lasts about 2 weeks in each case).

If you ever make it to Key WEst, you have to go on the Original Ghost Tour, then go see Robert. It's worth it

Wonder why you could not find any thing ... I had not truble at all.

Yes it is creepy looking...
There is a story down in New Orleans in a voodoo shop that has an item and a sign about don't this object or you will get bad luck or some such..Marie Laveau...
Anywyas....

I found several including one with a streaming video of a tour guide on a briefing....
Anyway are thre of them enough??

There are others that I did not bother to look at ...

Anyway here you go:

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http://www.kwahs.com/press/robert.htm

KEY WEST ART & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
281 FRONT STREET, KEY WEST, FL 33040
295-6616 Fax: 295-6649

Attention:
News editors, news directors, features editors and programming directors. Please use the following item as a news story, public service announcement or community event. Pix available. For immediate release Sept. 20, 2004.

'Haunted' doll casts his spell Oct. 24
'Blame It On Robert' party kicks off Fantasy Fest 2004

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The streaming video is here:

#1-Key West Robert the Doll Ghost Tour of Key West, Florida

http://avpedia.com/FloridaKeys/KeyWest/ ... shouse.htm

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Some photos and stories here:

robert the doll
and haunted horror stories and ghosts stories from Key West Florida
Robert the doll of Key West Florida

http://www.prestigioushomesflatfeeservi ... hedoll.htm
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Capt.Flock wrote:This story really gave me the creeps when I heard it. Last year, a friend of mine made a trip to Key West to visit someone he met on the 'net. They went to some sort of paranormal museum and had something strange happen to him. In a glass display case, there was a doll the size of a child sitting in a chair. He was told that this was "Robert the Demon Doll" and that it was cursed. (I did an Internet search on this, but never came up with anything.)

The story goes that a long time ago (not sure of dates) that the owner of this plantation had an only son that was very lonely. The owner had a servant (who happened to be into Voodoo) that he had upset for some reason. This servant made the doll for the boy, yet he cursed it before giving it to him. The boy and the doll were inseparable and the boy started telling his father that the doll could walk and talk and would tell him things. I think that when the boy got older and inherited the plantation, that the doll told him to build a room for it in the attic that would be his own, even after the boys' death. After the boy died, the house was then sold, but in the will it was instructed that Robert the doll was to stay in the house in his attic room.

Many owners of the house would say that they could hear movement in the attic and every now and then would go up there and the furniture and doll would always be in different places. Not sure how the doll ended up at this museum, but they said that even now the doll will be moved in different positions and that night guards can hear it moving around and pecking on the glass. He was also told that anyone who took a picture of the doll, it would drain the camera's batteries and that they felt that the doll was "getting stronger" from the energy. My friend. of course, wanted to try it and - sure enough - after he took one picture, the camera went dead.

Now here's the REAL weird part. After he got home, he got the film developed, and had not just the one picture of Robert that he took, but FIVE - all taken from different angles! He had no idea how it could have happened. He still has the pictures, and let me tell you, they give me the creeps

Thats kinda creepy.... Almost as creepy as the doll looks

Dude, that just ain't right.



At MOTM last year, I stayed in a house a block down from the Artist's House. I could see the room where Robert had lived from my front balcony!!! Fortunately, I didn't find that out until the last night I was there.

A little more on the history of Robert.

http://www.horrorchannel.com/modules.ph ... d=8&page=1

And for all your Christmas shopping needs . . .

http://store.yahoo.com/yhst-76824103108989/rodost.html

(My wife and I are expecting our first child in February. I'm pretty sure we won't be getting the baby onesie. )