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To be scared of dolls ?

55 replies

SwissCheeseIsHolyCheesus · 22/03/2010 16:59

My friend sent me a photo of one lying next to her baby to show how small she is, put the damn fear of god into me, horrible things with their glassy, staring eyes.

My niece has one that turns its head to your voice ffs, and don't get me started on puppets, pob in particular.

So tell me, would i be unreasonable to smash up hide dolls from little visitors to save my soul from their glassy gaze ??

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MrsYamada · 22/03/2010 17:01

lol, what's your view on teddy bears?

pigletmania · 22/03/2010 17:08

lol oh dear do you have boys, if you do thats a good thing

catinthehat2 · 22/03/2010 17:08

Even worse when someone has poked the eyes through into tthe head and there's a horrible black cavern in each socket.

YANBU

LynetteScavo · 22/03/2010 17:10

DD (4) told me dolls are babies who have died.

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SwissCheeseIsHolyCheesus · 22/03/2010 17:18

Ohh my god Lynette

Have dd and ds, dd a tomboy who had no interest in dolls, ds loved dolls and i tried my best to steer him towards the painted eye variety .

His favourite however had one eye missing and one broken pushed in eye, it was hideous

I can however tolerate sewn eyed teddies, not the glassy eyed tho

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MummyDoIt · 22/03/2010 17:20

My nan had a real phobia about dolls. We weren't allowed to take any when we visited her.

emsyj · 22/03/2010 17:25

YANBU. Dolls are creepy (except for very-obviously-not-real-and-not-pretending-to-be rag dolls). Clowns are worse though. And as for waxworks....((shudder)).

I went to the planetarium years ago (aged 21) and was horrified to discover that the Madam Tussaud's gift shop was amalgamated with the planetarium gift shop and there were fecking waxworks EVERYWHERE. I had to be led through and out the back with a coat over my head .

oldraver · 22/03/2010 17:26

I dont like the old antique dolls or the Re-Borns, they give me the creeps. I dont like it when shops or Ebay sellers use them to display clothes either.

I also dont like puppets/marrionettes especially those you used see at the seaside where you put a coin in and they wouls maniacally grin at you

CuppaTeaJanice · 22/03/2010 17:26

I had to do a job on site at a customer's house last year. In the room where I was working was an enormous glass fronted cabinet full of those creepy glass eyed porcelain dolls. They watched me all day as I worked, their sinister eyes following me round the room. One was even dressed as a clown, which is doubly creepy! Why do people buy the things?

Ripeberry · 22/03/2010 17:29

My mum got my daughter a lifesize toddler doll, with a china head and hands. I went straight away to the church sale could not stand the sight of it and anyway my daughter at the time was only 8 months old

Rocinante · 22/03/2010 17:34

YANBU.

I really dislike them which seems to amuse my friends who threaten to buy DD one every birthday/Christmas. I can't stand their dead staring eyes and the ones that are extraordinarily lifelike with all their bodily functions make me feel slightly sick.

No problem with other soft toys and teddy bears.

PeggysEvilTwin · 22/03/2010 20:50

oooooohhhh, the ones that speak in horrid american accents and grow teeth.

EmilyStrange · 22/03/2010 20:52

Did any of you see a very spooky tv drama that had loads of dolls in it? I think it may have been called The Maelstrom. Freaked me out about dolls for years.

HinnyPet · 22/03/2010 20:54

Grow teeth???? Eeek!!
Does anybody remember a book set one summer on a lake, about dolls and a little ghost girl that had been murdered??? Have been trying to find it for ages!

VKschmeekay · 22/03/2010 20:54

Grow teeth??!!

When I met ds's dad, he still had all his late mother's dolls. The old kind with the really life like china heads and hands. The things used to stare at me and watch me sleep. Well,, attempt to sleep. Creeped me the fuck out!

coralanne · 22/03/2010 22:42

When my DD was little, MIL always gave her porcelain dolls for Christmas and birthday.

They were very expensive.

They lived on a shelf in DD's room.

When she was about 5 she asked me to take them away as they "looked" at her when she went to bed and they scared her.

Consequently we now still have 15 as new dolls in their own special cases stuck up on the top shelf of wardrobe.

DD will not even contemplate giving them to her DDs.

onthepier · 22/03/2010 22:43

Somebody I used to work with lost a baby many years ago,

She went on to have boys (so not interested in dolls at all)! Anyway, she couldn't resist buying herself one of these lifelike newborn dolls and showed it to her dh. He went absolutely mad, shouting "Get that thing away from me, why did you bring it into the house?"

She was shocked by his reaction, until she realised it must remind him of their newborn all those years ago.

I don't have a problem with dolls btw, just recounting somebody else's story.

Quink · 22/03/2010 22:49

YADNBU! Horrible, ghastly things. And as for one dressed as a clown...

coralanne · 22/03/2010 22:50

The only reason we keep the things is in case MIL ever asks about them.

DD was never a doll person anyway.

She ahd a few barbies that people gave her for her birthday and she had a great time with them, cutting their hair, playing games in the dirt with them and using them as bombs to throw at her brother.

MedusaHead · 22/03/2010 22:51

I had a china doll, dressed all in old fashioned clothes, that my Dad bought me when I was little. I used to line all my dolls and teddies up on my shelf opposite my bed. I always had to turn this dolls face away from me because I couldn't bear her watching me.

Then one night I had a dream that I sat up in bed and looked over at my dolls and the china one moved her head to look straight at me and smiled a really evil smile. That really freaked me out! I made my parents put it in the attic after that. I couldn't bear to have it in my room.

God, that still makes me scared now.

ScreaminEagle · 22/03/2010 22:52

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JackBauer · 22/03/2010 22:53

A friend once bought one fo those lifesize dolls for DD1, who loved it and made me dress it in DD2's clothes.
We were tidying in a rush before bed one night and she ended up face down in the car box. DH went mad yelling and pulling it out thinking it was DD2.

It went to the charity shop soon after as it freaked DH out unless is was treated 'properly'

Wanderingsheep · 22/03/2010 23:03

YANBU dolls are freaky!

DD has a Baby Anabell which is a fantastic doll and I would have loved it when I was little, but it is so lifelike and because it is interactive you don't have to press anything to set it off. It scares me to death when it starts babbling randomly!

One night I went downstairs and DD had left it lying on the floor. As I passed it it started goo go ga gaing (which made me crap myself) so I turned it off and put it on the sofa and I swear it didn't have its dummy in but when I went back downstairs in the morning it had its dummy in its mouth .

Anyway, it freaks me out!

Heracles · 22/03/2010 23:08

You do know dolls can smell your fear, right? They wait till you're asleep, drag their cold, cold bodies towards any heat they can find (usually your sleeping body) and draw life from your skin.

You see how they appear to be looking at you? That's because they're looking at you.

Wanderingsheep · 22/03/2010 23:13

Bugger off Heracles!

I'm on my own tonight without DP! I'm scared now!

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