To be scared of dolls ?

[SwissCheeseIsHolyCheesus]

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 ??

I'm sorry, just being mean.

I had an aunt who would freak the fuck OUT if there was a single doll in the room when she stayed over, poor lamb.

It's definitely the eyes, isn't it?

Bums, probably not helping at all, am I?

The worst kind are ventriloquist dummies. Shut the box.....SHUT THE BOX.....aaaaargh.

The puppets in Thunderbirds.

I don't mind dolls during the day. It's just at night time when everything is quiet and you can imagine them coming to life Chucky style!

That's not your imagination..........

YANBU
I hate clowns.

Imagine a baby annabell in pot doll form, I think i'd have to be locked up for my own safety

Any of you remember Phoebe's paintings from Friends???
They creep out of the pictures at night and go looking for their missing arm...

We had a monkey with cymbals that creeped me out. and dh got dd a lifesize rag doll for her first birthday. I had to look away while I stuffed her in the bin bag for the charity shop!
Thankfully, dd and ds could not care less about dolls.

She's crawled out the bin bag a few times in my dreams...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Thanks so much for starting this thread SwissCheese!

YANBU at all!

Nice to find a few likeminded doll haters, i've been taunted all my life because of my fear.

This story is very true. No word of a lie.
When my sister and I were younger she used to have an electronic doll called Baby Talks, this was of a time when most dolls were like Tiny Tears and didnt do anything apart from pee. So she was very proud of this doll. So it was very much battered loved.
Cue the Childs Play film coming out a few years later and we decided to go into the attic to go find Baby Talks. We found her. All dusty and dirty. Staring eyes a bit filmy from the cold air of the attic...
For some reason my sister presses the button on Baby Talks leg that activates her.
We all jumped when we heard the tinny american little girl voice "mommy, mommy, turn me over"

We looked.
There was only one battery in it.
It needed 4 to work.

Cue much panic.

I obviously know now that maybe it could of worked with one battery...

couldnt it??

Really, Swiss? I thought it was quite common as there are quite a few films about dolls and demonic toys.

I remember being at a friend's sleepover when I was a teen and her mum had porcelain dolls on the fireplace and another girl turned them to face the wall as they were creeping us all out!

Oh my god! I've just remembered about something involving dolls.
Years ago I worked as a Home carer for the elderly and I had to visit an old lady, to help her undress, have a wash and get ready for bed.
On my first visit, she told me where her bedroom was and I kid you not, the WHOLE bedroom was full of dolls, all lined up along the walls and on the floor!
I only had to visit her twice (covering for a colleague), but it brought me out in a cold sweat.
Don't know how she sleept with all those EYES watching her.

oooooooooooooooo... my blood ran cold there.. Ferret

it's the uncanny valley innit

I remember walking into my (single, loner) Dad's house one day and freaking right out after seeing something very similar to this in the corner.

I wondered where the hell some weird hiding child had come from!

Worst part is, you turn them round and they have NO face.

ooh, yes, Maelstrom. Creepy. Those one in Small Soldiers were v scary too...

Even tho I liked and played with my dolls in the daytime, at night they all had to go to sleep, because I couldn't bear to have the eyes look at me. It's the plastic ones that get to me - the raggy ones don't seem to be so spooky.

Tho these days, dolls are really properly dangerous in our house because they throw themselves under my feet and try to make me break my neck

YANBU!
Dolls, Clowns, Puppets - especially ventriloquist dolls. EEuuurrggghh!
Horrible!
Anyone see that program about the lifelike baby dolls you can buy, and there was a close up shot of the head,arms and legs on a baking tray in the oven. Freaky!

Puppets very bad. Especially marionettes.

Just to scare you, I heard about someone who went to collect an ebay purchase, and found the house they were collecting from was full of re-born dolls. Apparently it was quite unnerving.

I have a lifesize shop mannequin in my living room. I bought her from a bridal shop that had a room upstairs full of naked, bald mannequins. It was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life looking round the room selecting which one to take home. They were all looking at me thinking 'Pick me, pick me!!' (I should imagine).

The first night she spent at my house I had to make sure she was in a different room, just in case she came to life at midnight and wanted to hurt me, like in the films.

Fifteen years later I've still got her. Delivery drivers often wave at her and she's good for scaring off any burglers.