00:00Imagine that you have received a doll as a gift.
00:03Since that day, strange things have started to happen,
00:06you hear children crying, you see objects falling for no reason.
00:11Well, it happened to a family in Florida.
00:15Dolls are scary in general because they have no emotions.
00:19At least that's what scientists say.
00:21If you've ever had one, you may have already had the impression that the doll was watching you.
00:26Fortunately, nothing more usually happens.
00:29But it wasn't that simple for Robert and his doll.
00:32This story began in the third most haunted city in the United States, Key West, in Florida.
00:38There are so many haunted houses in this area that the inhabitants got used to seeing ghosts.
00:43I don't know if it's true, but I wouldn't want to live there to discover it.
00:48And yet, all these ghosts are nothing compared to Robert's doll.
00:53A boy named Robert Eugine Otto received a doll as a gift from his grandfather.
00:59The doll had been made in Germany in 1904 by a company that produced expensive and bizarre toys.
01:06All their dolls looked like chickens when you looked at them.
01:09But the boy loved his doll, and they became inseparable.
01:13Their bond was so strong that Robert gave up his first name to give it to the doll.
01:18Since then, the boy has been called Otto, it was his family name.
01:22Otto did everything with his doll.
01:25It was really his best friend.
01:27They played together all day.
01:29As this doll was as big as a child, Otto gave it his favorite sailor costume.
01:34Nothing good lasts forever, and his friendship with Robert the doll came to an end.
01:39Otto blamed him for all the bad things that happened in the house.
01:43The glasses that fell and broke, the doors that opened at random, and other unusual things.
01:48But of course, his parents didn't believe his stories.
01:52One night, they heard loud screams coming from Otto's room, and they rushed to see what was going on.
01:59They saw Otto holding Robert by the neck to prevent him from moving and tearing the room.
02:04Another time, Otto woke up and saw Robert sitting on his bed.
02:09The furniture was moving, the books were falling, the toys were damaged.
02:13The scene looked like a horror movie.
02:16The parents, awake in the middle of the night, thought they were being robbed.
02:21Screams and noises came from Otto's room.
02:24When they came in, they were shocked.
02:27Otto was hiding in a corner, an expression of terror on his face.
02:31And Robert the doll was sitting peacefully on the bed, as if nothing had happened.
02:36From that moment on, the situation worsened considerably, and paranormal phenomena multiplied.
02:43Otto was hypnotized by the doll, and he began to treat her like a normal person, spending hours talking to her.
02:51He talked all the time.
02:53The parents were worried, because when they heard noises coming from the child's room,
02:57they came in and asked Otto who they were talking to.
03:00They simply called him Robert.
03:03Sometimes, this crazy doll got angry and threw objects,
03:07and when the parents entered the room, everything calmed down.
03:12Often, the doll got so angry that she started breaking other toys,
03:16tearing their eyes and limbs.
03:19She also took the furniture from Otto's room.
03:24You may think that it was the child himself who was doing all this,
03:27but he was very young, and he could not have moved and thrown furniture like that.
03:32It would have been impossible for him to do this alone.
03:36Paranormal activities spread like wildfire throughout the neighborhood.
03:41The neighbors began to experience strange things,
03:44but only the children were really affected by the ghosts.
03:48Otto's house became the main attraction of the community,
03:52and when the boy was at school, the doll appeared at the window
03:56when the other children crossed the street in front of the house.
03:59He then reported having seen the doll for a second.
04:02The next second, she had disappeared.
04:05Robert was waiting for his friend Otto to come back from school.
04:09One day, the family had a plumber come to repair a leak in the bathroom.
04:14There was no one at home, and the plumber was doing his job
04:17when he suddenly heard the laughter of a child.
04:20The noise came from Otto's room.
04:22Believing himself alone, the man had to see what it was.
04:26To his great surprise, the room was empty,
04:29and Robert was sitting on the edge of the window with a few toys on his knees.
04:33The plumber left the room frightened and worried.
04:36After a while, he heard the noise coming from the room.
04:40He rushed to see what had happened.
04:42The toys that were previously on Robert's knees
04:45were now scattered in the middle of the room.
04:48The plumber did not know what to think of this strange situation.
04:53Later, Otto moved to New York and Chicago to study art.
04:58He made a trip to Paris,
05:00where he met the young woman he later married.
05:04Otto only remembered Robert when his wife and he returned to the United States to buy a house there.
05:11The young man visited his parents to get some of his things,
05:15and Robert was there.
05:17Recovering the doll that had haunted him all his childhood
05:20was probably not a very good idea.
05:23Returning home,
05:25Otto put Robert in the attic and decorated the room like a children's room.
05:30He gave him toys to play with.
05:32He visited him and talked to him almost every day.
05:36His wife, of course, was worried about the behavior of the young man.
05:40He seemed to spend too much time with the doll,
05:43and she was really afraid of it.
05:46His wife told him one day that he had to do something,
05:49and Otto had no choice but to close the attic door.
05:53This decision angered Robert.
05:55The doll, although locked up upstairs,
05:57began to appear in other rooms of the house.
06:01Some people have stated that when they passed in front of Otto's house,
06:04they saw the doll's glass eyes following their movements.
06:08Others reported seeing the doll behind a window,
06:11then move and appear elsewhere.
06:14But as always, Robert's favorite place
06:17was the window of the floor on the road.
06:20He sat there as he had done years ago,
06:22and he waited for Otto.
06:24Robert did not like to receive guests.
06:27He terrorized anyone who entered the house.
06:30When Otto and his wife made friends,
06:32Robert moved the furniture and threw objects all over the house.
06:37It was not fun.
06:40When they went to bed, Robert appeared on their bed.
06:43Eyes fixed on them.
06:45But Robert was still locked up in the attic.
06:48One way or another,
06:49he seemed to be able to teleport into the house like a ghost.
06:55One might think that once Otto left,
06:57Robert stopped acting that way.
06:59But paranormal phenomena continued to occur.
07:02Otto died in 1974,
07:05and the curse continued.
07:07It is said that Robert will appear on your bed
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07:10and do not click on the little thumb in the next 5 seconds.
07:13No, you can relax.
07:15It's just a joke.
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07:20Robert stayed in the house after Otto's death.
07:23The property was bought by a woman
07:25who kept the doll for 20 years
07:27and had time to realize that she was haunted.
07:33She did what Otto should have done from the beginning.
07:36She gave the doll to a museum
07:38and warned the staff that it was a strange toy.
07:42They laughed and put the doll on a pedestal.
07:45But very quickly,
07:46they discovered that it was indeed haunted
07:48and they had to lock it in a glass box.
07:52Robert is still there,
07:54and the people who went to see him
07:56reported strange phenomena.
07:58If you take a picture of the doll
08:00without asking for permission,
08:02something terrible may happen.
08:04People do not take this seriously,
08:06but later, if their life goes wrong,
08:08they blame Robert for it.
08:11The museum employees received
08:13a dozen letters of apology
08:15asking Robert for forgiveness.
08:17If you want to know if all this is real,
08:19go to the Ist Martello museum in Florida.
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