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Post by MaryMary on Jul 25, 2014 15:22:16 GMT
As a child, I had to sleep in a guest room with some demonic looking doll that made it impossible to fall asleep because I was certain it would start moving about the room and probably eat my face. After I was married and spent the night at DH's grandpa's house, I noticed a similar creepy doll in the guest room that DH admitted always freaked him out as a child.
(I believe this is the root of my Elf on a Shelf phobia.)
So, I'm curious... Did your grandma have a terrifying doll at her house, too?
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Post by perumbula on Jul 25, 2014 15:27:27 GMT
Mine didn't, but my children's grandma does. It's freakishly pale with dark hair and a weird look on it's face. The grandkids carry it around and scare each other with it.
I think my grandmas were just too practical to have dolls just for looking at. That's what doilies and big gold sunburst mirrors were for. (And I can't get behind the sunburst fad. I just can't forget thinking how out of date and ugly my grandmother's was.)
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Post by jumperhop on Jul 25, 2014 15:35:12 GMT
I know what dolls you are talking about. I would have been more afraid of a pig faced china doll or Chucky doll.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 15:36:28 GMT
Not in her house. She gave it to me when I was little. It disappeared shortly after it showed up, and turned up in the basement when my sister cleaned out my mom's house. She sent it to me -- bless her heart. Imagine getting this lovely surprise:  I tried to leave it on the shelf at the swap shop at the dump, and the woman who works there chased me out saying "Oh no you don't!!!" |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 15:40:04 GMT
My grandmother has a small collection of dolls that I don't particularly care for. I have already told my sister she's getting the dolls when Frances passes. I think my grandmother likes them because she grew up during the depression without dolls or nice things, she was one of nine children. She worked all her life, retired w a sizable pension and lives quite comfortably.
The dolls were something she bought for herself later in life and she thinks they are beautiful. So I "get it" but I don't.
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Post by oldcrow on Jul 25, 2014 15:43:12 GMT
All dolls creep me out. Even as a child I found them creepy. When my girls were young my mother always bought them a doll for Christmas because I couldn't bring myself to do it.
And the arty paper dolls creep me out even more.
My grandmother had a china doll but she kept it in her bedroom. So that means I never went in there again after seeing it.
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Jul 25, 2014 15:45:16 GMT
LOL, maryannscraps! My adult DD is still freaked out by clowns and creepy dolls. I would have loved to have stumbled across that beauty. If you don't mind, I want to copy the image and send it to her, because I'm nice like that!!  |
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Post by Native New Yorker on Jul 25, 2014 15:46:35 GMT
Yes! The one with the crocheted dress that sat on top of the roll of toilet paper. Creepy!
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Post by goodwitch on Jul 25, 2014 15:51:47 GMT
Wow, my co-worker and I were talking about how dolls and clowns creep us out a couple of hours ago. I have a doll from when I was a child...looonnngggg time ago that is in the guestroom. My one-year-old gd discovered it recently. When I held it up for her to inspect she made a disgusted face and left the room.
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Post by sweetshabbyroses on Jul 25, 2014 16:04:00 GMT
My MIL has a doll at her house that stands about 2 ft. tall and is very stiff with it's arms sticking straight out. When my youngest son was just learning to walk, he walked up to the doll (I guess he was thinking it might be another child) and when he touched it, the thing fell on him pinning him to the floor. He says he remembers it to this day because it scared him so much!
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Post by peppermintpatty on Jul 25, 2014 16:10:13 GMT
Well my MIL had a ventriloquist dummy named Johnny that was really creepy. That doll gave my dh a complex. It really was a scary looking thing and when she died, dh was adamant that the doll NOT come into the house.
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Post by peano on Jul 25, 2014 16:40:50 GMT
No but my grandparents were creepy in their own way.
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Post by Dixie Lou on Jul 25, 2014 16:44:03 GMT
When my mother moved out of her house I found am old creepy doll that she was going to get rid of. I have no idea
where she got it but I took it home with me. I will try to post a picture later.
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Post by Jubel on Jul 25, 2014 16:52:06 GMT
Not mine but my MIL had a room full of clown stuff. Pictures, dolls, lamp etc. My daughter is still scared of clowns after almost 20 years.
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Post by honeyb on Jul 25, 2014 17:12:36 GMT
It wasn't my Grandma, but my Great Aunt- who acted as a Grandma to me. Not only did she have a creepy doll, she had a COLLECTION of creepy dolls. My sisters told me that when I fall asleep, the especially creepy one on the landing would suck my blood. I tossed and turned many a night at her house  |
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Post by lincolnsnana on Jul 25, 2014 18:21:07 GMT
My mother actually has a creepy doll that my daughters are all scared of to this day and they are all in their twenties. The doll's hair is actually from my great great grandmother. Apparently SOMEONE cut her long braid after she died and then kept it for just this purpose!! Freaks me out too!
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Post by workingclassdog on Jul 25, 2014 18:26:12 GMT
My grandmother had a doll but I LOVED it. We couldn't play with it or anything... someone made it for her I believe. She had this HUGE lace wedding dress on. I think her body was a bottle of some sort. But that doll sat on her bedroom dresser as long as I could remember. I wanted that doll so bad, but it ended up at one of my cousin's homes. (who got everything from grandma, why not the doll?).. Hindsight, it is a dust collector but I have fond memories of it.
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Post by anniebygaslight on Jul 25, 2014 18:26:27 GMT
I had to lie down after seeing the picture posted by Maryannscrapps. Eeek!  |
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Post by PEArfect on Jul 25, 2014 18:27:36 GMT
My grandmother had a Santa and Mrs.Claus that creeped me out. They reminded me of the puppet on Mr.Roger's Neighborhood, but smaller noses. lol That melted face look. I have photos of them. My parents had a Santa and Mrs.Claus too, but they weren't as creepy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 18:34:46 GMT
No, she didn't. And I'm so glad.
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Post by msliz on Jul 25, 2014 19:02:46 GMT
No doll, but she had a creepy portrait of some pope, I don't know which one, that hung in the bedroom where my sister and I stayed when we visited. We cried and fussed every time until she took it off the wall.  |
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Post by MaryMary on Jul 25, 2014 19:17:32 GMT
My mother actually has a creepy doll that my daughters are all scared of to this day and they are all in their twenties. The doll's hair is actually from my great great grandmother. Apparently SOMEONE cut her long braid after she died and then kept it for just this purpose!! Freaks me out too! Ew! Ew! Ew! Nononononono!!! |
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Post by ptamom on Jul 25, 2014 19:20:53 GMT
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Post by ten&rose on Jul 25, 2014 19:23:42 GMT
My grandma collected dolls and had them all over her house. Yikes!!
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Post by BuckeyeSandy on Jul 25, 2014 19:24:03 GMT
Nope! There were a couple "stuffed toys" that our dad and our Uncle had as kids, I got the Clown, and my brother the Santa. My Uncle's stuffies went to his two daughters. The clown has lost his feet, (I need to repair him) and the elastic long long long ago lost it's stretch.
They never "creeped" us out. Nor did our mom's folks have anything "creepy" either. Guess we missed out on that.
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Post by MaryMary on Jul 25, 2014 19:43:01 GMT
Yes, that is the thread that inspired this one. The dolls in that article are horrifying. |
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Post by Judy26 on Jul 25, 2014 19:59:19 GMT
Yep. It was an old, very cracked china doll with a stuffed body. I actually loved it. I had it in my room for years. DD was freaked out by it though so she got packed away years ago. I need to go dig her out and prop her on DD's bed.
When I was little I wanted a doll that you could feed and it wet itself. The one I wanted was soft plastic and was a rather small black baby-doll. I loved that doll! My mom kept it and got it out when DD was quite young. DD was just learning her colors and often got confused. So the doll was re-christened and forever more will be known as Blue Baby! If and when DD has children of her own Blue Baby will get a new wardrobe and entertain a 3rd generation.
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Post by melodyesch on Jul 25, 2014 20:29:17 GMT
Not my grandparents, but DH's Mom gave our niece an old, big creepy doll that belonged to her aunt way back when. The hair on the doll is the real human hair from the long dead aunt that aunt had sewn to the doll when she was younger. It freaks me the hell out. She gave it to niece, who brought it to our house where she was staying for the weekend. I made her keep it in the guest room. I couldn't wait for that thing to get out of my house.
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Post by yoursweetwhimsy on Jul 25, 2014 20:41:19 GMT
My grandparents had the set of porcelain baby dolls that sat on a blanket with a set of alphabet blocks in front of them that said "MOM" and "DAD". They were ordered from an ad in Women's Day magazine. They sat in the china cabinet where you had to walk by them to go anywhere else in the house. My brother would get in the cabinet and switch the last d in dad with the m in mom so one would say "DAM". We thought it was hilarious.
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Post by jennw on Jul 25, 2014 20:55:21 GMT
Yes, both of them did! Luckily the grandma we visited the most kept it in her bedroom. The other grandma's was located in the guest room in a rocking chair. It still sends chills when I think about that rocking chair moving with that creepy doll sitting in it!
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