Evil Toy Dolls

It is something we all probably grew up with and a fear we all do our best to ignore. That fear is the common doll. How many of you have owned or know of someone who has one sat up on a shelf somewhere in the house or just lying around?

What I am talking about is dolls that appear to us as possessed.

Despite sales of dolls being massive through the years, the fact remains that most of us really don’t like them. It isn’t because they don’t look good, but for some reason most of us pretty well despise them. Why? Well throughout history stories have been told that many dolls are capable of manifesting some form of spirit and this spirit is often evil.

Just take a look at how Hollywood promotes this popular myth in some of their well known horror movies!

So how many people are actually disturbed by dolls?

Hmm, that is open for debate but for fun try an experiment. Walk into work, college or speak to your friends and ask them their feelings on dolls. Chances are half will probably come back with comments regarding possession or evil. Also when they give their opinion they will either politely dismiss it with a nervous chuckle to disguise their real thoughts or they will tell you how they feel with a cold shudder running down the back of their spines.

So what dolls are known as the most evil?

Porcelain dolls are reported as probably being the most disturbing to most. This is especially true for the ones that have jointed arms and legs that appear to just hang “limp”. These can appear to be scary and the illusion is that plays in our darkest thoughts is that one night they will just stare at us and then get up and start walking towards us. If that is the case one word of advice to those that harbor such thoughts and who own such a doll: Keep it well away from the kitchen knife drawer!

Other dolls are those of clowns or a ventriloquists dummy. Both disturbing. To most people clowns are considered fun but take a look at some great tales, especially from the mind of Stephen King and other great writers and then ask if they are funny.

So why is this the case with such dolls? 

This type of doll as we just mentioned has limbs that hang freely. That in itself for some reason casts a careful warning in our minds, especially the fear attached to the concious psyche part. The feeling of being in the presence of an “other” is increased the more closely an object resembles a human being and such “hanging limbs” adds to that illusion.