I have always found most dolls rather scary, especially the old-fashioned porcelain ones. Have a look at this selection, and let me know if you agree.
I have always found most dolls rather scary, especially the old-fashioned porcelain ones. Have a look at this selection, and let me know if you agree.
beetleypete 
Totally agree! I had three china dolls when I was a little girl and they always freaked me out. I think they’d freak me out even MORE now! ❤ xxx
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Glad you are on my side, Em. Great to see you here.
As ever, Pete. XXX
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Watching these dolls always reminds me on this horrible movie from the past. I dont remember the title, but some scenes are always in my mind, since i had seen them. 😉 xx Michael
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Dolls can be scary, and that’s why they use them in some horror films.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Its the eyes, I’m shivering as I type 🙂
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They just look ‘dead’ to me, that’s what disturbs me the most.
Cheers, Pete.
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I’m on the creepy team I have never liked dolls even as a child 🙂 x
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Thanks for being on my side, Carol.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Dolls really creep me out as do clown dolls..x
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I sometimes think that I might have actually married one of these .. in human form.
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That really is a scary thought,, John! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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AAAAAAA!!!!! You smacked, pulled and twisted a big nerve in me with this post. NO way. Ultimate fear are these dolls in your post today. I’d rather walk into a room of spiders. And I hate spiders.
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Like you, I would be torn between dolls and spiders. If the spiders were in cages, I would choose those.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I love dolls, Pete, and I don’t find them creepy at all. I have a very big collection although I don’t have any with red eyes. That’s certainly a first. I also have a collection of African dolls and teddy bears.
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I find these Victorian ones scary, Robbie. But not stuffed animals, of any type,.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Definitely creepy!
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Glad you are on the creepy team,, Jennie. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I am! Best to you, Pete.
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Indeed….. that’s why they’re the scary characters in horror movies.
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That’s true, Ren. For some reason, I don’t find the horror film dolls so scary, it is the ‘lifeless” supposedly real dolls that creep me out.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I agree with you…..creepy dolls and clowns just creep me out. chuq
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My wife is scared of clowns, chuq.
Best wishes, Pete.
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The dolls in the pictures are definitely creepy to me.
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Glad to hear you agree, Christina.
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Barbie almost always sported a smile. That’s kinda cool. . . And not at all creepy.
CT
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Modern dolls reflected changes in attitudes after WW2. These Victorian dolls are little bundles of nightmares to me, Chris.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Nightmares tonight, Pete…
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Don’t wake up and look though. There will be one at the end of your bed! 🙂
Cheers, Pete.
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Some are creepier than others. Give me a teddy bear.
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Yes, a good stuffed bear beats a doll hands-down, Peggy.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I am always surprised that dolls are creepy to some people. If you are a child and are emotionally attached to your doll, it is a wonderful friend and comfort, just as any well-loved toy. Some of the creepiest, most worn out dolls probably were well loved (or well tormented!). I always liked the story “The Veleveteen Rabbit” because it is just so magical and captures the love of a toy so well. I still have a doll I received more than 50 years ago and love her a lot!
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Good to hear you loved your doll and kept it. I hope it doesn’t look like any of these ones though. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Haha! No, she definitely is a modern little thing!
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I have always been terrified of dolls
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You had good reason to be, Beth, looking at these examples.
Best wishes, Pete.
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CREEPY. Ever since I heard the song ‘Love Hate Revenge’ 1967 I have thought of how people get a doll and make it look like realistically like someone they once loved, now hate and so do dastardly things to get revenge. This stemmed from Voodoo dolls which were effigies but in western cultures made the dolls porcelain and life like. SCARY
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Thanks, Gavin. I have a lot of female cousins, and when we were young, their dolls always made me feel uneasy.
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They creep me out too. Especially the first one with the red eyes and the penultimate one (because those three girls look like like real people). It’s not just be because I’m not a girl – I didn’t even care for Action Man when I was a kid.
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Thanks, Paul. Those Victorian dolls always look like dead children to me.
(I was too old for Action Man. It was launched in the UK in 1966, and I was already 14.)
Best wishes, Pete.
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Creepy, for sure. As a child I didn’t want dolls, just teddy bears and stuffed animals. I did have a golly but I guess one mustn’t mention it now.
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Gollies were not as scary as porcelain-faced dolls. (I used to have all the badges of Gollies from Robertson’s Jam. Remember their catchphrase? “Look for the Golly on the jar”. Imagine that, in todays, P-C world?) We can’t even have ‘Uncle Ben’s Rice’ now.
Best wishes, Pete.
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The first one with red eyes! Why??
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Andrew, my reaction to all of them is ‘Why?’ At least I could bear to look at Barbie and Tiny Tears. 🙂
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Remember that episode of Seinfeld where they found the creepy-doll that looked like George’s mother? 🤯
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No, John mentioned that, but I never used to watch it. I didn’t find him (Seinfield) remotely funny. Sorry!
(Though I very much enjoyed ‘Keeping Up Appearances’, with Larry David. )
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It’s those marble eyes. I was never a doll person, more of a teddy bear kind of kid.
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A better choice, Darlene. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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In the penultimate picture, the doll on the left is pretty creepy! My son-in-law refuses to sleep in the guestroom because an antique doll name Lulubelle creeps him out.
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I’m on his side, Liz!
Best wishes, Pete.
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I was rather insulted.Lulubelle has been in my family for well over a hundred years.
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I appreciate that family history, but it would make me feel uncomfortable too. 🙂
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Lulu has big, banjo eyes, and the pupils roll around. 😀
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You got my attention with the first one!!!
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Dolls always seem to be so lifeless and cold to me, Jack. Like strange little corpses.
Best wishes, Pete.
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They do stare one down. Warmest regards, Theo
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Oh yes, I always look away! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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YIKES 😱😱😱
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Exactly!
Thanks, Chris.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes, they are a bit creepy. A friend of my late mother had a house full of dolls. Dolls in every room, all staring at me. Rather disagreeable…
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I worry about people who collect such dolls, especially if they are men! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Mum’s friend was female, but she was rather strange. She never threw anything away, even old bits of string for instance. The house was chock full of shite.
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Sounds a bit like me, before we had our big ‘declutter’! 🙂
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My verdict is creepy.
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Thanks for being on my side, Molly.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yikes! This reminds me of dolls that we used to find every now and then while excavating homesteads in Ontario. They were called frozen Charlottes and were a reminder for little girls to listen to their mothers or they will end up like poor charlotte who froze to death because she didn’t listen. It was always a very creepy artifact to find!
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Thanks for adding that information, Margie. I had never heard of a ‘Frozen Charlotte’.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Dolls have always creeped me out, I remember one time when I was a kid I left my dolls on my table beside my bed and I couldn’t sleep the whole night from that day I locked it inside.
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I don’t think I would like to sleep in a room with a doll ‘staring’ at me, Daphny. Locking it away made sense to me.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh trust me you definitely wouldn’t, it was a mistake I never repeated till this day.
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Chucky thinks those baby dolls are cute, but they’re rather lifeless. He dreams of one day hanging out with the lively dolls that inhabit the frozen planet Lythion in the Tau Ceti planetary system. Chucky’s only fear is that Dr. Durand Durand, who lives in Sogo, will threaten to blast him with a positronic ray if he gets out of line.
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The dolls in ‘Barbarella’ (and Chucky) don’t scare me in the same way, because they are meant to be scary. These play-dolls have strange lifeless faces that look just weird.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Aaaargh
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They give me a shiver up the spine, Sue!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yep
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Some people hate Clowns. Some people hate Dolls….both for good reason! There’s a “Seinfeld” episode where George’s girlfriend has a doll that look exactly like his mother!
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Thanks, John. My wife is scared of clowns, and also terrified of ventriloquist’s dummies! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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There was an old hotel in Napa Valley that was a hundred years old…they had an entire “library room” filled with dummies – it was SO CREEPY
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Great episode!
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Is this comment on the wrong post perhaps?
Cheers, Pete.
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Nope, just once again praising Seinfeld, Pete…
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I am not sure if creepy is the right word. I look at the dolls you showed and think they are works of art.
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Good to hear your perspective, Janet. They look like little demons to me! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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And my mother thought I was strange because I never liked dolls…
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No wonder I wrote a horror serial about a doll possessed by a demon! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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