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3:22

hello. Hello there. Welcome in.

3:24

Welcome. If you're new

3:26

here, I'm Terry Carnation, and you found

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yourself at Radio Rental, a

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VHS travel shop that houses a

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collection of the scariest true horror

3:35

stories you've ever heard. Anyway,

3:38

you've caught me in a bit of a bad

3:40

mood today. Upon receiving

3:42

a few angry comments from

3:44

disgruntled parents, I just

3:47

recently discovered that a bunch of my VHS

3:49

tapes are actually in the

3:51

wrong sleeves. As you can probably

3:53

imagine, that's created a lot of problems. Dumb

3:56

and Dumber was in Dr. Zhivago, Memoirs

3:58

of a Gay Shark. was inside

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of the when Harry met Sally sleeve.

4:04

But the worst so far was the Texas

4:06

Chainsaw Massacre inside the box for the aristocats.

4:11

Poor kiddies wanted kittens lapping up

4:13

milk and they got leather-faced sledgehammering

4:16

some Texans. I am

4:18

so sorry to whatever kitty checked that one

4:20

out. I guess

4:22

their parents can just forward me their therapy bills

4:24

the rest of their life. Side

4:27

note, Friday the 13th part four was in the

4:29

Friday the 13th part six sleeve and

4:32

no one ever seemed to notice.

4:35

Anyway, why don't we pop in a scary tape for

4:37

you while I sort out the rest of this mess,

4:39

huh? Here we

4:41

go. Hi

4:45

there, my name is Clarence Carnation.

4:48

I'm six foot two, 52 years old. This is

4:50

my audition tape for survivor. On

4:52

the weekend you can find me, Ben's friend.

4:56

Okay, oh God,

4:59

that's terrible. It looks like these tapes are mixed up

5:01

too. Anyway, don't

5:03

worry about that. You weren't supposed to see that. Okay,

5:06

yes, truth be told, I submitted to survivor.

5:09

No, they didn't take me, their loss. Because

5:12

my tape is awesome. I

5:15

ate five ostrich eggs on it. But

5:18

anyways, now's not the time. Here is

5:20

a scary story for you. And

5:23

really, I think that this one isn't my audition

5:25

for so you think you can manage. I

5:34

was newly engaged before

5:37

my fiance at the time and I

5:39

were going to get married. My

5:42

brother-in-law wanted to go on a

5:44

camping trip. My

5:47

fiance and I were native

5:50

color addings and we are

5:52

big into outdoor everything. We

5:55

also had purchased a new truck

5:58

and we're kind of excited to take it. Get our

6:00

X Maiden Voyage camping trip so he

6:02

had gotten all of our camping Suv

6:05

all loading up orally. Excited to take

6:07

this truck as far back into the

6:09

woods and unpaved wilderness as we could

6:11

get it. So.

6:13

We had gone along with my

6:16

brother in law and my three

6:18

nephews. We.

6:20

Decided as are camping trip. we're

6:22

going to go to this area

6:24

ng Northern Colorado called the Red

6:26

Feather Lakes. Makes.

6:29

Kind of isolated area others town and

6:31

read seller Lakes I don't think has

6:33

more than have a hundred people that

6:35

live there. Miles.

6:38

And miles and miles of

6:40

logging roads, forest access, National

6:43

Forest Land, and Bureau of

6:45

Land Management campsite. Everything. We.

6:48

Had packed everything for afford a camping

6:51

trip and we decided this time we're

6:53

gonna just had his deep into the

6:55

woods we could. It

6:58

was close to about twenty miles

7:00

by it's Imo said and done And

7:02

back there they have camp sites that

7:04

are spaced out every half mile or

7:07

so. And then

7:09

you get further back and there.

7:11

Every mile and then every two

7:13

miles and we have gone from

7:16

standard unpaved dirt forests trails her.

7:18

I have more technical off roading

7:20

and all that. I was family

7:22

in the season for camping so

7:24

we've had a really seem very

7:27

many other. Campers out there. There

7:29

were a couple that seemed like they were

7:31

packing up kind of at the entrance. Turbo

7:33

Forests. Once they were

7:35

probably a mile or two back into the woods,

7:37

there was nothing. We.

7:42

Had found this camp site that

7:44

was pristine was beautiful. We.

7:46

guys all set up on the first

7:48

day we had brought watch the games

7:50

for the boys to we had these

7:53

three young boys out there with us

7:55

so we the likes of stuff like

7:57

corn and board games we went fishing

8:00

They were all kind of excited because I

8:02

brought out a couple of little 22 rifles

8:05

that they wanted to go plinking with. So

8:08

we had like a little firearm safety

8:10

talk and class and all that for

8:12

about half an hour. One

8:15

by one we had them,

8:17

you know, take turns shooting a

8:19

little 22 back there. That

8:21

night we noticed that

8:23

the dogs just got really on edge.

8:28

My dog and my brother-in-law's dog,

8:30

they're very experienced camping.

8:32

They have been out in the woods,

8:35

they've gone on a whole bunch of camping

8:37

trips and they're used to seeing deer and

8:39

all sorts of wildlife. So

8:42

it kind of seemed out of character

8:44

for them. Their hackles

8:46

were up and they started kind of patrolling

8:48

the edge of our camp. We

8:51

weren't too on guard with the whole thing.

8:55

Earlier in the day we had gone out into

8:57

the woods quite a bit, hikes in the areas

8:59

and all that and we hadn't seen

9:01

any other campers in the area. We

9:03

hadn't noticed anything unusual or anything like

9:06

that. The way at

9:08

least I kind of figured it out at the

9:10

time was that maybe there was some

9:12

sort of skunk or something like that. It

9:16

was the second day that we continue to

9:19

do kind of normal camping activities. We

9:22

had probably gone a mile in every

9:24

direction from our camp. We'd

9:26

go a mile in one way and then we'd come back. After

9:29

about half an hour the boys would go on another

9:31

hike and we'd go out in the other direction and

9:34

just exploring the woods and seeing what there was to

9:36

see. That night

9:40

we got the boys all put away for bed. My

9:43

wife, my brother-in-law and I stayed up around

9:45

the campfire until 1 a.m.

9:49

All this time the dogs have just kind of

9:51

been acting on edge. Once

9:54

every hour they're getting up and they're running

9:56

around and they're kind of patrolling the edge

9:58

of our campground or they're acting strange

10:00

on our hikes, where they're looking behind

10:03

us, really just

10:05

kind of on guard the whole time. So

10:08

that night when we went to bed, I was starting

10:10

to feel kind of uneasy. I

10:13

don't think I hardly slept at all. I

10:16

was laying there in the

10:18

tent, tossing and turning. I feel like I

10:20

was more in one of those types of

10:22

sleep where you're still hearing the noises around

10:24

you. Time might be passing

10:27

by a little bit faster, but you're just kind

10:29

of laying there, listening around you. And I would

10:31

hear, you know, like twigs snap in the woods

10:33

and all of a sudden I'm wide awake again

10:35

and then dozing back off. I

10:38

was kind of expecting the next day

10:40

when we woke up to see

10:42

our campsite, had some sort of foot pranks

10:44

or tracks or something like that through it.

10:47

Some sort of bear, some sort of deer wandering

10:50

through the site, anything like that. I

10:53

was looking around and I didn't see anything,

10:55

but I did notice one

10:57

of our water jugs all

11:00

underneath it was just soaked. And

11:03

we had at least six of them. They're

11:05

five gallon water jugs and they have like

11:08

a little pull tab spigot that pulls out

11:10

on them. The

11:12

water jug was just completely

11:14

drained. I

11:17

was thinking like, did somebody come into our camp and

11:19

just drain our water? Or are

11:21

they trying to run us out of here? I

11:23

didn't see any foot pranks and

11:25

we had more water with

11:27

us than just that one five gallon

11:29

jug. So we

11:32

weren't too stressed about it. I had other water

11:34

in my truck and my brother had other water

11:36

in his car. Maybe,

11:38

you know, my nephews is like, one of them like

11:40

woken up in the middle of the night and got

11:42

in some water or something like that and forgotten to

11:44

close it. We

11:47

had decided on that third

11:49

day, but dogs

11:51

seemed so uncomfortable and we

11:53

were kind of starting to think like, you know, if

11:56

these dogs have been on eggs for so long, maybe

11:58

we'll just pack it in a day early. but

12:00

we weren't in any hurry. We

12:03

cooked breakfast and we started packing up a

12:05

little bit and by the time we had

12:07

gotten everything halfway loaded,

12:10

the dogs were getting increasingly

12:12

agitated. They

12:14

were barking off into the woods. They

12:17

were just acting so upset. Very

12:20

unusual behavior for them. By

12:23

the time we had gotten to fully load

12:25

again to our vehicles, it was getting close

12:27

to dinger time at that point. We

12:30

had really taken our time. We

12:33

decided, all right, have dinner and then

12:35

we'll make our way back to the

12:37

town while they're still

12:39

light. From there, it's just

12:41

a couple hour drive back to our homes. My

12:46

nephews were a little bit irritated because

12:48

on every camping trip, we will go

12:50

out snipe hunting. When

12:53

you have a younger party

12:55

of children with you when

12:57

you're out camping, you'll

13:00

talk about the snipe and the snipe is different

13:02

for everybody. It's this

13:04

made up creature that usually

13:06

you'll go off with a younger party of

13:08

kids in your camp and you'll go looking

13:11

through the woods for the snipe just to

13:13

keep the younger kids occupied while you're out

13:15

camping. What

13:18

our routine with snipe hunting is, we'll

13:21

form kind of a single file line. My

13:24

brother-in-law, he'll lead us

13:26

in a big, wide, round circle

13:28

that kind of leads us back

13:30

to the campsite. He'll

13:33

take the front. My fiance this

13:35

time, she was in the middle of the boys

13:37

and I was in the back of the line.

13:41

I was picking up small

13:43

rocks and sticks and things like that and

13:45

when it was very clear that they weren't

13:48

looking in my direction, I would throw a

13:50

rock off to the right of our group

13:53

or I'd throw a stick over

13:55

the left and my fiance

13:57

at the time, she would go, did you hear

13:59

that over there? You know and the little boys

14:01

they would gasp. Oh my goodness. I

14:03

think it's a snipe We

14:06

went pretty deep into the woods

14:10

I'm throwing rocks off in this direction and every now and

14:13

then I throw some off in that direction We've

14:16

been out there for about 15 minutes or

14:18

so a Big

14:22

rock Maybe about

14:24

a softball size Just

14:26

comes in and lands Right

14:29

in the middle of our group We

14:33

landed closest to my fiance or landed right

14:35

at her feet She

14:39

looked at me and my brother-in-law looked at me

14:42

what the heck are you doing? That

14:45

is a big rock that you just threw over

14:47

here I Can

14:50

just see in their eyes and I'm looking back at them

14:52

like I didn't throw that

14:54

rock My Nephews

14:57

were all startled and excited. Oh my gosh.

14:59

The snipe has thrown this big old rock

15:02

at us. I Didn't

15:04

see it come in. I just saw it land and

15:06

so I thought maybe it fell off of something But

15:08

I'm looking around and where we

15:10

were standing was kind of flat forest

15:12

area We

15:15

had been standing there for not more than

15:17

10 seconds. Just kind of looking back and forth at

15:19

each other when another

15:22

rock came out

15:25

of the woods and Hit

15:27

me in the chest It

15:31

wended me It

15:34

caught us incredibly off guard, but I think at

15:36

this point all of a sudden the

15:38

docks connected for me Somebody's

15:41

so rocks at us and I couldn't

15:44

see where they were at all We

15:48

just started running We

15:52

tried to kind of play it off a little bit cool

15:54

for my nephews But we just kind of said like oh

15:56

my gosh, this is a mean snipe. We need to run

15:58

back to the car and so running back

16:00

to the car but we don't know what

16:03

the heck is going on. We

16:06

start just driving out of the campsite.

16:09

My brother pulls out of the campsite first, I

16:11

pull out second. The

16:14

road was pretty rough leaving the

16:16

campsite, rougher that when you

16:18

would kind of expect of normal forest road.

16:23

We got maybe a half mile from

16:25

our campsite and we come around the bend. There

16:29

was stuff kind of like littering

16:32

all over the road. It

16:36

looked like there were sticks and just like

16:38

maybe like trash bags and stuff like that.

16:43

Well as we get closer we're coming up on it. We're

16:47

looking out the window.

16:50

There's bones. Bones

16:54

and all sorts of conditioning. Some of

16:56

them still had clumps of fur and

16:58

meat attached to them. I

17:01

remember seeing what looked like a big

17:03

femur in the road. Other

17:05

ones were like actual carcasses.

17:09

As we kind of continued further along the

17:12

trail there were beheaded

17:14

elk. There

17:17

was such a mess and a mangle of

17:19

just flesh. There were

17:23

just bones and rotting

17:26

carcasses and everything that we were having

17:28

to drive and maneuver around

17:30

to go down this trail. We

17:34

were afraid that we were going to drive over

17:36

some sort of antlers and pop a tire. We

17:40

just continued down the road avoiding

17:42

what we could but you know

17:44

we did end up having to

17:46

run over a couple bodies of

17:48

what looked like smaller animals. Everything

17:51

was so mangled it was hard to tell

17:53

what was what. This

17:58

was what felt like 20

18:01

minutes of just driving and navigating

18:03

and maneuvering around all this. But

18:07

it's just like this gore of

18:09

just animal remnants that not only

18:11

that are spread all over the

18:14

road, but they weren't there when

18:16

you got there. And so

18:18

close to our campsite. A

18:20

half mile at the most. We

18:25

went further down the road for another

18:27

five minutes or so. Again, this is

18:30

really rough terrain. It's slow

18:32

traveling. We

18:34

pull up to this

18:37

opening in the woods where it

18:39

looked like somebody else had set up

18:41

camp. I

18:44

stopped my truck. My

18:46

brother-in-law, he just decided to continue

18:48

on. But I

18:50

thought, I'm going to go tell

18:52

these other campers, you guys might want

18:54

to pack up. There's something

18:57

weird going on here.

18:59

So I pulled up to this campsite, not

19:01

leaving the road, and

19:03

started walking over to this campsite.

19:07

I could see that there was a green bus.

19:12

As I got closer to

19:14

the bus, I started

19:16

to notice the windows

19:19

were covered with what looked

19:21

like paper. Maybe

19:23

like bookers paper or something like that,

19:26

covering all the windows from the inside.

19:30

I could see that there was spray

19:32

painted symbols all over

19:34

it. It

19:37

looked like a number of different

19:39

stars. Like

19:42

a pentagram type star. One

19:45

particular large star on the side of

19:47

the bus has nine points on it.

19:51

The paper that was covering the window

19:53

had a lot of these same symbols

19:55

on them. What

19:58

it looked like to me was somehow... of the Blair

20:00

Witch Project. As

20:04

I'm approaching this bus, I'm getting

20:06

incredibly uncomfortable at a point that I decide like

20:08

I'm not even going to go all the way

20:11

up and knock on the door. When

20:14

I look and I see that they have a fire

20:16

pit, probably 50 feet or so away from the bus

20:21

on my way back over to my

20:24

truck, I glance over into the fire

20:26

pit. And this

20:28

fire pit had 40 animals

20:32

worth of just bones.

20:36

Moose antlers, a number

20:39

of what looked like femurs, it

20:43

looked like a gore pit. There

20:46

were so many bones. Looking

20:51

around, there's weird things

20:53

hanging from the trees around

20:55

everywhere. There

20:57

was what looked like some

20:59

sort of chipmunk or some sort

21:02

of mountain squirrel strung out by

21:04

its hands and arms or paws

21:06

or whatever. And it

21:08

was hanging from the trees, crucifix

21:10

style. Didn't

21:12

see any sign of anybody. I just booked

21:14

it back to the truck. When

21:18

I got back into the truck, I

21:20

said to her, my fiance, this

21:23

is some Hills Have Eyes shit. We

21:28

floored it, rally

21:30

racing through the forest on this

21:33

single lane dirt road. We

21:36

were driving so quickly and it was

21:38

getting so dark. We were

21:40

so freaked out. We didn't want to be in the woods, in

21:43

those woods after dark. But

21:46

the whole time we were driving out, we were just, what was

21:48

that? What was that? I don't know. We

21:50

just need to get out of here. We need

21:52

to get back to the town. When

21:57

we did get back into cell service, we

21:59

did. call the county

22:01

sheriff and told them

22:04

what we had happened. We

22:07

gave them our phone numbers and everything

22:09

and then they said that they would

22:12

pass it on to the Parks and

22:14

Wildlife officers that patrol that area. I

22:19

had gotten a call maybe like two

22:22

weeks later. They

22:25

just told me, yeah

22:27

we went and drove back in that area but

22:31

we didn't see anything. Wow

22:40

what a harrowing story. Oh that

22:43

gives me the creeps but also

22:45

please don't tell Malachi that snipes

22:47

aren't real. Sometimes when I

22:50

forget to buy him food I say that

22:52

the snipes got to it first and I

22:54

I really don't want to backtrack on a

22:56

decade's worth of lies and manipulation. Malachi

22:58

can be very punitive. Moving

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And we're back. Time

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for another scary story. Roll the

25:33

tape. Now

25:35

I have to walk over here and actually press play, but pretend

25:38

it started immediately, which would have been so

25:40

much cooler. It

25:51

was the summer of 2021. I

25:54

was going to Key West for

25:56

the first time. with

26:00

my boyfriend's family. They

26:03

had recently gotten a condo a

26:05

few hours north. They

26:08

were really excited to show me everything that Key

26:10

West had to offer. One

26:14

of the days that we were staying

26:16

there, we decided to see all the

26:18

local attractions like Ernest Hemingway's

26:20

house, Duval Street,

26:23

and the

26:25

Key West Museum. I

26:28

was particularly excited about the Key

26:30

West Museum. I

26:32

knew that Robert the Doll lived there.

26:36

Robert the Doll is supposedly

26:39

cursed and belonged

26:42

to a little boy in the

26:44

early 1900s. He was given the doll

26:46

when he was four. The

26:49

lore is that Robert

26:51

Eugene Otto was given the

26:53

doll by a servant of

26:55

his family. In

26:57

1904, the

27:00

servant supposedly was very

27:02

poorly mistreated and put

27:06

a curse on the doll. This

27:09

led to an attachment

27:12

between the doll

27:14

and Jean. Jean would always refer

27:16

to the doll as his friend

27:19

and he named the doll after himself. He named

27:21

him Robert. Weird

27:24

things started happening in their house growing up.

27:27

He would cause things to move,

27:31

destroy other toys, really

27:34

like be a menace in their household. Jean's

27:37

parents would always get mad at him and say

27:39

he's making a mess and tell him to stop,

27:41

but his only response would always be Robert did

27:44

it. As

27:46

Jean grew up, got married, he

27:49

couldn't let go of the doll. After

27:52

he passed, his wife donated the doll to the Key

27:54

West Museum because they had a house down

27:56

there. The museum

27:58

was like... I guess we'll have it after

28:03

they put it in a

28:05

box, something not secure.

28:09

He would move things around in the museum

28:12

and continue to just do

28:14

like malevolent things. People

28:17

knew that something was just off about it,

28:19

so they put it in a glass case. When

28:23

people visit, you have to be very respectful.

28:25

People, it's just

28:28

something Robert likes for

28:31

people to ask permission to take his

28:33

picture, verbally. Very

28:38

respectfully, can I take your picture? That's

28:41

how the doll got started. I

28:47

knew a lot about Robert the

28:49

doll's history before I went to

28:51

the Key West Museum. Really,

28:54

Robert is the main event of the museum.

28:58

More than anything, I wanted to know if when

29:01

you were around the doll, if you could feel that

29:03

unease almost radiating from it. Just for the sake of

29:06

curiosity. We

29:10

finally passed through the other

29:12

exhibits. We walked

29:14

into Robert's room, Robert's room. It's

29:18

this sort of stone open exhibit

29:20

where Robert is in the middle.

29:26

It's a stuffed boy

29:29

doll that's about three feet

29:31

tall in a sailor's costume.

29:33

He has a teddy bear

29:36

in this glass case, and

29:40

he has letters in

29:42

his case. He

29:46

looks a little raggedy beaten up. I

29:49

thought that because of his

29:51

demeanor and look and the

29:54

lore, I was

29:56

expecting to feel maybe a cold rush or

29:58

a tingling of the spin. something

30:00

that indicated that something was off with

30:02

the doll. I

30:04

was going to immediately want to get

30:07

out of the room or have some

30:09

sort of reaction other than just

30:12

feeling like it was a doll. You

30:15

know what, maybe the stories were just made up

30:17

and this was something that was way overhyped and

30:20

I got too excited about it. It's

30:22

no big deal. I

30:26

was more curious about

30:30

what would happen if I

30:32

took a picture. Even

30:36

after listening to the lore

30:39

and several scary podcasts of people

30:41

saying not to do it, I

30:44

thought, you know what, I was also expecting to

30:46

feel the evil radiating

30:48

off the doll and

30:50

I didn't feel that so why not just take a

30:53

picture to remember? I

30:56

took a picture with the camera facing the doll

30:58

and a thumbs up. I

31:01

sent it to some friends just to show

31:03

them, hey, I did it. Robert's

31:06

not that scary. I

31:08

did not ask permission. We

31:12

finished walking through the museum. I

31:16

got a t-shirt, a Robert the doll t-shirt

31:18

on sale. After that,

31:20

we went about the rest of the day in Key

31:23

West shopping, looking at other

31:25

historical places. Later

31:30

that night when I was going to bed, the

31:32

same room that I had the whole week, woke

31:36

up in the middle of the night, decided

31:38

to check my phone. My

31:40

phone had been plugged in on the mattress, the

31:42

same charger and same outlet that I'd used in

31:45

previous nights. When

31:47

I went to pick it up, it was searing hot.

31:51

It felt like it was about to start an electrical

31:53

fire or burn a hole through

31:55

the mattress. I

31:58

immediately unplugged it after seeing the camera. that

32:00

it was on and had no warnings and

32:03

just wait for it to cool down. Woke

32:07

up in the morning to find my phone

32:09

unable to turn on and

32:12

after attempting several resolutions,

32:16

my phone was never to turn on again

32:18

for the rest of the trip. Immediately

32:22

I correlated with what I had done

32:24

the day before. I

32:26

thought there's absolutely no way.

32:29

This happened to me. After

32:33

the trip, we went to a

32:35

repair store. They had

32:38

asked what I had done to get my

32:40

phone to the state. If

32:43

I had left it in the sun, if there was water damage,

32:45

what could have caused this heavy of

32:48

damage to the phone? I

32:51

hadn't done anything besides plug

32:53

it in with the brand

32:56

charger. The

32:59

phone was not repairable. I had to get a new one. On

33:04

that new phone, reinstalled

33:06

Google Drive, which had backed up my

33:08

photos. Once I had

33:10

viewed all of the images that were backed

33:12

up from the trip, I knew I

33:15

was looking for one picture because

33:17

I didn't want it on the new phone. I

33:20

wanted to get rid of the memory

33:22

of that, even if it was potentially

33:24

a coincidence. I

33:28

couldn't find the one Robert

33:30

picture that I had taken that day. There

33:34

were pictures from earlier that day,

33:38

and there were pictures after the museum,

33:41

but there was not the Robert picture. My

33:45

friends still had it, family still

33:47

had it in our text. That

33:51

was very unsettling, and

33:53

I definitely immediately thought

33:56

of Robert. It

33:58

was because of the picture. The

34:02

coincidence was just too strong.

34:04

I mean,

34:06

hours apart that I took the picture,

34:08

and then my phone started having issues.

34:12

And the fact that there were so many and

34:14

has been so many other reports, it's

34:17

a little hard to believe it's a

34:19

coincidence. I

34:21

would say I was feeling like I was being haunted. Almost

34:25

like he's over my shoulder. It

34:29

was a few weeks later, I had

34:33

moved into my college apartment with

34:36

one of my friends that I had sent the picture to. We

34:41

started living together and it was

34:43

kind of immediate that our

34:45

apartment was not a happy place to be. It

34:47

wasn't home feeling, it

34:50

wasn't restful. We

34:53

just felt very unsettled there and

34:56

couldn't really put a finger on why. But

34:59

we knew at the end of the day it was not a place

35:01

we wanted to be. After

35:04

a particularly hard day, I got

35:06

in a car accident. The

35:09

effects of that car accident have

35:11

definitely lasted to today.

35:14

It was really soon after that

35:16

incident that I thought about Robert having a

35:19

hand in it. Because of

35:21

the amount of people that

35:23

have visited and either

35:25

not been respectful or taken

35:28

a picture and not asked permission that

35:30

have had bad luck or

35:33

had medical issues. I

35:36

was really starting to honestly feel like

35:39

an idiot for taking the picture because

35:42

now it was starting to physically

35:44

impact me. I

35:47

can't believe I took that picture. The

35:53

letters around his glass

35:55

box are letters from

35:57

people who have either

35:59

been... rude or taken

36:01

pictures and not asked permission

36:04

or visited Robert and then just

36:06

started to have terrible things happen

36:09

to them. They

36:11

write an apology letter to him.

36:14

They asked for the bad things to stop happening.

36:18

Robert, I know I

36:21

didn't ask your permission. Very

36:24

remorseful for having done that and

36:27

I apologize and I hope

36:29

that you can accept the apology and

36:32

I hope the apology works.

36:48

Aha, classic Robert the doll

36:50

story. You know I have

36:52

my own Robert the doll story. I

36:55

too went to visit him when I was

36:57

down in Key West and well I was

36:59

pretty inebriated after a day on Duval Street,

37:01

I'll admit it. Anyway I refused

37:04

to cower to a doll so I walked

37:06

or stumbled right up to his little glass

37:09

cage and I said well

37:11

I don't know if I should repeat it. It was

37:13

pretty foul. I used some pretty graphic doll

37:16

language but I swear to God ever

37:18

since then I haven't

37:20

been able to find my sunglasses ever.

37:24

This is since 1997 so I'm

37:27

just saying I know that stuffed

37:29

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37:31

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41:03

welcome back. So I've finally gotten

41:05

most of these tapes back into their rightful sleeves.

41:08

Oh, but God, there could have been some bad ones. Ghost

41:12

Dad with Bill Cosby was in

41:14

Ghost. Peeping Tom was inside the

41:16

box for Tom and Jerry the movie. Ooh,

41:19

absolutely horrifying. That was a close

41:21

one. I could have been sued for that. Anyway,

41:24

I don't know who mixed these up,

41:26

but I have a sinking suspicion that this

41:29

was a parting prank from my demonic niece

41:31

Susie, who visited me last year.

41:34

Just one last act of mischief right

41:36

before she left. Lovely.

41:40

Anyway, it's been so nice sharing some

41:42

spookiness again with you today. Make

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sure to come back again next time, and we'll do

41:47

it all over again, right here at

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