Ever Been Spooked (Directly or Indirectly) By Your Doll?

That's all interesting designermix! No goolies better touch my dolls! Yeah, one of my dolls is a total diva and she also looks a little "creepier" than the rest (not to me, but other people think so). She's sharing her body with another head so I always wonder if she's upset or jealous when she gets switched off.

The other day I bought beautiful yellow glass eyes for my vamp woosoo (who is on his way in a few months) and his girlfriend decided to try them on for comfort (I feel she is very excited and anticipating his arrival, although that's all my imagination XD). Anyway, I was surprised these eyes fit her! Since they were such a light colour, all the pictures I took of my doll wearing the eyes turned out very creepy! This reminded me of Half_A_Star's story haha! They're still lovely eyes and I'm not afraid of them....but note to self...turn flash OFF when taking pictures of them!

I'll try to post a bad pic when I get them uploaded.

I just bought glow in the dark eyes too! I hope they don't freak me out! They're timid colours like blue which I'm hoping will relax me. However, I'm not sure what my reaction will be the first night that they're attached and I turn the lights off to sleep...

 

Sometimes the spooky stories do get to me. When I'm not playing with my dolls I often unassemble them (the head or hands or whatever comes off easily) and box them away. Usually I keep the heads seperated from the bodies. It makes me feel at ease knowthing they are boxed and safe but part of me wonders if I'm also doing it subconciously so I'm not afraid of them. I tell myself the heads still need work and that's why I'm keeping them in another box for easy access but I also realize I feel it's less likely they can come alive if they don't have their heads! XD

Does anyone else do anything like this or am I the only one?

 

No. I go out of my way to put that evil twinkle in some of my dolls' eyes - that means my work is done. Red or orange eyes, snake-pupil eyes, metallic eyes, blind eyes, iridescent eyes, polka-dotted eyes, opaque eyes, mismatched eyes... I love it. They do not scare me, though. Instead I have that "oh cool, another successful fit of accessorizing" moment.

And when their limbs suddenly move & smack me, or if their waist-joints suddenly flop shut on the delicate bit between thumb & forefinger, I do not take this as a fearsome sign from the Beyond-- I just mutter something like "Ow! You little sonofabitch!" and get on with it.

 

In recent months my tan wake up goldie has become both my best friend and most "feared" doll. Even though she's not as flexible as my other dolls, she always falls into realistic positions on her own. She's easy to take places and nice to hug, and easy to talk to like she's a real person... but, just the way her face and eyes are, it's like she has an obsessive stare. It makes me imagine that if she were real, then she would keep me locked in a basement to keep me all to herself.

My imagination is too big.

these photos probably didn't help either.

And I would probably try to reason with a demonic doll.

 

Nah. I've never been afraid of dolls, though. I've been afraid for my doll when he face planted tho!

As for the random question.... hm. If Devine and/or Bryce tried coming after me, no problem. They weigh what, 2 lbs? As long as they're not spitting fire or something it would just hold them upside down or something.

 

Xuchilpaba your doll is both gorgeous and a little creepy XD No offense, or anything! She's very beautiful! I see what you mean though, from that picture she seems like she could give off different vibes.

I have a doll who I'm trying to connect with right now. I want him to give off a guardian/protector vibe (like most of you say your dolls give off), however he's always frowning as if he's giving me attitude XD His sculpt is based on a cat from a story so he does give off that cat-like behavior of watching over its owner BUT at the same time being stubborn and unchangeable.

 

There is a fantastic quote by Guillermo del Toro that, naturally, I cannot find for the life of me right now. It was from an interview, and it went roughly like this: "When I was a little boy, I was so afraid of the monsters under my bed, I promised them that if they would leave me alone to sleep through the night, I would be their best friend, and I've kept that promise ever since." That isn't the quote, but a quick paraphrase. I'm pretty much on the same page there. If my crew ever spook me, I know I've done something right. Of all the dolls I have and have planned, only one is actually completely human -- and that's one of the ones I don't have. (And will probably never, EVER have, since the sculpt that is perfectly, unerringly, irreplaceably her is... discontinued. And was not popular to start with. The odds of ever getting a hold of one are probably on par with finding a winning lottery ticket blown in under my front door.) 'Creeped out' means I've done something right.

...but I am not afraid of them. I'm quite open to all manner of weirdness. It's been a part of my life since I was born, and likely always will be. I'd say I've become jaded or immune, but that wouldn't be as true as I might want it to be. It is more that, in my dolls, I can make them into the very things I am afraid of, in small form, and sit them on a shelf, where I will always know where they are, and barring weirder-than-the-usual-weirdness, they're going to be right where I left them.

I do have, admittedly, one doll that actively unnerves me, but it isn't due to anything actively creepy -- just something weird. He was a doll I bought because he was lovely, but he wasn't anything I had planned on and I had no idea why I wanted him quite so much as I did at the time. I just did, I bought him and brought him home. Once he arrived home, I realized that he bore a downright uncanny resemblance to someone I had met between the time I ordered him and the time he arrived at my doorstep, and it was someone I'd become incredibly close to in that short time. So, now, I do shiver a little bit now and then when I see that his head just happens to be aimed in my direction based on where I am in the room, or I catch sight of him when I glance over the shelves, but in a totally backward way, it's for the sake of a completely mundane resemblance rather than anything most people would really think of as creepy.

 

When I got my El a friend order a body for the extra head and when said doll came in she decided she did not want him. So she just gave him to me. Well I did not need two EL's I just wanted my Dreaming EL. So I took the Open eyed head and body home and another friend wanted him. So I was opening his box to check that he was not broken or anything. My mom was right be hind me. The min I opened the box the doll litterly jump straight up and seem then fell over in a fetal position. It freak me and my mom out. I put him back in the box and did not open it again till I gave it to my friend.

That is about the only time my dolls gave me the shivers unless it a close call off a shelf or on the floor

 

Yes, I have been afraid of Jaxxon. Only when he rolls his eyes at me though and it's not a "omg he's gonna kill me", it's more of an uncanny valley thing lol

 

There's no way to explain this that won't make me sound crazy, so I won't even bother to try. I've never been afraid of my dolls themselves, but more or less by their personalities. I'll be playing around with them like dressing my boy(s) in girl's clothing for the heck of it, or poking fun at certain characteristics, and it seems to me that they glare during these times. For the longest time, I was very nervous/anxious about taking my first boy's eyes out (for the first time). It took me nearly two years to get the courage to do so, because every time I went to do it, it seemed that he'd give me this "look".

Overly imaginative? You bet your backside I am!

 

I don't really have any fears about my dolls. Doll Master freaked me out for a little while though. Junky Spot shipped it with my first doll... "Awesome they sent me some art cards and Hi-chew and... What's this?" <few hours later> "Those people are horrible!"

 

I could never be scared of my dolls.....they are beautiful, but some of my relatives think they are a bit creepy, Lol....that just makes them more appealing to me.....they are little, beautiful works of art , not just dolls.

 

Not scared but creeped out, he keeps doing things like kicking the camera and shading his eyes from a bright light I was trying to see his eyes with (to make sure they where stright)

i swaer he has a mind of his own O,o

 

I used to have this huge paranoia about dolls and thinking that they had evil spirits and stuff like that. Always watching you.. Gah! This only happened because when I was 8-years-old on a class trip to a museum they had this doll in a glass box, and one of the kids was like " Did you know that doll is possessed?" I've been scared of dolls ever since.

I'm only afraid of my doll right now because she has no eyes or hair yet =P But I love my new doll too much. If anything, she's scared of me LOL

 

These posts are all very interesting. I make fun of my dolls personalities too sometimes and wonder if they mind or if I hurt their feelings. My crobiboy has a HUGE chin that I never noticed in any of the company/owner pictures I looked at before buying him. I make fun of his chin non-stop. He's the doll who I mentioned gives me attitude filled stares 24/7 like a ticked off cat.

 

Not actually scared, but I do remember when I first got my doll-sized couch I had some of my crew sitting on it behind me, and they were looking in my direction . . . and I actually got that instinctive sense that I was being watched from it .

That said, I've often thought that if a friend snuck into my place and moved my dolls - especially their heads, so they were looking at me or somesuch - it would be a good prank because for a second I think it would creep me out!

 

Ahh so far I haven't been afraid of my dolls or experienced any scary encounters yet (considering I am also considered a "new" owner haha), but I do entertain the thoughts that maybe someday they will get possessed or come alive and then scare the wits out of me lol (blame it on too much horror movies).

 

I think I have one of those too! But it's not a resemblance that *I* think is creepy..... It's just if there was some random other person who happened to know what a certain Adrian Meisner looked like back in 1990, and if that person saw my Volks Yukinojo, and heard that I had given him the name Adrian too, that person might run away screaming. The resemblance is that startling! - especially the way I have him styled (hair, coat, eyes, choice of shoes, all spot-on).

I styled & named that doll in remembrance of this guy I knew 20 years ago, but it was really Volks's fault for creating such a likeness in the first place. So, it doesn't creep me out, but it'd probably freak the pancakes out of some people at a college reunion. As you say, the resemblance itself may be mundane, but the fact of the resemblance is a lilbit weird.

OK, OK, I will admit this much DID creep me out: After they created Yukinojo to look so much like this boycrush of decades past, and after they dressed him in a coat just like the one that real-boy Adrian wore all the time-- Volks also went ahead & created the exact same boots that real-boy Adrian wore all the time. Does Volks's design department employ telepaths? WTF? =D

 

I own eleven types of OT dolls that are slightly taller than a LitteFee and have different types of looks that range from looking like a suffocation victim, to wearing a bloody bathrobe with a scar over where the kidney should be and in the pocket of the robe is a bloody kidney, to one having a bloody, boney(Is that even a word) stump on one hand, to a few that have blood smeared all over their faces and they all come in coffin shaped boxes.....and they all live happily on my chester drawer in my room.

I sleep very well at night.

So the answer to the question is...no. If those dolls don't scare me, I don't think any BJD can scare me.

 

XD While I can understand the fear of dolls..I don't really -get it-, if that makes any sense. My dolls don't scare me at all, really, the worst of the lot is Maddie, who is a little mischievous, nothing more.