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

Ersa Flora. This pair, to be exact.
http://ersaflora.ipower.com/?p=2299

 

Most of the time I get spooked by my own forgetfulness. I'll have them all dressed up and posed for a shoot, then I leave the place for a while or a day to find inspiration and forgot about them. When I pass by and see them, I'll be like, "Woah! How did you all get up!?"

 

Cer scared me before he even arrived. I had his eyes in a clear drawer where we keep most of our supplies, but they were staring out at me. Just his eyes. He wasn't even home yet. And tightly-strung Lu tends to turn his head to look at people, which is kinda horrifying.

 

My dolls no but pics of other people's have. Dolls with the milky eyes kinda creep me out. I guess I watch too many shows and movies about the supernatural lol

 

Just once, my friend and i put our dolls on a cupboard and went outside, and when we came home they were sitting in different poses from how we left them. We both noticed it and there was nobody home during our abscence, so no one could move them. That was actually more funny and mystical than scary)

 

i had a friend over and i keep 4 of my dolls on a shelf above my bed, two of them sit on a couch on the shelf looking out at the room/at each other, my friend asked me if i changed the girl's eyes (dolls name is Alice), when i said no she kept looking at Alice with a kind of spooked look crossed with conffusement, i asked why and she told me Alice's eyes looked solid black, when i looked at her they looked that way too and she looked MAD at me for no reason...i went over and held her to see what it was but then she went back to normal...part of me thinks it's because i didn't pay enough attention to her, so she forced me to give her some.

 

One night when I went to bed, I had set Deidara next to me, just sitting up but some point in the middle of the night, I rolled over and felt something touch my arm and when I opened my eyes (I'm blind as a bat without my contacts) I just about had a heart attack because I thought someone was there. In my half sleep I swore I *felt* the presences of someone there and it woke me up immediately. It's like the presence is larger than the doll and half asleep, it was *palpable*. It happens all the time though. I would walk into my room and jump because I thought someone was there but it was only him or I'd see him out of the corner of my eye and start because...I don't know what it is. The doll itself is a 70cm so I guess that's pretty big but still...it's not like it's a person big but the presence it has is a little freaky. I don't even treat the doll like anything but a doll either so it's not like I actually think anything of it but man...sometimes Deidara looks *really angry*. Oddly, I have had a friend who had never seen him before nor heard about BJDs said offhandedly that he seemed really alive. I took that as a compliment to the doll but now I'm freaking myself out.

 

at a meet a few months ago we had been joking about how we would swear dolls moved on thier own (the 'not where/how I remember leaving them' syndrome) and suddenly my EID Luna sitting on the table facing me began to raise straight up! I nearly died of apoplexy! I had failed to notice the person across from me reaching for her to have a look LOL.
I also have a doll now with those nifty eyes (don't ask me what kind... they came with the doll 2nd hand lol) ... that appear to 'follow' you... I'm still getting used to it lol.

 

Got my girl some gorgeous new hand made custom eyes. Very striking in the daylight. But in the dim lighting late at night they sort of glow. First time I walked passed her when heading to bed... I jumped.

 

To be honest, I was never scared of dolls. I've seen all the doll and BJD-related horror movies I know of, and was never scared (I've actually had a true-to-size doll of Tiffany from "Bride of Chucky", that was very very similar to the original from the movie, standing in my workroom for years... It spooked my younger brother, but I thought she was cute ). It's not that I'm especially brave, it's just that I never managed to believe in those things enough to have them scare me.
My BJDs have scared many visitors to our house (one of my friends refused to visit my house, because she was scared senselessly by all the dolls in my living room...), but I was never scared of them. To me, my dolls are like silent friends. I'm never scared of them.
The closest I've ever been to being scared of a doll was when I had a bobblehead figure of Nightcrawler from the X-Men movies in my workroom... It looked really wicked, and started to kinda creep me out, so I kept turning away him so that he'd face the wall... And the next time I went into the room, he'd be staring at me again. That happened a few times, until I just gave him away to a friend of mine who found the whole story quite amusing. I was quite sure it was my brother pranking me, but didn't want to deal with it anymore, lol.

 

These all sound so funny, or just creepy.
I haven't had my doll very long, but because of how he's strung he likes to suddenly snap his head to the side or move one of his arms. It's startled me a couple of times mostly because I was holding him rather close when he does it I'm afraid he'll hit me in the face. XD

 

Back when I first got Raz, he didn't have a faceup or anything so I did all of that myself. I had taken his head and headcap off and placed his head in the box I was going to use the next day to spray him in for his faceup. However, that night he'd hardly been in that box for...oh...three hours? And I was on my computer and coincidentally on the phone with a dolly friend, and out of nowhere I look at the box and I just got this really, really unhappy feeling. It felt miserable and lonely and I was just terrified for no reason at all. So I open up the box and put him all back together again and just held him really close for a while, telling him it was okay and that I loved him XD and then everything felt fine. It's the only time Raz has ever done anything really like that and it really freaked me out because he was freaking out. I guess he was afraid I'd forget about him XD to be fair, he was new.

Another time, my doll friend was over with her dolls. Her doll Ren is a total butt. He is a major jerk and it's always really amusing to us. So we're sitting there talking and Ren's posed on her knee, just chilling, and I looked at him and go, "God, he's such an a**, look at the way he's just sitting there, all smug and stuff." Immediately after saying that, his knee joint pops and he KICKS me. Right in my knee. It cracked us up rather than creep us out, but it was definitely a strange situation XD

 

While they're not dolls I do keep plastic people (manikins and manikin heads) in my garage.
The gas meter is in there and it's quite dark without the lights on.
Not too long after I got them I heard a male scream from the garage and ran outside to see the ashen faced meter reader stumbling backwards out of the shed.
When he saw me he almost ran but I managed to convince him I wasn't store partially dismembered corpses in there and after turning on the lights (and giving him a beer) he laughed.
I bet he was more cautious with the rest of his round that day though.

 

I haven't really been "spooked" per se by any of my dolls... but not long after I got my new bunch of tinies and got them set out on their shelf, I got thrown off walking past it in the dark because of the floating lights on their shelf! One of the three has glow-in-the-dark eyes, and I hadn't realized that they catch just enough light to charge up and be visible in the dark. Now that I realize that, I look for them sometimes at night to see if they're showing, but the first time was a bit of a surprise.

 

I'm not one to be easily scared. The only thing I can think of is when I was trying to adjust my dolls head to look forward (it kept snapping downward because of her being so tightly strung.) Suddenly her arms swung up across her head in a kind of defensive position and it was such an unexpected and human like reaction it made me gasp and almost drop her. I left her alone for a bit after that. >_>

 

One of my "friends" joined the bjd hobby on a whim and was never very serious about it, she only joined because I was in the hobby. Anyway she joins the hobby and buys a doll, a cute little yosd girl and then promptly ignores the poor thing for months, almost a year, leaving the doll all alone on her shelf and hardly ever touching her. After about a year had passed my best friend also gets a yosd and the other "friend" takes a sudden interest in her girl again, tagging along to doll meets between me and my best friend with her yosd girl. At one of these meets I turn to te little yosd and she BLINKS AT ME. it was no hallucination or trick of light. This yosd had dark eyes that almost left no scelera so I know what I saw. She blinked so languidly and naturally too. It freaked me out a little bit.

 

As for me something that happened today should've creeped me out but it made me feel all 'aww cute' instead.

I was tying Kazumi's green sneakers I had found finally and I had her on her doll stand and just as I was finished tying her right shoe, her left leg came up knee bent perfectly with her untied sneaker pointed out basically. She usually flops when she's on one leg when she's on the stand so this was a happy surprise, I thought it was utterly adorable. I wound up saying aloud: "Aww thank you!" and finished tying her shoes.XD; It was weird but cute.

 

I had gotten Ardese some lighter coloured eyes and they way I put them in, I felt like he was staring into my soul. It was really unsettling until I fixed them. (which took me a few hours to realize why he was creeping me out)

 

Dolls do not scare me because I find all dolls to be cute!! But the one time dolls scared me is when my ex moved them beind my back as a bad joke.. for about a week I thought my resin dolls were alive and that scared me to death.. until he admitted it was a joke.. what a ass!

 

I have a Dollfie Dream body that's currently waiting for it's head. I received the wig I'm planning on putting on her already, and because it's a long wig and I don't want to ruin it I decided to balance it on the neck of the body. There's some paper in the wig to help it keep it's shape and everytime I looked at it, it just creeped me out so much.. I kind of looked like something from a horror movie. I feel a lot better now when I sit at my desk and see a headless body instead of something that could've easily just crawled out of a horror movie xD.