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

*raises hand* That was probably my Shibu.
I wrote about him doing that in the "What signs has your doll given you?" thread.
It wasn't so much scary, because he's just so...non-threatening, both in appearance and character...I was just sort of startled when it happened. ^^;

As far as really being scared by anything, though...not my dolls....
But my old apartment had a closet along one wall of the bedroom, with sliding doors. I had been shifting stuff about in the room, and needed to get out for a second...but the normal way, around a shelf that cut the room in half, was blocked by stuff...so I decided to slide through the closet.
It was, like, two in the morning, and I was all alone, no pets aside from fish. I start shimmying through the closet, between the hanging clothes and the sliding door...and I step on something fuzzy that goes, "Uhnnmmm," in this really grumpy tone, then fell silent. A second of near heart-attack....
...then my brain connected and I screamed, "Furby!"
XDDDD
It had had just enough power to make the 'grumpy' sound when I knocked it over, then the battery died again.

 

I was thinking all day why it was that realistic dolls with an inherent sense of motion (especially in the eyes) freaks so many people out, and then I remembered a friend telling me something about robotics and how there's a certain point between unrealistic and realistic called "the uncanny valley" that causes people to think androids or humanoid robots are eerie. I think it could easly apply to anything that mimics a human, even pictures and sculptures.

"In 1970 Masahiro Mori proposed the uncanny valley: a relation between human perception of robots and their degree of human likeness. Mori observed that as robots are built to look more humanlike, they appear more familiar and one might suppose that this trend would continue until they became indistinguishable from human beings. However, Mori argued that near-humanlike robots would appear strange or creepy, and this dip in familiarity he termed bukimi no tani, which has been popularly translated as the uncanny valley. According to Mori, movement amplifies the relation between human likeness and familiarity ... "

The experiment website is here.

 

I went to Key west and saw that house on a ghost tour, scare the crap outta me...

 

My modem has little lights... and I usually turn it off at night, but I was lazy. Anyway, this time I had Vin sitting at my desk. I rolled over and there were these two gold eyes staring at me 0_0
His eyes reflect the light, and the light from my modem was playing freaky with me.
He is such a freaky doll, but not in a scary way lol.

 

I have several LivingDead Dolls as well as a couple dolls styled as Witches so I'm big into creepy But I do have one particular LDD that I can not stand to see. She has to be in her coffin box and the box put away. I'll only bring her out at Halloween and then I have put her somewhere out of my normal line of sight LOL

 

My Soulkid Harang, Lido, moves. I think this is why the DOA member sold him to me LOL. Seriously though, the first time I carried him upstairs, his head shook back and forth. Hmmm, strange I thought, but now I notice that his hands move. I usually have him holding another doll, and some times when I look his hands are in adifferent place. Yes I know I'm nuts. He also pouts when I leave him by himself, he needs another doll for company.

 

Mits has only freaked me out once - last night actually, i was trying on his new wigs and taking pictures for freinds.. with the combination of dim light and my shadow cast down around him it made him look really.. really.. angry.. I was like "ohhhkay.. :O I think ill take these tomorrow..."

 

I still haven't gotten a doll, yet, but my husband has already given strict orders to let him know where and when I pose them somewhere out of the ordinary. Like, say, on his side of the bed in the middle of the night. I do have this story, though:

One of our best friends was getting married (actually, the Best Man at our wedding) so we drove over to be in the wedding party. The bride said it would be fine if we wanted to stay at her parent's house so we went on over there. They had us stay it what was called "The Angel Room" It was packed floor to ceiling with antique porcelain angel dolls. >.< It was the creepiest, most horrible night I've ever had. Not only were the dolls looking at us the whole time, but the bride's mother would come in and say things like "Now, don't go and touch any of them. They don't like that. And leave the hall light on. Angels are creatures of light, see, they don't like the dark. Isn't this the most peaceful room you've ever been in!?" And then she'd just stand there in the middle of the room and get all glassy-eyed. My husband swears they whispered in the middle of the night. I have no idea, I had my head under the blanket and was humming the national anthem or something. We spent one night there and then the bride came up to us after the rehearsal dinner and asked us to find a different place to stay. It turns out her mom was furious because of something we did (or the dolls told her we did) in "The Angel Room." EEEKK!

 

I wish mine would come to life, then they could get a job and pay for their own clothes and things. :]

 

LOL Thats too funny, my mom had a stuffed rabbit plushy that made satanic sounds when the battery started to die, it was a laugh riot.

When I first got Psyche a body she would throw herself around (kicky legs and such.) she would knock her eyes out of place and her hair would fall in her face... shes NS but with her dark red hair she looks so pale. That on top of her hair in her face and eyes rolling back in her head when I put her up-right the first time she made me gasp, "It's the girl form the ring!"
I had a good laugh. Silly movie.

 

Yes, I had a Dollstown Estella that use to creep me out at dusk, she seemed to have an eerie look in her eyes whenever the lights were low. I finally turned her head away from me when I was watching TV or online.

 

OMG, SeiCat!! That was quite a story!! Angel room... O_o;;;

And what exactly did you do there to anger the dolls? lol ^^;;

 

lol that sounds like my grandma, i hope i don't go old and crazy with my dolls. but it's highly likely XD