Robert the Evil Doll a True Ghost Story

Robert The Doll
It is not that unusual for a young child to have an imaginary friend or two. Often times, we as parents think its cute. As a companion when one has no other siblings to play with. Or a mischievous little friend afoot to take the blame for some minor wrongdoing.
In fact there are parents that will claim a good imagination is healthy.
But what happens when the child begins to be tormented by the imaginary friend? To the point that the child cannot sleep the night through without the friend awaking them to play. What happens when the play becomes ruff, and frightening to the child?
So it goes this is the story of Robert the Doll . . .
The story begins in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Otto. It was well known the Otto's mistreated there servants and were not the kindest of people. One such servant, that aided in the care of the couples son, Robert Eugene nicknamed Gene was said to be versed in the ways of voodoo. She, for one reason or the other became very displeased with the Otto's ways, and decided to do something about it. As the story goes the servant gave Gene a doll. The doll standing three feet tall, and stuffed with straw. With life like features, that were at first very endearing to Gene. He decided to name the doll "Robert".
The doll became a constant companion to Gene. It is said that the Otto's often heard Gene upstairs talking to the doll. This in it self might not have been so bad. But the Otto's were puzzled to hear the boy answering himself in an entirely different voice than his own!
Many Strange things began to occur in the Otto household. Neighbors claimed to see Robert move about from window to window, when the family were out. Gene began to blame Robert for mishaps that would occur. The Otto's claimed to hear the doll giggle, and swear they caught glimpses of the doll running about the house.
Gene began to have nightmares and scream out in the night, when his parents would enter the room, they would find furniture over turned, their child in a fright, and Robert at the foot of the bed, with his glaring gaze! "Robert Did It".... The doll was eventually put up into the attic. Where he resided for many years.
When Gene's parents died, the Otto home came to Gene and his wife, Robert was rediscovered in the attic by Gene's wife Ann. Ann disliked the doll from the moment she first laid eyes on it. She said that the doll gave her the chills every time she looked at it. But what frightened her most of all was her husband's obsession with it. Robert's hold on Gene was strong, from the moment Gene laid eyes on him. Robert's wife felt that the influence of the doll on her husband felt well . . .unsettling. One day, Gene's wife decided she had enough of Roberts glare...and returned him to his attic sanctuary. Gene was displeased, and demanding that Robert needed a room of his own where he could see out of the window. He put Robert in the guest room, by a window. It wasn't long after that Gene's sanity was questioned.
The citizens of Key West heard about Robert, and his evil doings. Many people walking by the home reported that the doll was watching them from the guest room window, and mocked them as they passed... School children feared walking by the Otto home, in fear of Roberts mean glare.
Gene, himself reported when entering the guest room, found Robert himself sitting in the rocking chair by the guest room window, displeased with his accommodations... Robert's influence over Gene seem to grow stronger and stronger with each day. One day. A worker was alone in the guest room with Robert working, when he suddenly ran out of the house in terror. He latter reported that he heard Robert the doll Giggling. Friends of the couple who came to visit swore that the expressions of the doll changed when they looked at him. Sometimes they said he looked pure evil! Visitors that entered the house could hear something walking back and forth in the attic, and strange giggling sounds. Guests no longer wanted to visit the Otto's home.
Eventually, Gene's wife decided she couldn't handle the stress over the doll and left her husband Gene. Gene grew sicker and sicker. He became so distraught and disturbed over his doll that finally he locked himself in the guest room with the doll. He was found dead in his bed with his doll Robert laying beside him cuddled underneath is arm. The home was sold to a new family, and the tale of Robert the doll was almost forgotten.
But Robert waited patiently up in the attic to be discovered, once again. The ten year old daughter of the new owners was quick to find Robert in the attic. It was not long before Robert unleashed his displeasure on the child... The little girl claiming that the doll tortured her, and made her life a living hell. Her parents took one look at the doll and knew that this whatever it was, deafentely wasn't something that they wanted in their home. Even after more than thirty years later, the daughter steadfastly claims that the doll in her words "was alive and wanted to kill her!"
Robert, still dressed in his white sailor's suit and clutching his stuffed lion, lives quite comfortably, though well guarded, at the Key West Martello Museum. Robert awaits visitors where he holds an eerie fascination for everyone who sees him. Some guests of the Museum report being shocked when the expression on the doll's face changed in front of their very eyes! . . . A psychic investigator says that Gene's soul is trapped inside the doll along with Robert as eternal companions. Employs at the museum continue to give accounts of Robert being up to his old tricks still today. Gene tragically discovered that the things we love to possess, sometimes end up possession us . . .!