Richmond Haunts long-form
Haunted Dolls, Volume 3: Pulau Ubin Barbie, Ruby and Charlie McCarthy
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About this episode
| The third haunted-doll collection moves from privately held objects and museum pieces to a shrine on the Singaporean island of Pulau Ubin. These stories reveal how dolls can become vessels for grief, cautionary tales, spiritual belief and reports of unexplained activity.
The featured accounts include Janet the Doll, the Pulau Ubin Barbie shrine, Emilia the Haunted Italian Doll, Christina the Haunted Doll and Robertina the Haunted Doll. The episode also examines the Devil’s Baby Doll of New Orleans, a New Orleans zombie voodoo doll and Ruby the Doll. The closing cautionary tale concerns ventriloquist Edgar Bergen’s famous dummy, Charlie McCarthy. Some objects in the episode have identifiable histories, while other narratives depend largely on owner testimony or folklore; the discussion preserves that distinction without losing the strange appeal of the stories themselves. |