Haunted Key West Doll Featured At Convention
KEY WEST (CBS4) ― For the first time in more than a century a 'haunted' doll will leave its home in Key West.
The straw filled Robert the Doll belonged to Key West artist Robert Eugene Otto, received the doll as gift when he was a young boy in the late 1800s by a nurse who looked after him.
As the legend goes, the family would often hear Robert having a conversation with the doll – and the doll answering back in a voice distinctly different than Robert's voice. Otto never went anywhere without the doll and blamed it for many strange events and mishaps around the house.
After his death, the doll frightened others who lived the home and was eventually relegated to an attic room. But that's not where the story ends. Robert the Doll reportedly used to taunt children from the attic window as they walked past the house.
A regular stop on the city's ghost tours, Robert the Doll will be featured at a paranormal conference in Clearwater. The doll is scheduled to appear at the Atlantic Paranormal Society Convention on July 19 and 20.
