This story really gave me the creeps when I heard it. Last year, a friend of mine made a trip to Key West to visit someone he met on the 'net. They went to some sort of paranormal museum and had something strange happen to him. In a glass display case, there was a doll the size of a child sitting in a chair. He was told that this was "Robert the Demon Doll" and that it was cursed. (I did an Internet search on this, but never came up with anything.)

The story goes that a long time ago (not sure of dates) that the owner of this plantation had an only son that was very lonely. The owner had a servant (who happened to be into Voodoo) that he had upset for some reason. This servant made the doll for the boy, yet he cursed it before giving it to him. The boy and the doll were inseparable and the boy started telling his father that the doll could walk and talk and would tell him things. I think that when the boy got older and inherited the plantation, that the doll told him to build a room for it in the attic that would be his own, even after the boys' death. After the boy died, the house was then sold, but in the will it was instructed that Robert the doll was to stay in the house in his attic room.

Many owners of the house would say that they could hear movement in the attic and every now and then would go up there and the furniture and doll would always be in different places. Not sure how the doll ended up at this museum, but they said that even now the doll will be moved in different positions and that night guards can hear it moving around and pecking on the glass. He was also told that anyone who took a picture of the doll, it would drain the camera's batteries and that they felt that the doll was "getting stronger" from the energy. My friend. of course, wanted to try it and - sure enough - after he took one picture, the camera went dead.

Now here's the REAL weird part. After he got home, he got the film developed, and had not just the one picture of Robert that he took, but FIVE - all taken from different angles! He had no idea how it could have happened. He still has the pictures, and let me tell you, they give me the creeps.