This summer I read this book named " Haunted Objects " by Christopher Balzano and Tim Weisberg that I purchased at Barnes & Nobels. Out of the many stories this book had to offer, I choose the story " Robert's rules". This begins with a famous artist named Robert Eugene Otto who had a son named Robert Jr Eugene Otto. One day Robert fired one of his servants and she became furious! As a child she practiced voodoo spells and she still did as an adult. After being fired she put her powers to the test. She built a doll and gave it to RobertJr.( Eugene ) as a way to show that there was no hard feelings, but oh boy. That was the most horrible present ever
Eugene later came attached to the doll and named it Robert. But then Eugene suspected that Robert was no ordinary doll , he had a life of his own. Around the Otto's resident problems began to happen after Robert was welcomed. Things were disappearing and things were being broken. Eugene would always say " Robert did it ! ". Many years after after, Eugene left earth. Since then the Otto family packed up their things and moved out, or so they did. They left one thing behind, and that thing was Robert. The New family who moved in found Robert and gave him to their daughter.
This pattern repeated all over again. The child began to grow feelings for the doll , nice ones. But all those feelings were later being thrown out the window, the girl grew terrified of Robert. She cried every time the doll moved around the room but worse things came. She even claimed that Robert told her she wanted her dead. What was so scary about this was that one night, the girl's parents woke up to their daughters' scream. What they saw was truly horrifying. Robert was at the end of her bed holding a knife. After that experience they officially done with that doll. They sent him packing to a Museum. Today till this day he is behind a thick glass presented in the Key west Museum which could be found in Key West,Florida .
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