Hello Internet - and welcome back to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube - Life’s
Biggest Questions, the place where we’re not afraid to confront the most disturbed
memories of our childhood and a lifelong fear of animate, horrifying porcelain dolls.
What’s going on guys - as per usual - I’ll be your disembodied voice Jack Finch - as
we crank up the gas, hope that the neighbours aren’t home - light a match and throw it
on in - and perpurpotely ask the question, What If The Chucky Doll Was Real?
Because - well - we all know the instant answer to this question, we’d kick the little bleeder
like a football as far as we could - because dolls are creepy, aren’t they?
Yes.
I have a fear of uncanny, animate dolls - and you’re about to find out why.
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If you know anything about the Child’s Play franchise - then you’ll know that it’s
one of the most beloved franchises in the horrifying world of horror, and has gone on
to spawn 7 movies in the doll based series.
Chucky made himself known during a period of oversaturation in the genre, yet still
stands as one of the most recognizable horror icons of all time - alongside Freddy Krueger,
Jason Voorhees, Ghostface, Pennywise the Clown, Michael Myers and Leatherface.
Created by writer director Don Mancini, the pint-sized terror first made his appearance
in 1988’s Child’s Play - which at the time was hit by a storm of controversy after
mass protests calling for the film to be banned - claiming it would incite violence in children.
This panic would continue to haunt the franchise for the remainder of its run, despite director
Tom Holland publicly stating that viewers of horror movies could only be influenced
by their content if they were unbalanced to begin with.
In the film series, Chucky - who is based on a Good Guys doll, a popular children's
toy - is actually the trapped soul of a horrific serial killer known as Charles Lee Ray - or
the Lakeshore Strangler.
During an altercation with a homicide detective, Charles Lee Ray manages to transfer his soul
into the doll using a Haitian Vodou spell - and thus spawn the crux of the franchise.
I guess we can’t really glaze over this point - because this essentially becomes the
basis of our question - how the hell would the world react if people could just go around,
willy-nilly throwing their souls into inanimate objects?
Hell - why would we even stop there?
There’s a semblance of immortality that comes with melding your mind to a porcelain
doll, right?
- so you can forget about people peacefully passing away around their loved ones - that’s
a thing of the past - we’d have an entire new generation of immortal pensioners living
it up at doll-based raves - or cramming into a beach in Cancun at Spring-Breakneck speed.
And why stop there - we don’t have to confine it to just old-aged pensioners.
Anyone who would otherwise desire to remain anonymous could utilise this function.
Secret agents could be mailed to their destination country as unassuming Action-Man dolls, G.I.
Joe’s - or Kim Possible figurines.
There’d be a mass panic at border control and customs - fearful as to whether the next
doll shaped package would bring about the demise of their government.
Well - maybe I’m getting ahead of myself, because as we know - the real question is
specifically, what if The Chucky Doll Was Real?
And well - guys - I hate to break it to you - but it kind of is.
Well, the basis of it, anyway.
Sit tight, because if you don’t know this story - then you will soon.
In 1904 - a doll that was manufactured by the Steiff Company of Germany was purchased
by a grandfather for his grandson - a Robert Eugene Otto, a child of a prominent Key West
family in Florida.
The doll was given to Robert as a birthday gift - where he’d dress the doll in its
characteristic sailors suit, and become so attached to it that it almost became part
of the family - sitting at the table during dinner time, accompanying Robert on his trips
and even sleeping in the same bed.
It was very much more than just a doll - it had a life of its own.
Well - you know what we’re getting at, as with most of these things - it wasn’t all
hunky-dory.
As the legend goes, the doll had supernatural abilities that would eventually lead to such
misfortune for the family that the reverence given to the doll didn’t come from love
or adoration - but for fear of what he might do next.
Kind of sounds like someone we know, eh?
There are several variations to the legend - most of which all admit that the doll would
regularly move on its own accord, change its facial expression and make giggling sounds.
As one tale goes - the doll wasn’t given to him by his grandfather, but a young girl
of Bahamian descent - that gave the doll to Robert as a retaliation to a wrongdoing.
And get this - it was believed that the doll was birthed from voodoo mysticism - containing
the trapped soul of an ancient evil spirit.
Hm, sound familiar?
You betcha.
Robert the Doll is still kicking about to this day, after being donated to the East
Martello Museum back in 1994 - and is passed around the country as a popular tourist attraction
for the paranormal.
And it’s funny to think, as we contemplate our hypothetical scenario - that that’s
how Chucky the Doll would probably end up.
Yeah - throughout the film’s series, he’s destroyed - in inverted commas - time and
time again, yet always comes back trying to kill his next victim.
In reality, we’d probably just get bored of him - lock him in a glass box somewhere
and pay twenty dollars a ticket.
It’s a sad existence really, isn’t it?
Well - what do you guys think would happen if Chucky the Doll was Real?
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