I used to have a phobia as a child that would enter my dreams at night and create hellish nightmares. I had a phobia that dolls were alive and they had souls, evil souls that were hell bent on murdering me in sadistic ways with their little plastic fingers and pretty mouths with rows of sharp teeth.

And I am not the only one that had or has a doll phobia. Pediophobia is the unwarranted, irrational and persistent fear or worry of dolls. It is estimated by psychiatrists that about 40% of individuals have this phobia at some level. More than 80% are estimated to have a minor phobia to dolls in which they simply say they are creeped out by their hallow stares and their eternal smiles.

The doll figures in Puppet Master, Chucky, Annabelle and many other movie dolls have ingrained this fear into children and adults alike. But what if that fear, that anxiety we get when we feel creeped out by something is real?

In Japan there is such a doll that invokes this fear and anxiety to all that see it because inside its inanimate body lies the spirit of a dead girl. This is Unsolved Mysteries of the World Season 5 Episode 9 Okiku The Haunted Doll.

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