Scary dolls have existed in many forms for hundreds of years, and although scary is subjective, it's understandable that we find some dolls scarier than others, simply because of the uncanny valley effect. This is when something looks human, and we accept it as looking human, but there's something slightly off about it. It's that "offness", that something that we can't quite put our finger on that creeps us out. And that's without a doll being haunted.

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4 Nightmarish Haunted Doll Stories
TerrorA fear of dolls is known as pediophobia, which is pretty closely related to a fear of puppets, unsurprisingly. It's safe to say that most of us aren't a huge fan of dolls, and with films like Annabelle and The Conjuring becoming more and more popula...