When Marty was a child back in the '90s, she was a fan of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekick, Charlie McCarthy.
She says that when her father came across a ventriloquist doll as he wandered through a small magic shop located outside of Santa Rosa, California, he decided to buy it for her birthday.
While ringing up the sale, Marty says the cashier gave her father "weird vibes" and said to him: "You know when you put your hand inside the doll, he's going to come alive."
Laughing off the comment, he brought the dummy home to his daughter.
According to Marty, she was over the moon when he dad gave her the doll, saying: “I was so happy when I got that doll, I was obsessed.”
But before long, strange things began happening. Though impossible because the doll's head was made of hard plastic, she says its expression would change, including his smile.
Worried something would happen to her precious dummy, Marty's family shut it away in a cupboard most nights. One night, she and her family were awakened by the "pitter patter" of steps in their living room. Thinking it was the dog or another family member, they went to look.
No one was there. Except for the doll, who was sitting on the couch.
"We remember specifically we always put it away because I loved that doll so much that I took care of it," Marty says on the podcast.
Other strange occurrences began happening. While Marty and her dad were away, her uncle was alone in the house. The uncle says he heard Marty's father calling his name from the living room, even though he wasn't home.
When he went to look? He found the doll, once again, sitting on the couch. And no one else.
"All of our family was pretty much scared of the doll," Marty says. "People would start hearing their names being called, and we would hear walking at night. So, we just decided we needed to get rid of it."
Being Mexican and religious, Marty says her parents wanted to burn the doll in case it was demonic. They put it on the grill and, according to Marty, it wouldn't burn. "This doll would not go up in flames, at all, whatsoever."
They tried cutting it up with a knife, but were unsuccessful. Finally, they threw it in the trash can. After the garbage was collected, Marty's dad went to retrieve the bin.
In it? The doll.
To rid themselves of the dummy, they dug a hole in the backyard, then filled it with cement.
Marty and family have long-since moved away, but she says they still think about the doll and the possibility that eventually "it finds one of us."
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