Creepy doll coming to Biltmore

Robert the Doll, a Key West icon that apparently inspired Child's Play's Chucky, will be featured at the Atlantic Paranormal Society Convention July 19 and 20 at the Belleview Biltmore Resort in Belleair. The Associated Press reports that the doll belonged to Key West artist Robert Eugene Otto, who received it as a child in the late 1800s. As the legend goes, Otto and the doll became close and the boy often blamed the doll for mishaps and strange events. The doll eventually began to frighten others and was relegated to an attic room, where it supposedly stared from the window at seriously freaked-out pedestrians.