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AARON MAHNKE: Just south of Mexico City,
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in the middle of the Xochimilco canals,
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is an island...
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an island with a disturbing history.
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Isla de Las Muñecas...
Island of the Dolls...
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so named because, in the mid-1950s,
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a man named Julian Santana moved here.
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He told some people
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he was abandoning his wife and child.
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One day, after years of seclusion,
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Julian is said to have made
a horrifying discovery...
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the lifeless body of a drowned girl.
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Nearby, he found something else...
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a doll.
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A precious possession
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she must have clutched
in her final moments.
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According to those who knew Don Julian,
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he believed the spirit of
the girl began to haunt him...
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a curse for leaving his family.
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So he retrieved the doll
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and cared for it as
if it were his child.
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He hoped that this might
appease the girl's ghost.
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He began searching
the banks of the river
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looking for more dolls.
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Sometimes he would even sneak
to the mainland to find them.
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He hung these offerings
to her everywhere.
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[CHILDREN GIGGLING]
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For Don Julian, it seemed
that they pleased her spirit.
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As the dolls swayed in the wind,
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he believed she was playing with them.
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He believed they were
alive and protected him.
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As a father myself,
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I know that children can
grow tired of their toys.
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Maybe that's what Don Julian
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came to believe...
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That the spirit of the girl
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lost interest in her old dolls
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and wanted more and more new ones,
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dolls that, as he aged,
he had trouble providing.
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For the old man, the banks of
the river became treacherous.
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But still he had to
feed the spirit's hunger
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until one day he may have
sought out one doll too many.
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Don Julian was found drowned
in the same dark water
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where he'd discovered the girl
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all those years before.
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To this day,
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there are more than 1,500 dolls
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hanging in the tropical sun.
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I'm Aaron Mahnke,
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and this is Lore.
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A doll can be a lot of things...
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a guardian or the companion
we'll always remember.
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DOLL: Let's play house.
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GIRL: She does talk!
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Like a real little girl!
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MAHNKE: A toy we can't live without.
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A trusted friend...
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a confidant.
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Yet it's not uncommon
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for people to feel uneasy around dolls.
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Those glass eyes almost seem
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like they're staring right back at us...
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[WHIMPERING]
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which, is something we
can blame our brains for.
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They're hardwired to recognize faces.
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But it doesn't always work out.
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There's a concept in psychology
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known as the uncanny valley,
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where our minds instinctively
reject human look-alikes
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that are almost but not
quite perfectly accurate.
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It has a way of setting off alarms
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within our basic instincts.
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Despite that, we're
still all too willing
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to project humanity upon objects,
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and in doing so, we give them control.
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DOLL: I love you.
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But that's a dangerous game to play
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because sometimes, it seems,
they refuse to give it back.
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Thomas and Minnie Otto were
natives of Key West, Florida,
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and in 1898, they completed
building a new home,
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nestled there on Eaton Street.
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They were a well-off
and well-traveled couple
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who had a deep love for the arts.
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And they had a young son
named Robert Eugene Otto.
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But everyone called him Gene.
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Gene was quiet.
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Some might say he was an odd child.
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He kept to himself,
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and it was hard for
Gene to make friends.
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- THOMAS: ...the fingers.
- MINNIE: So delicate.
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Gene!
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Never touch the art, Gene.
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Do you understand me? Never touch it.
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You have your own
toys. Go play with them.
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A gift was mailed to Gene
by Thomas' aunt Bridget,
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who was traveling overseas.
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While in Germany,
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Aunt Bridget found the perfect present
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for her great-nephew.
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It had been a window display
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and was larger than most dolls.
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"Met this little sailor in
a store window in Germany."
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"He said he'd be a good friend to Gene."
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The doll had an immediate hold on Gene.
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He even named it AFTER HIMSELF: Robert.
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Robert the doll.
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Gene, take the doll away from the table.
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Robert isn't hurting anyone.
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How long do you intend
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to permit this childish behavior?
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As long as Robert
likes the food we serve.
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[CHUCKLE]
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You know the neighbors all laugh
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about the Otto boy and his doll.
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And did you write to Aunt Bridget again
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about what the neighbors might think?
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Wanting her advice over mine?
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No, I'm too ashamed
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to reply to her letters
asking about him.
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She's the one responsible
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for bringing it into this house.
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Robert is Gene's friend.
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If you spoke to your son,
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you'd know that doll might
well be his only friend.
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And you're fixing to take that away?
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[DISTANT CHATTER]
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Thomas, I thought you
went to the office.
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[CHATTER CONTINUES]
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Thomas?
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Are you up here with Gene?
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Are you up here with Gene?
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I thought I heard your father.
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Gene.
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[LAUGHING]
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[CLATTER OVERHEAD]
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Gene, I told you to go to bed!
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[CLATTER CONTINUE]
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[CLATTER]
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MINNIE: Why would you
do this to your toys?
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- GENE: I didn't.
- [SIGH] I am so sick
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of you being ugly to us, and
the behavior and the lies.
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Well, you won't get any new toys
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until you prove you can be responsible.
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You did this, and you will
suffer the consequences.
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I didn't do it.
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Robert did it.
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Tell me, Eugene, how
did the doll do this?
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Hmm?
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I can't keep help around this home
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for all the things you
swear that Robert did.
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Locking doors, making
noises in dark rooms,
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scaring the housekeepers.
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Now, I will not allow
my son to make excuses.
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Robert is a doll.
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It isn't real.
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Yes, he is.
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Robert is real.
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[SIGH]
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And he doesn't like
it when you scold me.
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[LAUGH TRACK]
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Hi, Bergy!
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I'll give you two
minutes to get dressed.
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Remember, we're doing a show tonight.
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[LAUGH TRACK]
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On Thanksgiving Day in 1950,
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one of the biggest acts in vaudeville
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made its television debut.
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Where's Charlie?
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We want to see Charlie McCarthy!
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Yeah, where is he?
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Broadcast across the country,
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Edgar Bergen introduced viewers
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to his alter ego Charlie McCarthy.
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Why, you old rascal, you.
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You just know all the gossip, don't you?
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No, no, no, no.
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You keep on interrupting me, young man,
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and I may not finish this story.
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Well, that's the best
news we've had so far.
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There was no doubt
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that Charlie had the upper hand.
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That's what made them so popular.
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But if you think about it,
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ventriloquism can also be
a little bit unsettling.
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[APPLAUSE]
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Audiences in 19th
century Europe and America
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were entertained but also unnerved
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by how a ventriloquist could give life
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to an inanimate object.
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So it wasn't surprising
that, for centuries,
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they were suspected of
meddling with dark forces.
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Some were even persecuted as witches.
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Others were thought to be
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channeling the voices of the dead.
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And the bond between man and doll
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was certainly uncanny.
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Yeah, well, I hope
you won't embarrass me
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like you did in Las Vegas.
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What about Las Vegas?
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I thought I gave a
very moving performance.
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Yes, it was moving, all right.
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Especially your lips.
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Oh, no.
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Edgar and Charlie went on
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to become the most popular
ventriloquist act in America.
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Sort of makes you want to give
up show business, doesn't it?
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It wasn't until many years later
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that Edgar's daughter provided
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disturbing details from her childhood...
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stories of how Edgar seemed
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to treat Charlie as her real sibling.
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How Charlie was given a
bedroom in the family home,
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a room that was larger than her own.
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And how, when Edgar died in 1978,
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he left her nothing
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and $10,000 for the care of Charlie.
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For what it's worth,
that bizarre relationship
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did nothing to keep Edgar's daughter
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from pursuing her own
career in entertainment.
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His daughter is none other
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than film and television
actress Candice Bergen.
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[APPLAUSE]
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Isn't she beautiful?
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Well, thank you, Charlie.
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Just my luck she has to be my sister.
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MINNIE: I must say, It's a nice surprise
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to have a visit from you, Aunt Bridget.
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Um, if we'd known you were coming,
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I could have had a bedroom prepared.
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And Thomas is always pleased
to see his favorite aunt,
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