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Halloween Special Short Story: Evil Elsa · Deadly Divas True Crime Podcast

• 0:11
  Hello, all you true crime divas and dudes.
• 0:14
  I'm Sarah.
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  Welcome back to your favorite true crime podcast, Deadly Divas.
• 0:19
  Tina is not with me today I am recording this one solo.
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  This is just for funsies, just for Halloween.
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  It's a very short story, and we hope you have been enjoying all of our spooktacular episodes for October.
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  They were such fun to record, and I hope that they were fun to listen to.
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  Some of them obviously tragic, too, but Tina just absolutely loves spooky season, and we were definitely having some fun with it.
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  But I'm gonna bring you the story today, and this, like I say, just a quick Halloween special just for today, about a doll, an Elsa doll.
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  I mean, we all know Frozen, right?
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  We all know Elsa.
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  Who would've thought that an Elsa doll would be creepy?
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  If you are freaked out it's usually by those, like, old Victorian-looking dolls, you know?
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  Nope.
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  This is a modern-day Elsa doll.
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  So if you are new here, welcome.
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  We break down a new true crime case for you every Friday.
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  This is just an additional little special.
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  For my content warning here, if creepy dolls in horror movies scare you, I have to say listen if you dare This case takes place in Texas in 2013 when Emily and Matt Madonia gave their one-year-old daughter a talking Elsa doll.
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  The doll featured a button on her neck that you would press to hear her sing,"Let it go." I can't sing, obviously.
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  And she would also recite other lines from the movie Frozen.
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  Sounds normal so far, right?
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  Well, for two years, the doll was just a normal child's toy, nothing unusual about it.
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  The kid liked it, everything was good.
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  However, in 2015, this particular doll suddenly started to switch between Spanish and English even though there was no language switch on her.
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  And she would also sing her song and recite her lines at random without the button being pressed.
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  I think we've all kinda come across one of those, right?
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  If you've had kids or from your own childhood, that just seem to be possessed and go off whenever it wanted, right?
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  I know my kids did.
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  They had this talking dog that was supposed to teach them the alphabet, and it would be like 11:00 PM at night, kids would be in bed, I'd be watching a movie with the hubby, and it would suddenly go,"A, B, C, D." And you'd be like,"What the?" Well, this doll started to do the same, but after two years, and switching between English and Spanish, so little weird there.
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  Now stranger still, the family realized in those two years they had never changed the batteries in the doll.
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  The original batteries were still inside her, and they had been dead for, well, quite some time.
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  But she was still singing, and she was still speaking.
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  The bilingual doll.
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  Well, the family laughed it off, as you would, but by 2019, their daughter had outgrown the toy So in a toy purge right before Christmas, remember having to do those?
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  Like,"You're about to get some new ones.
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  You've gotta make some room." You either remember it from being a kid or from telling your kids, but it was one of those purges, and her parents threw it out with some other toys that she no longer played with.
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  The doll had some colored markers on her face, so it wasn't really suitable to donate anywhere.
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  They were just like,"Your time's up, Elsa.
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  Time for the trash can." But Elsa had other plans.
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  So she was placed in a bag, and then inside the trash, and everyone thought she was gone.
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  Until a couple of weeks later.
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  While looking for something else, the family came across the Elsa doll inside a wooden bench that they never opened.
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  There was a bunch of books stacked on this bench that had been stacked on there for quite some time, and as a result, they just never opened the bench.
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  But on some desperate hunt to find some other toy that had gone missing, they were like, you know, you look everywhere, don't you?
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  Even a bench you haven't opened in 10 years.
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  So they open the bench looking for this other toy.
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  There's Elsa The Elsa they threw out two weeks ago, markers on her face and everything, same doll, there she is in this bench.
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  Like, what the fuck?
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  The couple were obviously spooked, and Matt used rubber gloves to pick up the doll.
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  This time they double-bagged her.
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  They took her to the trash can at the curb, placed her underneath all the other trash bags, and made sure the trash was picked up that week.
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  Like, they kept an eye on her.
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  You stay there, girl.
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  You gotta go.
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  But two weeks later, their young daughter finds the doll again, this time in the backyard.
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  No bags, colored markings still there, still that same doll.
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  There she is.
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  You'll have to go to our TikTok,'cause we show you a picture of the doll as they found it in the yard.
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  Creepy.
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  Now the family are I mean, they're completely freaked out.
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  They're trying to think,"How do we get rid of this thing once and for all?" So Emily mailed it to an online friend in Minnesota.
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  She had never met this person before.
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  They didn't even have each other's addresses.
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  Emily mailed it to a PO box with no return address so that the receiver, Chris Hogan, could not send it back to her even if he wanted to.
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  So you're probably thinking, how do they know each other and not have addresses or whatever?
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  Emily was an avid runner, and this was a Facebook group of avid runners, and so this is somebody she'd met on Facebook and didn't know in person, lived in another state.
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  When she agreed to send him the doll, she mailed it to a PO box so that she didn't have his address, and she put no return address on it.
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  So that's how they kept it like, we still don't know where each other live.
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  Now, this doll had a cute little giggle as part of its repertoire, and she often giggled at the end of a sentence or after singing.
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  Well, while boxing her up to send to Chris, Emily said the doll laughed for 30 minutes straight.
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  Wouldn't stop.
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  This wasn't just a quick giggle.
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  This was a And that horrified her and Matt.
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  Now Chris says he hasn't had any issues with Elsa.
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  Apparently, he keeps her duct-taped to the front bumper of his Jeep.
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  Yep, you heard that right, and you can see that on our TikTok too,'cause that is funny as crap, I'm telling you.
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  So her whereabouts can easily be monitored at any time.
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  He's promised to post any updates on Elsa on his Twitter feed, also known as X.
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  He is@Hogan698.
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  That's H-O-G-A-N 6-9-8.
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  And that is the story of the evil Elsa doll who would not let her family go.
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  And once I decided that I was gonna record this, I was like,"I need a prop." Right?
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  I need a doll.
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  I need to find this Elsa doll.
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  Not that one, no thank you, but a very similar one.
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  So I finally found one on eBay that was an exact replica of this particular doll that the story's about, and I ordered her so that we had her for a prop, so that we had her for, you know, pictures, videos, whatever we wanted to use her for, and she is freaking everybody out.
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  My husband will not allow her in the house, so she lives out in the cabin where we record our podcasts.
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  Tia is freaked out by her.
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  She sits in the corner looking like, looking like a creepy doll.
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  And now every time anything goes wrong, we're like,"Damn you, Elsa.
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  That was you.
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  We know it." And trust me, some weird stuff's happened since we have her, and now we're stuck between the, if we find some way to get rid of her, she's gonna want revenge, but she can't stay here'cause she's freaking everybody out.
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  So if you see an Elsa doll duct-taped to the front of my car, don't ask why.
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  Until next time, be divas, not deadly.
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  Bye, and Happy Halloween.
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  Woo.
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  Let it go