What Makes Robert the Doll So Darned Popular?

The past few months I’ve watched in rapt interest as one post in particular continues to be hands down the most popular of all the posts I’ve written: Key West’s Robert the Doll.

In my Google Analytics account I’ve watched it do nothing but dominate. Then, not too long ago, I found a WordPress plugin that lets me track popular posts not only in my Dashboard but also displays it on the blog.

If you scroll to the bottom of my blog you’ll see the Popular Posts display. Leading the charge without a contender even coming close to challenging the number of hits is the Robert the Doll post. (As of this writing it was at 10,600 hits. The second most popular post was at 940.)

Back in July I was in bed flipping through channels late one night. I happened to flip to Univision right as Primer Impacto was running a story about Robert the Doll.

It was all in Spanish and mine is severely limited so I couldn’t understand exactly what they were saying, but I got the gist. It was a ghost hunting team investigating Robert. And judging by how their K2s were lighting up, he was being active that night. Very active.

I would’ve liked to know what the EVPs they got said. And, now that I’m thinking about it more, you know how people question Americans when they travel to foreign-speaking areas and get English-speaking EVPs? Well, this was an international paranormal investigation team in America that got Spanish-speaking EVPs. Curious.

Anyway, it was really interesting to watch. Then, thanks to a comment a reader left just this week on the Robert the Doll post, I learned Robert was recently the topic on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.

I am cussing myself up and down that I didn’t try and go see Robert for myself when we were in Key West last year. Granted, I had only just learned about him when we docked and I started talking to the ghost tour man. Plus, we didn’t have much time in that port.

Oh well. Just gives me another reason to go back to Key West. I gotta figure out what it is that makes Robert the Doll so darned popular. You got any ideas why?

Courtney Mroch

Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.

Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.