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A Question About The Sleepwalker Episode


Was that really true? I mean how can anyone change a man in to a doll?

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That is a pretty baffling one, and unfortunately I don't think I've ever been able to find any additional information regarding the real incident. Very strange. I thought perhaps it was his spirit inhabiting the doll, while his body was doomed to forever wander...obviously in secluded places where no one would find him...and maybe he wound up dead, so that eventually his soul could rest peacefully inside his daughter's dollhouse? I dunno, I just try to make some sense of the stories assuming that they ARE true (and even the "Fact" ones didn't *necessarily* happen, at least the way they're portrayed...you're still free to be skeptical of them.)

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It is entirely possible the father made the doll that looked like himself for his daughter.

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Yeah, I've thought of that, too. It would be the most logical assumption, though still wouldn't explain his vanishing. Possibly he voluntarily left his family for some reason, made himself untraceable, and never returned?

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My guess is he was using Sleepwalking as a front. Made a doll that looked like him for his daughter to remember him by and took off.

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Yeah...in the "real" story there may have been something else going on. The way it was portrayed on the show, they were such a happy family that it would be hard to imagine him voluntarily leaving, and that would've been a rather complicated plot for him to cook up. But it is entirely possible.

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That could be a reasonable, natural explanation.

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