Things that freak me out: peeking kid "art"

UPDATE: Thanks to Super Girl Reader Reviews, I now know these are called "Time Out Dolls" and you can find plenty of them online. Like this whole fleet of them hanging out on someone's deck. An army of freaky dolls just watching for their next victim.

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In my continuing series on Things That Freak Me Out, I want to share my horror of something that may strike you as mild. Harmless, even.

Those weird statues of kids' (usually overalled) backsides, set up as if the kids are peeking into something.

Sure, at first you might think they're cute. Look! A little kid, adorably attired, perhaps with braids or a baseball cap. What are they looking at? Aw. Child curiosity.

But take a closer look at these sinister creations. They have no faces. They have no fronts, period. It is as if they got a bit too close to a wormhole and their front half has been sucked off to another dimension. Or maybe they're evil creatures from the bowels of the earth, doing their best to wear a "human" disguise but only getting it half right. Or... maybe the Blair Witch sent them to the corner and they've been there so long, they're half rotted.

If you ever see me in a Cracker Barrel gift shop, frozen in horror, staring at the "cute garden stuff" section, you'll know what happened. I spotted one of those overalled evil statues.

And maybe it even turned and stared back.

PS: I could NOT find a picture of these babies anywhere online. If you find one, e-mail me the link at author AT pambachorz.com and I'll post it to this entry!