Cartoon Theories

× Barbie ( pt. 1 ) ×

In relation to the creepypasta itself it seems that it is possible that the basement of the building the narrator investigated was where the interview had taken place.

The basement is locked so the narrator cannot fully investigate the area.

It is also believed that since most surgeons will not operate on someone suffering from BIID that the woman from the video may have went to said doctor to have the arm amputated in the shady and isolated house.

It is possible that the bathtub that the narrator is so disturbed about or the basement itself may be where the operation had taken place.

The tragedy of Barbie’s condition seems to have led her to the extremes.

Still, there is a lot of mystery to the videos themselves.

Where were they from?

This is where it becomes less theory and more investigation.

The most popular explanation was that Barbie was actually French actress Josephine Fresson from the 1992 French movie Albert souffre which in English translates to Albert Suffers, lovely.

Most of the community believed Albert souffre to be a horror movie, but I took those opinions with a grain of salt.

Instead upon this discovery I actually did some research of my own, furiously googling the movie and actress.

While there wasn’t much on Josephine Fresson (other than the fact that of the movies she appeared in around the time the videos seem to have been shot in they were all dramatic comedies not horror movies) if you look in the images search of google pictures of Barbie appear.

However, this proves nothing but how much people relate her to the pasta.

At first I didn’t find much on the film besides a review and a one sentence IMDB description.

Finally, I found a French site that had a full synopsis of Albert souffre.

Unfortunately, I cannot read French, so I had to resort to Google Translate to read it for me.

The rough translation is, “Albert, twenty, separated in an airport of a beautiful redhead air stewardess .

He decided to visit a couple of friends in Bordeaux.

Jerome , his childhood buddy and his girlfriend Jeanne prepare an entrance examination in a large school of Albert the presence disturbs their work so much that they both fail.

A violent altercation then opposes Jerome and Albert .”

So it appears that it is not a horror movie, despite the name.

The page where I found the synopsis even lists it under dramatic comedy.

Still, I did find that Josephine Fresson is in fact in the movie.

One more thing I found?

The movie itself.

From what I read it was actually rather hard to come by, but… it’s on YouTube.

I didn’t want to watch an almost 2 hour movie that was in a language that I didn’t know, but I did slowly scroll through the movie looking for any hint of the Barbie.avi scene.

However, it is not in there.

The parts of Barbie.avi adds up to 20 minutes, and none of it is in that movie.

Therefore, Barbie.avi does not originate from Albert souffre.

There are a few videos on YouTube that managed to isolate the woman’s voice from the static out of the videos and she is indeed speaking English.

She is not French, nor do I believe she is actress Josephine Fresson.

So with the most common belief of Barbie.avi’s origins busted where did it actually come from?

Well, the scary part is… I have no idea.

I couldn’t find any other leads, though I did try.

It seems to be a genuine interview of some sort.

Though, it may have been manipulated and cropped to seem scarier and more mysterious it is not something from a movie… at least not one that anyone can place.

It is possible that it was meant to be a documentary about BIID, but the .avi movie itself could not have been the whole documentary because there is nothing but Barbie talking into the camera.

No doctor notes, no other patients, nothing.

Just a supposed 40 minutes of her.

The video is old from the 90’s so it makes sense that there aren’t any other versions of it on the internet other than the screenshots.

Still, no one has ever come forward claiming to be the woman from the film, or having any involvement in it at all.

One would think that if they were part of a popular internet story they would identify themselves.

So the creepypasta that these videos are connected to become that much more likely and realistic because of the fact that no one can place where they came from.

And that is why Barbie.avi is one of my favorite creepypastas. 

By rockergrrl113