Tori Spelling Used to Scare Friends with ‘Creepy As F---’ Doll Room in Her Parents’ Basement

"I've had some friends that I have messed with bad," Spelling admitted on her podcast

Tori Spelling says there was one room in her parents’ famous mansion that used to frighten her friends.

In a new episode of her podcast misSPELLING, released Tuesday, Aug. 20, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum opened up about the 56,000-square-foot Los Angeles estate, known as "The Manor," where she lived in her late teens with her parents, legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling and Candy Spelling, and brother Randy Spelling.

While detailing the home’s many unique spaces, Tori, 51, shared her memories of the “doll museum” that housed her mother’s Madame Alexander collection, in addition to items from Candy’s signature doll line for QVC.

The basement room, which featured a stage in the center, also displayed her father’s collection of “intricate” moving dolls, such as a clapping monkey figure.

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“It was creepy as f---,” Tori recalled, admitting she would use it to pull pranks on her pals, which she says she and 90210 costar Brian Austin Green still talk about.

“One time, Brian Green and I, and all our friends, we were over, and I showed him, but I used to do this with all my friends,” she said. “He wasn't scared, but I've had some friends that I have messed with bad.”

Spelling explained that she would take people to the back of the house’s bowling alley, where the wall would “pop open,” giving way to “the whole mechanics" of the house.

“Everything was down there,” she went on. “It was like the workings of Oz.”

“It was dark, and we weren't supposed to go back there,” she noted of the hidden space, which led to the doll museum on the other side of the basement level.

Tori said almost every friend she brought over in high school found the experience “creepy.”

“They'd walk into the doll museum, and I'd be, like, adjusting the lights to dim them perfectly,” she remembered.

“Everyone was scared,” she continued. “Terrified. But my brother and I would mess with them. One of the siblings would lead the tour and the other "would pop through that door and go around the back and go, ‘Whoa!”

Candy sold the home in 2011, five years after the death of her husband Aaron, who produced more than 200 movies and TV shows, including Starsky and Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, The Love Boat, Vegas, Hart to Hart, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker, Fantasy Island, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place and Charmed.

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When Candy put the mansion on the market in 2009, she opened up about the doll museum in an interview with PEOPLE.

"I first collected dolls for Tori when she was a little girl," she said. "But she told me that she was afraid of them – she felt like they were watching her in her room."

Tori previously reminisced about the home, which also features a bar, a billiards room, an arcade and two gift-wrapping rooms on her 90210MG podcast, sharing that she "never saw every room" in the house after living there for two years, beginning when she was about 17.

"Honestly, there was a wing that all of my mom's staff lived in and I just remember her saying, 'Oh, they need privacy.' So she actually never showed it to me," Tori said in 2022. "I didn't see it before they moved in, so once they were there, she was like, 'It's kind of off-limits because that's where they live.'"

The house was most recently listed for sale with a record-breaking asking price of $165 million in 2022. The owner of the property — which sits on 4.7 acres and boasts 123 rooms — was unknown at the time, as it was last purchased by a limited liability company.

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