Sunday, February 23, 2025, is Pinocchio Day. I received a marionette Pinocchio for Christmas in the 1980s. A couple of years ago, I noticed its fine strings were breaking off. I am not sure how it was broken or who broke it, but I decided to buy new and thicker strings from, I think, Michaels or Joann and fix it myself. He looks good again, hanging downstairs by the plasma TV.

The Adventures of Pinocchio

This fictional character is the protagonist in a children’s novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio, created in 1883 by an Italian writer, Carlo Collodi, from Florence, Tuscany. Geppetto made this marionette puppet out of wood, but Pinocchio wanted to be a real boy. This marionette has a long nose that grows when he lies. Over the years, mostly during 2000s, mostly due to Disney’s controversial version of the Pinocchio cartoon story, Pinocchio’s adventures dabbled into pedophilia. I remember scenes where Pinocchio goes into a dark tunnel, filled with kids and animals in cages, which looks like they are being trafficked. I also remember some were abused and beaten, and some looked like they were starving. Since the seventies, when I was a kid, I have always asked myself, why was Disney creating such disturbing movies, even in cartoon form, for kids. Most of their movies are either about witches, other dark content, or just plain disturbing. Although I liked horror movies when I was a kid, Disney stories just started to give me a bad feeling and I eventually ignored their movies.

I found a YouTube video that explains such child trafficking in the Pinocchio story. Pinocchio was lured to travel to Treasure Island? Is this Treasure Island similar to Epstein Island? Wow, this video explains that trafficked children are treated similar to the young women in the 2024 movie Blink Twice, which is similar to Epstein Island, Diddy’s White Parties on a secluded island, and many other elite parties. The lost boys in the Peter Pan story also look like abused runaway boys.