Doctor Vink

Doctor Vink

Background

Vink is a naturalist who identifies himself as a doctor. He has dedicated his life to studying flora and fauna. Vink has the ability to take people's sprits as specimens.

During the events of Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Season 1 Episode 1 The Tale of the Phantom Cab played by Aron Tager

Denny and Buzz come to the cottage of Doctor Vink and bang on the door to Doctor Vink's cottage and he opens it and tells them they made a grave mistake. Doctor Vink brings them into his cottage which is full of bubbling potions and introduces himself. He makes some tea and shows them the brain of a wild boar and tells them that he has discovered that long after the body had died, the brain still gives off electric impulses which then might be harnessed.

Doctor Vink asks them if they are good at solving riddles. He asks them a riddle, "how far can you into the woods"? Buzz answers half-way, because after that a person would be walking out of the woods. Denny goes to use the telephone, but Doctor Vink threatens to cut the phone line unless they answer another riddle. He tells them that if they answer another riddle, he will let them call their parents, and if they can't answer it, they can simply leave. They agree and Doctor Vink asks them "what is it that has no weight, can be seen by the naked eye and if you put it in a barrel, would make the barrel lighter"? Buzz tells Doctor Vink, he doesn't know the answer and Doctor Vink tells them goodbye. He tells them how to get to a road where a taxicab will come to pick them up. They ask him if they can use his phone and he tells them they can use it if they leave him a piece of themselves as a specimen, like their hand. They scream and run out of his cottage.

Later, Buzz is able to answer the riddle, freeing all of Doctor Vink's specimens, but when Denny and Buzz bring the police to Doctor Vink's cottage, all that is left is an old stone foundation covered in weeds.