THE risk you take when buying your little one a talking doll is that it may start chattering away to itself when no one else is around – we know, we've been there.
But while most of us have the option to quietly switch the OFF buttons while the kids are at school, one mum has been left feeling seriously spooked by her daughter's Spanish-speaking Elsa doll which kept mysteriously finding its way back into the house after being thrown away.
Mum Emily Madonia, from Houston, shared her experience of the "haunted"doll on Facebook where she asked for help getting rid of it.
Emily's young daughter Aurelia received the doll as a Christmas present from her grandmother and at first, everything seemed totally normal.
But after a few days, the doll began to only speak and sing in Spanish – even when it was turned off. Creepy.
With Aurelia's blessing, Emily and her husband Mat decided to chuck the doll away – but found it again in their home.
Again, rather odd – but the couple decided to try again.
She wrote: "We were weirded out and tightly wrapped it in its own garbage bag and put that garbage bag INSIDE another garbage bag filled with other garbage and put it in the bottom of our garbage can underneath a bunch of other bags of garbage and wheeled it to the curb and it was collected on garbage day." Phew.
The family then went on holiday and thought the haunted doll incident was well and truly behind them – but when they returned, there she was. Sitting in the garden. Waiting for them.
Emily wrote: "We were out of town, forgot about it. Today Aurelia says, 'Mom I saw the Elsa doll again in the backyard."
Naturally, the family then decided to take extreme measures – and sent the haunted Elsa doll 1,500 miles away to live with their friend Chris Hogan who found the whole thing hilarious.
Giving her Facebook friends an update, Emily wrote: "Chris received the doll today – 1,500 miles from here."
What's more, the whole family were so paranoid that the doll might have mystical powers that Aurelia scribbled on her to make sure Chris received the same one.
Sharing a photo of Elsa taking pride-of-place on the bonnet of her friend's car, Emily wrote: "Picture from Chris. Yes, he's taped her down."
We went out of town, forgot about it. Today Aurélia says “Mom, I saw the Elsa doll again in the backyard.” HELP US GET RID OF THIS HAUNTED DOLL.
Needless to say, Emily's Facebook friends were in hysterics over her haunted doll story – and say they would have had the same reaction.
One replied: "You should have burned it! If it doesn't burn then its possessed."
Another added: "I have thoroughly enjoyed following this saga! Be sure to post if the doll returns."
Meanwhile, a third added: "What a crazy situation!!"
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