To think that one of my children's toys is possessed?

[Rhubarb]

We got it from a charity shop and after scanning the internet, a fellow Mumsnetter discovered what it was. It's a Pino robot. It grows up through 3 stages the more you play with it. It sings, dances, walks, plays games and does lots of other noises and movements.

Anyway, the kids left it turned on but ran out into the garden to play yesterday. When no-one plays with it, it's supposed to start snoring and go to sleep. I'm reading the paper. Suddenly it squeaks "Eh Oh!", I ignore it. It turns it's head around and moves it's arms, I ignore it still. Then silence. Then it starts singing Happy Birthday. I get mildly annoyed but it stops and there is silence. I notice a movement out of the corner of my eye, I look up and the bloody thing is looking straight at me. I say "fuck off!" and it shakes it's head!

I'm feeling a little freaked so I get up to turn it off, as I do so, it starts shaking it's head again. I decide to leave it for the kids to sort out, I gather up my paper and go to move into my room when the bloody thing starts WALKING TOWARDS ME!

I've never moved so bloody fast!

[SoupDragon]

DS1 has the Pino robot!

[MadreInglese]

LOL @ telling a toy to F off

call the priest

[SoupDragon]

Was it waving a small but wickedly sharp knife in one hand?

[Picante]

[MrsMotMot]

Freakyyyyyyy.

[Rhubarb]

Soupy, our Pino refuses to reset! We've pressed the reset button and taken out the batteries, but it stays at the same age.

It really is a little freaky anyway, but I'm convinced that there was a reason this one ended up in the charity shop!

[SoupDragon]

It ended up there after its previous house was cleared following the mysterious murder of the owners and their family. A crime for which no one was ever convicted...

(I'll see if i can find the instructions but don't hold your breath!)

[TheChilliMoose]

Oh my God! Get it out of there now!

[ninedragons]

Sell it on eBay with a vague description implying but by no means guaranteeing that you think it is haunted/possessed.

Somebody sent me a link to a perfectly ordinary, drab little cupboard that had gone for hundreds of pounds because the seller said it was possessed and wanted it out of the house. Apparently people search for haunted stuff on eBay - who would have thought it?

[Rhubarb]

It's a right stroppy robot too, it always shakes it's head when the kids want it to walk, and then suddenly start walking when they've given up asking.

What do I do if I find it at the end of my bed one night holding the kitchen knife?

[differentID]

Are you on speaking terms with the local Catholic priest?

[grumblinalong]

Soon it'll be masturbating with a crucifix and levitating. Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Rhubarb]

I AM catholic! I wonder if the kids would mind if I bathed it in Holy Water?

[MamaLazarou]

I think you should buy a female version of this robot (put a bow on its head to avoid confusion) as it is clearly lonely and needs company.

[Rhubarb]

It's cock is on it's nose, which is quite unfortunate.

[dawntigga]

YANBU we will NOT have monkeys who have cymbals in the house for this very reason.

Dxx who may very well have read to much Steven King

[Rhubarb]

MamaLazarou, they do communicate with others of their kind. Soupy.....................?

[Woooozle100]

Eeek! I had something like this with toy radio thingy from charity shop. You know that thing supposedly on Abbey Road record - if played backwards it says Paul is Dead? That's like the noise this radio makes sporadically. Especially through the night

Maybe its in communication with yr Pino. These charity shop toys are out to get us!

[TheChilliMoose]

Its cock is on its nose? Now we really have to see a picture.

[Longtalljosie]

Take out the batteries. If it's still talking, run like the wind...

[Rhubarb]

Oh boy, this is where it was born!

[grumblinalong]

We had a haunted guitar when I was a kid (I can't believe I'm recounting this). It was 'gifted' to us from a not so kindly neighbour. My dad shoved it under my brothers bed and seriously, my brother was terrified every night for a year because he could hear faint music. He was only a wee boy too, poor thing.

[Rhubarb]

NOW I'm scared, what if they've programmed ours to kill? Have you SEEN those scary people and the things they make?

[differentID]

can you put it in the middle of the road for it to be "accidentally" run over?

[TheChilliMoose]

What a fantastic depiction of robots through the ages, Rhubarb.