Children's toys going off in middle of the night

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Hello

Home alone tonight and my child's toy in living room decided to start going off chatting and doing its music three hours after I've been in the room and not been played with today.

About to go to sleep and feeling spooked.

Please please tell me aibu and this happens all the time with your children's toys

I nearly shit myself the other day when a Melissa and Doug wooden puzzle with animal sounds made a cockadoodledoo noise just as I was turning the lights off to go upstairs for the night!

In bed one night my husband and I were awoken by a childish voice singing over and over "Ring around the Rosie. Ring around the Rosie." It sounded like something from a horror movie. It seemed to be coming from outside.

My husband got dressed and cautiously made his way to the door, the voice getting louder as he approached. He flung open the front door to find my daughters doll that she had accidentally left outside.

It had sensors in the hands that you would hold to make a circuit so she would sing. The damp in the air was causing her to go off spontaneously.

We were both somewhat shaken.

It's just dead children playing with them. No big deal.

I nearly shit myself the other day when a Melissa and Doug wooden puzzle with animal sounds made a cockadoodledoo noise just as I was turning the lights off to go upstairs for the night!
We've got that sodding puzzle. Thanks MIL.

The Melissa & Doug jigsaws do this if the pieces are not in place as it's getting dark. The empty spaces are calling to the pieces or the sensors that respond to darkness ie the piece being slotted in !

No, but I did tread on BeatBo as I was creeping back into my room having finally settled DD2 at 4am last night. The desperation of scuttling round on the floor looking for the off switch as she chirped "Ready to move?"

have never forgotten the bone chilling fear of thinking there were monkeys in my kitchen..

DH went to leave the house once and the vtech baby walker said "bye-bye!" as he was going. Spooked him proper

One of ds2’s toys got shut in a cupboard late one night after its eyes lit up and announced ‘peek a boo, I see you” exh jumped a mile. It was the batteries running down but once it started peek a booing it wouldn’t stop so shut in a cupboard it was.

My daughter has a Minnie Mouse doll with no feckin batteries that suddenly started giggling and asking 'wanna play' and telling us 'I love you'. I wanted to burn the thing but we'd have had to pry the thing away from my daughter. It's been quiet for 5 years now but I still count the knives....

Oysterbabe yeah no big deal ... 😳😳😳

I used to have a clown doll that was a present from grandparents. It had a China face and hands and a soft body it wound up and played a merry tune and tumbled itself around.

I kept it in the box, I wrapped clingfilm around it's head (so it would suffocate before it got to me if it came to life), wrapped the box in sellotape and wedged it between board games and big hardbacks in my shelf.

I swear to you, every now and then I would hear a mournful slow version of the jolly tune and the box would move slightly like something inside was trying to tumble...

Years ago I rolled over in bed at stupid o'clock and heard "I can see youuu, but can you see meeeeee?"
DD had left a toy at the bottom of my bed and its batteries were on the way out, hence the creepy voice. I've never moved so fast in my life