Elmo Knows My Name Doll
There’s a series of online stories that some families who bought Elmo Knows My Name dolls were being haunted. The toys were designed to learn children’s names and other information like their favorite colors. However, the fun and games ended when things took a creepy turn. One example from 2008 comes from the Tampa Bay Times, detailing how a mother named Melissa Bowman allegedly found her son James playing with his Elmo and telling it, “Kill me! Kill me!” She was horrified to discover that the Elmo, which recently had its batteries replaced, recharged with a change and a new message. “Kill James!” it would say in a sing-song voice over and over. We’re left to speculate: was it a ghost talking through the tech, or a n’er-do-well messing with the voice recorder?
