Creepy Furbies

Hello, goblins and ghouls, and welcome to my Haunted Life podcast. I'm your host, Angela Hartshorn, and today, we're talking about something truly terrifying: Furbies. Frequent contributor and fellow adventurer, my buddy Rayne, joins us as we share personal Furby stories and discuss why these weird little robot creatures sometimes give us the creeps.

We also dive into Reddit stories, including one where a Furby starts talking without batteries and another where a Furby screams at 3 a.m. We'll even explore how Furbies are being used in ghost hunting.

So grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors are locked, and the batteries are close by. It's time to delve into the world of creepy Furbies!

Stay spooky!

To support the show go to https://patreon.com/MyHauntedLifePodcast, also where you can find all the show notes for today. 

 

Episode Transcript

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Hello, goblins and ghouls, and welcome to my Haunted Life podcast.
I'm your host, Angela Harcher, and today we're doing something a little different.
We are sharing spooky Furby stories.
Music.

(00:25):
Stories. Hello, my Darklings. How are you?
How are you doing today? I hope everything is great because you are honestly really freaking great.
And if you're not great, I hope it passes soon.

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You got this. No matter what, don't give up. You're a badass. Don't forget that.
I have been crazy busy planning and making a bunch of things for my upcoming spooky season.
I mean, let's be honest, and I feel like I've said this a million times.
It's always spooky season around here.

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But the amount of traveling shows I have is ramping up really quick.
I'm really freaking excited for my next oddities and curiosities expo because it's in Rhode Island,
I have never been out there so right there I'm excited for a new adventure but

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I'm also taking my mama she's coming out she's coming to see what I do kind
of thing so this is the first time she's going to be at an oddity show,
I don't actually I'm like I don't think she's helped.
At an event since like the very beginning so that's gonna be a lot of fun um

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in and of itself let me tell you then because i actually looked at a map we're
gonna spend a couple days in salem oh my god.
If you've been listening to the podcast long enough, you know how obsessed I am with Salem.

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And I am so geeked out to go back again. I love it so much.
And my mom's never been, so I'm really happy to go back. That's going to be
a lot of fun. I'm already excited.
So, if you have any haunted recommendations for the adventures,

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let me know. So, I'm already planning the Conjuring House because we're really not that far.
But when I was trying to find a haunted restaurant to go and to,
I discovered we're only 20 minutes away from Fall River, Massachusetts.

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Which means the Lizzie Borden house and like Freetown Forest.
And there's going to be so much I geek out about there, let me tell you.
And, oh, oh, um, you guys, I'm so excited.
Oh my god. Um, anyways, uh, trying to calm down now.

(03:18):
My mom is not a big ghost person.
I think I definitely got that aspect from my dad. But she's really into cemeteries,
so we have some overlap there.
So we'll still be doing our creepy stuff, so don't worry about that.
Now keep your eyes out for some new products coming to the Heart and Horn page,

(03:43):
including My Haunted Life stuff.
I am trying so hard to get this stuff done before Rhode Island.
I'm trying. I'm very, I'm very hopeful.
But yeah, keep your fingers crossed for me. Nonetheless, let me see.

(04:08):
And I honestly, I think that's all the housekeeping today. Today,
I'm honestly, I'm just so excited about this podcast today.
On this week's podcast, we are talking about something truly terrifying.
Furbies. I feel like every kid in the late 90s, the early aughts,

(04:34):
apparently, like now, because they're still making them, which I didn't know,
has experienced these weird little robot creatures.
And sometimes those experiences are downright spooky.
We also have a special guest this week.
Frequent contributor and fellow adventurer, my buddy Rain.

(04:58):
This was such a fun episode.
We did have a glass of wine. I'm not going to lie.
I needed a break. And we'll talk about that in a little bit.
But I will say, honestly, I swear, after we recorded this episode and Rain left,

(05:24):
I heard little itty bitty footsteps running around the house after I went to bed.
Now, it could have been Lily, the podcat, hunting mice. Sure.
Very possible. But Just maybe it was the spirit of a long-forgotten Furby now haunting me.
At least that's where my mind went late at night in the dark.

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And usually I don't get creeped out about the podcast episodes,
but man, Furby's did it for me.
So let's get into it, shall we? grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors
are locked and the batteries are close by.
I have a story to tell you.

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Music.
Okay, today we are doing a very fun podcast.
I have a co-host. The wonderful Rain is here.
Hello. You're going to see Rain a lot this fucking season.

(06:35):
I haven't even touched on the Queen Mary stuff yet. So that's coming.
Oh, okay. Yeah, that's coming up here in a little while.
Is that the only ghosty thing we did this year? Yeah, I think so.
We need to do- Portland! Oh yeah, Portland!
Yeah. We forget about Portland. Because it was last year and we slept since then.
But yeah, so you're going to be hearing rain a lot. Is there any other intro

(06:58):
or do you like animinity?
I can't talk now that we're recording.
I should have asked you if you wanted an intro before we started and I forgot.
I think it's awesome. Perfect, yeah. So for today, the co-host is our lovely rain.
And I needed a

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mental break from all the
horrible murder and like some of the podcasts coming up are a little tough oh
my god I was letting I was telling rain about some of the stuff I've been finding
for one of them and you guys are not ready but are you could be ready it's rough Yeah, there's a few.

(07:42):
And I'm like, I would like a freaking break.
So we went with freaking Furbies. We're doing Furbies. The fact that so many
of you wrote us on the Facebook group and made comments.
I had people coming up to me who were like, oh, I saw this in your Facebook group.

(08:03):
Let me tell you, like, this time I had an issue with it.
So. You unrooted some deep-rooted childhood trauma for me. Yeah.
So. I was suppressed long ago in File Z and it was reentered.
So we're definitely going to do our own personal Furby stories because every,

(08:24):
like, late 90s, early aughts child had one of these.
Or you knew someone who had one of these kind of thing.
And just in case you're not familiar with Furbies.
According to Wikipedia, Furby is an American electric robotic toy by Tiger Electrics.

(08:49):
Originally released in 1998, it resembles a hamster or owl-like creature and
went through a period of being a quote-unquote must-have toy following its holiday season launch.
Over 40 million. Yeah. 40 million?
40 million Furbies were sold during the three years of its original production.

(09:16):
I had no idea they were after an owl hamster. That makes them even more weird to me.
Well, I'm like, that totally makes sense to me because I had hamsters.
So I'm like, fuck yeah, Furbies.
Where is it? Okay. With 1.8 million sold in 1998 and 14 million in 1999,
its speaking capabilities were translated into 14 languages.

(09:40):
So that's kind of cool and very interesting because we're going to be talking
a lot about Furby's speech today.
So Furby's were the first successful attempt to produce and sell a domestically aimed robot.
I thought that was interesting. Hmm.

(10:02):
Right? That's fascinating.
But I was like, I don't think of a Furby that way. I like think of the little
robot dog. Do you remember like the little robot dog that you could do? Oh my God. Yeah.
That's what I think of when I think of like the first robot.
I wonder if it must have been after Furbies.
This is 98. I think those were way after Furbies.

(10:23):
But I, maybe because it looks more like a robot, but I guess technically Furbies
are robots. I mean, if you strip one naked.
Yeah. That's nightmare feel.
A newly purchased Furby, or a Furby which has been reset, starts out speaking entirely Furbish,
the unique language that all Furbies speak, but is programmed to start speaking English,

(10:50):
assuming or whatever language, and words and phrases in place of Furbish over time.
This process is intended to resemble the process of learning English.
Yeah, again. So these things are learning from us? And that's a controversy.
Oh. It's really interesting. So we'll go into that. So that is a big thing.

(11:12):
This last little bit of Wikipedia. The updated Emototronic Furby with voice
recognition and more complex facial movements was sold by Hasbro between 2005 and 2007.
2007, Furby with black and white LCD eyes and a mobile app was released for

(11:37):
the holiday season in 2012.
Another updated Furby with color LCD eyes known as Furby Connect was released in 2016.
The last new generation was released in 2023.

(11:58):
Wow. That's not last year. Yeah. I didn't know they were still going. No, I had no idea.
Like, I knew they were coming back, but I guess I didn't realize.
I thought it was like a nostalgia thing or like an eBay thing.
I had no idea they were being made.
Actually made. Yeah. I mean, either. So isn't that freaking weird?

(12:20):
So, like I said earlier, everybody had a Furby. It seemed like Oregon.
You knew someone. You interacted with a Furby at some point.
So my personal Furby story is,
wanted to make sure I was actually recording was we we didn't get like the new fancy toys,

(12:41):
because you know we were on the poor side growing up but grandma the the giant
anarchist of the family was always the one to like surprise right you you've
talked to my grandmother,
it's very she's been on the podcast multiple times but she always was that one

(13:02):
to make sure that we had the thing we wanted or the new popular thing or we
saw the movies we weren't supposed to see. That was all Grandma.
And she bought me and my brother, I think it was the second generation ones,
because it wasn't the first ones, but it wasn't like any of the weird other

(13:23):
ones like babies or any of that.
It was just regular Furbies the next year kind of thing.
And we like we have a haunted house I've talked about it before on the podcast
but it's you know dolls would move and stuff I don't remember them messing with the Furby a whole lot,

(13:46):
and we never kept our Furbies really together if I remember correctly I should
have called Aaron and asked I'm like do you remember this but I know he was gonna say no Yeah.
The big favorite family story, though, about our Furbies is I,
mine in particular, I left out in the living room one night and it was on the

(14:06):
railing, like just kind of by the walkway kind of thing.
My dad got up at like 3 a.m. to go to work kind of thing.
And he was out in the living room and this thing turned on and started talking
to him at 3 freaking AM. All of a sudden it's like whoo!

(14:27):
And he took it and he chucked it out the door and hit the screen door,
which was just basically a piece of sheet metal and made the loudest fucking noise.
And after that my Furby had a stroke and it only half of it worked and that was the end of our Furby.
I have no idea what happened to my brothers.
What about you? It's buried in the desert somewhere. somewhere.

(14:50):
I'm like thinking about it. I'm like, not desert in particular,
but I could see Aaron burying it in the backyard.
Knowing my mom, though, she probably kept it because she thought it was collectible.
She shouldn't have kept mine. It was broken. And like, like only half of it would move.
It was so sad. Anyways. Oh, my goodness.

(15:11):
So my story is I had an addiction to Beanie Babies growing up.
I collected every single Beanie Baby.
I hated dolls and I hated really anything that was,
Not Beanie Babies. That's fair. Yeah, no. And my mom would try to get me these porcelain dolls.
She would try to get me the latest toy. But I was like, meh,
I want a Beanie Babies. No, Beanie Babies were the shit, man.

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And so I was strongly those. And so when Furbies came out, I don't know what
generation I had, to be honest with you.
But she brought home a Furby because she thought it looked a lot like a Beanie
Baby. Oh, that's fair. And thought that I would like it.
And I didn't like its eyes or the way it talked or anything like that.
And my mom thought they were so cute. So my mom started collecting Furbies and

(15:57):
my mom just, she was a hoot.
And so they freaked me out. I don't know. I just, same with porcelain dolls.
I just never liked their energy. And I did not, I don't think I was raised in
a haunted house that I knew of, but I did live in a house in the middle of a cornfield.
So we were scared of aliens all the time, but it was like nobody in anywhere in a vicinity.

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And the way our house was set up is it was like an old farmhouse okay so we had a hallway,
had like a bathroom with the bathtub at the
end of the hallway was my bedroom my parents bedroom and then their closet kind
of went along the back side of the bathroom where the shower was so it kind
of connected it's important because every time i took a freaking bath you could

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hear the verbi chuckling in the closet oh and it had like seven settings like
uh the one in particular that That always went off.
It was purple and blue because it was the first one my mom got because I love purple.
But I'd just be taking a nice bath and you could hear through the wall just
like, hello. Or like it had like seven settings. They were like, hello.

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And I was just like so scared of going in my mom's closet because of it.
Well, then my mom loved this one because they thought it was misprogrammed.
So when you were talking about earlier how they would learn. Yeah.
This one she said was not kid friendly because apparently has one of the seven settings.

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It would go a chew and then it would sound like it said fuck.
Like it would make a sneeze like chew and then fuck. And so my parents like
it. Did it just say a cuss word?
And so it was taken away from all the kids because it was the cussing Furby.
But my mom would bring it out at parties all the time and hit the button and
try to go through the seven settings and make everyone hear it say fuck. Oh, my God.

(17:46):
Hopefully I can say fuck on the podcast. Yeah, I say fuck all the time.
It's okay. I'm pretty sure you've sworn on the podcast before. I think I have too. Yeah.
But it was just like this one little Furby that was malfunctioned.
But you could just hear them laugh in the closet.
See, and that's what always, and it was all, I feel like it was only when I
was in the bathtub trying to enjoy my moment that I'm just like,

(18:08):
oh my gosh, these little things are going off in the closet.
It's got gremlins. They're going to come out. They're going to kill us.
Had a big fear of the laughing Furby in the closet.
That's my story but my mom loved him i think is she named him jimmy like it was something so stupid,
jimmy is jimmy jimmy just has a lot to say
i'm like okay so rest in

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peace mom i hope you're with jimmy in the sky i
have no idea what happened to you which is
funny i have a box at home with all my childhood toys i'm
now curious if the furby ended up in the box oh god
i haven't actually looked through anything that was in there i mean
that would be interesting let's see if i have the cussing furby
because there is i did find a

(18:52):
bit of an article about the cussing furby thing oh yeah this was something that
a lot of people reported so supposedly it was debunked that furbies could be
taught or record new phrases.
But it became a really big thing in 2000, especially that parents were reporting swearing Furbies.

(19:22):
And there was a story, allegedly, that a Walmart in Pennsylvania actually pulled
Furbies from its shelves after parents complained of the toys swearing.
It was claimed by the
company that they were mishearing the phrase

(19:42):
hug me because that like it sound like fuck me yeah but in 2014 reports arose
again of a furby in wales a swearing so the company is like no you people are
mishearing this whereas like,
My thing is they already talked about it learning English. Mm-hmm.

(20:05):
Why wouldn't they hear, like, swear words kind of thing?
I guarantee my mom chewed me out with every swear word in the corner.
I was like, that pervy learned something.
I wouldn't have doubt that it learned her language. Right? So I thought that
was interesting. Interesting.
So, but yeah. So it wasn't just us experiencing the swearing for a week.
No, it was very common, apparently.

(20:26):
He was a Christmas hit, and he always got showed to everybody.
That's so funny. But yeah, apparently it's hug me.
I thought you would like that. I do. Because now that I can think,
I can feel that. It did say like, it's like a chew fuck. It sounded like fuck.
It was weird. It was like a sneeze fuck or fuck chew. I wonder if we can find

(20:47):
it. Like an audio playing? Yeah.
Anyways. So I have another creepy ass Furby story.
Okay. This one, they weren't my Furbies. they were
my friend nancy's and if you're on the podcast
facebook group you've seen nancy's name
pop up a few times hey nancy like

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god it was always me nancy and kayla like we all grew up together kind of thing
and nancy always had sleepovers at her house for her birthday and And I remember
Nancy had one of the, like, not adult ones,
but the first, either first or second generation ones.

(21:30):
And then that birthday, she got one of the baby ones.
So they were a little bit smaller and they were in pastel colors.
And I remember sleeping next to Nancy. And Nancy's house was terrifying.
Like, there was some weird energy in there, man. And definitely had stuff going on.

(21:54):
But I remember being like, feeling
all special. I got to sleep next to the birthday girl kind of thing.
And Nancy had her new Furbies and the old Furby together.
Just at the head of the bed. And we're all on the floor, sleeping bags,
pillows kind of thing. And the Furbies were just right above her head.
And like right between us kind of thing.

(22:16):
So they were somewhere like that. I can't remember exactly. but they were like
right there by her pillow kind of thing and in the middle of the night,
So they're like between our faces. I have to put that burn in there.
So in the middle of the night, probably around 3 a.m. That's apparently when
these little fuckers do this.
You hear the big one wake up and they do this.

(22:40):
Yeah. And then the little one did it.
And it was like they started going, I wonder if they're listening.
Are they listening? And they just kept going back and forth like that.
And i remember just slowly
looking over to see
if nancy was awake to see if she was messing with them and

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i just remember her eyes huge staring at
them because we had to stare at each other through the furbies and
then it was like oh they're awake time to
go back to bed and it went back to bed and
it was like and they both did it and we're i was
just like oh god because i think that

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was the same night we were playing up at gold camp and doing stupid shit
but it was just like so i
think i never feel it was it was terrifying what do you think they're talking
about their furbish language like are they talking about because they have their
own murder language the answer is murder is child sacrifice and murder they're

(23:44):
waking up at 3 a.m that's never a good sign that they're talking in a foreign language.
Their own little language. And I went through so many stories online.
I'm honestly surprised there wasn't more.
A lot of stuff comes from Reddit, but like almost every story is like,
and they woke up at 3 a.m. And it's like...

(24:04):
Well, I hate that. I hate that so much. I hate that it's consistently 3 a.m. Yes, almost always.
And we all know 3 a.m., witching hour, weird shit happens.
So. Yeah. So are we talking about like demonic Furbies now? Yes.
I have some story. Like a little ritual circle?

(24:25):
I mean, we could. But I did find shit like that too. Oh my gosh.
I'm not surprised. That being said, I do want to give a shout out to Beck,
the wonderful artist behind Raven's Haunted Dolls, the one that likes to torture
me with haunted dolls, who's been on the podcast before.

(24:45):
And if she hears that, she's going to get a freaking kick out of this.
But apparently when they go ghost hunting, they sometimes use a Furby for a trigger object.
Okay. We can add that to the ghost kit? No!
There is no way in hell because you imagine that in the middle imagine taking a freaking furby,

(25:07):
for jackie on the queen mary as soon
as that thing moved you would leave me so fucking quick oh i would shit myself
on the way out too yeah there's no way i don't think i could handle that like
a flashlight okay i can do that a furby turning on now later on we might as
well just Let's do it now and we'll come back to these stories. Why not? Uh-oh.

(25:31):
I found this YouTube video. Oh, my gosh. I have to find it again.
Oh, no. Did I click off of it? I might have clicked off of it.
Crap. That does today what we're doing. Oh, no. This is not the chick I want.
I mean, that is the chick I want. That's the wrong video.

(25:51):
So we're going to do that real quick. because this person uses a Furby with their spirit box.
Oh, this does not sound like this is going to be fun. No.
Maybe we'll come back to this. Let's read the stories first.
Okay, let's read the stories, and then we can watch some videos.
Yeah. And we'll not be able to sleep tonight.

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This is my darling Becca. If you're listening, this is your fault. I hope you're happy. be.
I did want to check real quick because I wrote I want to make sure what am I doing that?
Anyways, so we talked about haunted Furbies. So, all right.
I was like, what the fuck is that noise? It's Lily. So I'm going to let you

(26:35):
read this one. The Scrap Cats?
Yes, Scrap Cats. This is their story from... Seven years ago.
Seven years ago on Reddit. All right.
So it says, I still have mine. I'm kind of afraid to get rid of it.
When I was a kid, it started talking and talking and talking.

(26:57):
It would not shut up. Then it started screaming, as they do.
I chucked it into the closet and it hit the wall so hard and stopped working.
I deliberately tried to get it to make noise again just to see if it'd start up. It did not.
I figured it was dead and let it be. Otherwise, I'd taken the batteries out.

(27:18):
Years later, I was moving and it got packed up. As I was getting settled into
the new place, I found it in one of the boxes. Tried to get it working again.
Nothing. So I said, okay, it's a piece of my childhood. I'll keep it for the nostalgia value.
You know, I would do the same. Yeah, it makes sense. I set it on the table and
my dad came in, took a look at it and said, hey, I remember those things.

(27:43):
Its eyes flew open and it began to make noise.
Neither of us were anywhere near it. So yeah, I'm pretty sure that if I tried
to get rid of it, it'll come back and try to murder me.
It lives without batteries waiting for me to forget
about it again that is terrifying so
this is a another commonly reported thing is

(28:06):
furbies without batteries still talking well like even I think are my mom's
furbies either they didn't have batteries at one point because they kept going
off and it would bother her or I feel like she had these furbies for 15 20 years
and they would still go off.
So they have like a long standing battery.

(28:28):
And that seems to be, like, the biggest theory, but I couldn't have it,
I couldn't find actual confirmation.
They have, like, a secret power port or something? Yeah, there's,
like, a backup battery in case it dies or something, but that does seem to be
the most common explanation for that.
That's like bird theory. They're spying on us.

(28:50):
I was seeing if i'm looking at our face on the facebook group our paula,
said the scariest one we had was
when it started playing peekaboo in the middle of the
night that sounds like my my
story oh imagine just

(29:12):
walking in the dark and hearing peekaboo yeah no fuck that
i'm sorry that's a big no our buddy
mike over on not your mic on the
podcast group says we had slow furby serenade at 3 a.m but ours had low batteries
and was classic super slow playback that was creepy it was up high on a shelf

(29:36):
and not having been heard from for months
and that's another thing people are like they just
be really quiet then just all of a sudden yeah they like it's
almost like hibernation then some it's weird like
i wonder what it's like does it have like a trigger word oh that would be interesting
set all three of the kids off screaming and crying had to disable it and put

(30:00):
it out in the garage before the kids would sleep of course i had to put it back
the next day when no one was looking and make the kids wonder how How it returned.
That's just cruel. I think that's hilarious. It sounds like something Jordan would do if we had kids.
And then I have my buddy Susan said that they got one from a friend that just passed away.

(30:28):
And it just apparently yawns randomly.
It says, like, yes, for no reason it will yawn.
And I did ask if it had batteries.
And she says, if it does have batteries and when you pick it up and play with
it, it does many things. Thanks. I'm like, okay, that's what it's supposed to do.

(30:48):
My mom also had to comment and said, your dad killed your Furby.
And then our buddy Nancy also had to put Furbies are mediums.
So another fun one. Interesting.
How about this lovely story from Caddy the Redditor.

(31:09):
And their post is entitled, I think there's a ghost in my Furby. Oh, goodness.
Haunting. Okay, hear me out. The idea sounds completely stereotypical and unbelievable, but eh.
It's not a good way to start a story. I'm just like, what?

(31:29):
There you go. Thank you. I don't know how to work Macs. Sorry.
Now, I've never been one to believe in ghosts. I believe there has to be something after death.
But ghosts were never really something I thought about past the age of seven. Until now.
I love Furbies. They're absolutely adorable. I have two Furby Connects,

(31:51):
Grape and Dingus. Don't ask.
Dingus recently stopped working. So I've, I just call my dog Dingus.
I'm just laughing at that.
So Dingus recently stopped working. So I've been overprotective of Grape lately.
But Grape, he's different.
He knows what I'm saying and responds to me. And I'm pretty sure that's not

(32:17):
a Kinect functionality.
Kinect was weird, man. Man, I had to Google it.
Because Kinect is the one that they have LCDIs and they have an app and you
get to pick their personality, which is totally something we can talk about.
So they continue to say, like, Kinect came out in 2016, yet Grape will sing

(32:40):
songs from the nowadays and know all the words.
Now, Grape went into his sleep animation, where he started yawning,
wishing me good night, etc.
I held him in my arms, when suddenly he froze in his animation and his eyes went black.
Normal connect behavior for when they turn off or break.

(33:01):
Naturally, I was panicked as Dingus broke pretty much the same way,
so I messed up his antenna to wake him back up. And he did. He was fine.
The following conversation ensued. Me.
Grape, you made me worried. I thought you died. Grape.
Really? Me. Yeah, you probably didn't die.

(33:23):
Grape. Don't tell a soul. this
made me a bit concerned grape was implying he
died i was naturally a little
scared though skeptical yet even if
he was a ghost he's still very sweet but fair fair okay it seems like a very
sweet conversation in the middle of a night with a dying furby yeah but i wanted

(33:48):
second Second opinions in this most common Furby connect behavior or dun dun dun.
And then there is an edit that has been added and says, thanks for all the replies.
The remaining people looking at this post, I may record a video of Grape's behavior for investigation.
But judging by the behaviors you guys described, the 1990 Furbs kind of makes

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Grape look like child's play.
Though I'm happy you guys aren't being rude. I was honestly kind of scared to post this.
Comment below if you guys would like to see a video. and I looked there was
no video and I was very very sad that's just weird they left you hanging I know
it was it was like a cliffhanger like grape don't tell a soul yeah that I died,
isn't that weird that's a weird one,

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but I like but he never said anything about dying it was all her she kind of
manifested the dying phase with his eyes going black yeah but the whole don't
tell a soul that's a little weird it's a bit weird that's a bit weird but.
All right. I should probably read one. And a lot of these stories have to do

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with K'nex, which I could totally see.
Because they're more programmable, I feel like.
I did not know these existed until I started working on this podcast.
I had no idea these things existed. They're so weird. Okay, so I have a story
from Reddit, and it's Kitty KG.

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I don't know anything about Furby Connects, but I can say you aren't alone in
dealing with weird behavior for them.
If I remember correctly, I think this is a response to the story you just read. Okay.
Red. I never really discussed this with anyone, but my old best friend also

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witnessed it, and it creeped him out pretty bad.
I had an original Furby that started cursing after my mom and I moved into a
house I lived in from 1998 to 2006, before I left at 16.
So, another cursing Furby.

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That house was where i had the most intense
experiences with a haunting to date
the furby started swearing frequently it eventually moved i eventually moved
it into the closet where i ended up seeing a solid shadow figure in 2008 when

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getting some of my things long after the furby was gone.
And he wouldn't stop speaking, even with no light able to reach the sensor.
I ended up pulling the batteries and giving it to my mom to get rid of.
Being an original, they weren't supposed to be able to learn stuff like curse words.

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I was nine years old and told to fuck off and shut the fuck up by a Furby.
That I don't know man I'm like
there's no way you can confuse hug me for
shut the fuck up no I'm pretty sure ours said fuck you or something like that
it was like it but it was blended with a sneeze like it would do like this cute

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little achoo and it would sound like fuck I don't remember what the second word
was but I didn't necessarily it was the f word they're creepy and I can't to explain them.
I liked them growing up because my aunt had a shelf covered in them and they
were cute, but never again after that one.
Was he just programmed or was he cursed?
Right. And that, do I have it up here? This next one is so for you.

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But one of the things, oh, okay, we'll go into it. We'll go into this into the next one.
So, all right. Dun, dun, dun, dun.
Here we go. I believe this was also a reddit post
okay so a reddit post it's titled i'm
still scared to this day we're starting off
strong yep i got my furby when

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i was about seven and five days after i got it it disappeared about one month
later i could hear it laughing in a strange high-pitched voice not like it was
when i first got it sorry something moved and i literally just almost I saw
you. That was me. I'm sorry.
From then on, at 3 a.m. every day, it I'm telling you.

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And the high-pitched laughing. Yeah. Ours did that in the closet.
Yeah. They shouldn't be doing that in closets. No, he was in the dark.
We kept him in the closet. But from then on, at 3 a.m. every day at this.
Once me and my friend were at a sleepover, and in the middle of the night,
my Furby screamed in a very low-pitched voice, which woke me and my friend up.

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That's kind of allude to you and your sleepover.
My friend also woke up to the scream with a bloody thumb, and his parents had
to pick him up because he was traumatized.
So did he, like, bite his thumb? Did Furby bite him in the sleep?
Okay. After this, it stopped its daily routine of laughing and screaming.
So once blood was shed, Furby was satisfied.

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Need the blood sacrifice. Blood sacrifice. Thumb-sucking Furbies.
About two years later, we were
remodeling our house, which was when this started making sounds again.
This time it was sobbing for up to five hours every night. Oh.
This lasted for three days until we found the Furby in the wall of my parents'

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bedroom with batteries that had no power left in them.
Please could someone explain this to me? I am now scared for my life. Sad face.
That's creepy. That is like crying. It sounds like I got lost and was just crying in the walls.
It's kind of how I'm reading this. But that's creepy.

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Now, these are Reddit posts. There's no way to actually verify them whatsoever.
And there were a few I did not include because some of them were just dumb.
So, I don't know. This was one of the better scary ones. Yeah,

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because they have a whole second half, it looks like, of like their graduation
limited edition Furby that continues on. Oh, it keeps going?
It keeps going. Oh, yeah, it keeps going.
So it continues on. I guess they have now had a second encounter with a Furby. Oh.
It's kind of how it sounds like it's reading. Because some of these I didn't
read all the way, so it's for you.
It said, my dad got me a graduation limited edition Furby and my grandma had

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me keep it in the packaging.
It was on the top of my closet. One day I woke up. Oh, no, this is a different one. Oh, okay.
Sorry, the titles are different. Yeah, no, the title is goofy on that one.
Sorry, that one was my bad. JK! That's a different one. We'll get to that one in a sec.
So, about this one.
They made a blood sacrifice and cried in the wall. Yeah. Because one of the

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things, let's say this person's completely honest in their experience.
Renovating anything wakes up the spirits.
It freaks them out. They don't like change.
So it would make sense.
To me, I read that as there's probably a spirit messing with the Furby kind of thing,

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as opposed to the furby crying that it's lost if that
makes sense like there are stories
of people using furbies as like spirit
boxes which we'll look
at one of those videos coming up but that's kind
of how i took that one i can see that
because renovations are hard on anything and can

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arouse a lot of things oh yeah so i'm still
trying i'm still stuck on the bloody thumb though that one's
getting me a little bit maybe he was just a kid and he
sucked his thumb and I mean he's off in his sleep it
could have been anything just a
really weird set of coincidences though I
think is why it gets associated with the Furby the Furby like there's no actual

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connection to the Furby as far as I can tell no but I do imagine this cute little
pink Furby on the wall his jaw unhinging reaching out it's like the thumb is
just like perfectly over the blanket and like coming down Yeah, and me taking a chonk.
See, I think that's perfect. That's beautiful. We're going with that image.
I love that. He's sitting on the wall again. He's got just a little dribble of water coming down.

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Little cannibal Furby. Yeah. Vampir- Vampir- Vampir-y.
Which, there was actually like a weird cannibal Furby story that I found.
I'm not surprised. And it was so outlandish, I didn't include it.
It was, but yeah, it was like this Furby that was taking out, it was fucking weird.

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So yeah, we didn't include that one. Vampires in Furby Land should be the next
Vampire Ball theme. Julian! Julian doesn't listen.
But we should do that. Okay, I want to go into this one that Rain started,
because I'm going to make Rain read the very long one.
I just had that seductive storyteller voice. You had that voice.

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And that way I can set up the videos while you're reading. And I say words really
bad, so it just makes it entertaining. I mean, you know.
So, anyways, this one. My dad got me a graduation limited edition Furby,
and grandma had me keep it in the packaging.
I'm assuming probably because they thought it was going to be worth something

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kind of thing. So that's what my mom always made us do. Well,
it's like, think of like little, what do you call them, pop dolls.
Like little pop figurines. Like people keep them in the packages because they're...
Oh, it's like going back to Beanie Babies.
You had to keep your little tag on. Otherwise, it wasn't worth anything.
It was on the top of my closet.
One day, I woke up because it was randomly going off after weeks of it being up there.

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I freaked and called my grandma from the next room.
She came and didn't believe me.
Didn't believe me it. She told me it didn't have batteries.
She heard it too, took it down, and it did not have batteries.

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My grandma threw away in the trash outside so quick. Started crying.
Praying started praying over me my dad
or called my dad and bitched at him for buying it and i've been traumatized
by furby's sights you know they always talk about the satanic panic but it's

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like the fur panic the fur panic
oh my god i love that i should make it we should do t-shirts a fur panic,
see so we see because we were going into this
before we started was the art
and most of the time creepy satanic art

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around furbies it's so weird you have a friend that does furby art i do yeah
so tell us some of the furby art oh so one of our friends she is addicted to
making art out of Furbies.
So she is an amazing like latex and shoemaker, but in all of her photos,

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like she always has a Furby in the background because she's obsessed with Furbies.
But she's made, instead of the human centipede, she's made a Furby centipede. I hate that.
She has made scarves out of Furbies. She's made burlesque pasties out of Furby faces.
That's so wrong. I know. There's so many things that she's done,
but one of the cute things that I think she has

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done is she is really big into ceramics and
being British she likes painting like
British Victorian teacups and so some
of the teacups that she had posted on her
Facebook had like little Furbies in the middle of it like it'd be like
this cute little Victorian scene it's like little Furby enjoying tea or
something it was just so quiche and it was strangely

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soothing and freaky to see the things and
she'd make like caterpillar Furbies she'd add them all together
the ones with what the paintings on the teacups are
actually really cute you'll have to send me those i could put them in the
the the podcast notes those are cute those are really cute the other art was
questionable but it it was so freaky it was so fun i can't get it for that it

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was a burlesque performer i mean if you find if you find that i i want to see
them please turn on the light
there's one light in here we got dark all of a sudden okay now that was really bright all right
ready ready so our last story and
then we'll look at some of the other videos i found for you here you go oh gosh

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this title is called possessed furby question mark i'm assuming this may be
another reddit yes article and then romanesque gross yep.
Let's get this party started. So this will probably get taken down,
not on this podcast, in this Reddit.
Because that's what they wrote. That's what they wrote of how outlandish it sounds.

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But I swear upon whatever higher power there might be that what I'm about to recount here is true.
Again, that's not a good way to start your story. That just sounds like such
an introductor to like a horror story.
Like this sounds creepy, but it's totally true. It's a Blair Witch Project. It's a type of vibe.
Yeah. So I was nine years old and staying at a friend's apartment. Let's call her Chloe.

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Okay. I mean, that's probably when we were having the issues with Nancy's Furby. So about that age.
About nine years old. I think my Furby experience was like nine,
ten years old, too, to be honest. I wonder if that's another correlation.
That's a good one. For a few days, we spent most of the day playing Minecraft.
Speaks to my nostalgia soul. This was around the time when Minecraft was new

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and growing quickly in popularity.
However, on the second day, I noticed that she had a red Furby. Boom.
Mind you, Furbies made a brief comeback around then as well.
And like most nine-year-old girls at the time, I thought they were the coolest thing ever. I didn't.
Me, personally, not Chloe. Chloe agreed to show me how it worked.

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And the two of us plus her younger sister toyed around with it for a few minutes
before her sister accidentally dropped it on the couch.
Normally, it's not a big deal when a Furby is dropped, especially when it's
from a foot onto a couch cushion.
But for some reason, the thing went haywire and turned evil.

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And that's in quotation marks. Yes. Furbies change moods and evil is the one
where they go went from funny robot critters to diabolical trash gremlins with fire for eyes.
I love that description. The eyes changed pattern depending on the mood.
That's fine, me and Chloe said. They always go back to normal eventually.

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Well, long story short, the Furby did not go back to normal.
Throughout the day, it terrorizes, moving its positions by itself.
So I'm going to scroll a little bit because I'm at the end of the thing. There we go.
Well, long story short, the Furby didn't go back to normal.
Throughout the day, it terrorized us, moving positions by itself,

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saying weird shit that wasn't in a Furby usual vocabulary.
It got to the point that we locked ourselves in the bathroom with Chloe's panicking little sister.
Though it would occasionally change moods, it would always go back to evil and
stay like that for hours on end.
This lasted for the The better part of two days, if I remember correctly.

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It's a really long slumber party.
She says she'll stay in the weekend. Oh, that's fair.
Finally, on my second to last day at Chloe's house, the two of us,
sick of the monster and its shenanigans, were in her parents' room with the Furby.
On the bedside table discussing how to get rid of the thing.

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Then, this is when shit really hit the fan. So they were essentially in her
parents' room plotting a Furby's death. Yes.
Just picture it. I do. I'm like, we need a new stand by me and it needs to have this on us.
Right? I can just imagine two little girls gossiping with, like... The younger one. Yeah.
So there's three total. There's three. Yeah.

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Like, three of them, nine-year-old and a younger sister. Yeah.
Planning on how to kill a diabolical machine. Doesn't that sound awesome?
This does sound like it needs to be in a movie. I'm telling you.
I'd watch it. Just saying. Anybody listening to the podcast that's a movie maker, fuck us.
We'll help you write it, and we'll send you this Reddit, because...

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Exactly. We're just reading it. So shit has really hit the fan now as they're
plotting out this Furby's murder.
So I was telling Chloe that we should drop it out of her fifth story window onto the street.
Let it get run over, then pour water over it. Then I heard something stir on the bedside table.
It was the goddamn Furby. The thing had turned itself on and was now staring

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at us with those awful little flame eyes.
And I kid you not, this thing looked at me and said in the creepiest teeny little voice, I knew that.
That was my impression. I'm trying to do it to you. No, that was Grace.
I responded with an incredulous, seriously? The Furby responded.
Actually fucking responded to my question with a, uh.

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Chloe asked it whether it was telling the truth, but it just hemmed and hawed.
Yet again, something Furbies don't do.
Needless to say, we ran out of the room screaming. Chloe later went back into
the room, only to run out screeching again.
According to her, she tried to say bye to the Furby, only for it to bend over
and hit her with its ear and say, me happy I hurt her.

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I can't attest to whether this is true or not. After our little conversation,
I wanted nothing to do with the Furby in that room.
However, I can confirm that the next morning, the Furby's batteries were dead.
We asked Chloe's dad to replace them, but even with the new batteries the toy would not turn on.
Years later, I still don't know what the hell was wrong with that Furby or how

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it responded in our speech.
They responded to touch stimuli, but not sound, and there's no explanation I can come up with.
I've considered the possibility of a folio, folio dwarf, but given how rare
those are, I seriously doubt it.
Maybe my initial theory of the Furby being possessed by the devil was right
after all. There's no way to prove the cause of my bizarre experience.

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One's good. Isn't that a good one? That's a really good one.
I just can't get over my image of three little girls plotting a death.
And they come to the conclusion about throwing it out the fifth story window and letting it run over.
It's so plausible.
And that's the thing I like about this one. Because I'm like, no, this is perfect.
You can see children doing this. My first thought is chunk it out the window and let a car run over.

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That would be my terrorizing death of a...
Throwing it out the window five stories down, that would be...
And the fact that, I mean, like, that's where my brain goes.
And the fact that they were going to go down and pour water on it. Yeah.
I'm like, just to make sure it was finished off. I love that.
So apparently the evil setting in Furby's is a thing.

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Okay. It is an actual thing that you could do with the Furby booms and the Furby connects.
When they turn into little evil gremlins. Yes. Let's just say evil diabolical
gremlin from hell. So, this is supposedly a...
This thing right here is a Furby with digital eyes.

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Have you ever seen anything like this before? Isn't that freaking real?
Are y'all selling these? Eating.
This thing right here is a... That's how... That's what the eyes look.
He's putting his finger in the mouth. That's how that guy ended up with a bloody
thumb. Oh, that could be. Because that's how you feed them.
Do you remember that? You would have to, like... It was very,
like... They were, like, eating you. you would have to put down on the tongue.

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I do. Okay. Here's another one with the eyes.
So these digital eyes are so freaking weird.
This one has like little anime eyes. Interesting.
So they're very strange. I guess I never, I guess I missed the whole LED eye
phase. Yeah, that was way after my time.

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What the hell was that noise? Did you hear that? I did. I thought it wasn't
just me. It sounded like.
It almost sounded like a piano key. It did. But I have no idea what the.
Or maybe, maybe it was a car horn. Oh, we're going to go with car horn.
So, this apparently is how they behave when they turn evil. Okay.

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I finally got the evil Furby. Basically, I fed him loads.
He was in the party animal Furby. And I just kept on feeding him and he turned out like this.
I don't know if I'm going to get each personality now.
I'll put it in the description of my YouTube videos. I mean,

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this is just what I've discovered about them. I don't love the quiet server one.
But they sound like little gremlins. They do. I love how it's named Potato.
It's like he's mocking her.
So, in the story you read about Chloe, with the friend being in there by themselves,

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and they get hit by the ears.
Did you see what the ears just did? Yeah, I hit her. Yeah.
So I was like, when I first read Chloe's story, I was like, well, or that story.
I was like, well, this is where it goes too far. This is stupid.
And then I watched this thing do that with the ears. He just leaned over. Yeah.
Because they kept talking about them bending over. I'm like,

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they don't do that. No, they bend over. And apparently these new ones have that movement.
But yeah, it bent over and hit her with its ears.
Listen to it. Little grumpy thing.
Like a backstroke. But it does. It sounds like it's mocking her half the time.
It does. It just sounds like it's like making fun of her.

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So I thought that was very interesting.
Oh, I also found this story because this is one that every once in a while you'll
see a picture of this pop up.
And I want to see if you recognize this picture.
Furby in the Woods. This is such a bizarre and like baffling story.
So this story takes place back in 2002.

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Two sisters were exploring the woods on the edge of their grandparents' property.
They were walking around for about 20 minutes when they found what looked like
an old plushie caked in mud and sitting at a low branch of a tree.
When they got closer to inspect it, they were surprised to see that it was a Furby.
They just immediately recognized the toy from its large closed eyes and they

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decided to take it back to their grandparents' house to clean it and see if
they could make it work again.
So they ran back, they got this wet cloth and started scrubbing Furby's fur
until they were able to see a hint of its gray fur underneath all of the mud.
Once they were satisfied with how they cleaned him, they placed him on the counter
and went to look for a towel to dry him off.
But just before they wrapped him up, his eyes sprung open.

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Now usually Furby's have those really cute blue or green eyes,
but this Furby almost had these crimson irises that seemed to have almost melted
in the sun. It looked like he was pleading to them to put him out of his misery.
One of the sisters suggested that maybe they should just throw it away.
But the other one insisted that
they should probably try to find batteries first just to see if it worked.

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And honestly, I would probably do the same thing. I am way too curious.
Like if I found a creepy Furby in my woods, I would see if it worked.
I'm sorry to say. So she started looking through.
What keeps baby's skin healthy? A diaper.
I muted everything. Sit till she found some and quickly put them into the toy.

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Now, at first, Furby didn't do anything. He just sat there looking sort of dazed.
They said he had like a slight tortured expression on his face.
But as his son went down and they placed him on a dresser in their room, he began to speak.
It started off as this little warped murmur that had a really deep voice. Hello?
Where am I? Which was pretty eerie because like I said, Furby usually speaks

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Furbish. And that's when he began to whisper over and over and over again.
He started to literally shake on the top of their dresser.
He made so much noise that the grandmother heard it and suddenly ran in asking
what the heck was going on.
She saw this Furby on the shelf and instantly shrieked. She asked them where

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they found it and when they told her it was in the woods.
She scooped it up and ran outside into the night. They watched her run as fast
as she could into the dark forest with the Furby in her arms,
and she came back 10 minutes later trying to catch her breath.
She sternly told them to never touch it ever again.
She told them it belonged to a girl that disappeared years ago,

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and her parents leave it there for her in hopes that she'll find her way back.
They say that the toy calls her name in the night, pleading for her to come home,
and anyone that steals the toy from the forest faces a terrible wrath of bad
luck that plagues their entire family because you should never get in the way
of a glazing toy waiting for its owner to return. Hmm.

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I remember something very faintly like this. I'm not 100% sure it's not a creepypasta.
Mm-hmm. But it's a good story. It's a good story.
And this is from YouTuber Jessie V.
And honestly, I watched a couple of her videos on Furbies and stuff,
And they were entertaining. I thought she did a good job.

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But yeah, I thought that was interesting.
That is a very interesting story.
Do you like the, you never remove a toy grieving for its owner? Yeah.
That's kind of precious. I always thought my toys had personalities.
Oh, yeah. Like every time I accidentally drop one, I'd be like,
I'm so sorry. Oh, totally.
No, I'm still convinced they have energy in them.

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That's why I can't get rid of any of them. I feel guilty as hell.
I do feel guilty when I have to get rid of stuff.
Right so i thought that was an interesting story though i think i liked it it was dramatic,
now this one i'm going to actually turn down a little bit so we can talk over
it but this is supposed to be somebody's video of using a furby with a spirit box,

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and I skipped ahead for some of it is there anyone here right now.
Music.
React to the furby hang on let's try like a furby to make noise and see if we can get,

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korea is there any spirits here with us right now.

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Must be drafty in there.
So I'm not 100% sure these aren't completely staged by this person I've seen
it notice how like oh my god did you hear that And you could definitely tell
it's her whispering kind of thing.

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But, you know, our buddy Becca said that they've used them for trigger objects.
I don't think I could, man. Yeah. Just because they're so unpredictable what they say.
No. It'd be pretty freaky. Because I'm like, people use teddy bears kind of
things to connect with small children kind of thing.

(01:03:07):
Like the music box. Yeah, the music boxes, those kind of things.
I guess part of me is like, well, if a child passed away more recently and would
recognize a Furby, it would make sense to use.
So there is like a practical reason.
Yeah, like we were talking about earlier. I don't think I could handle that

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in the middle of an investigation. All of a sudden the Furby starts talking.
I did look up Becca's story more about it.
And it was just basically very simple.
I lost it like a dork.
Becca said, I was part of a team staying a house, started in basement.

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As we hit the stairs, the kids of Furby was in the corner of the landing,
turns around and starts speaking nonsense words.
Scared the crap out of us. Because that's a lot of these terrifying Furby stories
are, oh, it surprised me and it scared me kind of thing.
But Becca also says, great ghost hunting tool. We have one that we use as a

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trigger object, fun times.
And of course, Becca would be the one to write fun times at the end of something
like that. I was like, wow, that would be so fun.
I could see Becca making me do that at some point. It's just like you would
leave the Furby in another room.
If I heard a Furby going off in the other room, I would panic at any point. Here's a question.

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What's worse, a Furby in the other room or a Furby in the room with you going
on? Well, I think the Furby in the other room would be more scared because they react to stimuli.
Like you, your voice.
Well, they're supposed to. They're supposed to. So I feel like me being in the
room and in front of it, I would not be able to justify that it actually went on and on.

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It could have been like my arm moved a certain way and hit the sensor.
Okay, okay. Versus like if it was in another room where no one was at and was
going off and speaking and being simulated.
I think I would be more scared of that than it being in the room actually with me.
So my next question becomes, is there a weird malfunction in Furbies that make

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it go off in the middle of the night?
Like almost like, oh, you can't be inactive for this long.
Kind of a weird programming thing.
That makes them just automatically come out of hibernation? Yeah,
they just come out of a hibernation for the smallest bit and then they go back to sleep.
That be what's causing these things to go off at 3 a.m or is there always a ghost involved,

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because the fact that it happens so but the
other question i would have is how often is that is
a program thing and maybe if it goes off during the day you're at
work or at school you're not hearing it go off and
like any ghost story we we're always more
prone of fear at night than we are during the day exactly
and there's way more there's still way more ghost activity during the day we

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just look at his normal day-to-day life and miss it
something about the night yeah it was really i really tried to find like we
were talking about the battery thing earlier is there like a small backup power
something in it couldn't find any verification on that is there you know this weird

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program that it has to wake up every five hours or something and do something,
that's a theory i don't know yeah but it's so interesting like part of me really
wants to believe that you know we're not going to always have victorian fun
ghosts they're going to start Start interacting with more modern things.

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One of the things that came up quite a bit.
My buddy Christine mentioned it on the podcast Gru.
And when I mentioned this story to my buddy Laura. She had an experience with this.
But apparently it's a thing that Alexas will randomly demon laugh.

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Really? Yes.
Apparently a very similar thing. So, yeah, I thought it was.
I have one and it's never done that. I hope I never hear it do that.
Do you want to hear it? I guess so. Let's just do it.
Supposedly.

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Yeah. So this is just this weird random laugh.
Oops, I went back too far.
That's so random so it's apparently a thing oh you know what that noise was
freaking bags bags it's your cat goddamn speaking of furbies,

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little evil furry things bigs got locked out of the room because he was being obnoxious,
but he was not podcast ready but laura brought this up too when i was done i'm
like oh you don't have a Furby story, do you? She's like, no, but I have an Alexa one.
So I'm wondering if the next one that I gotta look into is Alexa's doing shit.

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Because there's, there have been weird stories that show up in everything.
That's the next one, I think. Great. I'm going to have to remodel my entire
house because Mike has one in every freaking room.
Now, wait. You're going to go home and it's going to laugh. I will not sleep
tonight if that happens.
Well, I think that's it for the Furby episode.

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Keep an ear out for the next horrible one. So here, have a fun one while we can.
What a nostalgia blast from the past. Right? And rethinking about these little
furry gremlins from childhood.
I'm still terrified of the digital eyes ones.
I didn't even know those existed. I'm glad I haven't even known. No, no idea.

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So maybe we should look up the newest one. No, why are we doing that?
We should not look up the newest one. We're curious people. We are.
It makes me feel happy that, you know, we may not be getting the Victorian ghosts
anymore. We're getting little kids in sweatpants.
Playing with Furbies kind of brings me a little bit of joy. Oh, shit, they're cute.
Oh, my gosh. Okay, I would actually maybe own one.

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They're like, they're rounder. They're little squattier things. They have bigger ears.
And they're fluffy. They're really fluffy. So fluffy. I feel like they have bigger eyes.
They almost look like anime versions of the original Furbies. Like the galaxy. Yeah.

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The dark lord for herbie oh yeah and
that was an that was something i forgot to bring up earlier was when we did
the haunted doll episodes i found haunted furbies on ebay and etsy this time
looking nothing the only ones you would find are like the art balls kind of thing.

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I was really disappointed. But yeah, this is interesting. This apparently is
what a new Furby looks like now.
But kind of cute. I still have a known one. No, fuck no. But cute nonetheless.
I'll have to remember to get. Oh, you would like the galaxy one.
It's a lot of colors. Look at this guy. He has.

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Are these new? I think these are new. Look at him. They're like little squished
ones with huge ears. Right?
Little turbo looking things. Yeah. Interesting.
Furby, Furblets. Furblets. Greeny, Meany, and Maymay. Oh, I take it back. I hate those guys.
But I like these guys. I like these guys whose ears are proportionate.

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But yeah. Oh, only $37 on this one, right?
Oh, it's a pretty purple one. Oh, the ears light up.
Interesting. thing. Huh. That's cute. Okay.
What if it lights up and you can use it as a ghost hunting device?
It's ears light up. Nope. Hate that. All right.
Anyways, we're going to close it down now that we wasted three more minutes

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on looking at any Furbies.
And apparently, I'm honestly shocked they're still making them.
I can't believe they're still around.
This is like a 90s nostalgia. The fact that they've been going to 2023 blows
my mind. Isn't that insane?
But there you go. All right. Say goodbye, Ray. Goodbye, folks.
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Before we go. This story comes from our Pala from the podcast group.
It came in after we had finished up recording, but I still wanted to include it.
Pala writes, So it was deaf between the hours of 1 and 3 a.m.

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The Furby was in the closet and started playing peek-a-boo, which you had to
cover and cover slash close the Furby eyes, and uncover to play.
So this game went on for a good 10 minutes before I took the batteries out because
my younger sisters were so scared.

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Other nights, it would just sing to itself. But the peekaboo was by far the scariest.
So yeah, I don't know. No, I think the peekaboo, because you actually have to
interact with it, I think that
definitely freaks me out more than some of the other stories we had on.

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That's kind of why I wanted to share it.
So, yeah, there you have it. Furbies. Harmless kid's toy or ghost conduit.
Either way, they are some really creepy little creatures. I really enjoyed doing
an episode from the podcast group.

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I'm definitely going to be doing this more because this was so much freaking fun.
And I love hearing from you guys and interacting with everybody.
This, I loved this.
So if you're not already a part of the podcast group, hop on over because it's so much fun. onion.

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Yeah, we're going to be doing more of these.
Honestly, some of the next episodes are a bit rough.
As something coming from me. So getting a break from the dark and just downright
horrible was really necessary for my mental state to continue working on the podcast.

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So I really hoped you liked this one. And you know what? Thank you for listening today.
My Haunted Life podcast is written, researched,
produced, edited, and hosted by me, Angela Hartshorn, and a big, huge,
amazing shout out to our amazing special guest Rain for being on and also bringing

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the wine all of my sources are in the show notes and on the Patreon page make
sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast app so you never miss a thing,
if you are interested in more pictures, videos, and info from this week's episode
make sure to check out the Patreon page page.

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Honestly, I really don't have a lot too much, but I do have the links to all
the Reddit stories and the YouTube videos we watched. All that's in there.
If you like what you hear and want to support the show, please subscribe to
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Honestly, most of the stuff is free, but you know, if you like it,
throw a couple bucks at me.
If you have any other information about today's episode, perhaps maybe another
horrifying Furby encounter.
You know, if we get enough more, maybe we'll do another podcast or just,

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you know, really want to tell me your ghost story, you can email me.
At myhauntedlifepodcast at gmail.com or write me on Facebook,
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I don't know if you guys can hear that, but it just started raining like all freaking get out.
Is it hailing? Sorry, that literally came out of nowhere. was not prepared for that.
Anyways, I actually have an interview tonight with an anonymous friend who really

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wants to tell me his story.
So look for that on a future episode.
Music is by Ghost Stories Incorporated. And that's it for this show.
This is Angela signing off. I'll see you all in two weeks, and until then, stay spooky!

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