“He’s trying to climb the counters to get it” so this toy started making death threats and you kept it? This is the kind of person who died first in a horror movie
She needs to hide it somewhere else when the kid isn’t paying attention! She wants her son to stop saying the phrase so she keeps making it say it in front of the kid?? Moms a little weird
May be the toy recorded the first words it heard from the running TV in the background (coincidentally a crime thriller?). Look how EVP devices behave and what psychologists tell about people interpreting the recordings.
I like how she says she doesn’t want her son to hear the phrase yet she continued to press the Elmo in the presence of her son many times to show the news crew.
My younger brother had a furby that talked like that. The thing had a major attitude problem. It even turned on one time with no batteries in it. It was like something straight out of a horror movie.
@@Spartan_Rage7 but I always heard it "yeah,James" and nothing else to the point where I was wondering what the hell is the threat they are talking about. maybe they misheard it and thought it was a threat ?
@@AlPootis Watch the video again. The doll is supposed to be one that can remember names. Why people always attach dirty or sinister messages to Elmo toys is beyond me, except that the idea of a kid-friendly character saying them makes such urban legends irresistible.
LOL I was wondering if maybe they'd been watching Kenan & Kel: You know, that episode where someone introduces Kel to James 🤔 "James, Kel" "Kel, James"
I think the doll was saying "Hell, James," because the disc was broken, I believe it's the cause of it being interrupted during the "Hello, James" quote.
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 it’s a cheap Elmo toy. It’s more believable the toy just broke and is making a sound that vaguely sounds like it’s threatening to kill someone then some random mom taking time out of her problably busy day to reprogram a kids toy AND somehow get audio of Elmo threatening to kill her son to use. Sure, she could’ve used some voice mixing software but this was the 90s. People are retarded if they believe it’s more likely someone would reprogram a kids toy in the 90s over a kids toy just being a shitty kids toy.
My theory when this came out i think is that it was a Voice box malfunction like when they said that It had no battery i bet she hit the voice box so then the string in the voice would go forward not backward so when it says "hi james" its sounds like "kill james"
@@grovnargaming2387 There’s no need to be like that. There’s been some unfortunate politicizing of Elmo and other characters recently but the boy does not view him through that
Put it on 0.25 and at @1:24 and it's saying tell James, not kill james. The toy batteries probably needed changing for a long time and plus the toy might be mess up bc kid's always throwing their toys around.
Fun Fact: there's an Elmo potty training book that has the feature where if you press a certain button with a picture make sound but one of the buttons was supposed to have Elmo say "Let's try and use the potty" but some copies most likely due to a malfunction has Elmo say "HA HA HA who wants to die?".
Reporter: "Elmo doll she bought for her two year old is now making death threats." Me: chuckles Reporter:" she's not laughing" Me: laughs hysterically 💀💀💀
I remember having one of those as a kid. My mother said that the Elmo doll would go off every night going "It's time to play *cue my name here* " and even when she took out the batteries it was still doing it. I'm glad I didn't miss it lol
😆 We had a doll like that: a clown named "Happy Hal" but the laugh did sound possessed! 😳 One day when it was going off by itself, my mom finally took the voice box out (which we later used to terrorize each other) 🤣
Now if somebody will do something about the laughing baby dolls that are always switched on. They really creep you out somebody could use them for a car or burglar alarm just not late at night on the toy aisle you are sweeping up.
If my grandma ever saw toys on the news and be explained about darkness/evilness types,she would be like: *alright throw those toys out,I don't care if they ain't bad*
Reminds me of The Twilight Zone episode where the step-father was getting death threats from his step-daughter's "Talky Tina" doll! I never would've thought that Elmo would be as evil!
I never believed this story at all. I wonder if she sent it back so they could test it and determine how it was actually done. If it had to be programmed by the parent to say James, they could have said "kill james" as a name. I'd love to know what they toy manufacturer learned. Was is it done by a consumer or a disgruntled employee. An employee would never know where the doll ended up to put James name in there. Plus, if the batteries were completely dead and taken out, you would think it would erase the data and make someone enter a new name.
For the people wondering what it said, he said “kill james!” But don't worry on the end they figured out it had a chip and it actually says hello james
the issue in all this is elmo didn't say kill james , or anything bad, that lady heard what she wanted to hear, its the result of the makers cutting corners, so naturally the audio is very poor because it was made very cheap to make
Melissa: "Yeah, the Elmo Knows Your Name doll that you produced is making concerning death threats towards my toddler." Fisher Price: *"It is what it is."*
After the battery switch, Elmo’s program for word selection gets messed up. I have a feeling that was why the doll began to say that phrase. Toys are supposed to function normally with new batteries, not mess up the program for word selection.
