Things That Go Bump In The Night
May 27th, 2008 · Notebook ·
I was bouncing around the blogosphere when I came across a post at Reasonable Kansans. She talks about how Furbies scare her little one husband.
I have my own horror story about those evil creatures of the toy business. I swear these things come off the line possessed! Anyway, my grandmother bought us (all the kids) all Furbies once. I think we got em for Christmas. So we played with ‘em and taught them how to swear and everything. Yes we were naughty children, I won’t deny that. I still am. Hehe.
Well I brought mine home and sat it on my dresser and forgot all about it. I guess that was the wrong thing to do because one night it woke up (I’m not kidding) and said “Feed Me”. I almost shit myself. It had never said anything until that night. I’m a light sleeper so I would have heard it! But I threw it in the closet and forgot about it again. A few nights later, I hear “Hungry”. That was it. I was done. I threw it out with the trash the next day. I have never been more scared in my life.
So yes. Furbies are the devil reincarnated. In my opinion anyway. Do you have your own Furbie horror story?
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May 27th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
lol…funny story. Those furbies are bizzarre little things.
Oh, btw, it was my husband who had the nightmare. Yeah, a grown man scared to death of Furbies…lol.
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May 27th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Oh my good HEAVENS. My grandmother bought Furbies for my younger siblings and the things were TERRIFYING. I completely blocked whatever it was they were saying, but I know they spent their first night in our bread drawer while we all slept on another floor…and I never saw them again.
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May 27th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
When I was younger my grandmother did a similar thing: bought Furbies for me and my 2 sisters, even though only one of my sisters ever said anything about wanting one. While I wasn’t quite terrified of them, they were just a tad creepy. I know the batteries in one of them died or something and its eyes got stuck open.
I don’t think we ever played with them enough to get them to speak anything but ‘furbish.’ I can clearly recall their little mechanical voices though…. “Hungry.” “Whooooaaaaaooo.” “Mah, way lo coco (or whatever the heck it was in furbish…)”
May 27th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Mine isn’t a horror story, but an amusing one. I used to work in a bank, and we thought it would be funny to put a Furbee on the ATM machine (the back is in a closet, the front is on the outside of the building). So everytime someone would use the machine, they’d hear the Furbee making random comments! lmao We had more than one customer come in, to figure out what was talking in the ATM!!
May 27th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Ohmigosh I got scared reading your post.
Never like the things myself.
Take care
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May 27th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
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May 27th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
That was a bit scary . thank god it never happened this was with me otherwise i would have stop sleeping due to fear.
May 28th, 2008 at 7:21 am
I’ve never had them in my house. Of course with a 9 year old boy I guess I never had to worry about them entering this house. LOL But I was looking at them once at Wal-Mart or something and just looking at them creeped me out. UGH they just have this eery creepy scary look about them. And after reading your story - yikes! I’m glad I’ve never dealt with them on a more ‘personal’ level than looking at them on the store shelf.
May 28th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Now I know I won’t buy one for my daughter! That was scary!
May 28th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
It’s not a Furbie story but I used to have this doll that could talk if you pressed the hand. One night I was asleep but it started thundering outside, and I was still half asleep when I heard ‘Mummy will you hug me’ from the storage room next to my bedroom (I slept in the attic). No need to say I was scared, but the next day after some research it just turned out there was a big box on the hand of the doll and the lightning had temporarily charged the batteries…
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May 28th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
haha, furbies do kind of remind me of gremlins :/
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May 29th, 2008 at 5:40 am
How pathetic am I that I had to google Furbies before commenting? I don’t know if they ever got big here in Italy but I seem to have missed the whole phenomonen. And I have to admit that I am pretty glad that I did - one word - creepy!!
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May 29th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I’ve never had one, nor will I ever get one. Just looking at those freaks me out!!
May 29th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
same as Steph, they just freak the heck out of me!
but your story is funny, though! 
May 30th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Holy crap!! Im alone right now and that story freaked me out!
May 30th, 2008 at 2:47 am
Ha, furbies. I had one of the early ones. I didn’t actually want it but received one anyway. Like yours, mind used to randomly say things (especially in the middle of the night).
It was nothing a screwdriver and removing the batteries couldn’t fix
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May 30th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I would have lost my grip! Yikes!
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May 30th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Thanks so much. I appreciate your kindness!
Oh, I remember furbies. I remember I used to get creeped out by them so much. Now that I think about it, I actually have one sitting right next to my computer…
May 30th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
No, because I swore I would never buy those scary looking things for any of my kids! I feel for you, after I saw gremlins I had enough bad dreams.
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