# Scary toys **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 24, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087 "2025-06-24T18:06:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/41 "2025-06-25T15:47:02Z")
We used to have one of these horrid Time-Out dolls around the house. I don’t know where it came from, nor where it went. If you haven’t seen one, it’s like a country kitsch décor doll that is posed in a corner like a little kid being punished (someone thinks that’s cute?) If you turn one around, you’ll find it has no face. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUSGyZqF_u1A46RaD42yVIsbh7mnIWIjvhJA&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUSGyZqF_u1A46RaD42yVIsbh7mnIWIjvhJA&s) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/42 "2025-06-25T15:55:55Z")
AAAIIIIIIII!!! Make it go away, Mom!!! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/43 "2025-06-25T15:58:28Z")
Your description reminds me of Lafcadio Hearn’s [_Mujina_](https://www.trussel.com/hearn/mujina.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/44 "2025-06-25T16:11:32Z")
I’m not sure if this counts, but I buy realistic rubber snakes to keep the birds of my tomatoes and raspberries. Every spring, I make sure to warn the lawn guys about them. They always send the new guys around that side of the house. I just wish the new guys would put it back after they try to kill it. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/45 "2025-06-25T16:12:28Z")
Or Charlie X making the laughing crew woman’s face go away. 😳 ---
**Author:** ![Mortimus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mortimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortimus)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/46 "2025-06-25T16:30:23Z")
I had an aunt who had a knack for gifting weird but very cool, artsy stuff. When I was about 8 or so she gave me a Punch & Judy style hand puppet. Its garish face totally creeped me out. I didn’t even take it out of the original box. It gave me nightmares so I stuck it in my bedroom closet and over time forgot about it. Mom cleaned out my old bedroom closet after I went off to college. She saved the puppet and its box. She’d hide the puppet in plain sight so I’d be sure to stumble upon it whenever I visited. It moved around over time, like Elf on a Shelf. It was a running gag for years. I ended up with the puppet, finally corralled and put back in its box after my parents passed. I wanted to keep up the tradition in our house but the puppet creeped my wife out so badly she wouldn’t have it. So 60 years later it’s back in its original box buried again under a pile of crap in my bedroom closet. …unless it found its way out of its box again. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/47 "2025-06-25T16:36:05Z")
I wasn’t scared of any toys, and my son hasn’t been so far (he’s 8). Although when we stayed at my Aunt’s house for the annular eclipse two years ago, he asked me to turn all the antique dolls in the guest room around. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/48 "2025-06-25T17:40:41Z")
Oh, very nice! “Kids, wanna hear a bedtime story?” ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/49 "2025-06-25T17:42:54Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > We used to have one of these horrid Time-Out dolls around the house. I don’t know where it came from, nor where it went. If you haven’t seen one, it’s like a country kitsch décor doll that is posed in a corner like a little kid being punished (someone thinks that’s cute?) If you turn one around, you’ll find it has no face. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUSGyZqF_u1A46RaD42yVIsbh7mnIWIjvhJA&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUSGyZqF_u1A46RaD42yVIsbh7mnIWIjvhJA&s) That is fucking terrifying. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/50 "2025-06-25T19:13:07Z")
Jack-in-the-box. I also hate the adult version: biscuits in a tube. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/51 "2025-06-25T19:44:36Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gWEu90NbFlQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Gorzak - Tyco (1993-1994)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWEu90NbFlQ) I bought the last Gorzak the store had. He was kinda scary in at least one (unintended?) way. When ordered to “swing your axe,” Gorzak’s up-and-down hand motion made it look like he was jerking off while HOLDING THE AXE! Some random YT folks appear to have recognized Gorzak’s charisma and made a short, very amateurish and awful film starring him. PLEASE NOTE: This movie is Not Recommended for your viewing pleasure - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn3aQS7UTNA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn3aQS7UTNA) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/52 "2025-06-25T19:49:27Z")
My mom recently made some “sleepy-wakey” dolls for a charity. They’re dolls with two faces, one on each side of the head, one with eyes closed, the other with them open, so you can put the doll in a crib one way to be “sleepy” and the other way to be “wakey”. I’m not sure where that rates on the creepiness scale. I don’t find it particularly so, but my results are not typical. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/53 "2025-06-25T19:50:34Z")
The spawn of Zaphod Beeblebrox no doubt… ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/54 "2025-06-25T21:54:52Z")
When I was 4 or 5 I had a favorite teddy bear. One day it went missing, mom suggested I look under the bed. I peaked under the covers and there it was. As I reached for it, it jumped up and backed up against the wall and inched it’s way down to the corner. I ran to the living room and had my parents discard it for me. I know now, of course, such things can’t happen but I remember it as clear as day. Even now, as I write this, I can feel the hair on the back of neck stand up. You can’t trust teddy bears. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/55 "2025-06-25T22:18:10Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I know now, of course, such things can’t happen Unless, of course, one’s sibling has recently gotten ahold of some fishing line. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/56 "2025-06-25T22:36:53Z")
We put an inflatable snake in our front garden one year, after I’d planted strawberries and the birds got them just as them were ripening. It worked - but scared the hell out of ME, a half hour after I put it out there. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/57 "2025-06-25T22:58:32Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > We used to have one of these horrid Time-Out dolls around the house. I don’t know where it came from, nor where it went. If you haven’t seen one, it’s like a country kitsch décor doll that is posed in a corner like a little kid being punished (someone thinks that’s cute?) If you turn one around, you’ll find it has no face. I’d be scarier if it had a face. My in-laws have one in their house, and it didn’t take me long to ask about the creepy kid in the corner. My wife couldn’t believe I said that. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/58 "2025-06-25T23:00:34Z")
What did the in-laws say about their creepy taste in stuff? Did you gently chsstise your wife later in private? She was out of line IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/59 "2025-06-25T23:01:07Z")
I like to paint miniatures for games like Dungeons & Dragons because it’s a normal think for a mean nearing 50 to do in his spare time. Anyway, I have a bunch of “giant” spiders scaled for 28mm figures that look like really nice sized real spiders. When my sister moved into her new house, I took a few of those spiders and hid them around the house so she could find them. I got to hear her scream as she found one of them before I could make my exit. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/60 "2025-06-25T23:17:12Z")
I’ve seen the lifelike “ReBorn” dolls like that. I’ve also seen pictures of actual babies, stillborn conjoined twins, who looked like that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087.md?page=4)