A five-year-old boy’s mother claims he is terrified to leave her side after a creepy ‘Momo’ character popped up while he watched Peppa Pig and said his family would all be murdered.
Harry Giblin, from Withernsea, near Hull, was left sobbing when the ghoulish female with distorted features and straggly hair said she would kill his relatives.
For more than 24 hours the emotional five-year-old kept the threat secret from his mother Sophie – fearing it could come true – until the ordeal was teased out of him.
Ms Giblin said that this incident after school meant that ‘for the past few weeks he has been terrified to leave my side’.
She added: ‘He sat down and told me he’d seen Momo several times, while watching YouTube videos.He told me it was a secret, and that the videos told him he was a naughty boy, and not to tell me because if they did it would hurt his family’.
Harry appears to have been the victim of a sick prankster who spliced the evil character into a Peppa Pig episode and put it on YouTube, although the video streaming giant said today it hasn’t found ‘recent evidence’ of the disturbing challenge.
Momo has been linked to the death of a girl from Argentina, a boy in France and another boy in Belgium, however, there has been no link to suicides in the UK, charities have said.
Despite complaints for scores of parents Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom said charities were telling her there was ‘no confirmed evidence’ Momo had led any children in the UK to self-harm.
Sophie Giblin says her son Harry was left traumatised and fearing his family would be murdered after a ‘Momo’ doll popped up while he watched Peppa Pig on YouTube
Momo is a game which has been created based on the creepy character (left) which was originally displayed at Tokyo’s horror CDmxopox Vanilla Gallery under the name ‘Mother Bird’ – and now it is reportedly being used to terrify children into harming themselves