Toys making noise when nobody is around to play with them is a pretty common “ghost” encounter. We had one ourselves with a Sesame Street Ernie doll that would randomly say “I feel great” in an empty room , in the middle of the night, etc. caught it on video once triggering with the doll just lying on the floor.

Turns out when battery voltage gets low (but not yet dead) this can happen in a circuit. I swapped out the batteries and our ghost never came back. Not surprised to hear it happening in a store where stock just sits there for a long time.

Pretty creepy though to hear that when you are lying in bed

>I learned about the haunted Toys R Us the same way most other people did. I saw it on the TV show That’s Incredible.

This made me feel young again and part of the Zeitgeist. Someone else thinks of "That's Incredible!" and "Real People" all the time as well!

Sounds kind of like they may have had their own Roofman.

I used to work for Toys R Us, so here's a random anecdote no one asked for. When you called the store and were put on hold there would obviously be hold music. The music that played? It was the same music that was playing in the store. I remember calling in one day to get my shift assignment and the music was super weird, I told me coworker and he was like "yeah that's the music they are blasting in here, it's awful."

I distinctly remember this episode as a kid and it was so good. It took a safe space, a toy store, and made it so creepy.

It was Yanni Yonson who got me fired as a Christmas Temp for aligning the plushies to mount each other. It was him, I swear. 17 year old me thought the plushie orgy was hilarious.

The manager not so.

I got rehired due to the lack of staff and got put on entertainment. Guitar Hero had just came out and I got called up by their parents complaining for not letting their son win.

The store was on the skirts of a rich area which encouraged a lot of rich entitled parents.

Other antics were in the bike isle where I let a kid ride a bike who then rode it in to the board-game shelf.

I didn't get rehired the next Christmas. Good times.

Maybe it was the ghost of Toys R Us Future (venture capital)

Old World: Here is a haunted castle built a thousand years ago.

The USA: Here's a haunted toy shop that opened ten years ago.

Jesus that looks super ominous.

I remember That’s Incredible.

I was a young teenager, full of knowledge and a sense of what’s cool. I was chatting with my neighbor, another kid about the same age and temperament.

My buddy’s dad, sensing an opportunity to bond with the teenagers, approached to tell us about last nights episode of the show ( which he knew we liked ). Marshaling all of his cool factor, he walked up and asked if we had seen “This is Incredible”.

We howled like hyenas.

Now I want to goto the haunted REI