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When my oldest daughter was about 2-4 years old, she would watch this
claymation kids show called 'JoJo's Circus'. Jojo was a young female
clown. My daughter had a stuffed doll of Jojo that had a speaker inside
and when you squeezed different parts of her she would say different
things. She would sing songs, repeat shapes, colors, numbers etc. as a
sort of educational toy. If you were playing with her and didn't touch
her for a minute or two, she would say "let's play!". If you *did* play
with her, she would start back up. If you didn't, she would shut off.

As my daughter got a little older, she lost interest in Jojo. So the
doll ended up in a plastic tub in the garage....All stuff to give away,
sell in a garage sale, whatever... Our master bedroom was right above
the garage and one night my wife woke me up and said that she heard
someone talking. It sounded like it was coming from outside. I listened
and sure enough I faintly heard what sounded like a child laughing and
talking, but it sounded like it was in the house (downstairs).

We listened to it for a minute or two, then I decided to go investigate.
I looked out the windows, didn't see anything unusual. I made my way
downstairs and heard the voice coming from the garage. As I neared the
garage door, I recognized the voice as the Jojo doll. I paused by the
door and listened. It sounded like someone was frantically pushing the
buttons...not letting her finish an entire song or complete a phrase. It
would say "squ, squ, squ, square!" And "thr, thr, thr, three!" Like
someone was just mashing the buttons.

I thought maybe there was some sort of animal attacking the doll or
maybe the batteries were just running low.... (but for the record, when
the batteries would get low in that doll it would get real slow
sounding. It wasn't doing that). So I grabbed a softball bat out of my
bat bag that I had in our mud room.

I paused for a second thinking that I was about to get into a fight with
a racoon or something. I pounder on the door a little bit to scare off
whatever it was, but the sounds persisted. So I took a deep breathe,
opened the door and hit the lights.

Jojo was sitting there (sitting up) on top of the plastic bin that she
was in. The lid was sealed closed. She completed her phrase and went
silent. I stood there for a few minutes still inside the house just
looking around. It was silent. She wasn't making anymore noises....I
didn't hear anything moving....silence.

I saw her *the moment* I opened the door. Nothing was close to her...

I walked out into the garage and started poking around rattling things,
trying to make any animals move. Nothing. Then Jojo said "Play with
me!". I picked her up...There was no marks, so saliva, no signs that an
animal had been tampering with it. I opened the plastic tub that she was
in and everything looked fine. No sign of animals.

Weird.

I took her out and put her in the trunk of my car so she wouldn't wake
us up again. I told my wife it was just Jojo and that her batteries must
be running low. I asked her if she or our daughter had gotten her out of
the box, and she said no. I spared her the details because she would
have never slept in that house again.

But it was really weird. It really sounded like something/someone was
playing with that doll. And the moment I opened the door, it stopped.
Was the doll malfunctioning? Was there an animal of some sort? Was there
a ghost kid playing with it? To this day, I have no idea.

As a little background, I am fairly certain that no one has ever died in
that house. It was built in 1981 and my wife was childhood friends with
the girl that lived there when it was first built. She is still alive,
and we bought the house from her divorced mother. We were the second
owners.

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