Fears Momo spread to Britain as boy tells friends creature would kill
Fears Momo ‘suicide game’ has spread to Britain after seven-year-old boy tells his school friends doll-like creature would kill them in their sleep
- Momo features a creepy woman with dark hair, protruding eyes and a grin
- The ‘Momo challenge’ is based around WhatsApp and targets young children
- It has previously been linked to the death of a 12-year-old girl in Argentina
- One mother has warned the game may have spread to Manchester
An evil suicide game which encourages youngsters to harm themselves and in some cases even take their own lives has spread to the UK.
Fears the Momo challenge has entered British households come as a seven-year-old boy told his school friends that doll-like creatures would kill them in their sleep.
The game, Momo, features a creepy woman with dark hair, a devilish grin and protruding eyes, who entices children through a WhatsApp account and then sends them images and instruction on how to harm themselves and others.
Momo threatens that if the children don’t do what she says then she will ‘curse them’. Now a concerned British mother has warned parents that the dangerous game may have spread to Manchester, following reports that the death of a 12-year-old girl in Argentina had been linked to the game.
The Momo game on WhatsApp tells children that if they don’t do what she says then she will curse them (stock image)
Momo is a game which has been created based on the creepy character (left) which was originally displayed at Tokyo’s horror Vanilla Gallery under the name ‘Mother Bird’
The worried parent, who asked to remain anonymous said she was ‘deeply alarmed’ when her seven-year-old son’s teacher told her he had been making threats to other pupils at school.
After discussing it with her son, she discovered he had been influenced by the Momo challenge and in a post to the Love Westhoughton Facebook group she revealed the horrendous things that Momo had told him to do.
She said: ‘When I collected him from school the teacher asked to talk to me.
‘She said he had made three kids cry by telling them that ‘Momo was going to go into their room at night and kill them’.
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Reports that the game has spread to the UK come after two children killed themselves after playing the horrifying game
‘When we got home I spoke to him about this and he told me that some kids at school had told him to look at the ‘Momo challenge’ which he did.’
She added: ‘When we watched a video the ‘Momo’ character told him to tell everyone to fear Momo or it will kill him in his sleep. So I have one very frightened little boy and some deep concerns about the kids in his school.
‘Parent controls are as tight as could be and this **** still slips through. So if you have a child it would be well worth it to open up a dialogue about idiots online and try to get ahead of this.’
Following the incident one family blogger said that there needs to be more safeguarding put in place for children using the internet.
Adele Jennings writes the Our Family Life blog and her tips on helping kids stay safe online have been shared by web safety experts Internet Matters.
People visiting the gallery in Tokyo pose for pictures with the creepy ‘Mother Bird’ artwork
The ‘Mother bird’ artwork seems to have spawned the ‘Momo challenge’ which has seen two children take their own lives
She told the Mirror Online: ‘We hold our children’s hand to cross the road because we can see that danger, we cannot see the dangers online.
‘I have an eight-year-old son and a 15-year-old daughter and honestly, I don’t always know what they are getting up to online, but I am learning.
‘We are the first generation of parents to learn about the dangers this new online world can bring. And we don’t have experience of parents before us offering advice as it has never happened before.
‘The online games and social media companies need to do more but as parents we have to find out and learn more about what our children are getting up to while online.
Social media users had previously warned others to not accept chat invitations from Momo
‘Only by talking to them, and knowing how to block and report inappropriate content can we start to make a difference, but we have to do our homework.
Momo was created by Japanese special effects company Link Factory and designed by Midori Hayashi who has no relation whatsoever to the game.
The scary design originally featured at Tokyo’s horror art Vanilla Gallery under the name Mother Bird.
Back in September A 12-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy in Colombia are said to have killed themselves after playing the a suicide challenge game on WhatsApp.
The tragic deaths happened within the space of just 48 hours in the municipality of Barbosa, in the north west Colombian area of Santander.
Local media report that the body of the 16-year-old boy was found first and that it is believed he knew the 12-year-old girl.
He reportedly passed the game Momo game onto her before his death.
Within 48 hours, she too was found dead. It is reported she was found by relatives hanged from a wardrobe.
The two youngsters who died had their phones seized by police, who say they found messages linked with the game.
If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article then you can call the Samaritans on 116 123, alternatively you can visit the website at by clicking here.
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