What is Momo and why are so many people sharing this creepy image online let's investigate you're watching what's trending
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we can't talk about Momo at all without sharing this image that started the entire thing, but the image is straight-up creepy as
you've been warned this image of a girl with huge eyes and a creepy stretched-out grin began appearing widely on the internet in
Early July it was posted by almighty Sosa zero zero to the creepy
Subreddit on July 10 and within days and new kind of urban legend emerged online more on that in a minute
Let's get this out of the way
There's nothing ghost-like or supernatural about the image itself the first time it appeared
Most of the internet seems to agree is on an Instagram post from Nana ku on August 25th
2016 it's actually a sculpture that appeared in an art exhibition in Japan called ghost gallery 3
Jasper in the underworld in 2016
it's an intentionally creepy ghost-like creature with bird legs created by link factory a
Japanese company that designs creatures like this for film and TV some articles have incorrectly identified
Japanese designer Midori Hayashi as the creator because she also makes terrifying dolls
But she's squashed those rumors on Facebook saying that famous bird is not my work. That's it
Just a creepy-looking statue from Japan and it wasn't called Momo until recently in early
July people started seeing one of these phone numbers posted to Facebook
I know this sounds vague and unhelpful
But that's the case with most urban legends like this
when people search that phone number it appeared only to be connected to accounts on whatsapp a
User going only by the name Momo along with this wide-eyed image of a girl and according to youtuber rain bot
Most people who message Momo don't get any sort of response and that appears to be the case of videos we checked out as well
Some people have tried calling the Momo numbers also with no luck. Now. Here's where it gets super urban legend
Some people most notably Spanish youtuber el rincón de Giorgio claims have received messages from Momo
According to his video momo responded with the messages. I know who you are
This is how you and your parents are going to come to an end
You have little time left and the meatball on top of the creepypasta. Is that Momo?
Might be sending pictures of decapitated kids as well
The fine brothers even had some youtubers message Momo and one of their patented react videos
But the Momo account sent silly messages instead of threatening ones I do and don't want to hear from Momo
Like oMG, let's play hide and seek guys. Oh
She just responded oh my god
They said I'm coming for you, to hunt you. So is there someone on the other end of those Momo whatsapp accounts?
Well, probably is it a ghost though?
Probably not the panic over Momo hit a crescendo this last week as one of the accounts is being blamed
With the suicide of a 12 year old girl in Argentina now according to the police
The girl was planning to upload the act to social media
Somehow in conjunction with what they call the Momo game. The information coming from Argentina is a little bit murky. It's unclear
What any of the messages said or if it was one of those Momo accounts?
She had contacted however
The police believed the girl had spoken to an as yet unknown
Eighteen-year-old whom she met on social media and that this person had encouraged her to commit suicide
authorities throughout the spanish-speaking world are worried that we might have another well challenge or a slender man on our
hands
the Mexican state of Tabasco
Has warned people not to call the numbers on whatsapp as they could encourage you to cause harm to yourself or others
Okay, so who do you think is behind this whole Momo thing? Let us know in the comments below
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