'My wife made me take family soft toy to public bin – she's terrified it's cursed'

Tales of cursed dolls are fairly commonplace in the horror movie genre - Chucky being a prime example - but a Brit was left in fear that she was living with one in reality.

In a post shared to Reddit, a man revealed his wife had made him remove one of their plush toys from their house, believing it was indeed cursed. The man took to the CasualUK subreddit to share a snap of the somewhat fiendish looking female character, which was sat in his car ready to be disposed of.

"This morning my wife made me take this creepy doll to a public bin as she thinks it’s cursed," he explained. The doll's angry looking eyes were clearly too much for her, as he added: "She was dead serious too. Think we’ve watched too many horrors."

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It prompted one person to quip: "You should go back and get it. Wait a few weeks and leave it in the house somewhere." The man laughed off the suggestion, however, responding: "If I wanted a divorce I’d show her my daily meal deal receipts!"

Another husband detailed a similar creepy tale, meanwhile, revealing: "When I bought my home, we inherited these scary AF looking flower pot men in our back garden and they creeped the hell out of my wife.

"So without hesitation, every evening when she went for a bath, I went out back and moved them forward an inch or two for about a week. Needless to say the entertainment value of freaking her out was worth it."

Elsewhere, another Reddit user suggested it was "irresponsible" knowing the doll could soon end up in someone else's possession. "If it's cursed, wouldn't chucking it in a public bin be extremely irresponsible?" they asked. "Now someone else can find it and do evil cursed doll stuff to them. Does your wife want that on her conscience!?

While someone told the man he now faces one of two scenarios. "You’ve got 2 options here chief," they began. "1 - it never returns from the public bin so it’s not cursed and just a doll. 2 - after binning it and you think it’s gone for good it turns up on your doorstep with a note in child’s writing saying 'Why don’t you want to play with me?' then it is 100% cursed and you should contact your local rabbi/priest person to exorcise it."