A creepy-looking giant Halloween puppet that was tossed in the trash and somehow wound up Massachusetts police station has been reunited with its owner — who is now vowing to keep it forever.
The giant smiling redheaded animatronic doll named “Bobby Strings” randomly appeared at the Stoneham Police Department, prompting a concerned Facebook post.
“If this belongs to you — or if you recognize it from your nightmares — please contact us to arrange pickup,” the department wrote on May 26.
Over 200 comments poured in, with terrified users calling it a “demon doll” and “pretty scary s–t.”
“Looks haunted to me,” one wrote.
“I would put it in a cell at night handcuffed,” another added.
“It looks like it clawed its way out of the very deep grave,” someone else said.
The puppet was reunited with its owner, Billy Dalton, two days later.
The 38-year-old dad explained that he threw out the Spirit Halloween decoration on May 23 and has no idea who brought it to the police station.
When the department published the Facebook post, he was out of town.
“We were actually on a vacation down in the Cape,” he told People.
“My dad was staying at my house while we were away and said people kept coming by my house and asking if the decoration the police had online was ours. It was wild to see it go from the trash to a local celebrity.”
Dalton, who received Bobby Strings as a gift from his father, still cannot explain how the doll got out of his trash and into the police station
“Maybe it is haunted and didn’t want to leave the house,” he mused.
He also promised to never get rid of it again.
“He’s here to stay now,” he said.
