What Momo is all about and why you don't have to be afraid.
The WhatsApp ghost Momo has already unsettled many people in the summer months. Many young people in particular have been afraid of Momo after receiving a chain letter regarding Momo.
After that, things got a little quiet around Momo; one could assume that the first wave of chain letters had ended. But now the Neue Westfälische , citing police statements, that the Momo chain letter is being sent more frequently again. Reason enough to republish our fact check about Momo.
Don't be afraid of Momo!
[Note: Images of “Momo” not pixelated in the article]
There are different versions of the chain letter about Momo. This chain letter sounds something like this:
at midnight tonight and watch you sleep then send this message to 15 contacts.
You do not believe me? Angelina 11 thought the message was fake and didn't send it to anyone else. During the night she heard noises from the corner of her room. She wanted to take a look but suddenly something ran towards her. The next morning she was found dead in her bed.
Tim 15 sent it Message only to 6 people the next morning he woke up with a leg eaten off and an arm cut off
Linda 13 sent the message to everyone today she found her true love and lives with her boyfriend in a modern villa
If you don't continue this message “You know what’s going to happen, so be careful and send them on.”


"You can't allow Momo to write to you twice in a row, you won't have to be repetitive, you can only fail once, if you fail twice you will disappear from the planet without leaving trace ".
You can't repeat yourself. You can only make one mistake, if you fail twice, you will disappear from this planet without leaving a trace." In addition, Momo's picture was sent.
The origin
A picture of Momo was first seen on the Reddit platform on July 10, 2018 . The comments below were puzzling over who or what it was; at the time, the image could not yet be found in Google's reverse image search.

ReignBot 's YouTube channel posted about strange WhatsApp messages that seemed to come from "Momo". These messages usually consist of threats (“I know where you live”) and disturbing images. The numbers have area codes from Japan, Mexico and Colombia, which doesn't mean much since such numbers can also be faked ("spoofing"), and "Momo" mostly seems to communicate in Spanish.
Screenshots! We want screenshots!
And that's where we hit a limit. Although a lot is said about “Momo”, there are no actual screenshots of the WhatsApp conversations with her, at most a few small dialogues in Spanish. If she responds to our message, we will definitely update the article.
And who is that now?
As far as the telephone numbers are concerned, there are probably a lot of copycats behind them who are taking advantage of the Momo hype to spread horror. The WhatsApp message spreading via text is pretty clearly a copy of the Teresa Figaldo story . Things only get more interesting when you look at where the picture of “Momo” actually comes from.
Some anime and manga fans suspect that this is a statue of Tsuyu Asui aka “Froppy” from the manga and anime “Boku no Hero Academia”.
Those fans are right at least in one point: “Momo” actually comes from Japan. You can see the head of a statue that is on display in the Vanilla Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, and which was nicknamed “Momo” by visitors. Numerous photos show that visitors enjoy being photographed with her.
And what is this statue supposed to represent?
A so-called Yokai. Yokai are figures from Japanese folk belief who are usually supposed to fulfill a moral purpose. For example, there is a Yokai that is just a giant foot that appears at night if you don't clean your apartment. You then have to clean your foot so that it doesn't crush you.
That statue is apparently based on a yokai named Ubume or Ubumetori . This Yokai, whose literal translation is "child-snatching bird", flies around at night in the form of a bird (often depicted with a human head) and checks on laundry that has been hanging on the clothesline overnight. He then smears this laundry with poisonous blood, but sometimes he also kidnaps small children.

Conclusion
The text message is one of those chain letters designed to send chills.
The text sounds very frightening, especially for children, which is why parents should talk to their child about it calmly and take it seriously. The pictures of that “Momo”, which are also circulating on Facebook, are of a statue in a Japanese art exhibition.
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