A man working at a Toys R Us in McAllen, TX shares a frightening story about the store location.
“I’ve actually waited to share one of my Toys R Us stories. Well, I did the graphics and promotions for the store, so I had a little office behind the children’s clothes. In the room there are stairs to a second level of the store where we keep the extra shelves. I was usually the only one besides managers allowed back there. Sometimes I would hear footsteps and things shuffling around right above my office. I would go upstairs to check and there would be no one there, but things felt moved around.
At this time, I didn’t know the site was haunted, since I was a new hire. I asked some of the people who had worked there for a long time. Apparently, the office and the stairs weren’t always covered by walls. A long time ago a little boy was playing on the stairs and fell down halfway, the stairs were steel, so he was hurt. He passed out at the store was taken to the hospital where he later died, but the rumor was that he died in the store, but the company reported he was breathing when he was picked up. So, there is a ghost of a little boy that hangs out on the stairs and upstairs. If you hang out around the door hidden in apparel, you will hear the sound of the stairs being walked on by little feet.
Another “fun” thing that would happen was the baby aisle on the girl’s side. These dolls are little baby’s that react with motion. They either laugh or cry when someone passes in front of them. The scary part was when the aisle was being stocked, without anyone even close to them, all the babies would start laughing for no reason. You sometimes didn’t even have to be in the aisle, if you were even in the next aisle alone you would hear them. During the overnight shifts, it was a tradition to have the newbies stock girls by themselves. They would be left alone and would either end up not mentioning it but making some excuse to work on another department, or they would go to a team leader and say someone was playing a prank on them. It was never a prank. After it happened to the current manager when he first got hired, he made the rule that when people are stocking girls, it had to be done in groups.
Here’s what another employee had to say about it.
“Toys r Us in McAllen was my first job, seasonal for Christmas employment. We would stay till 2 in the morning restocking and recovering. One night or rather morning, I heard a ring around the Rosie’s doll going off in the stock room. She is not motion activated. In order for it to activate you have to hold both her hands. No one was in the stockroom.” – Julie
I remember Toy R Us was a place where I took my daughter and nieces once a week when I was in charge of babysitting We stayed there for hours becuse they loved the section where the leap pads and books, motion toys, and Thomas the Train section was at, for them it was so much fun to be surrounded by all the toys and new gadgets, one day my daughter and niece were playing hide and seek inside and I was monitoring them, my daughter ran to me and said something like hey can that little boy play so I never thought anything of it after all its a kids store I told her if it’s okay with his parents then yeah sure, she goes back near the restroom area and opens this door yells something and closes the door she continued playing and signaling to someone to hide I was little confused as to whom she was signaling, a while later the worker came out of that door and told me that the camera had captured my daughter opening an only access employee area, i explained to her what she told me and asked her to come and tell her friend to come, my dauther repeted the same story and said that he had left already play in another part and that he knew all the best hiding spaces (at the time i did not know anything about this story) but the worker looked pale she asked how my dauther was able to open that door if its only opens for emplooyes and she said oh he was holding it while i asked my mom if he could play hide and seek with us, but in the security video she said it only shows my dauther opening the door and yelling “its okay u can play” to this day i never quite figured anything of it, and she does remeber bits of it still ( she was 4 at the time) but makes me wonder if it was the boy from the story
anyone got more stories and experiences, i’ve searched it up online to see if i can find the case of the boys death and found nothing related so i’m curious to know if it’s just a hoax or if he really passed there
This is creepy yet adventurous, well I like frightening and creepy place like this. I will visit here until it close. Sounds interesting huh.
I’ve actually worked at the toys r us in mcallen next to the mall and was a seasonal worker we would get out by 11pm and then I would go back in at 12pm till 8 am so we could restock and the night was pretty quiet and calm nothing really happened there and also in any room.
When I was kid my family went to that store. I was in the same aisle looking for toys for my sister ,never see a doll that laughed befor untill i heard them all laugh, I thought it was funny. And this guy work there I was ganna tell that the dolls were doing that and that I was sorry for marking them all laught when I passed by. He had a weird face like if he was mad but at the same time spooket and happy that I heard the same thing. I just walk away from him, and I think I heard him say” don’t leave” Never went back to that store again growing up until now.
I have experience in the paranormal and ghosts.. spirits of passed children get trapped in toys and manifest themselves..so when you hear toys turning on its kids who are telling you they are there….just bless the place and pray so spirit can go to rest..
Toys r Us in McAllen was my first job- seasonal for Christmas employment. We would stay till 2 in the morning restocking and recovering. One night or rather morning, I heard a ring around the Rosie’s doll going off in the stock room. She is not motion activated. In order for it to activate you have to hold both her hands. No one was in the stockroom.
Omg I knew it!