Amber Alert scares Texas with reports of Chucky doll abduction
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) Rest assured, “Chucky” is not on the loose.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has apologized after mistakenly issuing an Amber Alert that said the killer doll featured in the 1988 horror film “Child’s Play” was a suspect in the kidnapping of his 5-year-old son, Glen Ray, who was featured in “Seed of Chucky.”
The emergency alert described Chucky as a 3-foot, 1-inch-tall doll wearing “blue denim overalls with multi-colored striped long sleeve shirt wielding a huge kitchen knife.”
The alert was mistakenly sent out three times last week to Amber Alert subscribers. The agency said it was a test malfunction.
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Every once in a while, reality is stranger than fiction. More often than not, you can trust reports of supernatural entities, such as possessed dolls, to be rooted in the latter. However, that wasnât the case for some residents of Texas who recently received an Amber alert that featured a pair of demented dolls from the
Child s Play franchise.
On Friday, January 29, the Texas Department of Public Safety accidentally sent out an Amber Alert for Chucky of
Childâs Play fame, as well as Glen Ray, Chuckyâs son in the franchise. Check out the full alert, which describes both in more detail: