unexplained-events:

Momo

The sculpture was created by the Japanese special effects company Link Factory (Midori Hayashi) and is called Mother Bird . The art piece was displayed at Tokyo’s horror art Vanilla Gallery. It is an image of a woman with strange distorted features and a bird’s body. It became an urban legend on the Spanish-speaking web and eventually came to be known as the “Momo Challenge,” a suicide challenge game. Neither Hayashi or Link Factory are associated with the Momo challenge.

The legend is that Momo is a cursed Whatsapp user associated with the number 

+81 3 4510 2539 (use caution and use at your own risk, we personally have not contacted this number). Anyone who sends a message to the number ends up receiving disturbing photographs, gets their personal information put online, or gets invited to do the “Momo Challenge”. The people behind the challenge target vulnerable teenagers and threaten them. The victims are convinced to perform bizarre life-threatening tasks, following the infamous footsteps of other horror-based games like Blue Whale.

Till now, the Momo challenge has been linked to the death of a 12-year old Argentinean girl as per a report by Buenos Aires Times. Following this, the Cops in Argentina are searching for the “adolescent with whom she exchanged those messages”.