Mum-To-Be Spots Gremlin On Her Baby Scan

As fans of 80s critter movies will attest, those pesky Gremlins get everywhere.

So 31-year-old mum-to-be Jayne Siner was slightly perturbed to find that there was one on a her baby scan.

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It was spotted after Jayne’s husband took the scan to work, where a workmate saw the uncanny likeness in the shadows. See below if you haven’t spotted it.

Of course, the couple then gave the unborn child the nickname Gizmo.

“It was a bit of an ‘oh my God’ moment when it was pointed out to me, and my bump became known as Gizmo,” she told the Liverpool Echo.

“It became a bit of a joke that there was a gremlin in there with my baby.

“My friend told me it looked like a teddy and was comforting my baby, but we didn’t really take it seriously.

“My mum would message me to make sure I was staying away from water after midnight or it may multiply like in the film.”

Pleasingly, it appeared that there were no ill-effects of the baby sharing its haven with a Mogwai.

The baby girl was born, but given the more orthodox name Ivy-belle.

Joe Dante’s smash hit horror comedy – produced by Steven Spielberg, came out in 1984, with Zach Galligan playing Billy Peltzer, a teenager who is gifted the strange creature by his inventor dad for Christmas, after he happens upon it in an antique shop in Chinatown.

He is told the three rules to effective Mogwai care (never expose it to bright light, never let it touch water, and never, ever feed it after midnight), but things quickly go awry.

A second, more comic sequel, 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch’, followed in 1990, featuring the late Christopher Lee, but unlike its box office smashing predecessor, it bombed, making just £26 million from a £32 million budget.

As you might expect, a reboot of the franchise is already in the works.

Image credits: Liverpool Echo/Amblin