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Dad becomes most terrifying Elf on the Shelf ever

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Dec 10, 2015

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It started harmlessly enough.

"Wouldn't it be funny if we did a human Elf On A Shelf?" Joe Wynberg said to Buzzfeed. "It kind of took off from there."

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Wynberg and his wife, Megan, started share the images of FLE (prounounced "flee") on Facebook nightly to one up their friends, who were posting photos of elves in bemusing places, according to Yahoo.

"I don't think we were planning to all 24 days at first, but now we're kind of forced to," Joe Wynberg said to Buzzfeed.

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