In what’s being called a “major anomaly that obliges us to question the nature of reality,” a neighbor boy has just shown up at a home to ask if the child who lives there would like to play.
On Saturday afternoon, the neighbor boy – known only as “the kid from that house on the corner – not the red one, the other one” rang the doorbell of Kate Holtzem and Rubén Mancera.
Believing the boy was lost, Holtzem offered to contact his parents via Hoplr, which is used by most residents of the neighborhood to avoid having to speak with each other face-to-face.
However, when the boy asked if Holtzem’s son Max was at home, her concern turned to confusion and then suspicion.
“Are you taking a survey, little neighbor boy, or are you making a game of going around to houses to ask silly questions?” she said. “Of course Max is here. It’s a sunny weekend afternoon. He’s playing video games. Now, off with you.”
When the neighbor boy then asked if Max wanted to go outside to play, Holtzem called Max’s father Mancera to the door.
“What is your real objective, little neighbor boy?” Mancera said to the boy. “Is this a joke? Are you working for scamsters? Tell us, or we shall call the police.”
Disappointed, the neighbor boy eft and went to play in the park alone.
University of Wiltz futurist Hermann Geist says that the apparition of the boy at the door is proof that we do not really understand space and time.
“It is my belief that either the boy is an accidental time-traveler, a child of the 1990s or before when such behavior was considered normal, who slipped into a wormhole,” Geist said. “Either that, or we’re living in a simulation, and this peculiar child is a feature of it.”
Not all people buy into Geist’s hypothesis, with some calling it far-fetched and fantastical.
“My intuition tells me that this was some kind of prank or experiment for social media,” said Sam Hoss, an advocate for special causes.
“If not, and if this boy really believed he could arrive unannounced and recruit another child for unplanned recreation, then it means we have failed,” he said. “We need to ensure that all children know how to use a phone and texting app to mediate every single out-of-school social interaction, just as nature intended.”
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Originally published by RTL Today
