âTis the season to beware. It might be the season for a Darwin Award, as well.
A person dressed in an inflatable gingerbread man suit and a Santa hat was seen wandering around an Arlington, Virginia, neighborhood, according to WUSA-TV. Considering the season, thatâs not so very odd.
What is strange is that this gingerbread man allegedly walked to the door of a local residence and tried to open it. He was also seen standing outside of another home looking in the window. Thatâs not only odd, itâs creepy.
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A neighbor who didnât want to be identified at the time â presumably because the gingerbread man was still out roaming the streets â said, âMy wife said, âhey, listen, thereâs this guy, he didnât ring the doorbell, heâs just standing there and heâs in this gingerbread man costumeâ and Iâm, like, gingerbread man â what?â
The homeowner said, âWe noticed the door was trying to be pushed. We look at the camera â Iâm looking at this guy in a costume.â
It was so weird the homeowner didnât know what to do. The gingerbread man wasnât brandishing a weapon or trying to kick down the door. But something was definitely off, so he decided to report the incident and called the non-emergency Police line.
âI just told them, listen, I just want to report this. Itâs not an emergency,â the homeowner told WUSA. âSome guy came with a gingerbread man costume, and they were, like, a gingerbread man? Iâm, like, yes, a gingerbread man costume. I have the video.â
Another neighborhood witness, Lindsey Churchill, told WSUA she saw the gingerbread man around an hour earlier on Wednesday evening.
âWe have a big picture window that faces North George Mason. All of a sudden, my dogs were going crazy, barking out the window and I looked out, and there was a giant blow-up gingerbread man costume out on the sidewalk,â Churchill said.
The sight of a creepy gingerbread man on the sidewalk outside her home shocked Churchill. âWe kind of locked eyes and the gingerbread man went on his way. So weird.â
Several other neighborhood witnesses also spotted the inflatable gingerbread man wandering around throughout the evening. Needless to say, they all thought it was weird â in a bad way.
Churchill said, âIt was not holly jolly.â
Another neighborhood witness said, âIt is kind of like a horror movie. In this costume this whole ordeal, what was the goal? Just to see if weâre home? Or to enter the house? Itâs a good thing we had our doors locked,â he said.
What would you do if your doorbell notification alerted you that a creepy gingerbread man was standing outside your front door? Thatâs what WUSA reporter Katie Lusso asked in a post on social media platform X.
Where I live, most people would have grabbed a gun, called the cops and, if the strange beast somehow broke through the door â maybe the gingerbread man had a death wish.
Police said one witness âapproached the subject outside and he reportedly stated he was looking for a friendâs house,â according to the Washington Post.
The strange thing is, the police never spoke with the gingerbread man themselves.
Itâs like weâre living in a twisted fairy tale these days.
In this version, the gingerbread man is more like the one found in the 2005 horror movie than the one who ran away from grandmaâs house because he didnât want to be eaten. The fairy tale version has the gingerbread man eventually being tricked by a fox and eaten. In this version, itâs more like the gingerbread man was looking for something â or someone â to eat.
Gingerbread man, beware. The whole worldâs on edge. A stupid prank â if thatâs what this was â can get you killed.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.