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THE SIGHTINGS ARE INCREASING. • SIGHTING #047 — GARDAÍ CONFIRM VIRAL WEXFORD 'CAT IN THE HAT' PHOTO WAS AI-GENERATED — WEXFORD, CO. WEXFORD, IRELAND — 40 MIN AGO • SIGHTING #046 — POLICE DEBUNK FAKE 'KILLER CAT IN THE HAT' STATEMENT ABOUT MEADOWHALL — MEADOWHALL, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND — 2 HOURS AGO • SIGHTING #045 — CNN: NOBODY CAN SAY WHICH NIGHT-TIME VIDEOS, IF ANY, ARE REAL — UNITED KINGDOM & IRELAND — YESTERDAY • SIGHTING #044 — REDDIT POSTER ADMITS BALGADDY 'SIGHTING' WAS A JOKE — BALGADDY, DUBLIN, IRELAND — YESTERDAY • SIGHTING #043 — SHAKY LIMERICK CLIPS PUSH THE TREND ACROSS IRELAND — LIMERICK, IRELAND — 2 DAYS AGO • THE SIGHTINGS NEVER STOP.THE SIGHTINGS ARE INCREASING. • SIGHTING #047 — GARDAÍ CONFIRM VIRAL WEXFORD 'CAT IN THE HAT' PHOTO WAS AI-GENERATED — WEXFORD, CO. WEXFORD, IRELAND — 40 MIN AGO • SIGHTING #046 — POLICE DEBUNK FAKE 'KILLER CAT IN THE HAT' STATEMENT ABOUT MEADOWHALL — MEADOWHALL, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND — 2 HOURS AGO • SIGHTING #045 — CNN: NOBODY CAN SAY WHICH NIGHT-TIME VIDEOS, IF ANY, ARE REAL — UNITED KINGDOM & IRELAND — YESTERDAY • SIGHTING #044 — REDDIT POSTER ADMITS BALGADDY 'SIGHTING' WAS A JOKE — BALGADDY, DUBLIN, IRELAND — YESTERDAY • SIGHTING #043 — SHAKY LIMERICK CLIPS PUSH THE TREND ACROSS IRELAND — LIMERICK, IRELAND — 2 DAYS AGO • THE SIGHTINGS NEVER STOP.
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The New York Times Files It Under Artificial Intelligence

By September the story had stopped being about a cat and started being about how fast synthetic footage becomes a local rumour.

On 3 September 2026 the New York Times covered the Cat in the Hat wave as an AI and social-media phenomenon — a children's book character repurposed into found-footage horror by generative video tools.

The pattern repeats: a clip is posted, a place name is attached, a neighbourhood group shares it as a warning, and a police force spends its afternoon writing a denial.

Users have compared the whole episode to the 2016 clown sightings, with one difference — this time nobody needs a costume.

Source: The New York Times, 3 September 2026

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