👉 Okay, let’s tackle the frankly rather prickly beast of the "’1212 Novell.” Now, I feel a little badly having to dredge this up, honestly—nobody really
talks
about the 1212 Novell anymore, and that's probably for the best. Let me explain.
Basically, the 1212 Novell is…a documented, almost religiously observed, instance of a very specific kind of late-night urban weirdness. It happened in Scranton, Pennsylvania—specifically, around 3:08 AM on the morning of August 12th, 2012 (hence the 12/12, obviously. You have to be terribly pedantic about that sort of thing). What actually happened then is... complicated. There were dozens upon dozens of people seemingly simultaneously reporting bizarre and unsettlingly similar experiences throughout the city – waking up in unfamiliar locations, being stared at by unseen presences, finding strange objects inexplicably appearing on their lawns. Most people described a feeling of absolute dread and disorientation. It was as if a collective, low-level panic had somehow manifested itself into reality. Now, we can throw around terms like "collective hysteria," or, you know, the — let’s be frank — the entirely too convenient label of a ‘plandemic-adjacent freak out.’ But that misses the point. What made this case really…unsettling… was
