VANISHINGS
Two Squirrels Quit Pickleball Court Without Leaving, Morning Walker Reports
A Reddit user says a pair of chasing rodents were in plain view one moment and gone the next, leaving the observer to search the surroundings in bewilderment.
AN EMPTY PICKLEBALL COURT — A morning walker has submitted a account of two vanished squirrels to the r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix forum, a gathering place for those who believe they have witnessed small faults in the fabric of ordinary life.
According to the post, the author was out on a routine morning walk when two squirrels came into view, chasing one another across an empty pickleball court. The author states that they kept the animals in sight throughout, never glancing away.
Then, the post says, both squirrels were simply gone. The writer reports that they stopped walking and looked around, evidently in search of an explanation that did not present itself.
"I know what I saw and I know what I didn't see," the author writes, adding that the animals were present one second and absent the next. The writer says nothing like it has happened to them before and confesses to being unsure what to make of the matter.
The post offers no location beyond the court itself, and it does not describe nearby trees, fences or other cover. Readers will note that squirrels are quick and that a court's surroundings may hold hiding places, though the author does not say whether any such places were within reach. The author draws no firm conclusion, and this newspaper, for its part, declines to draw one on their behalf.