Students at an elementary school in Washington state were given quite the scare this week when the building's PA system was suddenly commandeered by an 'evil, time-traveling human-octopus hybrid.'
The troubling event took place in the city of Woodland on Tuesday afternoon when, out of the blue, classes were interrupted by an unfamiliar voice broadcasting over the school's intercom system.
Much to the horror of the children attending kindergarten through fourth grade at the school, they were then introduced to a Cthulhu-esque entity that will likely be making an appearance in their nightmares in the near future.
Booming over the PA system in a creepy voice was the unnerving warning, "this is a humoctopus. I am speaking to you from the future. Run for your lives, wretched humans. I will smash you all."
As if the message was not traumatic enough, the school subsequently went into a lockdown and had the children hiding under their desks, no doubt, hoping that the humoctopus would spare them from its wrath.
While the adults in the building assuredly knew that the 'entity' was a work of fiction, it was all too real for some of kids at the school, including one little girl who told her father that "there's an octopus that's gonna' smash my eyes with a hammer."
Lest one think that the 'creature' was the work of perhaps a bored prankster working in the school's IT department, it turns out that the message was a genuine test recording from the company that created the intercom alert system.
One can only wonder why, considering its intended audience, the company created such a haunting announcement that left the children in hysterics.
The school ultimately issued a statement to parents explaining the situation and apologizing for subjecting the students to "a gruff voice claiming to be the humoctopus from the future who proceeded to make threats against present day humanity."
We're guessing that school administrators didn't expect to be writing those words when they woke up on Tuesday morning.
Source: KGW8