By Tim Binnall
Residents of an Argentine city were on edge this week due to a viral video showing what appeared to be a witch shuffling down the street, however, their fears were later quelled when the source of the odd scene revealed its true nature. According to a local media report, the curious case began early Monday morning when the unsettling footage was posted on Argentine social media. In the video, featured above, a hunched-over figure in a cloak can be seen slowing moving along a street in the city of Cinco Saltos. The footage quickly spread like wildlife with many claiming to have also seen the mysterious stranger roaming around the community.
A panic soon erupted in Cinco Saltos with some residents demanding that police increase their patrols of the area. Others found the figure in the footage so chilling that they refused to leave their home out of fear that they might encounter the unnerving stranger. To that end, many people online pointed to urban legends that have long suggested that Cinco Saltos is something of a haven for witches and other practitioners of the proverbial dark arts. Fortunately, the hysteria was short-lived as, a few days after the video went viral, the figure in the footage was revealed to be a costumed boy filmed by his aunt. Surprised by the response the scene generated online, the family felt compelled to come forward to assure the concerned community that mysterious stranger was not a witch.