Author: Horror Reporter

The world is beginning to pay a little more attention to the weird note that is being passed around through Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania grocery store products.. News organizations and politicians have begun to pay attention despite the note gaining “notoriety” for several years.

HORROR REPORT is lucky enough to be centered in ground zero of where the note has been spreading.
And speaking of ground zero, Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis also gave attention to the story during his national broadcast on January 11 2024.. All of the sudden, everyone wants to know.. what is with this note.

Scare Theater also is featuring the note..

Meanwhile.. the note is spreading..

In the last few days, we were contacted by a reader who reported that that strange and unsettling note being found in grocery store products is showing up yet again just in time for New Years Eve shopping!

This time a reader reports that it fell from a package of Little Debbie’s cream filled oatmeal cookies!

The product was purchased at the Dollar General in Barnesville PA.

For those who have found the note, it is bizarre and slightly unsettling. Those we spoke to who saw the note fall from their grocery store packages have reported feeling uneasy .. almost alarmed.. They try reading the note, attempt to understand the decipher.. and take to the internet to see what else people are saying.

In this case of the Barnesville oatmeal cookies, the reader went a step further telling us,

I’ve read it several times. I decided to goole lense it and I selected the listen function which google read it to me and it’s so different hearing it then actually reading it yourself and it’s creepy

Interestingly, this is the second time in three years the same person found the same note from a Dollar Store product in Barnesville!

We asked her if the product itself appeared to be tampered with–many have reported seeing openings in the box where notes could be slipped in. However, not this time.

This time it was inside the box. There is no possible way someone slipped it in there in the store. It was neatly folded in between the last 4 cookies in the box. There was also no evidence that it was tampered with either. Since this is the 2nd one I found, it kinda has me a little concerned, confused, and curious.

The confusion and concern is understandable!

But it also seems that it is not just this person. Our website had a seemingly strange increase in traffic over the previous week with many past stories about the “lies are products tell us” as the main searched item. We can only surmise that the item is being found in many more products given the renewed interest..

Since that time we were contacted on multiple by people finding the item in their grocery packages in the safety of their own home. Safety that suddenly feels oddly compromised when the note slips out of the box being opened.

Or in the case of the Little Debbie cookies–between them!

There is also a report from WBRE about the same note being found in a package by someone in Sugarloaf.. From that report,

“I opened up the box … I poured it out in my bowl and out came this paper that was all folded up just like this,” said Joe Miller of Sugarloaf Township.

Miller said he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He told WBRE/WYOU that he bought the box of Lucky Charm’s Smores cereal at a Luzerne County grocery store on Sunday, and opened it on Monday night.

“Oh, I was devastated. I mean I didn’t even want to eat the cereal, although, I still have the box here,” Miller explained. “Probably not going to eat it. I don’t know what’s inside the cereal or if this note laced with anything.”

WBRE went on to report that it is being noticed finally by some lawmakers.. Congressmen Dan Meuser (R-PA) and Matt Cartwright (D-PA) told WBRE/WYOU that they’ve been in contact with federal agencies, including the FBI and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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We consider packaged food to be safe. Never mind the ingredients, but we assume the boxes are sanitary. We conclude they are inspected.. someone JUST HAS to be making sure nothing gets contaminated or tampered with..

So when that little note drops out, the safety of our kitchen becomes a little questionable. A little dicey. We get consumed with an untoward feeling.. It almost feels like a crime that has no suspect.. and you became the unintended victim.

If you have found this note we would love hearing about it — if you know anything about it, we would equally like to know.. If you are working within a manufacturing environment and can figure out how this occurs, equally we would love to hear.

The lies are products tell us.. the mystery continues. AT this point it is safe to assume it is not being slipped into the boxes at grocery stores. The plot thickens when it’s couched WITHIN the box of oatmeal cookies.