Stuff Of Nightmares: Twitterati Spooked By Viral Video Of Swinging Scarecrow

Scarecrow viral video: Twitter doesn't scare easy. One needs something of strong substance to get folks on this microblogging site flinching. A video that has found its way here among social media users seems to have done the trick, because netizens are thoroughly spooked.

This scarecrow at an unidentified location, donning a scarf, sweater and skirt, has a spring in its step that is anything but amusing. Makeshift contraptions make it swing around in place instead of standing stationary as scarecrows usually do.

This technology might probably be good at scaring away birds and other pests, as is its function. But going by the reactions online, it has done an even better job at scaring full-grown adults who are imagining what it would be like to walk past the dancing scarecrow at night.

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Next level scarecrow pic.twitter.com/aBqb0CpwO6

Next level scarecrow pic.twitter.com/aBqb0CpwO6

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Dancing Scarecrow Viral Video: It's Not For The Faint-Hearted

With over 180K views and thousands of reshares, the scarecrow viral video has captured the internet's attention in a big way, giving people a strong week-start buzz.

"Baap re. Forget crows, I’ll die of heart attack if I came upon this at night," one user wrote. "Omg — I would scream and run if I saw this in a field !!" another said.

Kudos to the brains behind this new bird-shooing technology that seemed so real some social media users actually had to look twice to comprehend it was not a real human. "I'm childish!! I low key was trying to figure the mechanism on this cause I thought it was a real person. I'd try it," one user wrote.

Others meanwhile, impressed with the novelty of the rural scarecrow tech, took cues for design in case they needed similar installations to keep pesky guests or midnight robbers away.

"Dress this in white and you will have scared away even thieves," a Twitter user wrote. "This is amazing! I want to install one outside my house," another said.

The number of times this 'scarehuman', as Twitter has dubbed the dancing figure, has popped on our timelines as people continue to both marvel at and fear its energy, there's no guarantee it won't come springing into our dreams tonight.

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