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Surge of 2026-10-17

The hat man and the old hag

On this date, more people looked this up and described it than in any normal week. This page is the record of that surge.


2.46x
the normal rate of people looking up Night hag: 501 lookups a day against a monthly baseline of 204. And 99 public posts described it first-hand in the last day measured.

What is being reported

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What the record already holds

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The hat man and the old hag: surge of 2026-10-17 · ANOMALY