West Kelowna, British Columbia — Police are investigating after a teenager reported being chased by a person wearing a Cat in the Hat costume in West Kelowna.
THE RCMP ARE LOOKING FOR THE CAT IN THE HAT. THIS IS NOT SATIRE. 😱
Canada has officially reached the part of 2026 that nobody could have prepared us for.
Police in West Kelowna, British Columbia, are investigating after a teenage girl reported being chased through her neighbourhood at night by an unknown person dressed as the Cat in the Hat.
Not during Halloween. Not outside a children’s party. Not while filming a Dr. Seuss movie.
The girl was walking near Shamrock Drive and Old Okanagan Highway at approximately 9 p.m. when the costumed figure allegedly began pursuing her. She managed to reach her home safely and was not physically injured.
Police are now asking residents to check doorbell cameras and dashcams in hopes of identifying the person beneath the giant striped hat.
The RCMP even had to release the most Canadian police clarification ever written: wearing a Cat in the Hat costume is not technically illegal. Chasing a terrified teenager while wearing it, however, may lead to criminal harassment or other charges.
The story becomes even stranger.
Authorities across North America have recently been warning about an online trend involving disturbing, often AI-generated videos of the Cat in the Hat threatening schools, communities and individual students. There is currently no confirmed connection between those videos and what happened in West Kelowna, but police are taking the incident seriously.
Somewhere along the way, pranks stopped being plastic wrap over a toilet seat and became grown people dressing like homicidal children’s book characters to terrorize kids after dark.
Dr. Seuss gave us One Fish, Two Fish.
The internet gave us doorbell footage, police reports and a seven-foot cat being investigated for possible criminal harassment.
Imagine trying to explain this story to someone in 1996.
“Yes, we carry tiny computers in our pockets, cars can drive themselves, artificial intelligence can create movies, and the RCMP are currently trying to identify the Cat in the Hat.”
If you saw that striped hat coming toward you on a dark street, are you running, fighting or calling Thing One and Thing Two in for questioning?
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Report by Maria Ocampo
