Thousands have gone into ‘complete panic’ after a woman posted a photo of a suitcase sitting next to a table at the airport.
The small black hard-shell suitcase had been left behind by its owner for a while.
But the stand-alone suitcase wasn’t the only ‘scary’ thing about the bag.
It also had a small red ribbon attached to it. And it looked just like the suitcase bomb from the new Netflix drama “Carry-On.”
The timing of the lonely baggage only added to the hysteria.
The film is set on Christmas Eve and was released on December 13.
The luggage was photographed on December 18 and many agreed it felt ‘too real’.
In the film, a young airline security officer is blackmailed by a mysterious passenger who threatens to smuggle a dangerous package onto the plane.
This simple click of a suitcase has terrified thousands of people
The woman’s post was captioned: ‘At the airport and I see this. I can’t make this up. When you know, you know.”
At the time of writing, it had racked up 7,000 likes and 1,600 comments.
“I saw this movie three days ago and I’m definitely going out there sometime,” one woman said.
“Watched last night, scrolled past and scrolled right back up because of PTSD,” another added.
“See something, say something or post something…. if you’re reading this, it’s too late for those at the airport,” another added.
But some were less afraid.
“We all quietly learned how to disarm it,” said another.
And others were having none of it.
“People use ribbon all the time to distinguish their luggage from the rest, be realistic,” one woman said.
The case is similar to that in Carry-On – the new explosive Christmas film based around an airport (stock image)
“Someone did this on purpose to scare people,” said another.
The rest were in confusion.
“Can someone explain this,” someone asked.
“I have no idea what movie this is,” said another.
‘Why is this exploding? I don’t understand,” shouted a third.
The film, starring Taron Egerton, has an approval rating of 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Some describe it as the new ‘deadly weapon’, an alternative, dark Christmas movie.