Passenger spots incredibly creepy ‘person looking at them’ on plane leaving social media freaked out before realizing what it really is

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A passenger was left freaked out after seeing someone apparently staring at them on a plane – but all was not as it seemed.

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A passenger took a terrifying image aboard a recent flight. Credit: urbazon/Getty Images

Air travel can be stressful at the best of times – from trying to keep your luggage within the weight limit, to making sure you get through the security line without missing your flight, by the time your plane takes off you’re probably ready to switch off and relax until you reach your destination.

However, other passengers can sometimes make that impossible, as one flier found out after seeing what appeared to be a creepy person staring at them unblinkingly from another seat.

The X (formerly Twitter) user snapped a photo of what appeared to be a man with his face pressed into this seat across the aisle staring at them from beneath his hoody.

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The user, who goes by @bluemupp on the social media site, shared the picture and captioned it: “I ALMOST LANDED THIS PLANE MYSELF.”

People flooded the post, which has been viewed over 35.7 million times, sharing their terror at the creepy image.

They wrote: “Tf is that?”, “Ok but what actually is that,” and: “I woulda jumped out.”

Others added: “lmfao bro i would’ve been landed bc wtf is a alien doing on there,” and: “the scream I would let out is just bizarre.”

Thankfully, others managed to decipher the nightmare-inducing image, explaining: “I got this.. that’s a person with their hoodie on backwards over their face and the black thing the looks like an eyeball is a headphone.

“So it looks like they are staring at you creepily but that’s really just the side of their head with a headphone in the ear while the hoodie covers the face.”

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Thankfully the image was later debunked by another user. Credit: Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images

Many people thanked the user for ending the optical illusion, writing: “Thank you. That would have haunted me for days.”

Others added: “Omg you have great eyes, I seent (that’s a real word lol) it after I read your tweet,” and: “I pray you’re right or we are in trouble.”

Some people were still unconvinced, writing: “I need someone to show me what headphones on the market look like that otherwise I ain’t believing it.”

Another commented: “But I see a moustache,” while someone else added: “That would make sense if there wsnt a mustache and that doesn’t look like a headphone.”

Some even joked that creepy entity in the hoody is the “not real” passenger Tiffany Gomas went viral for yelling about on a plane in 2023.

We’re going to go with it being a headphone in someone’s ear because all of the other options are far too terrifying.

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The real D.B. Cooper’s identity may have finally been unmasked after a pair of siblings believe their late father may have been living a secret double life.

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D.B. Cooper was never found after the crime. Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images

D.B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, is a man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, on November 24, 1971.

The flight had been midway from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, when Cooper told a flight attendant that he had a bomb and demanded $200,000 (roughly $1.5million in today’s money) in ransom, as well as four parachutes after landing in Seattle.

He allowed the passengers to leave the flight in Seattle, before instructing the flight crew to refuel the aircraft and fly toward Mexico City, stopping off to refuel in Reno, Nevada.

Around 30 minutes after taking off from Seattle, Cooper opened the aircraft’s aft door, deployed the staircase, and parachuted out into the sky over Washington.

His real identity as well as his whereabouts – and whether or not he survived the jump – have never been conclusively determined.

A small amount of the ransom money was recovered on the banks of the Columbia River near Vancouver, Washington, in 1980 but the rest has never been found.

The crime remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in the history of commercial aviation, and the FBI had long speculated that Cooper may not have survived the jump due to the inclement weather, lack of proper skydiving equipment, the forest terrain and lack of detailed knowledge of the landing area, as well as the remaining ransom money having disappeared and never been spent.

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A small portion of the ransom money was recovered in 1980. Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images

Now, a pair of siblings in North Carolina believe they have evidence to show their late father may have been Cooper after allegedly finding his parachute hidden in their home.

Chanté and Rick McCoy III claim their father, Richard McCoy Jr., may have been the infamous hijacker, the Cowboy State Daily reports.

The pair waited until their mother’s death in 2020 to come forward with their theory, amid fears she could be implicated in the crime after finding the parachute that allegedly belonged to Cooper in her storage stash outside the house.

When she died, the siblings met with aviation YouTuber Dan Gryder, who examined the parachute and believes it could be the one Cooper used in 1971.

Gryder told the outlet: “That rig is literally one in a billion.”

He claimed the parachute the McCoys found matched the modified chute made by veteran skydiver Earl Cossey for the police as part of Cooper’s demands.

People also speculated whether Richard Jr. may have been the elusive fugitive because of his own criminal past.

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Five months after the hijacking, Richard Jr. was caught during a similar highjacking in Utah, and eventually died after a shootout with police when he broke out of prison.

The McCoys told Gryder that they had been aware of the truth for several years but had feared going public in case their mother was implicated in both hijackings as a result.

Since Gryder published images of the parachute, the FBI has allegedly reached out to the McCoys to see the evidence.

The siblings told the outlet that the FBI had searched the North Carolina complex for additional clues and had taken possession of the parachute in 2023, with Rick also having provided a DNA sample for investigators.

He claims he was told that the next step may be to exhume his father’s body, but the request has yet to be made. The FBI has not year addressed the claims or the case publicly.

The case was officially closed in 2016, 45 years after the crime took place, due to a lack of leads.

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A Massachusetts grandmother has died after tragically being found fused to a mattress infested with cockroaches, bedbugs, and feces in her home.

Dinora Cardoso, 79, died after having to be surgically detached from the rancid mattress, with her daughter, granddaughter, and nurse being accused of severe neglect.

The woman died in hospital two days after being removed from the mattress she’d become adhered to, having suffered from the flesh-eating disease necrotizing fasciitis, and sepsis due to infected ulcers, officials revealed.

First responders had been called to the house after Dinora’s daughter, 53-year-old Eva Fontes Cardoso, had called an ambulance, but medics were unable to separate the woman from the mattress where she lay.

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Eva, along with Dinora’s granddaughter Kayla Cardoso, 31, and nurse Lisa Hamilton, 64, are facing charges of manslaughter, caregiver neglect of an elder, larceny, and Medicaid fraud in connection with Dinora’s death.

Dinora’s daughter had received up to $140,000 for caring for her mother, according to Law & Crime, but allowed her diabetes to go completely unmonitored, and left the elderly woman alone for weeks as insects began to infest the fetid bed.

Dinora had to be transported to the hospital with the mattress still attached to her, before she was able to be separated from it, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office announced in a press release.

Just a week before the call was made to the ambulance service, Lisa, who is a registered nurse, had reported that Dinora was “clean, well cared for, alert, and her diabetes was well-controlled,” according to prosecutors.

They added: “She made no mention of pressure ulcers, feces, bedbugs, or cockroaches.”

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Dinora had to be transported to the hospital with the mattress before it could be removed from her body. Credit: JazzIRT/Getty Images

Lisa had been responsible for visiting Dinora at least once per week to check on her care, medical conditions, and medication intake, the press release confirmed.

Eva had been employed as her mother’s personal care attendant (PCA) while her niece Kayla served as her grandmother’s health care proxy and PCA Program Surrogate, according to the Mirror US.

As well as the severe neglect the trio is accused of subjecting Dinora to, they are also accused of fraud after allegedly billing MassHealth for services that were never provided, including claims for services supposedly undertaken while Dinora was in hospital.

The three women are also accused of charging for services posthumously, according to prosecutors, while bank records allegedly show that Eva regularly gave some of her PCA cheque to Kayla.

Eva allegedly received over $140,000 from MassHealth for her PCA care of Dinora, while officials added that Lisa’s report about the patient’s condition contradicted EMT and hospital records, which showed that Dinora’s diabetes was completely uncontrolled and that the infestation of insects in her bed would have been present for at least many weeks before the medics were called out, an an expert entomologist confirmed.

A grand jury indicted the three women on November 19, and they were arrested and arraigned on November 22. They are due in court on January 15.

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The cause of death of Ryan Kobayashi has been confirmed, after he tragically passed away two weeks after his daughter, Hannah Kobayashi, went missing.

Hannah Kobayashi, 31, who is from Hawaii, has been missing in Los Angeles since November 11 after failing to get on a connecting flight to New York.

She had been due to travel to New York on a “bucket list” trip, where she was set to meet up with her aunt, but never made it onto the plane.

Her last posts had been from Los Angeles, where she’d attended an event at The Grove, but her loved ones grew concerned when they received text messages which they said did not sound like Hannah.

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Hannah Kobayashi had been due to fly to New York, but never boarded her plane from Los Angeles. Credit: Facebook/Missing People in America

In them, Hannah spoke of having her identity stolen and being duped by someone, and communication soon stopped from her phone.

Her father, Ryan, had joined other family members in Los Angeles to help with the search but was tragically found dead in the early hours of Sunday morning,

The L.A. County medical examiner has now confirmed that the 58-year-old died by suicide.

His cause of death was multi