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Chaos at Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami. Dozens of police officers swarming Bayside Marketplace tonight. That's where we find Local 10 crime specialist Bridget Matter live with what sparked this chaotic scene. Bridget, and chaotic is an understatement. Aliens invading Miami are going viral on social media. This is for real, folks.
The conspiracy theory stems from a large police presence at Bayside Marketplace on New Year's Day. Now, rumors are circulating on social media saying police weren't there to handle a group of rowdy teens, but rather 8 to 10 ft tall shadow aliens. But the real question is, are they friendly? Are they after us? Are they going to attack us? Are they going to do world domination on us? Who knows, man? Man, even a year and a half since I first covered this incident, I'm still just as curious about it as I was back then. Granted, I was just a young little YouTube channel, barely a month old and just five subscribers to my name. But as
time moved on, Scare Mail as a channel began to take shape. People didn't want me to just tell the stories, or rather read them in a slow, monotone voice. God, that was awful. but instead wanted me to dive deeper into these mysterious tales, provide some investigative analysis, and decipher whether or not these riveting stories were real or fake.
So, that's what I've done since then, but I never got around to doing it for this story, which arguably needed it the most. Because if you watch my recent UFO disclosure video, you'll know that just like most of these grifters in the disclosure movement, I ran a story I wasn't even sure was real. I'd say this was my biggest fault with my early videos. I was just eager for any story like it to hit my mailbox.
A firhand account about an incident that was already shrouded in so much mystery. a story that could finally stir an audience, keeping them up at night wondering if it really happened. And yet, after I posted the video, which did surprisingly well despite being terribly made, I asked the sender for a follow-up email only to be ghosted and never hear from him again.
But the good news is that there are so many witness testimonies other than Jay's. Other people have finally come forward over time, which has given me the opportunity to piece together this mesmerizing puzzle to give this story the depth and attention it deserves and to answer the question that everyone has been asking. Did this really happen? In this video, I'm going to retell the alleged terrifying encounter from several new and old POVs, analyze testimonies from key witnesses and figures, and finally get to the bottom of a mystery that has never been solved. You're going to want to stick around for this one because it
starts right now. They say the last night of vacation is the one you cling to the most. A day in which your itinerary is filled with all the last minute things you want to do before you travel home. That's exactly what Jay and his girlfriend were doing on the night of January 1st, 2024.
Since his birthday was coming up in the next couple of months, Jay's girlfriend thought it'd be a good idea to stop by the Bayside Marketplace to find him a new outfit for the upcoming affair. But when they pulled up to the mall, they were greeted with walkways full of teenagers who Jay assumed to be in the 16 to 18 range. Working their way through the bustling crowd, they found their way into a clothing store and quickly found an outfit they both liked.
So Jay grabbed his clothes and was quickly ushered into a dressing room to try on his new fit with his girlfriend insisting on him hurrying since she wanted to grab a drink at a nearby bar. Unfortunately for them, they'd never get a chance to have that drink for their evening would take a nightmarish turn.
As Jay was changing, loud pops and bangs could be heard somewhere outside the store. His girlfriend ran up to the door and banged on it, begging for him to leave the clothes so they could flee. He assumed immediately that a shooting must have happened. So, he quickly put on his clothes and ran out the dressing room.
But to their surprise, Jay witnesses a stampede of people running outside the window as two store workers seal the front door shut, locking it closed as customers and workers alike hid for their lives. Jay and his girlfriend do the same, hiding behind a giant clothes rack near the back of the store.
Eventually, Jay musters up the courage to sneak his way up to the front of the store to look out the windows, hoping the coast is clear enough for them to make a run for it. And at first, this is what Jay sees. A completely empty walkway, barren of anyone or anything. Jay signals to his girlfriend to work her way up so they can make a run for it until he saw something terrifying.
something even scarier than an active shooter. Jay sees a tall translucent being strutting down the walkway. He struggles to decide what it looks like, just that the way it moves is incredibly unsettling. What he sees is so disturbing that he can't help but tear up with fear. He describes its mysterious walking motion with its legs gliding along the ground with varying speeds like it was being sped up and slowed down, fading in and out of reality. Then the being was followed by others as they continued to walk down
the walkway. People within the store started to see what Jay was witnessing and let out audible gasp and screams as the supposed aliens walked by. Unsurprisingly, a panic ensued within the store. Everyone crowded the emergency exit door in the very back, and once it was opened, everyone squeezed through the tiny exit and made a run for it.
Jay describes the horrid scene, fleeing with his girlfriend toward an incredibly long barricade of cop cars, and to their surprise, the police in front appeared to be flagging them down to stop instead of waving them through to get to safety. To the surprise of absolutely no one, Jay along with many others stormed right by them, refusing to stop by the supposed checkpoint.
They run over a mile back to their hotel, abandoning their rental car in the mall's parking lot. Once they got back to their room, Jay turns on the news to learn more about what mysterious entities they just encountered and what the police were going to do about containing them.
But unsurprisingly, the media downplayed the entire incident, claiming it was merely a bunch of kids that were shooting fireworks at one another, stating that there were no aliens of any kind, and that the whole ordeal was due to mass hysteria. Jay and his girlfriend go to bed that night petrified, knowing that these beings, or whatever they are, are still out there.
Sometime later, after Jay is back home in Ohio, far away from Bayside, Jay sees his local news covering the terrifying event, he feels the need to share his side of the story. So, he calls and arranges a one-on-one interview to be aired later in the week. But, strangely, just one day before he's scheduled to be interviewed, Jay receives a phone call from a mysterious voice telling him plainly, "Don't go through with the interview." He says, "Cancel it now.
We won't be able to protect you if he goes through with it. So, choose wisely." Fearing for both he and his girlfriend's safety, Jay promptly cancels the interview and is never heard from again. So, I'm sure your first question is, "What happened to Jay?" Well, your guess is as good as mine. Like I said, I reached out to him for a follow-up and never heard back.
And whether you think it's because he was threatened to stay silent or merely had nothing more to add to his story is completely up to you. But the good news is that Jay's story isn't the only one we have to go off of anymore because other witnesses have come forward. And unlike Jay, we can look them in the eye. So, the first clip I'm going to show you is from a guy named Qand0000 on Tik Tok.
And this is what he had to say about it. Take a look. I'm posting this uh and I want y'all to repost, save this video, post it on other platforms before it gets taken down cuz I want to clear up some of this misinformation about the Bayside Mall incident that happened. Um so me and my girls in town and we were shopping at the mall and we noticed a lot of kids there.
Um, it wasn't a real big deal at first until they got to arguing and shoving and then like weapons got brought in and uh they started fighting, running all over the mall. Chaos just all over the place. So, we thought we heard gunshots, but it turns out that that was actually fireworks.
But either way, that caused everybody to start rushing for the doors. Uh, people was leaving stuff behind. I mean, just dragging their kids. It was just complete [ __ ] chaos, man. Uh anyway, so as we running, we look back and we notice some weird shapes taller than me. I'm 6'2, shadowy, dark, solid shapes. Not human. I promise you these is not human.
I mean, it made the hair stand up on my skin. Uh and [ __ ] we just booked it for the doors after that. Man, I can't explain what that was. I can't say that was aliens, but I I can say that that was not human. It was not human.
And they online, I don't know if they're trying to cover this stuff up, but they saying that it was uh police officers and and somebody, not shadowy figures. It's 2024, man. It it's something going on. It's something going on and they trying to cover it up. A lot of people saw what I saw. And like I say, it was so much chaos ensued that it was it was just hard to to to to let that sink in that we was realizing what were we looking at. I mean, it's something something you can never even create in your head in a dream.
Um, I'm putting this out there though, man, because I want people to know that this this stuff is real. Get get this out and spread this. And if you were a person that was there and you saw it what I saw, please put this video out because they trying to cover this stuff up, man. They don't want us to to tell the truth.
And I got a good feeling this video will be taken down. So don't listen to the media. This [ __ ] is real and whatever it is, they do not want people to know about it. Now, first things first, this sounds almost identical to Jay's story. It's so similar that I was even tempted to ask if it was him when I messaged him on TikTok, but instead I just kept it professional and asked if he was willing to speak more on his experience.
I haven't heard back yet, but I'll be sure to update you guys if I do. Obviously, I can't say for 100% certainty that his story is legit, but the fact that there are consistencies in both he and Jay's stories, well, that lends some credibility to the event as a whole.
But of course, we need to listen to more testimonies and see if we can find some more similarities. The next clip I'm going to show you is from a guy named Nodic One, and this was his experience. My name is Nodic, and I was also at the mall when I saw the 10 ft alien. I'm going to give you my testimony right now.
So, what I saw, I was just standing in in the side of the mall and then I saw everybody running towards the center of the mall. As everybody's running towards the center of the mall, I went to try to take out my phone. But um as soon as I got to my phone, I looked up and I see this 10 ft creature just like moving side to side. The images was like cutting in and out that it wasn't clear.
He was fading in and out of like reality, I guess. And then three other ones appeared and they was fading in and out of reality. So, it's like they wanted to be here, but it's like we we had the power to see them, but we couldn't see them all the way. Like, we needed to have I don't know. Or they needed to come all the way out. I don't know. But it was a little shaky. The cops came.
It was like a million cops out there. It was nasty. And then they they asked everybody for their phones right before um we departed. They they made a a perimeter around these aliens and they was checking everybody's phones. But I got somebody with a picture and a video and um he's from Miami. He's a resident of Miami and from Orlando and he was at the mall too. So me and him became cool.
He was running away. I was like, "Yeah, you got that?" He was like, "Yeah, I got that." So me and him are in contact and he's just scared to release the video, I guess. But so right off the bat, he talks about how weird the so-called aliens looked. Something that Jay also mentioned. They don't look like typical aliens.
They were something completely different. Another thing that's consistent with Jay's story is that the cops were trying to flag people down and delete their pictures and videos of the events off people's phones. So again, this adds some credit to Jay's story and the incident as a whole.
Now, does this mean this event occurred without a doubt? Well, no. We have to remember that everyone could just be piggybacking off each other to make it seem like their stories are consistent. But even so, there are similarities in each of the stories so far, and that can't be ignored. And just like the previous poster, I messaged him if he was willing to talk more about his testimony.
Haven't heard back yet, but like I said, I'll probably have to update you guys over time. But another thing to mention is that this person was next to someone who allegedly got good footage of the creatures. You know, the guy who is also from Miami or Orlando or whatever.
Unfortunately, that footage has yet to be seen. If anyone finds it, feel free to link it to my comments or just DM me. But anyway, this next clip I'm about to show you is even more interesting for several reasons. It comes from a user by the name of Little Too Much 700 on Tik Tok. And well, just watch. I'm here to set the record straight, man.
Like, I literally have been getting interrogated by the Miami Police Department for days. My dude, I look, look at me. Um, it is really aliens. It's really aliens. And I cannot believe that the Miami Police Department is really gonna try to make it seem like they had all those police cars and stuff out there over some kids fighting. Y'all, we talking about three and four blocks. They asked us first. They asked us what we saw.
It was me, two of my cousins, and one of my home girls. All three of us being basically locked the [ __ ] up. I ain't trying to get in trouble or nothing like that, but I'm just telling y'all, man. This [ __ ] is so real, man. Like, everybody saw it. There will be more reports coming out. There will be more reports coming out on this, man. But I just want to go on record and speak my truth.
You know, they asked us not to speak about it. any any blog site, any news site, anybody who wants to talk to me, please get in my DM, man, because that's the only way I would tell my whole truth. But I just want to let y'all know, man, aliens are real. It was three of them and we couldn't believe it.
Y'all like this video, get this video trending, and I'll post my own cell phone footage. They tried to actually take my cell phone footage. You know what I'm saying? I showed them that thinking that I'm helping the world. They trying to get they trying to delete it. But once you delete something on your phone, they have recent delete. Recently deleting. You have to put your password in.
I wasn't able to I wasn't willing to get them that. So, man, y'all get this video to where it need to be. And I'm I'm I'm going to go crazy. All right. So, there's a lot to unpack here, so I'll just start with something that's consistent. The poster claims the cops attempted to delete his pictures and videos of the incident off his phone, which tracks with what the other witnesses claim.
However, things get a little murky right here. First off, he asked for everyone to like the video and that if he gets enough likes, he'll post his own personal videos of the aliens, which is kind of a red flag in my opinion. And despite the video blowing up, he never posted the video, which unsurprisingly pissed people off enough for them to call him out on it, in which he responded by posting this video. Like, stop saying I'm lying, bro.
Hey, y'all. Y'all don't want the truth. Like I said, subscribe to my YouTube channel, Hood TV Experts. If you think I'm lying, watch. I'm going to post a video there. Like, nobody got a lie, bro. Okay, so he plugs his YouTube channel and pleads for everyone to go find it over there.
But when I searched up this channel, I couldn't find it. The only channel I could find was this one, which resembles the name of his channel, but isn't the actual name that he says in the video, and had nothing about alien footage in the hundreds of videos on said channel, at least from what I could see.
Of course, I went ahead and reached out to him along with many others to learn more about his encounter and was wondering if we'd ever see that footage. And well, this is what he had to say. Man, like I said, in Miami, I was there. I'm getting a lot of DMs of people want me to come do an interview on their platform. Right now, I'm charging 3K, $3,000. That's what you got to send. And when you're ready, just jump into my direct message.
If you got my face on your plat, if you already have a platform and you got my face and you got my face on your platform, man, I guar I'm guaranteed to do over 500K. So, yo, that alone right there will um get you where you need to be. And I'm just telling you right now, if you have a major platform and you want to have me on there, man, you trying to go viral, man, make sure that you hit me up right now.
And for all my haters that think I'm clout chasing, hey, you don't got to believe me. Alen's in Miami. I was there. Ain't no stopping that, bro. I'm I'm going all the way up all year, bro. Might as well get used to it, man. Follow me right now. You mean to tell me I have to pay you $3,000 just to hear more of your story? And by simply putting your face in my video, I'll get $500,000 views.
All I have to say to that is, oh yeah, Scare Mail is about to blast up, baby. See you on the moon. I'll say hi to the aliens there for you. Check out my video on the moon, please. It's linked right here. In all seriousness, I'll eat my [ __ ] foot if this video gets 500,000 views. I will literally dress up as an alien and sit in a hot tub on stream if that happens.
Not saying it's impossible, but I only get a max of 50k impressions per video on this channel, so the math doesn't math for me on that one. But anyway, the fact that he has these absolutely ridiculous demands in the first place just to lend some credibility to his story not only hurts his case, but the entire incident as a whole.
But that doesn't mean one bad apple has to spoil the whole bunch, cuz we have more witnesses to look at. The next clip I'm going to show you is from Sosa Pippen. Now, this is probably the most common testimony you've seen online. It was practically everywhere after the incident occurred and damn well kicked off the whole conspiracy, but we got to make sure we cover all of our bases and do our due diligence.
So, here it is. I was uh I was down in Miami for uh the New Year's, you know what I'm saying? Me and my girl, I got a little time share. We was down there on a um like a mini vacay, you know, just to start the New Year's off right. So, anyway, we at we happen to be at that mall. So, um we had Foot Locker or whatever. Next thing you know, you start hearing all this commotion outside. Sound like fire, like firecrackers or something.
So, you know what I'm saying? I, you know, I grab her close. I'm like, "Yo, we about to get up out of here." Cuz I, you know, I originally thought that they was shooting. You know what I'm saying? I thought, you know, some type of um gunfight had broke out, whatever the case is, cuz you know, we not familiar with Miami. We not familiar with this city. So, I'm like, damn.
I ain't even got my blick. So, you know what I'm saying? We about to we about to about to swerve. Next thing I know, it's like crazy. Like we just see all these people running like you know uh fat fat fat chicks you know old ladies like I'm talking about moving you know what I'm saying like yo old people even mo I'm talking about moving so you know my girl she like what's going on I'm like [ __ ] all that we out like I'm not going to ask no questions we just going to follow the crowd. Next thing you know you know real like gunshots start going off. So you know what I'm saying? Like we trying
to we trying to follow the follow the crowd. Get out of there. I look back I look back no cap. Yo, no cap. I look back, it looked like like like a big ass shadow, but it was solid at the same time. Like a few like a few shadows, but they was solid at the same time.
And them it almost looked like they was coming our direction, like they was chasing us, but they was disappearing and reappearing closer. So I'm like, yo, what? So we start really moving. Next thing you know, we start hearing more gunshots. Like these dudes start firing at this [ __ ] get outside, mad police, all that.
You know what I'm saying? They start the police is like trying to get all the people that ran out the mall. They like trying to like um detain these people, whatever. But you know, me and my girl, we ended up just, you know, sliding past all that and everything like that. But you know, a lot of people saying why didn't nobody film and all that.
When that type of [ __ ] is going on, you know what I'm saying? [ __ ] like that, like some paranormal, nobody thinking about no phone. You know what I'm saying? Everybody go on survival mode. But for real, for real, they lying. Yo, it was they all them all them officers and all that, they was not there because of um no kids fighting.
It was really some it was really some like movie [ __ ] going on in there, yo. All right, so first things first, he added his own scary music. That's not mine. It's his. That means he's trying to evoke an emotion of fear out of his audience, which is what entertainers like me do. So, not a good start for my guy.
Also, his story is eerily similar to everyone else's. They're with his girlfriend. Loud pops go off. Everyone starts running, even the quote unquote fat chicks and old people. Then, actual gunshots are heard before he sees the creatures that match almost exactly what the others said. Unnatural looking shadow beings phasing in and out of reality.
So, there are consistencies in a story with the others. But is it really that easy to piggyback off of everyone else's descriptions? Well, Sosa would post another video, not even a day later, and say this. Yo, this [ __ ] crazy. I never been to Miami in my life. I was dead trolling. Yo, y'all cannot Yo, y'all can't be that. Like, y'all can't be that gullible. Yo, I was dead ass trolling. I've never been to Miami.
I'm not in danger. I'm chilling. Like real. I mean, [ __ ] it. Y'all want to make me go viral. I don't give a [ __ ] But yo, listen. For real. I was trolling. I'm chilling. What's wrong with y'all? [ __ ] Crazy. Yo, y'all bugging. All right. So, he comes out and claims he was just trolling. Now, whether or not he's telling the truth, I don't know. That's up to you.
Some people have claimed online that he sounded scared for his life in the second video, but there's no real way to prove that. Let me know what you think down in the comments below because right now, as it stands, it seems like he is the one that fabricated the whole story for everyone to jump on.
Now, I'm sure some of you are wondering, is there any reputable source we can turn to? Preferably not on TikTok, maybe. Well, we're told not to listen to the media because they're supposedly lying. But let's see what they had to say about the incident along with a witness testimony that had nothing to do with Tik Tok. So, after the whole incident went nuclear online, the Miami Police Department made a statement and this is what they had to say. Social media right now.
First, our response to that uh big incident in Bayside Marketplace. What happened was there was about 50 or more juveniles that were shooting fireworks at people. There was also some looting going on. So, officers that were on that scene were having a little bit of trouble containing it. So, they called what is called the citywide 3, which every officer in the city responded.
That's why you saw so much police presence for for that call to contain that crowd. Now, there is now video going viral of 8 to 10 foot aliens walking around Bayside. is actually just a person walking with a shadow. So I can confirm to you all here today right now that there are no aliens in Miami in Bayside Marketplace at the moment. So it's Friday. I hope you guys have a great weekend and stay safe.
So he explains that this situation was what is known as a citywide three, meaning every cop in the city needs to respond. Remember, they think this is a shooting occurring, a mass shooting, an active shooter situation. It would make sense that every officer would respond to this. Now, you might say, "But Andrew, of course, they're going to try to cover it up. It's the police, blah, blah, blah.
" Well, more often than not, I'd probably agree with you. Except we have a witness that was on the scene that very night at the mall. It was fighting. They was fighting and then uh they try to kick people out to slow it down. Then people got pepper sprayed.
Then that's when the police started coming and then after the police started coming they they told everybody get out, get out and deny everybody by the street and they just throwing fireworks. Now, the first thing I noticed, no mention of aliens, no mention of shadow beings, just a brawl between kids, which we knew were there in mass that night shooting fireworks at one another, which was initially reported by all the local outlets.
And although this brawl is just from a 7-Eleven nearby that night, this footage is actually taken from the mall during the incident with people fleeing the scene of the crime afterwards. So, we even have footage of the brawl. What we don't have footage of the shadow aliens. Apparently, everyone saw, but I know what you're thinking.
But Andrew, there's footage. Okay. Well, let's take a look at this socalled footage. Here it is. All right. So, uh, let's break this down a little. This is what appears to be a portal opening up in the middle of the mall, but there's a few problems with this.
Number one, it's a video of a video, which should already make you doubt. I mean, this is supposed to be 2024. Why are we filming screens? This looks to be a Tik Tok, which literally has the option to download videos. And if you're not on Tik Tok, there are so many other ways to download media from other devices.
Airdrop, Cloud Share, Screen Record, hell, you can even text it. Again, there is no reason we should be filming screens in 2024 and 2025. The only reason you would is to mask how bad and unconvincing the video really is. So, let's turn our attention to the contents of the video itself, then. And as someone who's familiar with AI videos, this is AI. There's an immediate tell.
To start, the portal hasn't even opened up yet, and my dude is break dancing on the ground here. Then he pulls a Michael Jackson and moonwalks backwards. Then there's a gap in the clip that's missing, probably to remove a hallucination with the video generation. And then instead of running, everyone just sits and looks at it while trembling.
Sorry guys, this one's fake. But what about this one? Alien incident. This witness captures those three beans on film. enhanced the video as much as I possibly could as well as slowed it down at the end so you can see. Bro, bro, bro, everyone's going this way. No. Yo, what is that? Bro, bro, bro, everyone's going this way. No.
Yo, what is that? Yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and not waste my time on this one. It's a terribly made AI video narrated by Malibu Barbie. Hard pass. And that's the extent of all the footage I could find. There were claims that all the surveillance cameras from the mall went dark right before the encounter, but there's actually no evidence to back that up.
But Andrew, why haven't we seen any of the real footage then? Well, because it probably shows nothing of value. And besides, tourists are treating Bayside like the new Roswell. It's free business, free money. It's in the marketplace's best interest to not release the footage. Others have claimed that there was a no fly zone enacted during the whole ordeal, too. But there's no evidence to back that up either.
In fact, these rumors were all made up after the fact to spark controversy. And what of all the Tik Tok witnesses? Well, there's no way of knowing for sure, but here's what I think. I looked up all these accounts and they all have one thing in common. They're trying to make it on the platform. They're trying to become brands. All the channels are still active to this day, posting regularly, trying to capitalize off the boom of the followers they all received from talking about the Miami Mall incident.
One is even charging $3,000 just to talk about it. And when I messaged each and every one of them to comment about their experience, none of them got back to me. Ghosted. Now, that could change over time, and I'll update you if it does, but I'm not too confident about it. [Music] Guys, I want to believe, but the truth behind the Miami Mall incident, the Bayside Marketplace encounter, is that all the evidence, all the signs point towards this just being hype spun up by Tik Tok and the internet. And look, I fell for it, too. Jay sent me that email
and I was like, "Finally, a scare mail I don't have to write myself." Even though it was terribly written and I had to fix some things. Nevertheless, I still ran with it. And over time, I realized that all their stories are consistent because they use the same story. My girlfriend and I were at the mall. Portals opened up. Chaos ensued. The media is lying.
It's a cover up. Blah blah blah. They all generated millions of views for their channels, got monetized, and cashed in. But they're not the only ones that benefited from this. This channel did, too. My video on the incident was terribly made. I edited on my phone for Christ's sake, and yet it sent me from five subscribers to nearly a thousand.
All for a story that probably never even happened. Therefore, after the posting of this video, I have decided to officially delist my old video on the Bayside Marketplace encounter because just like the alleged encounter itself, it needs to be put to rest along with that god awful narrative voice I used. Sheesh.
No, Andrew, you can't get rid of me. The thought of it brings a chill. Okay. Okay. Shut the [ __ ] up and never come back, please. No, I die. Anyways, what do you think? Did I do a good job of looking into this or did I miss something? Let me know down in the comments below because really, I do love your feedback.
As always, thanks for watching and good night. [Music]
