When Pokémon Attack

Pokemon Go was, and still is, wildly popular. It enables people to hunt for virtual monsters throughout the real world, using GPS functions to create a map of the world around players. It was downloaded roughly 15 million times in its first week of release. Because it encourages people to explore the world around them, numerous bizarre stories have come to light involving the game - some of which are of the paranormal variety. For example, the Loveland Frogman was allegedly encountered in 2016, long after the first wave of sightings had finished in 1972. In another report, some players supposedly broke into Area 51 after discovering a wild Mewtwo in the government base.

A Truly Gastly Encounter

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However, nothing can top what apparently happened to a woman in Moscow. Bizarre circumstances led to a formal police complaint being lodged against a Pokemon character. The married woman had been playing the game before she fell asleep, and was then woken up to find a giant Pokemon lying on top of her body while it sexually assaulted her. Not surprisingly, she jumped out of the bed immediately, causing the bizarre apparition to vanish - but the virtual reality game could allegedly still detect the presence of the monster on her bed. She woke her husband and told him what had happened, but it became clear that he didn’t believe her when later speaking to the police. Both the police and her husband said that she should seek psychiatric help, and a later visit to a psychic turned up nothing. According to Ivan Makarov, a friend of the woman who’s name has not been release to the press, she says that there are ‘too many Pokemon at her place and even the dog can sense them. She says the dog barks whenever she plays Pokemon Go’.
The attack that jumpstarted this series of events reminds me of a sleep paralysis episode. Sufferers of this condition normally tell of being sexually assaulted or lied on by supernatural or demonic beings, and so perhaps this woman saw a Pokemon because she had been playing the game before bed. The rest of the story - the details about the dog being able to sense the Pokemon - could be explained by paranoia. The woman eventually accepted psychiatric help for what she had been through, bringing an end to the truly bizarre anomalous incident. As far as I know, nothing like this has ever happened since.

Source
'Woman Tells Police She Was Raped by Pokemon Go Character' by Simon Holmes for the Daily Mail