{"id":267497,"date":"2026-08-18T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267497\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:24:07","slug":"man-in-chucky-style-mask-asks-woman-if-she-was-ready-to-die-in-philadelphia-police-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267497\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in ‘Chucky-style’ mask asks woman if she was ‘ready to die’ in Philadelphia: police"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A creepy encounter in Pennsylvania is under investigation as Philadelphia police are searching for a masked man accused of chasing and threatening people while wearing a “Chucky” mask.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia police said the man threatened and chased at least half a dozen people around City Hall. The encounters happened around 5:18 a.m. on Aug. 12 and reportedly even included asking one woman if she was “ready to die.”<\/p>\n

The police said the person of interest<\/a> is facing charges that include terroristic threatening, simple assault, and other offenses.<\/p>\n

It is believed the masked man recorded the encounters, but it’s unclear if it was part of a social media trend.<\/p>\n

He was last seen on camera running toward people around 5:25 a.m. near Penn Square.<\/p>\n

So far, the police said only one person has spoken with the police about the reported encounter. Anyone with additional information is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A creepy encounter in Pennsylvania is under investigation as Philadelphia police are searching for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-267497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}