People across the US are reporting a mysterious fog with a ‘chemical smell’ that they believe is making them sick within minutes of exposure.
Reports of the funnatural’ fog began late December in parts of Texas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Florida, and Minnesota.
Locals have flooded social media with videos explaining their ‘symptoms’ since the fog appeared in their area, which have included coughing, sore throat, congestion, eye irritation, lethargy, loss of appetite and gut issues.
A Florida resident told DailyMail.com that she stopped at a gas station for about 10 minutes and began feeling ill.
‘Within about and hour, I kept sneezing over and over for about three hours, and my eyes were really puffy,’ she said.
‘I got very warm and I felt like I had a fever, and my stomach was cramping.’
One TikTok user, who goes by ‘Rusky,’ said he has also been experiencing symptoms: ‘Sore throat, coughing, tired, lethargic — I’m still recovering from it.’
He stated in the video that all of his symptoms are a direct result of the fog.
But aside from the reports, experts have stated that there is no evidence to suggest that this ‘sickness-causing’ fog is anything but a co-occurrence of a natural weather event and the viruses that are especially common this time of year.
Florida resident Holly Meyer Lucas also shared a video on TikTok: ‘I’ve been sick and my eyes have been an absolute painful disaster for like two weeks now.
‘We’ve had the fog in Florida, which is absolutely not normal,’ she said.
Reports have claimed that the fog is unusual not just because of its smell, but also because it appears as ‘white particles’ swirling in the air.
The idea about the particles have led some Americans to check their air filters, which a North Dakota resident recently did and made a shocking discovery.
He claimed the air filter was recently changed before the investigation.
‘Super dirty, so quickly,’ he said in a video, describing the filter. He showed it next to a brand new filter to demonstrate how much residue had accumulated.
‘Beware the fog,’ the video’s text reads.
David Bamber, from St Petersburg, Florida, shared a TikTok video of himself walking through the dense fog, explaining that normal fog typically dissipates later in the day, but the recent fog lingers into all hours of the night.
‘The weirdest part is the taste and smell,’ said Bamber. ‘It’s smells like after you set off a bunch of fireworks and the taste of the air is toxic. It is super weird.’
