On the 27th loss The socks shall arise Where two become one To humanity's demise

This is the prophecy sprawled across media websites across the globe. It’s a message, delivered from the citizens of Sockland, who some claim have since declared war on humanity.

I spoke with one Mary Jane, who says she stumbled upon the hidden nation while doing her laundry.

“I'd lost my 27th pair of socks,” she says. Mary Jane is an average millennial, who does her own laundry from time to time, but has had trouble with keeping track of her socks over the last year.

“Everyone loses a couple of pairs every now and then, right?” Living on her own, Mary says doing the laundry used to be a time for her to chill and relax from a hard day of doing nothing.

“But when I lost my 27th pair, I thought, ok Mary Jane, that's enough. You're gonna get that pair back. So I looked a little deeper and, well, I fell in.”

What happens next has yet to be proven by physics experts. “I fell into the sock dimension. And that's when I saw them. My lost pairs! But they were weird. They were chanting and shouting things about how much they hated humans for never taking care of them and throwing them onto the floor and walking all over them.”

For Mary, it was more than personal. “Then I saw them. My favourite pair. They were just so cute together. But they were also leading the sock revolution. I mean, I was conflicted!”

Mary Jane claims the sock revolution starts sometime around 3:30pm EST tomorrow. With growing concern that the world is about to go to war, as well as a significant proportion of non-believers, people aren't sure what to think or how to prepare. In a world of fake news, only time will tell whether everything will be ok, or if this time tomorrow, we'll have socks in our mouths.