Videos circulated on TikTok and social media claiming that dozens of children vanished in the U.S. state of Virginia within a short period and that ice-cream trucks were linked to their disappearance. Actually, the Virginia State Police confirmed there is no evidence of mass abductions or any connection between missing children and ice cream trucks. The missing-children figures cited in the posts are misrepresented: most incidents are classified as runaways, and the spike in reports is explained by Virginia forwarding all cases to the national missing-children clearinghouse, so the higher number appears abnormal but reflects reporting practices, not a true surge. Sources such as WSET and Mount Online provide fact-checks that debunk the narrative.
