Lumberton ‘Cookie Monster’ was caught on camera grabbing all the candy

Lumberton Cookie Monster has a penchant for chocolate – lots of chocolate – and appears at a house in Lumberton twice in five minutes on Halloween night, leaving other trick-or-treaters with absolutely nothing.

The homeowner left a Halloween bucket full of chocolate with a decorative sign that read, “While we’re not home to scare you, here’s a bowl of Tricks and Treats. Have one…if you dare.”

At first glance, the suspect could be Elmo, but upon closer examination of video evidence, it turns out to indeed be Cookie Monster.

According to the Ring video camera, Cookie Monster, parked with his driver on the street in the neighborhood on Village Creek Parkway in Lumberton, appeared at 7:50 p.m. and the Sesame Street character took an entire Ziploc freezer bag of candy.

“I got the alert on my phone and my family actually laughed when we saw the first Ring camera appearance of Cookie Monster live. We assumed the kid thought you had to bring a whole bag,” says the Southeast resident -Texas, a KFDM/Fox 4 contributor, said.

“We laughed and laughed, but we also thought maybe he couldn’t open the resealable bag and get some candies out with those big Cookie Monster hands,” he said.

Cookie Monster’s driver then drove along slowly as the beloved character walked to the next house where the neighbors were home and handed out a handful of candy.

But it turns out this incident wasn’t the innocent mistake or confusing moment of a young trick-or-treater.

Five minutes later, Cookie Monster’s driver backed up and took him back to the scene of the first “candy crime” in the new upscale Lumberton neighborhood, where residents are known to be very generous with Halloween candy on a street where the average home price is high. valued at $594,408, according to public real estate records.

A second Ring camera video shows the ravenous blue monster from Sesame Street running out of the vehicle and grabbing the last full Ziploc bag of chocolate, intended for all trick-or-treaters on the honor system. Cookie Monster then sprinted off into the sodden garden and was heard laughing again at 7.55pm before getting into the waiting car, believed to be driven by someone aged 16 or over.

“Whoever drives that car knows better!” an irate Lumberton resident sounded off to KFDM/Fox 4 after watching the second Ring video that showed the candy grab while the character’s driver waited in the car shown in the background of the video.

Cookie Monster ended up with almost an entire 5.6-pound bag of chocolate — minus the dozens of chocolates the homeowner said he couldn’t resist in the days leading up to the 2024 scare night.

The homeowner tells KFDM/Fox 4 that he recently purchased the “Kirkland Signature All-Chocolate Bag” at a Costco in the Houston area for $19.99 plus tax.

According to Costco, the bag includes the following favorites:

• M&M’s Peanut
• M&M’s plain
• Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
• Snickers
• Kit Kat
• Twix
• Milky Way
• Almond joy
• 100 thousand
• York peppermint patties

If you have more information about this Halloween caper, call Candy Stoppers. You remain anonymous. Just kidding!

“Maybe the young trick-or-treater, and more importantly the driver who apparently willingly brought him back to empty the candy bucket, will be more considerate of other children on October 31, 2025,” the homeowner said.