The Echo Field: A Digital Loop

I live in this boring suburb, and lately, I've noticed something profoundly unsettling:

My digital actions seem to physically "echo" in my surroundings. I call it the "Echo Field."At first,

I thought they were coincidences. I posted a super obscure joke in a tiny subreddit,

and five minutes later, I heard a kid on the street telling that exact joke.

But it's escalating. I changed my Wi-Fi password to an obscure movie quote, and the next day

I saw that exact quote as graffiti on a wall. I posted a completely made-up local legend

on an anonymous Twitter account, and a week later I found an old newspaper clipping taped to

my door, presenting that "legend" as fact—allegedly from 1957. The rules are clear: