Did a FedEx delivery driver comfort an eight-year-old boy wearing Spiderman pajamas while they waited for police to arrive because the boy's parents were involved in a domestic disturbance? No, that's not true: The video was likely AI-generated. It was posted by a page which publishes similarly fictional engagement bait tales.
The video was published as a reel (archived here) on Facebook by @Dailystories on Nov. 22, 2025. The lengthy caption begins:
He knocked on the door expecting a signature. Instead, a terrified 8-year-old boy ran straight into his arms...
James has driven the same route for six years. He knows the houses, the dogs, and usually, the families.
But the house on Highland Avenue always gave him a bad feeling. Usually, the blinds were drawn, and it was too quiet...
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from facebook.com/reel/3025765414251159.)
On Nov. 22, 2025 Dailystories also published a post with a still image taken from the video. The Dailystories timeline of posts contains two versions of each story, one with a video and one with a still image. A glance over the photo thumbnails of the page, which appear to be AI-generated, shows a formulaic pattern where one person comforts another person or animal, in a time of distress:
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574400590093&sk=photos.)
A reverse image search with Google Lens uncovered another version of the "FedEx driver" image. A Nov. 22, 2025 post on Facebook from the page MY Life experience (archived here) shows a still image of the exact same scene: the same boxes on the truck and same blue trash bin on the curb, but the FedEx driver is wearing a bright red sweatshirt instead of a jacket (pictured below).
In the lower right corner of the image is the four pointed sparkle icon which appears on some content generated by Google AI. This post is captioned with the same story, which continues:
Today, he walked up the path with a box, scanning the label.Before he could knock, the door flew open.It wasn't a parent greeting him. It was 8-year-old Ethan.He was wearing Spider-Man pajamas, barefoot on the cold concrete, and his eyes were wide with terror.From deep inside the house, James heard the unmistakable sound of shattering glass and a man's slurred, angry screaming.
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from facebook.com/share/p/18BgyrvigZ.)
Taking a sentence from the story, "He knocked on the door expecting a signature", Lead Stories searched Facebook. This uncovered yet another copy/paste version of the fake story which was posted as a still image post and as a video reel (archived here) by the page Inspirational Acts of Kindness on Nov. 23, 2025. This version (pictured below) was titled, "The Boy in the Rocket Ship Blanket" but is otherwise identical to the other story.
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from facebook.com/reel/2135298867278763.)
Lead Stories uncovered two more posts (pictured below) posted on Nov. 23 and 24, 2025 (here and here).
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from facebook.com/share/p/1GQJxru1Ca/ and facebook.com/share/p/1BujG16EYZ/.)
