Home Alone is many people's favorite festive flick - but are you sure you know everything about the classic movie?
It’s been 35 years since Macaulay Culkin’s unforgettable turn as Kevin McCallister hit the big screen, and somehow, new discoveries are still being made.
The beloved 1990 classic follows eight-year-old Kevin as he’s accidentally left behind while his enormous family jets off to Paris for the holidays. But was he really the only one forgotten?
A chaotic pizza fight explains why no one noticed Kevin was missing
The film kicks off in the McCallister family’s luxurious Chicago home, where the chaos of a big family holiday gathering is in full swing.
After a brawl over pizza erupts between Kevin and his older brother Buzz, things escalate quickly - drinks are spilled, tempers flare, and Kevin is banished to the attic for the night.
That’s when eagle-eyed viewers spotted something crucial: as the kitchen is being cleaned up, Kevin’s plane ticket can be briefly seen getting tossed into the trash.
That tiny blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment explains how no one realized he was missing during the mad dash to the airport the next morning.
Kevin’s parents, Kate and Peter, are more focused on catching their first-class flight than doing a proper headcount.
And when they finally get to the airport, they breeze through check-in without noticing they’ve got one less child in tow.
Cousin Heather’s botched headcount hints at a second forgotten kid
But here’s where things get even stranger. Fans have now picked up on a scene that suggests Kevin might not be the only child who got left behind.
When the family is boarding the airport shuttle, cousin Heather is tasked with counting the kids.
She walks along the line, patting each child on the head as she counts - but her numbers don’t quite add up. Buzz decides to mess with her by shouting random numbers, throwing her off.
The confusion results in Heather counting herself twice - once as number three, and again as number eleven.
When Kate checks in, Heather confidently says: "11, including me. Five boys, six girls, four parents, two drivers, and a partridge in a pear tree."
But if 11 kids are supposed to be there, and Heather has counted herself twice, that leaves room for yet another child who may have been forgotten entirely.
Reddit fans are convinced there’s a missing McCallister kid
The mix-up has sparked debate among fans online, with some jokingly suggesting that there’s an unseen tragedy happening in the background of the movie.
One Reddit user summed it up perfectly: "It makes me think there's another McCallister kid frozen under a bush somewhere that they didn't even realize."
While it’s easy to brush this off as a simple continuity error, it raises some serious questions about the McCallister family’s ability to organize... anything.
Whether or not there’s a second forgotten child hidden in the shadows of Home Alone, one thing’s clear: this holiday staple still has secrets to reveal - even after 35 years.