Unsettling Reality

The Columbine High School massacre was one of the most atrocious, and horrific mass shootings in recent history. It was the most violent high school shooting until the Stonewall-Douglas attack in 2018. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attempted to use explosives to blow up their cafeteria, and when that failed, unleashed a terror of gunshots on their teachers and peers.

A journal found in Harris’s bedroom, and videotapes left behind, would explain a little bit of how and why these two troubled teens turned to such maddening violence. Both students were apparently fiercely bullied and sought to respond to that by committing one of the worst acts of terror in recent memory.

But aside from those artifacts that were left behind, there is also another tiny clue in the lead up to the attack. Nothing that anybody would’ve noticed or paid any mind to prior to the violence, but definitely has a dark, sinister meaning now looking backward.

Eric Harris wrote the following note on his day planner prior on the Mother’s Day prior to the Columbine massacre:

At that point, Harris clearly knew what he was planning on doing and had no intentions of turning back. Certainly a very morbid relict of his horrendous crimes.