That's scared emotion, the new emotion added with pre-Paranormal patch. This causes sims to act like that.
Paranoid sims look around in every emotion, but they don't run panicked. One of the pictures even showed a sim doing something only scared sims can do.
Now, to the next mystery: what made them scared?
Let's take into account the packs you own:
"misty4m;c-18155371" wrote:
"SnaveXs;c-18155366" wrote:
How was the weather? Do you have Seasons? They usually get scared hearing thunder, lightning and they'll start running around the lot to hide somewhere but they don't actually unless you press on a bed to hide under covers.
The only ones I have installed right now is:
Discover University
Parenthood
Movie Hangout
Toddler
Throwback Fit Kit
This means thunderstorm isn't the cause.
Taking a look at the pictures, this takes place in Willow Creek.
So, I have three theories.
1. The most likely true theory is that one sim arrived with Scared emotion, and used "
Scream Incoherently" interaction, which will make the other sim scared when it fails.
2. Second theory is that there was a ghost (I don't know how it got there) that possessed an object in a large group of sims, causing them to be scared.
3. The third and the most unlikely theory is that the room has scary ambiance. I don't know what causes it, but I think we can safely say that's not it.
