What is this? Security camera captures weird creature in the night outside a Texas Zoo

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Although surveillance cameras are used for, obviously, surveillance, they’ve seen their fair share of weird, funny, and awesome stuff. A surveillance camera at a Texas zoo recently captured something super-strange. So strange, that they asked the public to help them identify the creature in the photo. Can you tell what it is?

The Amarillo Zoo captured a strange image outside the zoo in the dark and early morning hours of May 21 (around 1:25…

Posted by City of Amarillo, Texas on Wednesday, June 8, 2022

The uncanny creature appeared in front of the Amarillo Zoo in Texas. As the zoo team notes, it happened in the middle of the night of 21 May, somewhere around 1:25 a.m. “Is it a person with a strange hat who likes to walk at night?” the team wonders” “A chupacabra?” They asked the public if they had any idea what the “Unidentified Amarillo Object” could be, and some of the answers honestly cracked me up.

“Did you guys recently have a Furry Convention in town? That would answer a lot of things here.,” one user wrote. Some say it reminds them of Rocket the Raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy or Sonic the Hedgehog. My buddy John said it looked like professor Lupin from Harry Potter. I totally forgot about him, but now I see the resemblance.

If you ask me, it looks like there’s a new version of “What We Do in the Shadows” being filmed. When I look closely at the picture, it looks like someone is giving a lynx a piggyback ride. I prefer the second scenario because it’s so random, and it makes me laugh out loud when I visualize it. Until the mystery is solved, let’s have some fun and guess what this is. Let us know what you think in the comments.

[via Gizmodo]


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Dunja Đuđić

Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.

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45 responses to “What is this? Security camera captures weird creature in the night outside a Texas Zoo”

  1. Pau Avatar
    Pau

    Isn’t that a furry?

    1. Kaouthia Avatar
      Kaouthia

      You know, that was my first thought, too ?

  2. g_disqus Avatar
    g_disqus

    it’s a publicity stunt to get attention

    1. Sharon Welch Avatar
      Sharon Welch

      It’s a man carrying a kid on his back .

  3. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    It’s a line dancing llama in the lamp light?

    1. bran eloi Avatar
      bran eloi

      letting loose a lanky, limber, limbo lad.

  4. Mike Shwarts Avatar
    Mike Shwarts

    It’s Texas, so it’s a Chupacabra.

  5. Kevin Sabourin Avatar
    Kevin Sabourin

    This is a publicity stunt. For advertising the Zoo

  6. Bruce Avatar
    Bruce

    Its a poodle standing against the fence.

  7. bran eloi Avatar
    bran eloi

    isn’t that that jackass from the jan. 6th capitol bldg breach?

    1. backcountry164 Avatar
      backcountry164

      How could it be?? He’d have to leave that comfy spot he’s found in your head first…

      1. bran eloi Avatar
        bran eloi

        ahhh, there you are! hola pendejo!! como estas? ?

        1. backcountry164 Avatar
          backcountry164

          There who is?? Who do you imagine that I am?? Please continue to make a fool of yourself, we could all use the laugh.

    2. hinspect Avatar
      hinspect

      ☆Libtard Alert☆

  8. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    It’s Swiper the fox!

  9. centurion2065 Avatar
    centurion2065

    It does look like someone carrying a small child on their back, but why would anyone be doing that at 1:25 a.m. in the morning outside of the zoo?

  10. David Buckles Avatar
    David Buckles

    That’s the cartoon Yosemite Sam’s taller brother

  11. Sarah Booth Avatar
    Sarah Booth

    Looks like a werewolf

  12. Dan 44 Avatar
    Dan 44

    It’s a shot of a lynx or bobcat from underneath the top part of it’s back didn’t catch enough light to B Really visible if you look closely you can barely see the outline looks like it jumped towards the camera

    1. backcountry164 Avatar
      backcountry164

      You are clearly seeing a different picture than the rest of us are…

      1. Brandy Milby Avatar
        Brandy Milby

        Agreed

  13. Terry Lockyer Avatar
    Terry Lockyer

    I think that is a young man or teen giving a piggy back ride to a young woman or teen.

  14. DilbertDoe Avatar
    DilbertDoe

    A coyote.

  15. Me Avatar
    Me

    It looks like sonic the hedgehog costume

    1. Brandy Milby Avatar
      Brandy Milby

      Haha yes “Tails”

  16. Mike D Avatar
    Mike D

    Who cares what it is, I just have one question for everyone here: Which leg is in front, the left, or the right?

  17. hinspect Avatar
    hinspect

    A guy humped over with an appliance he was just sitting on and with a feather coated Yoda mask on

  18. John Grose Avatar
    John Grose

    Looks like a coyote that had been standing and leaning on the fence. The security can send to be low quality and has distorted the image.

  19. Robert Muerto Avatar
    Robert Muerto

    It’s a drunken cowboy

  20. Robert Muerto Avatar
    Robert Muerto

    Cowboy on a miniature pony jumping. Or the zoo needs more view’s for animals to feed

  21. Robert Muerto Avatar
    Robert Muerto

    I still think it’s a drunken cowboy

  22. Kurt Loaded Avatar
    Kurt Loaded

    It’s a Biden supporter

  23. Matthew Peterson Avatar
    Matthew Peterson

    Thats for sure s furry.

  24. Ernie Sheriff Avatar
    Ernie Sheriff

    It’s a werewolf there in keystone heights Florida I seen one about three nights ago first time I seen it was 4 years ago they’re real like nobody talks about them

  25. qcubed63 Avatar
    qcubed63

    Florida man visits Texas.
    next!

  26. Brandy Milby Avatar
    Brandy Milby

    Looks like one of chucky cheeses side kicks are loose

  27. William Abernethy Avatar
    William Abernethy

    It’s just Ted Nugent in Primal Hunter Mode lookin’ for a snack…

  28. lis_t Avatar
    lis_t

    It’s a furry trying to get in.

  29. Todd Avatar
    Todd

    I can’t believe how many flipping idiots come up who’s the most stupidest bull crap to say about something. If you really got to think car to make up something that damn stupid why don’t you just stay the hell off. Nothing but a bunch of delinquents idiotic parasites. If you think you’re trying to be funny you’re not. It’s sad to say a pyramid scheme has more intelligence than a lot of you people. Go ahead and look the word up into 6th grade education.

    1. Aj Arkell James Arkell Avatar
      Aj Arkell James Arkell

      Totally agree idiots looking for cheap fame publicity stunts all because of social media

  30. Todd Avatar
    Todd

    Realistically number one I’ve been in the cryptozoology for 30 years. I’ve been a Paranormal Investigator / researcher for 31 years. I’ve seen so many things out there in my time there with night vision cameras and stuff . This is got me to believe in a couple of things person being on their video so at first I thought it was going to be a hole in it but there’s no way you can be being in the zoo. Because it’s on their Camera and Video but my question is where is the video of it? You have cameras out there why is there not a video? Because cameras not only take pictures they also record. Where is the rest of the pictures to go with it. If it caught it once in that frame there should be other one caught also meaning of their cameras catching the same thing. For a zoo they would more likely have at least three cameras covering the front entrance. And as you go by Beach area where the animals are you’re going to have anywhere from two to four cameras. Can I use them for protection and against anyone trying to break in and do something and that’s why they use video cam to. So why is there not a video? Something stinks in Denmark. My guess would be it’s some type of piece of trash that maybe was blowing in the wind and was caught at the right time to give it an illusion that looks like sounds good. Everyone that guess at what it is it’s just a classic sign of pareidolia. I don’t know what that is. Look it up we all do it. It’s basically what our mind tells us that our eyes be the moment we see something. Like a tree that’s growing wrong and has a few things about it and first going to look at it Google factors to eyes a nose and a mouth. Does a classic one are different shapes in clouds. And more. A true person that knows things about the Paranormal and crypto to the wrong with you first rule of thumb is don’t guess of what it is. You debunk it can keep doing it until you run out of solution. The field one picture just got to be another that caught it. That is not a human being because human beings do not look like that with infrared camera. This I know for a fact after my experience and years of doing these things believe me I know what it is and I know what it is whatever it is could you definitely not a knife never human or animal. My guess back I said is like maybe a bag that was blowing in the wind and when it tripped the motion sensor to kick in to take the picture it was done just at the right time right frame right angle to get a deal due to that is something. I remember one quite some time back when you watch the video of it you swore that it was a giant bat. The way the bag was caught on what it was caught on and when the wind blew the sides and corners of a bag with flap and it looked just like a giant bat wings. I could tell they were able to really find out the truth. That was just the trash bag. These things happen don’t ever come straight into a conclusion of what something is without trying to find out the facts for yourself. But again I want to know why there’s no video and why is there is no more pictures of it at different angles.

  31. Whatdoyknow Avatar
    Whatdoyknow

    It’s the ‘IT’ from Stephen King.

  32. Carson Spanswick Avatar
    Carson Spanswick

    Did y’all look at the left hand of the creature? It looks like a fork.

  33. Aj Arkell James Arkell Avatar
    Aj Arkell James Arkell

    Ya is someone in a costume mess8ng around an you all just gave them there 10 minutes of fame ..unless your all in on it too. Nice hoax

  34. C. B. Thuss, Jr. Avatar

    Looks like someone with a backpack on with a ground pad or sleeping bag on top and looks like they are carrying something in the left hand. Maybe a flashlight?