Officials still haven't been able to identify an incredibly strange and mysterious creature which was caught on a zoo's surveillance camera.
The city of Amarillo, in Texas, first appealed to the public last summer (21 May) for help from anyone who could tell them what the odd creature in the footage from Amarillo Zoo was.
According to News Channel 10, security cameras at the zoo spotted the figure prowling around inside a perimeter fence in the eerie early hours of the morning. Check out the bizarre encounter here:
Zoo staff spotted the strange picture when they were going through images taken by their security cameras and they still haven't a clue what the creature was after a whole year of tirelessly trying to crack the mystery.
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As a matter of fact, neither do city officials who had thrown the mystery out to the public partly in hopes of getting closer to the truth.
While it's clear suggestions came in thick and fast when Amarillo Zoo first posted about the ordeal to Twitter last June, nobody really had any idea what the weird figure was and everyone's decided to have a bit of a laugh with it.
One of the most popular suggestions was 'a person in a furry suit' as many wrote in, though it begs the question how they got inside the zoo during the middle of the night and what they were doing there.
Others suggested it might be the legendary American creature Chupacabra, an animal said to prowl around and drink the blood of other animals at night.
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If so, it answers the question of what it was doing wandering around the zoo, but also raises a whole host more about legendary creatures suddenly being real.
Fans of the Netflix show Stranger Things have pointed out it looks like the monstrous Demogorgon from the first season, which is bad news for us if that somehow turns out to be true.
The real answer to the question 'what the hell is this creature' is that we still don't know, but it's clear that whatever weird suggestions the internet has come up with since last summer are going to be better than whatever the truth is.
However, what we do know is that the creature is being referred to as an 'Unidentified Amarillo Object' or UAO and while that's very chuckle-worthy, it doesn't actually bring us any closer to working out what this freak of nature actually is.
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Michael Kashuba, director of Parks and Recreation with the City of Amarillo, said to News Channel 10: "We’d love to hear feedback from the community on what they think it might be. It’s a very unique picture, and we’re excited to see what the community thinks. The photo is absolutely real."
Still, with all of the suggestions flying around on the internet it's likely that someone is bound to stumble on the right answer at some point, or maybe they already have and they just don't know it.
But for now, the mystery of the strange creature remains unsolved.
UNILAD has reached out to Amarillo Zoo for an update on the matter.
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