About a week ago, the Internet began circulating around a photo of a strange creature that looked like a dog standing on two legs. The snapshot was taken at night by an automatic footprint camera pointing at the perimeter fence of the Amarillo Zoo. The strange, bipedal creature appeared to be walking outside the zoo, and social media began to debate theories about what it was. Now, city officials are making a public appeal to its citizens to help solve the mystery. A tweet from the official Amarillo city account asked: “Is he a man in a weird hat who likes to walk at night? A tsupacabra? Do you have any idea what this UAO- Unidentified Object Amarillo could be? The chupacabra, in case you were wondering, is a creature that looks like a vampire dog from American folklore. They are said to be about the size of a small bear and roam the night feeding animals and, occasionally, humans. The Amarillo Zoo captured a strange image outside the zoo during the dark and early morning hours of May 21st (around 1:25 a.m.). Is he a person with a weird hat who likes to walk at night? A tsupacabra? Do you have any idea what this UAO- Unidentified Object Amarillo could be? pic.twitter.com/86Ly9ogtBT – CityofAmarillo (@CityofAmarillo) June 9, 2022 The original image was posted on Reddit by an anonymous user who said it came from the team of a zoo guard on Facebook. “The guard said they captured the image on a footprint camera pointing at a perimeter fence and could not figure out what it was,” wrote the user using the @ Segu1n handle on the thread. “I think it was facing from the inside of the zoo to the perimeter fence.” The proposals ranged from Fantastic Mr. himself. Fox to one of the werewolves from the classic 2002 sci-fi horror film Dog Soldiers. For those waiting: San Antonio-based cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard broke his silence about the Amarillo “wolf / chupacabra” that made headlines pic.twitter.com/8E1U8Jp9RF – Camille Sauers (@camillesaccount) June 9, 2022 Another Redditor made a more creative suggestion: “This is a toddler with a dead coyote skull on his head. If you look closely, you can see the spatula used for the skin of this animal in the left hand of the small child “. The user in charge of the snapshot clarified that the zoo guards had never seen anything like this in any of their automated cameras. “The other OP posts go back at least a year and are all just regular breeder posts,” Segu1n wrote. It seems that the city authorities are dealing with the case. Hopefully we will have a solution to this mystery soon. MORE: The zoo keeper spotted a strange bipedal creature that looks like a dog and no one knows what it is MORE: Adorable sluggish baby surprises zoo keepers with quick birth
