Name That Creature

[igrowone]

That is a clear human body into a suit. It's not human like posture. It's human posture!

you have a point, but it's a mighty thin looking human
possible, but now add a suit on top
now then you have a human running around in the dark at 2:00 am
guess what's out in the Texas panhandle at that time of year
rattlesnakes, big ones
if I'm stomping around out there I want snake boots
thick ones that come up to my groin

 

[William76]

Remember the guvament sez they things are real now!,76

 

[igrowone]

things like this is why government has been very slow to grapple with UFOs
I'm calling this a UFO related occurrence since there was a recent UFO in the area
and then you get some weird stuff like a coyote ET pilot
I can easily understand why mainstream science doesn't want to touch this shit

 

[Chi13]

It's one of the Furry Freak Bros, Freewheelin Frank Freak without the hat.

 

[Petrochemical]

Freewheelin frank freak the coyote et pilot.....no really

 

[William76]

With all the supposed pics and video evidence you would think we would all be seeing these things!,I try but I can't seem to smoke enuff,76

 

[Three Berries]

That's scp 682 you can't tell me otherwise… For those who don’t know: "SCP-682 is based on a real-life sea monster found by a group of soldiers after a tsunami in 2006 on an island Sakhalin in the east part of Russia and near Japan. The remains of the carcass have been scientifically identified to be that of a beluga whale."

A random, heavily decomposed beluga carcass… Probably not scp 682… But hey the story was just too nice not to be told…

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[igrowone]

99%+ of stuff like this is mis-identification
watching the cryptid scuttlebutt sites and other news
no good explanation appearing yet

 

[William76]

The scp monsters are all made up for a computer game!,suppose their as real as everything else.76

 

[pop_rocks]

i actually know this area pretty well ig1; you are right about the brush snakes and i dont want anything to do with them rattlers
the weird thing is why dident they land in hereford? i hear the aliens like cows
plus they are canid aliens? even mo'betta because dogs love to herd and harass bovine
/thats the smell of money brother

coyote et pilot?! dogs are actually the most sentient beings in this galaxy and will someday rule the world

/ you will walk when it is time to walk

ive been doing some research on this and it turns out it is black elvis in a fur jacket!
hey man, he was just out looking for a midnight snack

again, i enjoy cryptids and the idea that there is a lot ot be discovered in the world
but its a hard sell with all the static out there

 

[Petrochemical]

Dogs will rule

 

[Ca++]

In the UK, that's just what women wear to go shopping.

Or it's MJ in disguise

 

[Ca++]

 

[William76]

My kid did say Michael Jackson was still alive!,I didn't believe it,76

 

[armedoldhippy]

looks like a bullshit hoax. ever notice how all video claiming to be of a Bigfoot always has the camera shaking like a bear is hunching the guys leg? fucking frat boys drunk, playing with a camera after too many draft beers..."hey, let's fuck with the rubes..."

 

[igrowone]

the Bigfoot tie in is useful
some of you may recall the old Bigfoot 'movie', it was a short film capture by some guys
many claimed it was obviously faked at that time
however, over the years it has been pointed out that if that
Bigfoot was a guy in a suit then it was one very good suit
it wouldn't have been cheap and would have to have been custom made
looking at this still picture gives me the same thought
it wouldn't have been cheap, it's a very good fit
eventually some some professionals will provide their opinions
I await eagerly

 

[igrowone]

I Work As A Zookeeper For The Amarillo Zoo And I Know What The Creature Is
Ok so I'm pretty sure you've all seen this photo in the news over the last week: https://imgur.com/gallery/NrXhKUO

Before we get started, I'm writing this on a burner account for anonymity's sake. I could get into some real trouble for doing this, since I'm revealing shit that only the Zoo management really knows. Before we get hired, most of us sign a DNA. It's the standard stuff, but it means if anyone finds out who wrote this I could be in some serious legal trouble.

I attempted to post this on 4chan, but the asshats over there largely ignored it, or told me I was "a fucking liar". Maybe you guys will hear me out though. Even if you don't, I need to get this out of my mind.

So, about that photo. It's a photo from security camera footage at the zoo, as you all probably already know. The City finally released it to the public on twitter because long story short, they're scared shit-less. We all are. I've never believed in supernatural shit or cryptozoology, seeing as I've been working with and studying real animals for most of my life. But I don't have words for what we've experienced lately. I'm genuinely incapable of explaining it. Science doesn't touch shit like this and I'm at a loss to explain it beyond the conclusions we've all come to, which I'll explain later on.

All of this started about two months ago or so, back in April. I was with a few other zookeepers, doing the usual routine. Cleaning up pens, feeding the animals and whatnot. It was somewhat late at night, after closing time, about 11pm or so. I'm filling the feed in the exotic bird area, when I notice two or three parrots are dead. This was obviously concerning to us, as we all care a lot about the animals we care for. We aren't exactly flushed with cash, and Amarillo Zoo, although popular, doesn't make a lot of money. Losing critters out of nowhere can be a real blow to revenue, since it can cost a lot to replace the animals. Anyways I'm getting off track. Point is, birds dead. Out of nowhere might I add. It was only a few, sure, but if they kept dropping off like that it would be bad news. So I let the other zookeepers know about it, and we decide to search the cage. Perhaps some snot-nosed kid had fed the birds something poisonous, or maybe there was an illness or virus spreading among the birds. This was nothing too big, so when we let management know about it the next day they largely shrugged it off. We sent the carcasses to a vet to get them tested anyways, to see what killed them.

Well, the tests the vets office did turned nothing back. Like, at all. No poisons, no evidence of illness even. Not so much as a feather out of place. They had just dropped dead. It was weird, but we sort of forgot about it. A few weeks later we find more animals dead. We find three goats, largely in the same manner as the birds. We got them tested too, because clearly this was not something random. Management catches wind of this, so we start beefing up security, and keeping an eye on visitors. We start making more announcements to not feed the animals, etc. You guys might not know this, but Zookeepers have a pretty demanding schedule. It can vary by zoo, but many of us sleep in bunks at the zoo so we can take care of the animals 24/7. You know, in case a lion or chimp breaks out and we need to make another Harambe meme (which was tragic, btw). We tend to rotate in schedules so each of us gets the chance to sleep at home a few days a week. So in addition to the other stuff, we start taking turns watching the security footage at night.

The deaths don't stop happening though. And we aren't seeing shit at night. In early May, we noticed a few of the sheep in our petting zoo section missing. They just straight up vanished. It was very frustrating. By this point, we start getting the police involved. We call them up and tell them what's been happening. They say they'll leave an officer around along with our security to watch things at night until the weird stuff stops happening. We zookeepers start really watching our security cameras too. Whatever was happening, it was probably some crafty creep who got a kick out of killing animals for fun. Me and my colleagues were getting pissed too. The animals were clearly stressed, and a few of them stopped eating regularly. We hated the thought of someone trying to hurt innocent animals for fun.

Well, then the really scary stuff starts happening. We get up in the morning and find the sheep that were missing. Or what was left of them. Their skins were all we found, strewn about the sidewalk near the Zoo's entrance. We knew it was our sheep because their ID tags were included with the fur. Police say they didn't see anything the night before. Security says the same thing. We are all baffled. We manage to it get all cleared up before the zoo opens. We decide to keep the strange happenings under wrap so as to not alert the fucker doing this. We don't want them to know we're onto it.

A full day passes without incident. We had a normal day the next day too, when at night, I hear a bunch of shouting. It was around 2am, and the security guard is running for his life. He's shouting for the cops and is shaking all over. Says he saw something climb over the wall to the lion exhibit. Says it was covered in fur. The police have him show them us where its at and when all get there, there's nothing. We check the security footage and all we managed to capture is some movement in the darkness in the lion's area. Security guard is crying and shit saying it was a werewolf. We laugh him out of the room. He keep insisting it was a werewolf. Like something out of Harry Potter he says. We laugh at him. We're sure at this point it was probably some Coyote or some shit that managed to find a way into the zoo at night. The sheep skin was weird, but maybe the thing had been eating the carcass nearby in the wooded area nearby the zoo. It called Thompson Memorial Park. It's small, but it could hide a coyote or two.

The shit doesn't stop though. We start finding organs in the enclosures. Just out of nowhere. And they weren't random. Intestines, in the shape of a heart on the floor of the porcupine exhibit. Two sheep eyeballs in the holes of our wooden fences. We had been watching the cameras, and we couldn't really see anything except for quick flashes of white from time to time. The animals were still acting strange. Normally friendly animals suddenly just stayed in their sleeping areas, even when fed. We were really freaked out at this point, and the police started sending more officers to patrol the zoo at night.

It all culminated on May 21st. It was 3am, usual night. It was quiet out, and I was watching the cameras with a security guard. We were looking at one of the outside camera areas when we fucking notice it. The photo above captures exactly what we saw. I shit a fucking brick when I saw it. At first, it sort of reminded me of that Coyote asshole who was walking around during the 2021 Capitol Riots in DC. Some guy wearing a a coyote pelt on his body. But it wasn't right. Its limbs were strangely animalistic, and yet still strangely human. Not only that, but I don't know if any of you have noticed, it was holding some kind of stick. It was doing this weird freezing jerking motion. It would pace, and then freeze. It would stay perfectly still. Then it would jitter about and start pacing again. We phoned the police obviously, and say there's an intruder on the fence, that it might be our guy. Well, three or four officers go right towards the fence.

I'm out there since I wanna see this sick fuck get arrested. The police decide to split up and they point their guns at it. They start yelling at it to stop right where it is and not to move and that it was under arrest. Thing starts heaving. The security footage uses night-vision, so it may seem like we could see it easily, but in real life it was pitch black out. They get their flash lights out and point it at this thing. Its the scariest shit I've ever seen in my life. Eyes totally devoid of color, just milky white like some kind of demon. Sharp ass teeth. I begin to wonder if that security guy was right after all. Maybe it was some sort of werewolf. But I've had time to think about it, and the moon wasn't full that day. It sounds fucking childish and dumb, but when you've seen something so unexplainable to you start reaching for straws trying to figure it out.

So the thing is making this jittery movement, and it starts to sound there this rattling. Sort of like when you hear sprinklers go off in your yard. Thing is furry as hell, and the police start yelling louder 'cause its moving towards the officers on the other side of the fence. It starts screaming and it was the most god awful sound. Like boiling a puppy alive. The officers are terrified like we all were, and they start shooting at it. I've never seen anything like it. Thinking about it now makes me wanna cry, like seriously. It took five shots dead center in the chest and to the fucking head and didn't even flinch. The officers see this and shoot at it more. But it just takes it, without so much as a flinch, still screaming, but louder now. It suddenly moves lighting fast and is on the other side of the fence. I gasped and started running. I could hear its screams and the rattling. Officers realize their guns are fucking useless against this thing and they start backing away. We all start booking it back to the Zookeeper's bunk area. We sat in that room and the officers called in back up. Meanwhile, the thing was jerking its way around the enclosure, and making its way around the zoo.

We waited in the security camera room, watching the security cameras and waiting for the other police to come. We watch this thing walk in the zoo like its nothing. Jittering around in its weird fucking way. We can hear it screaming to some extent still. Suddenly, we watch as the thing vanishes. I can't really describe it. It was there and then suddenly it wasn't.

The backup arrives, and they search the park. Officers take our stories. They find nothing in the zoo. We check the footage again. We have it on camera. We didn't have good footage of it inside the zoo, but the footage outside the fence is crystal clear. We are all freaked out. I didn't sleep a wink that night. We start debating about what it was to pass the time. It all we can talk about when we get to work. We wonder if it was a werewolf. Agree that werewolf is a bad explanation. We start wondering if its an alien, or a demon, or some shit. One of our colleagues though says he knows what it is. Says he's heard stories about things like it when he was growing up in Arizona. He mentions what he thinks it is, and I realize I've actually heard of the thing before too. Given everything we had seen, it makes a lot of sense and matches up with everything.

I'm not gonna say what it is here. If the legends I've heard are true, and I believe they are 100% true now, its bad mojo to even talk about them. Its some dark and evil shit that the Navajo take very fucking seriously. If you still can't figure out what I'm talking about by now, google "Navajo" and "Scary Stories". That should bring up all you need to know.

All I need to know is that one of /those/ is stalking the zoo. The footage is remarkable. Made it to the mayor's office. It has had the police department totally stumped. It has had the entire city spooked. They've been looking at that footage over and over again trying to come up with a rational explanation. They can't. That's why the City of Amarillo tweeted out the footage. A lot of people have taken this all as a joke, but I assure you none of us are laughing. We are all fucking terrified. The whole world knows now. The only good news about all of this is that the weird shit has stopped happening. We still hear rattling at night though when we're walking around the zoo.

You might have noticed the Zoo put out a statement saying no animals had died. That's technically true, but only because we had listed the earlier deaths as natural. That was before we realized they weren't.

I'm typing all this right now on very little sleep. I haven't been able to sleep well since I've seen that thing's eyes. I've finally had a day or two off Zoo duty so I'm at home typing this. I'm using a VPN so hopefully no one can trace this post back to me. But maybe I suppose I shouldn't mind if I get fired.

Truth is, at this point, I'm not sure I wanna go back.

 

[Ca++]

How many 'I' comments can you get in a sentence, and could they manage just one, that isn't about themselves. I can't read that clap trap. The opening paragraph was sickeningly redundant. Yet carried the message perfectly. Though not the one that were trying to send.

 

[exploziv]

I can confirm the story, I was the fence.

 

[igrowone]

How many 'I' comments can you get in a sentence, and could they manage just one, that isn't about themselves. I can't read that clap trap. The opening paragraph was sickeningly redundant. Yet carried the message perfectly. Though not the one that were trying to send.

oh no question it's not polished writing
and I had some reservations about posting it
but there are a few things in there that made me post it up for further 'review'
do I think it's true? I will say I'm skeptical too, but there are a few things that were interesting