Here be monsters.
A Colorado woman was scared out of her wits after she was visited by a creepy critter that came in the night. A Facebook clip of the animal is baffling commenters — including wildlife officials — with guesses ranging from a rabid wolverine to the blood-sucking “chupacabra” from Latin-American folklore.
“I told everyone about it and no one believed me,” a “mortified” Janay Lynn, 30, told Pen News of the baffling beast, which showed up outside her home in Pueblo.
“I first saw it last Monday during the afternoon – it was sitting in the road in front of my house,” the Coloradan recalled. “It didn’t run or act afraid of me, and it turned and looked at me, and I got the chills and ran back inside.”
The freaky creature showed up a second time on Saturday night after the woman “set out water and food for some stray cats that hang around.”
“I opened my living room curtains, and it was there,” recalled Lynn. She tried to shoo the prowler away but it ignored her and started eating the cat food.
Lynn decided to capture the critter on camera to prove to naysayers that it, did in fact, exist.
Accompanying footage shows the emaciated, chocolate-colored beast, which has long arms and pink scar tissue ringing its rat-like face, chowing down on the bowl of cat food outside her window. The clip concludes with the creature waddling away into the night.
“What the f–k is that? Seriously,” exclaims Lynn in the clip, before noting that the animal is all “bloody.”
In another clip, taken from outside her home this time, the mangy marauder can be seen eating more cat food at the top of some concrete steps.
“It made eye contact with me the whole time and was not afraid,” Lynn told Pen News.
She implored viewers in the FB caption to try and identify the “weird a– animal,” prompting a range of interesting and even outlandish-seeming theories.
Armchair wildlife experts guessed the beast could be a badger, a bear, or a “wolverine with rabies.”
Meanwhile, cryptozoology buffs even surmised that the animal could be a chupacabra, a vampiric demon from Latin American lore that imbibes the blood of livestock, hence its colloquial name “the goatsucker.”
Another guessed that her visitor was a skinwalker, described in Navajo mythology as a witch that can masquerade as an animal.
“It’s so scary because no one can even tell what it is,” said Lynn. “It’s got a rat-like face, its eyes are very small and far apart, it has a long, pointy nose, and a mouth like rats do.”
She added, “It has long legs and arms, is about two-and-a-half feet in length, and has chocolate brown fur that is thick and coarse covering its whole body.”
Some locals even visited her to investigate for themselves, whereupon they found it rummaging about in a trash can outside her house. When they approached the beast, it “ran down the street into a drainage ditch,” said Lynn.
“We shined a light in there, and it started making a hissing-like noise,” Lynn said. “We got all scared and left.”
Even Colorado wildlife officials were stumped by the so-called monster, with several guessing that it could just be a raccoon with mange.
However, Janay isn’t convinced. “I get raccoons here every night, it’s definitely not a raccoon,” she declared.
