Posted on 05/16/2025 8:52:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A mysterious creature has baffled a woman in Colorado, with even wildlife experts unable to figure out what the creature is.
Janay Lynn, 30, said the animal gave her ‘the chills’ when she saw it on Monday outside her home in Pueblo, Colorado.
Some have suggested the creepy animal is a ‘chupacabra’ or ‘skin-walker’ after footage emerged of the creature.
After first seeing the animal, Janay said nobody believed her – until she filmed it.
Footage showed a small, brownish-black creature with red spots on its face eating with its hands on Janay’s porch.
‘Ew, it’s all bloody!’ she remarked in the video, later adding: ‘I was mortified. I first saw it last Monday during the afternoon – it was sitting in the road in front of my house.
‘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. I told everyone about it and no one believed me.’
Janay said on Saturday around 8.30 pm, she set out water and food for stray cats which live nearby – but when she opened her curtains, the creature was there.
‘I went outside to try to yell and scare it off because I was worried about the cats, and that’s when I got the video of it eating the cat food,’ she said.
‘It made eye contact with me the whole time and was not afraid.’
After sharing footage of the encounter online, the clips have gone viral as users try to find out what the creature is.
Some said it was a chupacabra – a notorious blood-sucking cryptid from American folklore.
Others called it a skin-walker – described by the Navajo as a witch with the ability to disguise themselves as an animal.
There was no shortage of more conventional guesses, either.
‘Raccoon, badger, wolverine, coatimundi, bear,’ said Janay. ‘But I’ve looked all of those up and it doesn’t match any of those.
‘That’s why it’s so scary because no one can even tell what it is.’
Janay said it has a ‘rat-like’ face, with small eyes far apart. A long pointy nose and mouth like a rat are also features on the creature.
‘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. I’ve never seen anything like it.’
Some locals came to see the animal at Janay’s home, but it was hiding in a trash can and then ran down the street into a drainage ditch.
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Colorado wildlife officials said it’s tough to be ‘100% sure’ of the animal’s identity.
A spokesperson said: ‘The use of the front paws and the size makes us think it’s a raccoon. We think this animal might be a raccoon with mange.’
But Janay isn’t convinced: ‘I get raccoons here every night, it’s definitely not a raccoon.’
How odd.
Someone just posted a wtf is this?!? In a forum a few days ago it was indeed the decayed and degloved remains of a bear in a tree.
Creepy
I’ve had two rounds of rabies vax thanks to raccoons eating the food locals leave out for feral cats.
Yeah they’re cute but RABIES is my first thought when I see them.
We had an endemic here for a dozen years until the neighbor went Norwegian Blue( lovely bird) and it took years to recover.
Now another neighbor is doing the same.
Peachy.
I’m not saying it was aliens….but it was aliens.
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During a concert he pulled a Biden going up the steps.
Karma is savage.
Ivermectin
Possums are so fastidious that they rarely get mange.
If it’s Sarcoptic mange instead of démodectic, secondary infections with swelling are common.
A different Mustelid...a skunk, perhaps a former pet.
Raccoon 🦝 with mange........
I beg your pardon!...........
Huh?
I resemble that remark!.........
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Thats not a very thoughtful take, after all she came and she gave without taking.
Possums dont have that type of spine curvature.
:) I was a little slow on that one.
!'ll remember to caution friends who think that its a good, kind, and compassionate necessity to set out feed for outside felines. Actually, it likely weakens their self-preservation instinct, and is not in fact kind.
One such cat made my garage/barn her nest, which I passively permitted, but never fed her a thing.
They can take care of themselves. I watched her from a distance one day when she caught a live baby wild rabbit, and brought it back home, where she hunkered down and played with it, letting it think it was free enough to escape, but after a foot or two of hopping away, she caught it again and brought it back to play with, terrorizing it into immobility, pushing it around with her fore-paws. She finally just got tired of the game and simply ate it, leaving the fur behind, going on satisfied with entertainment and the meal that followed.
She did have kits, nourished and protected them, and taught them how to hunt for themselves. Some survived, most did not, succumbing to cat fever or other diseases, yielding to the forces of general sin infecting the world of living beings, without the kind of soul given to mankind, and therefore not existing to be redeemed for ongoing fellowship with yheir Creator, as Adam was.
The ASPCA and government agencies for the protection and preservation of (created but sin-laden) wild species are sensitive to this issue, and have ruled against supoosedly "non-cruel" intervention of benevolent but emotionally misguided civilized humans. There are clear well-thought-out ethically good laws regarding and forbidding such interference with the rules of "natures genius" by which wild animals must abide.
So be it. Fare thee well, my FRiend.
(Just a philosophical observation by an elderly doctor of it, getting ready for his own unavoidable physical, but not spiritual, demise.)
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But then she took it away. Oh mangy.
Country girl here, too-grew up on a ranch in W Texas, outdoors as much as possible. We don’t have those fishers here-just other weasels. We do have ringtails-close kin to raccoons-you see them mostly at night-cute critters. City people who live out here have never seen them before-if they live in gated enclaves instead of on acreage they are terrified every time they see the eyeshine of a ringtail, raccoon, or possum-or omigod, a mountain lion-in the trees at the edge of the woods.
They sometimes even call the game warden to come kill the monster-and he tells them to leave the wildlife alone-including the mountain lion. If they don’t leave out trash, pets or their food after dark, even the occasional bear won’t bother them, wreck the place or turn their pets into a fast food meal.
I will never understand why people move to someplace where they don’t like the environment or the wildlife in it. But are far safer in a rural area than in a city-just keep a firearm for stubborn varmints-like rattlesnakes, coyotes and the ones with 2 legs...
I don’t understand most things about people who move out here to the Maryland “ wastelands”.
I am a bit curious about the eventualities of the people on top of the mountain who put out food for their ever-growing bunch of black bears, though.
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