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Posted on 04/27/2025 6:21:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
A hilarious video filmed by a doorbell camera captured an alligator standing on its hind legs and “knocking” on the door of a Florida home, with the homeowner later estimating that the gator was between seven and eight feet tall and explaining that the visit was far from a normal occurrence in her neighborhood.
For context, on April 25, 2025, Nathalie Gaines of Lake Mary, Florida, got a major surprise when she checked her doorbell camera feed after hearing strange noises outside her door. According to press coverage of the incident, Gaines was greeted by a large alligator, which had gotten up onto its hind legs and used its front legs to bang on the door before getting back on the ground and slinking away.
According to coverage from Fox 35 Orlando, Gaines “heard a knock on the door, and then nothing else.” Gaines added, “I waited a little while, and then I heard it again.” When she went to check her doorbell camera feed, she saw “a full-blown alligator sitting at our front door.”
Continuing, Gaines told the press that the alligator had attempted to knock on the door. She said, “The first time, when it knocked on the door, it stood up and kind of banged on the door and then laid back down.” Gaines, using her hands to describe the height of the gator, went on to say, “Its face ended here [gestures] and its tail kind of curled up and ended up here [gestures].” She added, “It was big!”
Moving on, Gaines told the press that she had seen other big creatures in her neighborhood, but that this was the first time she had seen an alligator. “We always see wildlife,” she told the press, “But not up this close, knocking on the door.”
Concluding her interview, Gaines explained that she called an alligator trapper, but the gator ended up walking away unprompted. Gaines recounted how the alligator moved through a neighbor’s yard before heading to nearby water. “He just wants to be left alone,” Gaines explained.
Gaines is reportedly not the only Floridian to get an up-close-and-personal visit from an alligator this year. According to a March 12, 2025, story from WSVN News, a couple in Fort Myers, Florida, walked into their home and discovered an alligator lying on the floor. The husband, Paul Quinn, said, “It’s a Sunday morning, and I got an alligator in my house?” Quinn continued, “I got up from the chair, and I could see the door; there was something wrong with the screen. I’m like, ‘What happened?’ As I’m coming around here, I hear like an air noise, like a hissss.”
Continuing, the wife, Mary Jo Quinn, went on to explain that the alligator got aggressive once a trapper arrived, saying, “That alligator was fighting him, and his — if you could call it — a tail, his body just swiped my baseboards. Swiped my baseboards.” Paul added, “He bit this chair, and he had it in his mouth, and he was swinging it around. We’re going to keep all those bite marks on that chair. It’s going to go back here, and then it’ll be a conversation piece.”
Watch the alligator’s visit to Nathalie Gaines’s home:
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Another one!, not the same as last week!...............
If people in the community are feeding the gators, it could end in tragedy. They lose their fear of people and folks forget they have brains the size of lima beans. Just enough room in them for a food/not food toggle switch.
BTTT!!!
Just one of the fun things to do and see if you live in Florida.
Who else has giant prehistoric man-eating lizards on their front porch except for Floridians.
I wasn’t expecting a black couple when I read her name.
I heard about this and saw a pic. I dismissed the story with but a chuckle.
Why?
It’s fake news having been post-processed by the msm for effect.
Case in point:
IMHO the video was NOT filmed by ‘a doorbell cam’ (certainly not hers; see for yourselves). I’m not even curious enough to know who/how the video was captured. Frankly, something smells...wake me when the alligator opens the door.
There is video of bears opening z door on youtube- a woman tells the bear “ok, now shut the door”, and it does.
Just saw story of a cassowary that was used to people due to being fed that attacked a man and put him in hospital. Thise birds can rip a person’s guts out very quickly with their claw on their foot. They are ill tempered birds too.
My neighbor across the street has a Ring Cam. It videos my front door as well as theirs...........
At one point in the news clip, there is a clear image of the gator from the side at the door. That is likely from the doorbell camera. The rest was filmed by the homeowner through the door and then outside toward the door.
Candygram!
That’s the first thing I thought of when I watched the video. There were two shots from outside with one from the side and one from a distance away directly at the door. There was also a cell phone video from inside through the glass and a video from someone following the gator outside. None looked like the house’s doorbell camera. Maybe the family has multiple security cameras.
They’ve been going door to door down there recently. They call themselves Jehovah Gators.
It’s Wally Gator, he’s a swinging alligator in he swamp. He’s he greatest peculator when he really starts to romp.
We don’t have a ring cam, but we do have a couple of security cameras. The main one videos from outside our house to the front walkway, the driveway, several neighbors driveways, and most of the street for a few houses.
We’ve been able to see what’s happened with packages that were missing, but said delivered. In one instance, the delivery person put a package in the mailbox, and the mailman came by 20 minutes later. Because the package was improperly placed in the actual mail box and not the paper slot, it was taken by the mailman, and returned to sender; I think with a fine or something. I’m not sure how it got resolved. It was all on my camera so at least we figured out what happened.
We’ve seen all sorts of animal activity in our yard from this camera. Possums, raccoons, and a fox have all come down our walkway as if they were humans. I guess it’s a nice path with few obstacles. The deer have never come that close to the walkway. They stay in the front yard on the other side of the walkway shrubs, thankfully.
I don’t ever expect to get an alligator or a bear over here though, and if I do, it’s definitely game warden time, and time for me to pack up and get outta Dodge.
Many people don’t know that it’s against postal rules to put anything inside a mailbox except mail...................
Gators don’t have to be large, either. A 5 footer can pull a man under water and drown him. On land or water, a kid doesn’t have a chance.
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