'Strange-Looking' Mystery Animal Spotted in West Virginia Park Baffles Residents

Mar. 15, 2025

Mystery animal spotted in Ritter Park in Huntington, West Virginia.Photo:WSAZ 3/YouTube

WSAZ 3/YouTube

A creature filmed walking with a group of deer in a West Virginia park has the community asking, “What is that?”

Keller managed to film the mystery animal as it scurried amongst a small herd of deer munching on grass in the park. The woman has since shown her clip of the critter to numerous Huntington residents, and no one is sure what the animal could be.

“Whenever I stopped to take a better look, I realized that it was something I had never seen before,” Keller told WSAZ about the encounter.

The outlet reported that Keller shared her clip of the mystery animal on social media, and some commented on the video, claiming the creature could be a lemur. Lemurs are native to Madagascar, a country located over 9,000 miles away from West Virginia.

The creature sighting in West Virginia wasn’t October’s only mystery animal. On Oct. 22, the Bristol Zoo Project, a wildlife conservation park in England,shared a photo from trail camera footage captured on the park’s property. The zoo said the picture was of “a mysterious winged and horned creature” that it wanted help identifying.

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“Our conservation team uses camera traps to survey the ancient woodland on our site. Here, you can see a familiar muntjac deer alongside a creature that has us just a little stumped,” the park captioned the post, which also included a photo of a muntjac deer in the daylight so viewers could compare the deer with the mystery animal. The muntjac deer is a species from Southeast Asia that grows short antlers resembling horns.

source: people.com