By Tim Binnall
A Florida man was left unsettled when his home security system captured footage of a curious creature seemingly attached to one of its cameras, though his fears were later alleviated upon discovering its true nature. The short-lived mystery reportedly began early Sunday morning in the community of Lehigh Acres when Dean Gordon was roused from his sleep by a notification on his phone. He subsequently learned that a motion-activated camera overlooking his backyard had been triggered by some kind of intruder and, upon checking the video, the homeowner was understandably perturbed by what he saw.
The six-second-long video initially had Gordon suspecting something sinister was afoot. "I thought 'this looks like a human hand, taking my camera off,'" he recalled. However, a second look at the footage left him even more confounded as he now wondered if perhaps it was a creature, specifically an octopus. The following day, Gordon turned to social media in an attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery. Posting the video on a local Facebook group, he asked if anyone could identify the anomaly that had "scared the heck out of me last night." As one might imagine, he received an array of response and it was ultimately determined that the eerie interloper had simply been a Cuban tree frog.