US: Trailcam captures chilling footage of mysterious 'skin-walker' creature

A trailcam, which was installed outside of Dublin, northeast of Dallas, captured a mysterious creature near a ruralTexas community at night which left the wildlife officials shocked.

In the footage, what is seen is a small animal walking on four legs, withall the legs of different sizes and lumps down its back.

The images of the creature were shared by Michael 'Dumas' Demel with his friends and family who said that it was probably a skinwalker or chupacabra - which is a blood-sucking cryptid mentioned in American folklore, as reported by The Daily Mail.

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Meanwhile, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said that "due to the quality of the image a positive identification of the animal is not possible", and added that it was "too small to be a whitetail deer fawn."

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Meanwhile, some have claimed that the creature was achupacabra, which is famous for feasting on livestock as per the folklore.

"I have three different cameras at three different hunting areas – they catch coyote, deer, bobcats, rabbits, raccoons, foxes," said Demel, while speaking to Pen News.

"I look at approximately 100 plus pics from the three cameras daily, but that was the only photo it showed up on. My first reaction was something didn't look right, so I stopped on the picture to zoom in. My first instinct was that it was a monkey," he added.

In the picture, the eerie creature was seen to have a long snout, small top of the head and lumps down its back which made many believe it was a skinwalker.

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Skinwalkers have been mentioned in the Navajo legend which states that at one time the healers and people of medicine got corrupted because of their own power and became evil supernatural beings.

"I showed it to neighbours, family and friends. I got everything from a skin-walker, a monkey, a chupacabra, an alien. You hear stories of chupacabra in south Texas areas," Demel said.

(With inputs from agencies)