A viral TikTok video of the Utah monolith is freaking people out — but not because of the missing monolith. Rather, people are surprised by what appears to be a creature lurking in the background.
What’s going on?
TikTok user Proud Viking posted a video of someone visiting the Utah monolith. The person on the video expresses dismay that the Utah monolith is gone.
- Indeed, the Deseret News reported that the monolith went missing back on Friday. Its location is still unknown.
The TikTok user instructs viewers to look in the crevice behind the girl in the blue hat, saying she noticed something. She’s referring to the girl on the left.
Indeed, behind the girl there’s ... something .... there. It looks like one of those inflatable dinosaur costumes. I posted on Twitter some photos of the creature, which you can see below for a closer look:
And it’s freaking people out.
Reaction:
Commenters on the video mostly shared jokes about whatever is lurking back there. One user referred to the “creature” as “my ex-mother-in-law.” Someone else called it “mothman.” Another said it was “someone in a cheap costume.”
- One person wrote, “I kept watching it over and over getting a mini heart attack each time.”
What do we know?
Honestly, this could be a doctored video that’s made to freak people out. Or someone could be hiding in a costume back there.
But in what’s been a weird year, nothing can be counted out.