Weird West Texas: Revisiting Amarillo Zoo's mystery creature a year later
It's been just over a year since a security camera at the Amarillo Zoo recorded a mystery creature standing just outside the fence. The creature, d...
It's been just over a year since a security camera at the Amarillo Zoo recorded a mystery creature standing just outside the fence. The creature, dubbed the "Unidentified Amarillo Object," quickly spread, claiming stake in national news time and stories. Now, a year later, we've learned very little about the situation -- but it has sparked several conspiracies. As part of our Weird West Texas series, we explore some of the most odd, eccentric and just plain weird things in our region — from the state's northernmost town of Hitchland down into the Big Country, westward to the Permian Basin and all the way into the Rolling Plains.