Wolf-like creature stalking San Antonio city parks, viral Reddit post claims

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Attention, cryptid hunters!

A San Antonio Reddit user claims to have spotted an abnormally tall, wolf-like creature during a late-night jog at the North Side’s sprawling Hardberger Park.

In the now-viral post, user @Guiltyparty2135 described the creature purportedly spotted six days ago as the “biggest fukin thing ever,” adding that it resembled a “10+ feet tall wolf but lanky with a big tail.”

The user added: “All this land was donated by a wealthy person before it was a park. Do you think this is why they insisted it become a nature preserve? Anybody else see this thing?”

Indeed, the City of San Antonio did purchase the 311-acre plot that became Hardberger Park from the Voelcker family in 2007.

However, some who responded to post on the San Antonio subreddit suggested there was a more likely explanation for the sighting: a bad batch of meth is floating around the Alamo City.

Whatever turns out to be true, the wild online claim has garnered nearly 250 upvotes and 146 comments as of press time.

And Hardberger Park may not be the only green space stalked such a creature, someone else alleged in the Reddit debate.

User @holydiver-mp4 also claims to have seen the cryptid at San Pedro Springs Park.

“It was standing under the tree by the gazebo and it wasn’t human,” the person wrote. “It was tall, lanky thin arms with thin legs, and had no dimension to it.”

San Antonio and South Texas are no strangers to cryptids. The Alamo City and its suburbs alone are reportedly home to the Converse Werewolf, “Flying Humanoids” — as reported on by the Current in 2011 — and, of course, the Donkey Lady.

The Texas Standard last year even published an hour-long podcast about Texas’s long history with cryptids.

Even so, a number of commenters on the Reddit thread stuck with the explanation that bad drugs were behind the bizarro park sighting.

“Given some of the… weirder than the normally weird stuff I see posted working downtown last night, I think a new bad batch of Meth is hitting the streets in the last 48 hours,” user @tillieze commented.

Reddit user @ExpiredBurrito_agreed.

“Meth. Final answer,” they wrote.

Meanwhile, others in the comments section questioned why the original poster was “jogging” through Hardberger Park at 1 a.m., considering the green space closes at sunset.

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Wolf-like creature stalking San Antonio city parks, viral Reddit post claims

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