Video shows naked raccoon catching B.C. family by surprise
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When Marvin Henschel spotted a strange and hairless creature wandering through a front lawn in B.C.'s Lower Mainland, he could barely believe his eyes.
When Marvin Henschel spotted a strange and hairless creature wandering through a front lawn in B.C.'s Lower Mainland, he could barely believe his eyes.
The Richmond resident had just arrived home from a "guys' trip" in Palm Springs and was driving his daughter to softball practice when they noticed the naked critter between Blundell and Francis roads.
"After three days of golfing and sun I'm thinking, am I seeing things?" Henschel recalled. "It almost looked like an alien."
In video he captured of the animal, Henschel can be overheard muttering, "What in the world?"
The recording shows the unusual critter crossing the grass and mounting a stone garden wall – which it appears to use to scratch its backside – before moseying toward Henschel's vehicle.
"Uh, it's coming at us," the father laughs while rolling up the window.
Henschel, who runs Custom Ornamental Iron Works in the city, solved the mystery fairly quickly with some online research, locating a recent news story out of Nova Scotia about a similar-looking animal that turned out to be a raccoon with alopecia.
