Creepy Cloaked Figure Is Seriously Freaking People Out

Police in North Carolina are investigating reports of a strange cloaked figure appearing at an apartment complex and possibly leaving behind raw meat near a local playground.

Images posted on social media claim the hooded figure was spotted at the Hudson Woods apartment complex in Gastonia, located in the Charlotte area:

“We don’t know if it’s one of our residents with an interesting way of presenting themselves, or if it’s a trespasser,” Lance Calhoun, director of operations for Southwood Realty, which manages the complex, told the Gaston Gazette.

Police said the incident may be a prank, and the photos could even be from someplace else entirely.

"It could have come from anywhere," police spokesperson Donna Lahser told WBTV, the local CBS station. "We don't know if this is some bogus prank someone is playing."

A resident of the complex told the Gazette she was afraid for the safety of her daughter.

“I see why it could be easy to make a joke out of it, but this is serious," Brooke Conard, whose yard backs up against the woods by the complex, told the newspaper. "We live in a world today where you don’t know what’s going on and you don’t know people."

The paper also reported that online commenters have said the figure left a bag of raw meat that was found and removed by maintenance, but police have not linked the two incidents.