People in Fort Collins, Colorado, are seeing rabbits with black horns and tentacles that wouldn’t look out of place in a horror movie. Though frightening, their appearance is caused by a known virus that’s harmless to humans.

Journalist Amanda Gilbert documented the town sightings in an article for local outlet 9NEWS last Friday. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say the rabbits are afflicted with a virus that causes wart-like projections to emerge from their faces—a condition that likely even inspired folk tales in the past about horned rabbit cryptids.

“It looks like it was black quills or black toothpicks sticking out all around his or her mouth,” Fort Collins resident Susan Mansfield told 9NEWS. “I thought he would die off during the winter, but he didn’t. He came back a second

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