You go to Spirit Halloween expecting costume chaos, jump scares, and bad animatronics… not a live-action reboot of Jumanji.
But that’s exactly what shoppers in Plano, Texas got when a pet monkey escaped inside the store and went full Tarzan for half an hour.
Witnesses say the monkey escaped from its owner and spent more than 30 minutes swinging from the rafters and poles. At first, shoppers weren’t sure it was even real… because, let’s be honest, Spirit Halloween is 90% fake body parts and motion-activated craziness.
The giveaway? This particular “animatronic” was wearing a diaper.
Apparently, the poor monkey got freaked out by one of the store’s creepy displays and bolted. Employees tried to wrangle it, but that went about as well as you’d expect. These are seasonal workers… not many of them have a PhD in zoology.
At one point, police were even called to the scene.
Nothing seemed to get the situation under control until the owner managed to lure the little guy down using the most Texas method possible: a cookie bribe.
No one was hurt, and the monkey made it out just fine… though several customers reportedly sprinted out of the store.
The cops confirmed there was never any danger to the public, but honestly, the mental image of a diapered monkey doing laps through Spirit Halloween might be the best accidental marketing campaign they’ve ever had.