Eerie figure with glowing eyes dubbed 'elemental' snapped in woods by wildlife camera

A wildlife camera meant to snap pictures of deer in the woods got a spooky surprise . It took a photo of something with bright eyes that some people are calling an "elemental". This scary figure was caught on a camera that's used to see animals, not ghostly figures. The cameras are all over the forest to track animals like deer, but this time they found something else.

The creature looked like it had glowing eyes and was bending over when it set off the camera's motion sensor. This creepy photo was shared on Facebook for everyone to see.

After the picture was put on the Ghosts of London Facebook group, some social media users said it wasn't a ghost but an "elemental". Elementals are thought to be spirits from nature.

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One commenter on Facebook said: "That my friends is an elemental. A being comprised only of the energies of the earth itself." Others agreed that the strange thing in the photo was an elemental.

The person who put up the camera said: "This is a camera set up in the woods, set up to take photos when it senses movement, main purpose is take photos of deer and other wildlife. There are no people that could be in the woods at that time especially without us knowing and it had to be moving to set the camera off."

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Groups members were generally creeped out by the image. One person said it was the "eyes that chill me" and someone else was scared of the "pairs of eyes behind" the strange creature.

Some people thought it might be a "wendigo", a creature that can change its shape and copy the voices of people and sounds of animals in the woods.

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