The small primate caused a flurry of commotion at a Spirit Halloween store in Plano, Texas
10:09 ET, 31 Oct 2025Updated 10:10 ET, 31 Oct 2025
The small monkey was running throughout the building dodging capture(Image: NBC 5 DFW)
A monkey wearing a diaper was on the prowl inside a Spirit Halloween store in Texas Monday night.
Social media video captured the moments the small primate had Halloween shopping on a stand still, at the store In Plano, Texas. The monkey ran away from its owner and evaded capture for 30 minutes while it swung from rafters.
In one instance, viewers can see the monkey scaling a column, and in another, a shopper is waving their hands at the monkey, seemingly trying to coax it to climb down from the shelves. Other clips show the monkey using its tail to hang from rafters.
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The small monkey was scared off by an animatronic moving display, NBC Dallas Fort Worth reported.
Some customers were left perturbed.
“My daughter looked up and said, ‘What in the world? Is that a real monkey,’” Texas resident Arlene Pinkston told the local news outlet.
“So I look up and I said it’s got a diaper on, so I guess it is real,” she said
Jimmy Harris, who works at the store, said he was entertained.
Jimmy Harris, who works at the store, said he was entertained.(Image: NBC 5 DFW)
A lot of people just stood and watched it for like 30 minutes, the whole time, they were like, ‘monkey,’ and we had kids trying to catch it,” Harris told the outlet.
Plano police were called to the store. In a statement, officers said, “He observed the monkey swinging from the rafters wearing a diaper. Eventually, a cookie was offered to the monkey by the owner, and was able to gain control of it.”
Police said the monkey was not injured and posed no threat to anyone.
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The small monkey was agilely climbing through store rafters(Image: NBC 5 DFW)
In a statement, Lisa Barr, Spirit Halloween’s VP of Marketing wrote, “Our team responded quickly and contacted local authorities, who arrived promptly on the scene. In a rather unexpected turn, the monkey was safely coaxed with a cookie. The monkey was tagged with identification and returned to its owner without incident.”
“We’re grateful to our staff and local responders for handling the situation swiftly and safely. While this is certainly not a typical day at Spirit Halloween, we’re glad it ended on a positive note,” wrote Barron.
This comes as police in Mississippi are still searching for three “aggressive” lab monkeys that escaped after a truck carrying them flipped over on a highway north of Heidelberg, in Mississippi, on Tuesday.
The animals were also initially said to be infected with hepatitis C, herpes and Covid-19 with locals told to avoid approaching the animals and call police immediately if they see them. Officials from Tulane University, where the monkeys were being housed, have since said the monkeys were not infectious. However Sheriff Randy Johnson said in a news release that because of their aggressive nature the monkeys had still needed to be “neutralized.”
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