{"id":27046,"date":"2025-10-30T01:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27046\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:17:16","slug":"spooked-monkey-at-spirit-halloween-swings-from-rafters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27046\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooked monkey at Spirit Halloween swings from rafters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/18524E0D49F4A180E48D4E5BF4DEB1D3_1.jpg\" alt=\"Loose monkey at Spirit Halloween\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/video\/1732103\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Loose monkey at Spirit Halloween<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">A spooked monkey got away from its owner at the Spirit Halloween store in Plano, Texas on Monday. Police said the owner was eventually able to entice the pet with a cookie and regain control. Credit: Arlene Pinkston via Storyful<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">PLANO, Texas &#8211; Shoppers at a Spirit Halloween store in Texas were shocked to see a live monkey wearing a diaper swinging from the rafters.<\/p>\n<p>   Loose Monkey at Spirit Halloween <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/monkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It happened on Monday night at the Spirit Halloween store on 15th Street in Plano.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Plano police confirmed its officers were dispatched for a call concerning a pet monkey that had gotten away from its owner.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The officers did observe the monkey swinging from the rafters inside the store, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The scene was captured on video by Arlene Pinkston, who told Storyful that it happened while she was shopping for Halloween costumes with her daughter.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A store employee also told Storyful the monkey had gotten spooked by one of the store\u2019s animatronic decorations.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Ultimately, the monkey\u2019s owner was able to entice it with a cookie and regain control.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Neither the monkey, nor anyone else, was hurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It\u2019s not clear why the monkey\u2019s owner took it to the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Plano Police Department and Storyful.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/plano\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/viral\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viral<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loose monkey at Spirit Halloween A spooked monkey got away from its owner at the Spirit Halloween store&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,223,5163,160,162,161,216,393,1711],"class_list":{"0":"post-27046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-collin-county","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pets-animals","11":"tag-plano","12":"tag-plano-headlines","13":"tag-plano-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-viral"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}