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Strange but true

May 11, 2023 | 9:43 a.m

New York might not have the infamous “alligators in the sewer”—but Florida has it.

A work team in Oviedo, Fla., proved the NYC urban legend was a reality in the Sunshine State after spotting a 5-foot alligator living in a mud-filled pipe.

Footage of the scaly underground terror is currently causing a stir on the Oviedo City Council’s Facebook page.

“Just one more reason not to trip in the storm water pipes!” A spokesman said of the new underground sensation, which was spotted during a routine pothole inspection on Friday.

According to a Jam Press report, a public works team had dispatched a camera-equipped robot to get to the bottom of why a cluster of craters kept appearing up the road.

The workers soon discovered something far more terrifying lurking beneath the surface.

“On Friday’s inspection, as you can see in the video, they came across a five-foot alligator!” the city organization exclaimed in the now-viral post.

The humiliating moment was captured in video footage reminiscent of the enduring urban myth that inspired the 1980 B-movie Alligator and was further popularized by scene-stealer Drew Barrymore in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 sci-fi classic ET (But Is it really an urban myth? Some New Yorkers may disagree after seeing an alligator crawl out of a drain in Queens in 2010.)

You can call me AlJam Press Vid

They said they initially mistook the cold-blooded sub-dweller for a toad, until they saw “two little glowing eyes.”

At first it feels like the Sunshine State is spreading a long-standing Big Apple hoax—perhaps some of the 10,000 exiles took their myths with them—until you watch the goosebumps video and realize the story isn’t is a “crocodile”.

In the wacky POV footage, the camera can be seen approaching what appears to be a pair of glowing lights at the end of the tunnel – a scene straight out of a found footage horror movie.

As the droid comes within range, the beast rears up, mouth open, revealing itself to be an American alligator.

The distraught predator continues to back away, maw open, before twiddling its tail and sauntering down the tunnel with the droid hot on its heels.

The underground Gator golf session ends with the robot getting stuck in a pit and Al disappearing into his underground lair.

The light at the end of the tunnel happened to be an alligator.Jam Press Vid

Social media has been stunned by the sewer-dwelling reptile, reminiscent of the sewer-squatting villain “Killer Croc” from the Batman series.

“You’ve seen something like this before,” marveled one horrified viewer, while another wrote, “Oh wow creepy.”

Others wondered how the alligator managed to enter the labyrinthine drainage system made up of 75 miles of underground pipes beneath the city.

Oviedo City Council believes the water entered via “one of the rainwater ponds” used to prevent flooding during storms.

The maintenance chief said they were just glad no human encountered the beast.

“Thank god our crews have a robot,” the officials wrote, but they didn’t specify whether this particular specimen was under the influence of meth.

“At first they thought it was a toad, and in the video you can see two little glowing eyes until you get closer,” said a spokesman for Oviedo City Council. “But when it turned around, they saw the alligator’s long tail and followed it through the pipes.”Jam Press Vid

Interestingly, alligators — the US’s largest reptiles, which regularly grow to 15 feet in length and weigh over 1,000 pounds — are not an uncommon sight in Florida’s storm drain network, local residents claimed in the comments.

In fact, this phenomenon resembles a plot point in the 2019 sci-fi thriller “Crawl,” in which a father and daughter discover that killer alligators have made their nest in a spillway after a hurricane.

And in the spirit of the classic Big Apple swindle, apparently alligators are also romping about in Gotham.

In 2010, police officers arrested an 18-inch reptile of unknown origin that emerged from an overflowing Astoria storm drain and hid under a parked car.

Last February, meanwhile, officers dragged a lethargic, possibly cold-shocked, four-foot-long alligator out of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Lake near an area popular with children.

Officials suspected the alligator entered the pipe through one of the city’s many rain ponds.Jam Press Vid

Park officials suspected the alligator — which had a toilet stopper in its stomach — was an unwanted pet whose owner decided to release it into public waters

Despite being cared for at the Bronx Zoo, the reptilian fugitive succumbed to his various injuries last month in what authorities are calling a “tragic case of animal cruelty”.

Of course, city parks and flood slides aren’t the only unlikely places alligators show off their scaly heads.

A tourist from Alabama’s beach vacation over the weekend resembled a scene from “Godzilla” when he spotted a giant alligator swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.

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