Chicagoland residents warned of ‘zombie raccoons’ that walk on two legs and kill

“Zombie raccoons” that clumsily walk on two legs and show their teeth are staggering around suburban Chicago and authorities are warning locals to hide their pets.

A spike in raccoons testing positive for distemper in Riverside, Ill., is to blame for the bizarre sightings of contaminated animals that the disease causes to appear “zombie-like," according to WGN news.

While zombie raccoons don’t eat brains, distemper is highly contagious.

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