Mystery Brighton visitor caught on camera

They thought someone was playing a prank. But when these Brighton sisters caught a fox leaving this bizarre surprise for them, the mystery only deepened. SEE THE VIDEO.

When golf balls began mysteriously appearing in their garden overnight, Brighton sisters Helen and Therese thought someone must be playing a prank.

The balls starting turning up half buried in the pot plants, sunken into the front lawn, or left on a pile of mulch.

“It was very, very odd,” Helen says. “We thought somebody was playing a prank on us.”

In all, the sisters found eight golf balls.

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The fox steps up on a pot plant to find a golf ball.

A golf ball buried in a pot plant by the fox.

Only when the pair had a friend install two cameras did they discover the culprit.

“The next morning, lo and behold, running up the driveway, here is this little fox,” she says.

The crafty fox’s golf ball supply appears to have dried up, so now the sisters put out a golf ball at night so they can see what their visitor gets up to.

“It comes every night just about and sniffs around the pot plants,” Helen says.

“It takes the golf balls away after it finds them in our yard — I don’t know where else it goes.”

The fox approaches a pot plant.

The fox sniffs out another golf ball in a pot plant.

The sisters, who live several hundred metres from the closed Elsternwick Golf Course, have checked with their neighbours, and no one else has noticed any golf balls appearing.

“Whether or not the little creature has been getting them off the golf course and storing them up somewhere, I don’t know,” Helen says.

“It must think they’re eggs, and it hides them thinking it’ll come back and get them.

“But why it’s been coming to our place, I don’t know.”

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