Creepy image of extra hand in North Melbourne image baffles AFL fans

A seemingly innocuous upload of two teammates celebrating a win has gone viral with social media users baffled by what they were seeing.

Hold up, who’s hand is that? (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

North Melbourne secured their first win of the 2024 AFL season, but it was a post game photo that stole the limelight.

As the Roos celebrated their victory against the West Coast Eagles, players embraced all over the ground.

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But an image of Aidan Corr and Charlie Comben raised eyebrows with the image baffling social media users far and wide.

As the two players hugged after the final siren, footy fans couldn’t help but notice that there was an extra hand that didn’t seem to belong to anybody in the photo.

The image quickly sent footy fans into a spin after it was uploaded to social media by North Melbourne as the “creepy” fifth hand was pointed out.

One user wrote: “Ok am I the only one seeing the extra hand?”

A second added: “Legit who does that f***ing hand belong to?”

A third posted: “Genuinely creepy.”

Another wrote: “No wonder the team won, one player has three arms.”

What is going on here? (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

The answer however was simply just the angle from photographer Paul Kane with fellow North player Toby Pink the owner of the extra hand.

Pink was perfectly hidden behind his two teammates in the photo as he put a hand on the back of Comben and his right hand around Corr at the time the shutter clicked.

A second image taken by Kane clearly showed all three men celebrating the victory following the final siren.

Toby Pink is the owner of the fifth hand. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

North’s win came in controversial scenes after Elliot Yeo was pinged for holding the ball with less than three minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.

Yeo dispossessed North’s George Wardlaw before immediately getting tackled by Jy Simpkin.

Yeo barely had any chance to get rid of the ball, but the umpire deemed he had dragged the ball in and under the tight new holding the ball interpretation, awarded Simpkin the free kick.

Simpkin went back and kicked the go-ahead goal, before Paul Curtis put the result beyond doubt with another major.

The decision to award the free kick to Simpkin divided the footy world and became the latest in a long line of questionable match-deciding calls during round 13.