Dozens of large googly eyes mysteriously appear on B.C. street [Video]

VICTORIA –

It seemed like an ordinary morning until Doug Hallstead discovered something extraordinary on the tree outside his home.

“All of sudden there’s these cheerful eyes,” Doug points to a pair of large googly eyes attached to the trunk. “We were delighted!”

But then Doug wondered who put them there and why.

“We started talking to the neighbours,” Doug says. “Nobody said they’d done it.”

Instead, neighbours like Sue Bonnyman pointed out that below the limbs of their trees there were more googly eyes.

“They basically did trees all the way up the street,” Sue points out. “I think they’re great!”

Seemingly overnight, dozens of trees seemed to have sprouted giant eyeballs along Victoria’s Chamberlain Street.

While a few looked like cyclops with just one eye, most of the trees featured two prominent peepers taking it all in.

“I was smiling all the way up the street,” Maia McKinley says.

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