If you plan to take a dip in Texas, it might be a good idea to keep an eye out for unwanted guests.
Video obtained by USA TODAY on Thursday caught the moment a large alligator appeared to pursue a group of children swimming in Raven Lake in Huntsville, Texas, about an hour north of Houston.
Watch the video below to see a large alligator swimming after a group of children in Texas.
The video, which was taken over the weekend, begins by showing the gator hanging out near a group of kids playing in the water. Terror ensues when the gator starts moving directly toward them.
"Look how big it is!" one man is heard saying as the children scream.
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The video shows panicked parents race toward the screaming children. During the commotion, another child jumps into the water from a platform farther off the beach, momentarily grabbing the reptile's attention.
One quick-thinking man grabs hold of a nearby rope in the water and begins shaking it, apparently entangling the predator as it splashes around. By the time the roughly 10-foot gator frees itself, the children had reached the shore.
"The gator was definitely aiming for (one child)," David Siljeg, who captured the cellphone video, told KRIV-TV in Houston. "It was like a movie scene, but real."
Because the gator was still lurking close to shore afterward, a local sheriff's deputy arrived and closed off the beach.
Multiple signs around the lake warn visitors about alligators in the area, according to KRIV-TV.
Earlier this summer, there was a similar incident in which swimmers became stuck on the dock after a gator got between them and the shore and had to be rescued.
"I’ve watched ‘Jaws’ multiple times, (this) kind of triggered those feelings," Siljeg told the outlet.
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