“What is this thing doing right here?” – Washington hikers come across a giant octopus casually swimming just off the trail

Usually when we write about wildlife encounters on the trail, we’re covering stories of bear attacks or defensive moose, but a group of Washington hikers recently got the surprise of their lives when they came across a giant octopus just off the trail.

“What is this thing doing right here?” asks Micah Moehller,in a video he shared to Reddit, which you can view below.