A baffling optical illusion featuring a black horse in the snow has taken social media by storm, sparking a heated debate over one simple question: Is the horse walking toward the camera or away from it?
The now-viral video was captured after a snowstorm in Kamloops, British Columbia, and features an American Quarter Horse named Rudnik. His owner, Alesia Willard, had noticed something unusual about her horse’s appearance in the snow last year, but it wasn’t until she filmed him in January that she realized just how much of an optical illusion he created.
On January 21, Willard shared the video on Rudnik’s social media pages, adding a caption that summed up her own confusion: “When your horse is so black in the snow you can’t tell if he’s walking towards you or away from you.” She later admitted, “There were a few times I genuinely couldn’t tell.”