Animal Crossing Island's River Turns Red Like Blood Due to Glitch

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One Animal Crossing: New Horizons player's rivers turned red. While it might appear to be something out of the Book of Exodus, this change is not a feature of the game. Still, it appeared to scare the player and many others, with whom they shared an image of this rare occurrence.

Animal Crossing players have encountered plenty of strange features, quirks, and glitches in the two years since the game was released. One of the oddest such instances was when an Animal Crossing player discovered they could hide a body in-game. While it wasn't a real body (the player was simply dragging a Rescue Mannequin behind a custom-made building to give it the appearance of their player hiding a body), it was a very unique interaction that impressed many people. Now, another player has found a similarly strange issue with the rivers on their island.

Posted to Reddit by user clintwoodp84, the image shows the rivers of their island turned a bright red. While clintwoodp84 did confirm that this was simply a visual glitch that was eventually resolved, it didn't stop others in the comments from making some funny jokes at this odd situation. Some, of course, made reference to the rivers running red with blood that was one of the ten plagues from the Bible's Book of Exodus. Others referenced the Blood Moon, which players can encounter in another Nintendo property, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Of course, others took this as a sign that Animal Crossing's notorious villain, Tom Nook, might be exacting some form of intimidation on clintwoodp84 for failing to repay one of their loans.

Even though the blood-red river was just the result of a glitch, it's still quite hilarious to see. Luckily, most of such glitches in Animal Crossing are