Something mysterious happened at a monk seal hospital in Hawaii this week, leaving many people confused.

Dr. Claire Simeone of Ke Kai Ola Marine Mammal Center in Kailua-Kona was on her lunch break when she started getting inundated with calls from work.

“I picked [my phone] up and it was silence, but it was coming from our hospital Ke Kai Ola,” Dr. Simeone said.

Worried it was a monk seal emergency, she rushed back to work.

“When I got there, everyone was relaxed and I said, ‘Why have you been calling me so much?’ and they said ‘We haven’t been calling you,” she said.

She says people began calling the hospital asking why the hospital kept calling them.

“I called Hawaiian Telcom and talked to them, they said maybe it’s a problem from one of the phones, something shorting out and they’re all coming from this line but they didn’t know which one,” she said.

Dr. Simeone said it wasn’t coming from the office or the main hospital room, so she went to check the laboratory.

“And I saw there was a gecko on the touch screen making calls,” she said laughing.

She tells us the gecko was in the middle of a phone call when she walked in.

“He called everyone on our recent calls list,” she added.

As for catching the culprit?

“He was super fast, but he was able to be located and he’s on a plant outside,” she said.

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