People in a Tampa neighborhood had extra company for Thanksgiving.

A monkey apparently wanted to join in on the holiday fun on W. Hiawatha Street.

Dina Castelon was sitting down to a turkey dinner with her family when her neighbor knocked on the door.

He said, "Did you see the monkey?" I said, "What monkey?"

She and her family went outside to investigate.

Neighbors say the animal was brown, about three feet tall, and very fast.

"Do you think if I call the police the monkey was going to wait for the police to get here so we could have proof the monkey was here?" Castelon joked with her family.

Witnesses say the monkey scurried off, But less than a mile away off Sligh Avenue near Lowry Park zoo, another person spotted the monkey and called police.

That's when Tampa Police went out to investigate.

First, officers checked with Lowry Park Zoo to make sure there wasn't an escapee. Zoo officials say all their primates are accounted for.

James Perez saw the squad cars searching for a monkey in his neighborhood.

"It was actually kind of funny," said Perez. "They were walking up and down the street looking for it."

It's not the first time a mystery monkey visited the Bay area.

Cornelius the macaque spent years living on the lam in St. Petersburg before he attacked a woman in her front yard. He was captured, and now lives at Dade City Wild Things.

Neighbors say they'll be a little jumpy until this mystery monkey is captured.

"I just don't want to walk out my front door to go to work, and have an extra passenger in my front seat," joked Castelon.