A local Peoria artist, Joshua Hawkins, was paid to paint a mural on the wall of a building by the owner of the property.

Joshua held up his end of the bargain, painted a really cool mural, and got paid. But then something really strange happened.

Turns out the person who commissioned Joshua wasn’t actually the owner of that building!

The mural is covered up now, and Joshua was paid for his work, but that doesn’t answer a few important questions.

Why did a random person pay to have a mural put up on a random wall? And where did they go!