diff --git a/internal/test/issues/issue609/config.yaml b/internal/test/issues/issue609/config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9c4b93879
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/test/issues/issue609/config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../../../configuration-schema.json
+package: issue609
+generate:
+  models: true
+output: issue609.gen.go
+output-options:
+  skip-prune: true
diff --git a/internal/test/issues/issue609/generate.go b/internal/test/issues/issue609/generate.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ade5eb92fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/test/issues/issue609/generate.go
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+package issue609
+
+//go:generate go run github.com/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen/v2/cmd/oapi-codegen --config=config.yaml openapi.yaml
diff --git a/internal/test/issues/issue609/issue609.gen.go b/internal/test/issues/issue609/issue609.gen.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a5d76e500d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/test/issues/issue609/issue609.gen.go
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+// Package issue609 provides primitives to interact with the openapi HTTP API.
+//
+// Code generated by github.com/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen/v2 version v2.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 DO NOT EDIT.
+package issue609
+
+// ResponseBody defines model for ResponseBody.
+type ResponseBody struct {
+	Unknown interface{} `json:"unknown,omitempty"`
+}
diff --git a/internal/test/issues/issue609/openapi.yaml b/internal/test/issues/issue609/openapi.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dae7fdf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/test/issues/issue609/openapi.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+openapi: "3.0.0"
+info:
+  version: 1.0.0
+  title: "Referencing an optional field, which has no information about the type it is will generate an `interface{}`, without the 'optional pointer'"
+paths:
+components:
+  schemas:
+    ResponseBody:
+      type: object
+      properties:
+        unknown: {}
diff --git a/pkg/codegen/schema.go b/pkg/codegen/schema.go
index c106538bad..9ca303d91b 100644
--- a/pkg/codegen/schema.go
+++ b/pkg/codegen/schema.go
@@ -329,6 +329,8 @@ func GenerateGoSchema(sref *openapi3.SchemaRef, path []string) (Schema, error) {
 				// If we don't even have the object designator, we're a completely
 				// generic type.
 				outType = "interface{}"
+				// this should never have an "optional pointer", as it doesn't make sense to be a `*interface{}`
+				outSchema.SkipOptionalPointer = true
 			}
 			outSchema.GoType = outType
 			outSchema.DefineViaAlias = true