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Posted by Scoops on Jul-31-2008 19:26:

WTF is this Thing

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New York's celebrity-obsessed Hamptons summer season got even sillier this week when a strange-looking, very dead creature washed up on a beach in Montauk at the far eastern end of New York's Long Island.

On Tuesday afternoon, a photo was posted on Gawker, the Big Apple's reigning gossip blog, which treated the Montauk monster with characteristic respect: "Good Luck With Your Hell Demons."

The animal looks like a bloated, hairless dog, except that it's got an eagle-like beak, a prominent brow ridge and a curiously elongated front paw.

Speculation immediately arose that it might be a hitherto unknown marine mammal, a sea turtle without its shell, an artful Photoshop creation or � cue the " X-Files" theme � an escaped experiment from the government animal-disease research facility on Plum Island, just offshore from Montauk.

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Is It Real? 'Montauk Monster' The animal's resting on sand in the photo, with no other indication of location or scale except for what appears to be a large fly on its back.

Gawker itself thought it had broken the case late on Tuesday, when it noted that the woman who'd e-mailed in the photo worked for a viral-marketing firm.

It all tied in neatly to "Cryptids Are Real," an upcoming Cartoon Network show about mysterious, scientifically undocumented animals such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the Chupacabra.

But the tipster, whom New York magazine identified as Los-Angeles based Alanna Navitski, denied that her efforts were part of any campaign.

She said she'd gotten the picture from her sister, who'd gotten it herself from a friend in New York who actually saw the darn thing.

"I saw the monster," said another witness, a waiter at a nearby restaurant, to New York magazine. "I just came walking down the beach and everyone was looking at it. No one knew what it was. It kind of looked like a dog, but it had this crazy-looking beak. I mean, I would freak out if something like that popped up next to me in the water."

Plum TV, a sort of upscale public-access network carried on Hamptons cable TV as well as in other tony summer resorts, promises an interview Friday with the original photographer as well as two other women who say they saw the animal.

FOXNews.com thinks one commenter on the Plum TV Web site may have figured it out.

The short beak-snout and long, flipper-like paw certainly don't belong to a dog, but they could easily belong to a young raccoon whose fur and nasal cartilage rotted away in the water. Check out images of raccoon skulls here and here, and this image of a raccoon's paw.

To complicate matters, no one seems to know exactly where the mysterious beastie is now.

It's no longer at the beach where it was supposedly found; then again, the sand it's resting on in the photo could be anywhere in the world.

"They say an old guy came and carted it away," Navitski told New York magazine. "He said, 'I'm going to mount it on my wall.'"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395294,00.html

Posted by Sunsnail on Jul-31-2008 19:29:

Oh no! The apocalypse is upon us.

Posted by sweds00 on Jul-31-2008 19:30:

Manbearpig

Posted by sweds00 on Jul-31-2008 19:31:

Hey its giving the finger

Posted by iammesol on Jul-31-2008 19:31:

DEE MUN

Posted by DJ_Eternal on Jul-31-2008 19:32:

Looks like something from the Evil Dead. "I'll swallow your soul, I'll swallow your soul".

Posted by Rose on Jul-31-2008 19:33:

DINOSAUR!

Posted by wotyzoid on Jul-31-2008 19:33:

deadmon5tr

Posted by Moongoose on Jul-31-2008 19:37:

Cloverfield

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jul-31-2008 19:45:

A Photoshop, is my guess...

Posted by nchs09 on Jul-31-2008 19:47:

Looks like a wild bore (sp)

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jul-31-2008 19:51:

Or maybe a sculpture of some kind.

Posted by Krypton on Jul-31-2008 19:52:

It's a damn dog, whose face is decayed. That's not a freakin beak.

Posted by Scoops on Jul-31-2008 19:56:

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Originally posted by Krypton
It's a damn dog, whose face is decayed. That's not a freakin beak.

then how do you explain its front so-called paws

Posted by iammesol on Jul-31-2008 19:57:

ELCHUPACABRA

Posted by denys envy on Jul-31-2008 19:59:

a plucked griffin?

Posted by mezzir on Jul-31-2008 20:01:

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Originally posted by iammesol
ELCHUPACABRA

lol exactly what i thought of

Posted by nchs09 on Jul-31-2008 20:01:

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Originally posted by iammesol
ELCHUPACABRA
They would actually scare us with that when i was a little kid

Posted by iammesol on Jul-31-2008 20:05:

�AY! �EST� EL CHUPACABRA! �CORRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Posted by kadomony on Jul-31-2008 20:06:

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Originally posted by iammesol

�AY! �EST� EL CHUPACABRA! �CORRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Posted by Ivand on Jul-31-2008 20:16:

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Originally posted by iammesol

�AY! �EST� EL CHUPACABRA! �CORRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Posted by nchs09 on Jul-31-2008 20:18:

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Originally posted by iammesol

�AY! �EST� EL CHUPACABRA! �CORRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Posted by Rose on Jul-31-2008 21:01:

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Originally posted by iammesol

�AY! �EST� EL CHUPACABRA! �CORRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

awwww LOL

Posted by Ivand on Jul-31-2008 21:03:

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Originally posted by nchs09

yo acepta my request in facebook, mmaldito mexicano

Posted by Krypton on Jul-31-2008 21:04:

I don't get it. Whose the baby?

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