Vanessa ([info]iamghostqueen) wrote in [info]cryptozoology,
@ 2008-07-31 15:14:00
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Montauk monster?


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MyFoxNY.com -- Wild speculation has been ignited on the internet over a weird looking animal that was photographed on the beach in Montauk.

Jenna Hewitt snapped a photo of the thing in front of the Surfside restaurant on July 13th.

The photo has been posted on various Web sites and featured on Fox News.

We want to know what you think about the photo on our MESSAGE BOARDS

Conspiracy theorists have long speculated on the so-called Montauk Project, alleged to be secret government projects for the purpose of developing psychological weapons. The photo has fueled postings that the "beast" is linked to the shuttered tests.

Wildlife experts have been quoted on various sites with much less exciting theories of a dead animal like a dog or raccoon.

Here's a link for a bigger picture


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[info]piperrhiannon
2008-07-31 08:28 pm UTC (link)
Doesn't look like any dog or raccoon I've ever seen, but I suppose if it's been dead a while...

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[info]cnnmngrl
2008-07-31 08:28 pm UTC (link)
hippogriff.

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[info]bethesaurusrex
2008-07-31 08:33 pm UTC (link)
I AM SO GLAD THAT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THIS!

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[info]aalisskin
2008-08-07 08:00 pm UTC (link)
yeah... the first idea was about hippogriff...

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[info]apis_cerana
2008-07-31 08:50 pm UTC (link)
Definitely a raccoon, not a dog; look at the front paws.

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[info]turkchief
2008-07-31 08:57 pm UTC (link)
Sadly, dead 'coon is what comes to mind. I'm a native Long Islander, I've seen them like this, The snout tends to rot off because of how felxable it is, and if you look close, this carcas has almost no skin left on it. Just a few pieces here and there. My Guess is someone shot it for the hide, skinned it and tossed the body into the water....

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[info]x_tiger_blood_x
2008-08-01 11:46 am UTC (link)
^ As turkchief said.

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[info]turkchief
2008-08-08 11:00 pm UTC (link)
There was much later refutation of this, but I'm sticking to my guns. A long bath is sea water does icky, icky things to corpses, and twists them in all sorts of odd ways...TC

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[info]julicide
2008-07-31 08:59 pm UTC (link)
Some people were speculating it's a sea turtle with no shell. But I always understood that a turtle was attached to its shell and there wouldn't be just. . . skin like that underneath (I know that a turtle can't live without its shell). It does look like one, though!

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[info]lone_concertina
2008-07-31 09:16 pm UTC (link)
Turtle faces are shaped completely differently, though.

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[info]beetlecat
2008-07-31 09:22 pm UTC (link)
A turtle's spine is fused to it's shell. This doesn't look anything like a turlte - no beak and the paws and tail are not at all similar. Beach =/= turtle

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[info]julicide
2008-07-31 10:39 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that's what I thought about the spine. I did think the face looked kind of beakish, but that could be decomp.

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[info]beetlecat
2008-07-31 09:25 pm UTC (link)
It's a skinned small mammal whose body was thrown away and then washed up on shore. The front of the face looks to be removed from when it was skinned or it was eaten/rotted off. You can even see the upper tooth sockets where the teeth are missing.

Dog no - but raccoon I can believe.

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[info]glacidia
2008-07-31 10:34 pm UTC (link)
Imho, it's a raccoon. There's still a band of fur on its front-left leg as well as a piece on its tail.

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[info]titania_le_fey
2008-07-31 11:12 pm UTC (link)
That was my thought. Though with the tufts on the ears.. if I didn't know better I'd say it looks like a skinned Koala bear.

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[info]mlfoley
2008-07-31 11:57 pm UTC (link)
The important part is that we remember Martin Luther's attempts to link weird animals to the decay of the papacy and the pope being the Anti-Christ and find out how this creature relates.

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[info]circusstar
2008-08-01 01:13 am UTC (link)
I'm ashamed to say, the first thing I thought was "it looks so sad".

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[info]totnesmartin
2008-08-01 09:19 am UTC (link)
I must say the Montauk Project is my favourite page on Wikipedia. I'm sometimes tempted to make something up and add it in, but I can't top what's in there already.

the picture reminds me of that washed up mermaid picture that was going around a coupla years ago.

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[info]grouperkun
2008-08-02 02:18 am UTC (link)
I vote that we find another one of these and sell it on Ebay.

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