Montauk Monster Becomes a Web Sensation
Ok, just what the crap is going on in Montauk? And where are agents Scully and Mulder?
The corpse of this beast washed up on the beach in Long Island, New York and nobody really knows what it is. Is it a government experiment (we think so), a sea monster (we hope so), or just the corpse of a half-eaten dog (we hope not)?
Jenna Hewitt, the 26-year-old that took the photo. said that she and others were looking for a place to relax when they saw it. "We were kind of amazed," she said. "Wow," we said. The photo hit the Web (on Gawker) earlier this week, spread like crazy through the blogosphere, and has since made it onto mainstream media outlets like CNN and Fox.
We have no clue what that thing may have been, but the story ends just as oddly as it began. According to onlookers, an old man came and took it away, claiming he wanted to put it on his wall.
Newsflash for all Montauk residents. If you walk into a strange house and see the Montauk Monster on the wall...Run. [Source: Telegraph.co.uk]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
T @ Aug 2nd 2008 9:29PM
Its none of the above. Its nothing but a decomposing turtle that's lost its shell. You can see the "beak" and the shell outline on the skin where it used to be. Why people make so much out of nothing is beyond me..
molly @ Aug 3rd 2008 12:12PM
i think your a poop!
Emma @ Aug 3rd 2008 6:54PM
It isn't a turtle without a shell. It's impossible to remove a turtle from it's shell without destroying the spine. A turtle's shell is part of it's rib cage and spine. I think it's a dog or racoon of some type, as unfortunate as that is.
Dept of Homeland Insecurity @ Aug 5th 2008 6:14AM
Newsflash ... straight off the desk of the Paranoid Android in the Dept of Homeland Insecurity .... its another Serbian war criminal trying to escape justice and sneak into the USA (cunningly disguised as an exotic pet with a chronic orthodontic problem). From the body shape, posture and advanced state of decay, I'd say he went to Bjork's plastic surgeon before attempting to swim ashore !!!
Oh my @ Aug 6th 2008 9:48AM
lol @ a turtle that has lost its shell but good guess. Perhaps you have never butchered a turtle to consume it, sadly my husband does this as they are good eats. And that is NOT what a turtle without a shell looks like I have seen a couple in just the last few months. I dont know what it is and frankly I dont care maybe its a sea creature that is yet to be discovered its possible.. But the turtle thing thats a good theory
Suco @ Aug 2nd 2008 10:03PM
This is a crossover from turtle and dog...
Special Report @ Aug 3rd 2008 12:53PM
From the photos, http://www.specialreport.com have concluded that the montauk creature cannot be a raccoon because the legs appear to be too long in proportion to the body, a sea turtle because Sea turtles do not have teeth, a rodent because Rodents have two huge, curved incisor teeth in front of their mouths, a dog or other canine because the prominent eye ridge and the feet don’t match. Maybe it is a wild boar?
JBaughb @ Aug 3rd 2008 2:20PM
I'm fairly sure its ManBearPig.
NoAndThen @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:49PM
I was thinking the same thing!
nice one
Lisa @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:55PM
I'm pretty sure that a turtle's spine and rib cage are part of the shell, that's why you can't remove a turtle from it's shell alive. It's back feet look like a dog, those feet are not designed for swimming.
Todd @ Aug 3rd 2008 8:34PM
It looks like a baby griffin to me. :)
John @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:21PM
This website has all the new pictures of the Montauk Monster along with some good reading! -- www.Montauk-Monster.com Enjoy!
l @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:39PM
look closer, it's giving you the finger !!!
l @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:41PM
look closer, it's giving you the finger !!!!
Mike Perry @ Aug 4th 2008 12:07AM
Christina Pampalone has released new pictures to
http://www.montauk-monster.com
Weird stuff... check them out.
Mike Perry @ Aug 4th 2008 12:09AM
Christina Pampalone has released new pictures to
http://www.montauk-monster.com
Weird stuff... check them out.
I @ Aug 4th 2008 3:11AM
The new pictures look more like a boar.
Joesesto @ Aug 4th 2008 3:53AM
Look closely at the shadows near the head...the light source (sunlight)would be coming from the viewer's left...but on the right side of the body (viewers left) the light appears to be coming straight down.
Might this be a Photoshop exercise?
Flisk @ Aug 4th 2008 10:45AM
I’m almost convinced this is a hoax.
Look at the evidence:
Very few pictures. If this were real, wouldn’t there be hundreds of pictures taken? I mean, seriously, even with my crappy cell phone camera I take 5 of 6 pictures of the same thing; and if I ever ran across a dead animal that seemingly no-one else had ever seen… Yeah, I’d be snapping them left and right until the memory card was full.
Quality of the photos. These two major photos, one showing this “monsters” on it’s left side and on it’s right, are all pretty high quality. What are the chances someone is going to have a high quality camera that can take that kind of an exposure on a beach? However, with that said, I’m not made of money and would never take an $800.00 camera to the beach and expose it to sand and salt air..
The “thing” in the photo is dead. Where are the flies? Seriously, if this thing was decomposing and rotting with a horrible smell in the sun as the eye-witnesses have said, where are the flies or other carrion feasting bugs? I see a couple of flies, but surely there would be swarms of them right?
Maybe I could snap some photos of a dead human and pass it off as a real legitimate zombie?
Just my 2 cents,
-Brian Hardin II
http://www.ZombieMall.com
Special Report @ Aug 4th 2008 11:11AM
How to Guy at http://www.SpecialReports.com says "It can’t be an exotic species washed ashore from the Asian Tsunami because Long Island is on the Atlantic Ocean, not the Pacific ocean. It definitely isn’t a turtle (or other amphibian) because it has hair. The lower teeth and ears, as well as the feet, remind me of the pigs we used to raise. The teeth appear to be too large for a typical domestic hog, so this is either a specialty breed, or a wild boar. In any case, it is a hog of some kind. I don’t really see the mystery here." Do you agree?