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Monster of Montauk 
I've just come across news of the "Monster of Montauk". Word is that an unidentified creature with a hooked beak, about the size of a dog, has washed onshore in Montauk, leading to a frenzy of specualation about whether the monster is in fact a monster, or whether the whole thing is some kind of viral marketing ploy. Here is one account, in which a Montauk visitor swears that they actually have seen the monster:
I'm not sure whether to believe that this creature actually exists, but it has been tagged the "Montauk monster."Gawker first posted the photo on Tuesday saying they assume it was a phony since it came from Alanna Navitski who works for a viral-marketing firm.
Navitski, however, says the monster of Montauk is real. She got the photo from a friend of her sister's who actually saw the monster in real life.
"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."
My favourite though is this account, from Thaindian News, which reports that the "brownish purple" is "very dead and stinking":
A brownish purple was found in the Long Island beach when a creature turned up very dead and stinking. This made the Hamptons summer season a thriller affair since everyone is curious ‘what’s this up here?. The creature was washed up to the shores in Montauk and New York’s celebrity-obsessed Hamptons summer season woke to a weird-looking, completely kaput monster on the Montauk beach at the eastern end of New York’s Long Island.
Can anyone vouch for this creature? Me, though I am a longtime fan of mysterious creatures especially those that wash ashore, I'm voting for photoshop on this one.
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (12)
at 10:29 on July 31st, 2008
I understand several of the sightings of a "Montauk monster" just end up being Joan Rivers trolling for celebrity interviews. However, the "brownish purple" and "dead and stinking" comments make me wonder if it's not just Larry King sunbathing.
at 22:35 on July 31st, 2008
anyone else notice the middle finger being held up, i thought it was kinda funny
at 23:21 on July 31st, 2008
It looks like something out of the live action movie Ninja Turtles 2.
at 05:25 on August 1st, 2008
plum island experiement gone bad
at 14:15 on August 1st, 2008
Anyone else notice the koala like head and turkey from your local grocery store rear?
at 16:26 on August 1st, 2008
Spuds McKenzie fell off of a Bud Light party barge and drown because Lassie had his front legs tied up in bondage (look at the bongage wrap on his legs!)
Definately an English Bull Terrier
at 13:29 on August 2nd, 2008
I think someone mated 2 different animals and this is the out come. They probably tried to hide it after it died and threw it in the ocean or it ran away and drowned. I don't believe in monster's and it don't look like no aliean. It look's like maybe a deer or dog mated with a bird or turtle. A scientist could have did artifichal insemination who know's, but i bet it's a mix of breeds. It looks like it has fingers and is flipping us off
at 02:29 on August 3rd, 2008
I don't think this picture is a phony, but what people think is probably not accurate. I found the other monster photo and it still had some fur left on it. So I did some work on it in Photoshop and came up with an interesting result. I made an animation of this so called monster showing what it might have looked like before most of the fur fell off. See this animation on my website at http://www.taftpcservices.com/Digital_Image_Editing.htm
at 16:52 on August 4th, 2008
It's definitely Spud Mckenzie, or his brother with the gambling issues, Jud. The Taco Bell dog told him "Yo quiero mi dinero". Two weeks later Jud washes ashore unrecogizable. Watch out for those show dogs, guys.
at 14:44 on August 5th, 2008
you ppl are ignorant how in sam hell do you get a dog out of that? or a raccoon?? it's probably someone's experiment. or just a creature we havnt seen yet. lmao a raccoon.
at 22:15 on August 11th, 2008
RUN!
at 08:56 on April 6th, 2009
This is definetely Romulus: a she wolf, look it up anywhere its for real not for fake.