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Monster corpse... or hoax?

Thursday July 31, 2008
From Gawker.com: "Our old friend the Montauk Monster, who washed ashore on Long Island recently, continues to befuddle. Luckily Hamptons-based website Plum will be hosting two eyewitnesses as well as the woman who took the photograph this Friday on their web show The Juice. Plum writes of the hellfire-born nightmare creature: 'Four government biologists contacted by Plum were unable to identify the species of the animal from its photo and came to the conclusion that "no such creature exists."' Shriek! That's because it's a monster. A government experiment gone wrong! A Cerberus come to warn us of doom! A MONSTER!"

Where's the body, is our first question. With photos so easy to fake these days, we can't trust them. So if something this strange, unique, and potentially important was really found, the body must have been preserved, right? So where is it? Until it turns up, we almost have to assume this is a clever hoax.

What do you think?

Update video on CNN

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Comments

July 31, 2008 at 11:34 pm
(1) Andy says:

Looks alot like a cat to me o.O

August 2, 2008 at 8:01 pm
(2) Meritt says:

IF this was real there would not only be a body but it would be all over the news – WITH the body for proof.

Nope. Photos are faked too easily. I vote – not real.

August 2, 2008 at 10:12 pm
(3) Dale says:

Looks like a pig that’s been ate on by something lol like a boar.

August 3, 2008 at 10:13 am
(4) winona says:

its a turtle thats lost its shell…..

August 3, 2008 at 12:36 pm
(5) Dan says:

Winona, if a turtle lost its shell then it would be a bloody mess because it’s spine is directly fused with it’s shell.

April 1, 2009 at 1:04 pm
(6) gary says:

I would be willing to bet you anything, its just a freaking turtle, witout it’s SHELL!!!… I guess, no one has ever looked at one before without it’s shell???

Just look at the head, and feet, and imagin a shell around it, you will see.

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