Strange creature washes up on beach

[HoundedByHounds]

great shot! Thanks. I am just floored nothign had a go at it out there in the water...must've already been pretty ripe when it went in?

 

[Laurelin]

Ah, I should read the whole thread before I post. Poo

 

[Laurelin]

I wonder if it's related to the Chupacabra they found not that long ago. lol

 

[dr2little]

And even better pictures *sad*
http://amnesiablog.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/montauk-monster-pictures-real-or-viral-hoax/

 

[iheartsammy]

Interesting...

 

[GlassOnion]

Much better picture that second one. Can definitely tell it's just the decomposition of the skull and not a beak from that angle. Wonder what ripped the nose off though?

 

[HoundedByHounds]

something that grabbed it by the nose as it was drinking or approaching the water perhaps?

 

[Lilavati]

Crabs, probably

 

[HoundedByHounds]

Crabs eh? guess that'd explain why nothing ate it..probably afraid of catching em.
*ducking and running*

 

[shadowfacedanes]

FYI, sea turtles do not have teeth.

I read about the conclusion being that it's a raccoon, but everythign I've read so far has been so silly, I can't decide if I'm reading something legit or if it's just more rumours.

Interesting though...

 

[iheartsammy]

Personally, it looks like a dead dog to mee..But I don't now much about anatomy..That's just what it looks like to me =(

 

[bubbatd]

With the new pictures of teeth , I'm thinking dog too .

 

[milos_mommy]

Hmm, funnily enough, I was recently monster-hunting in Montauk (no, I'm not kidding).

The government used to have a huge camp there which was shut down because of illegal activity...they basically were torturing soldiers to figure out how to do mind control and telepathy and whatnot. There's an urban legend saying a portal was opened to another dimension and monsters escaped.

Anyway, my guess is a turtle without it's shell...but it appears to have fur near it's neck?!? And I think if it was a turtle it'd be pretty easy to identify...

 

[smkie]

No cat has nails like that that i know of. Will be interesting to follow.

 

[milos_mommy]

It is very, very catlike, except for the feet. The "beak" is just the front of the skull that is missing skin. It could be a cat with some sort of deformed feet or something.

 

[SharkyX]

It looks very much like a dead racoon.
The teeth position, the feet all those things line up very nicely to be a dead/rotting racoon.

 

[Angel Chicken]

Raccoon or Dog, for sure. Probably a 'coon the way the feet look.

 

[mwood322]

Definitely not a turtle. Turtles are completely attached to their shells. If the shell is removed you go right to internal organs, no matter what cartoons try to portray...their ribs are fused into the shell as well...so no magical turtle without a shell would look that together.

Until the recent picture I was thinking bloated pig.

The recent chupacabra have all tested as dogs, or at best dog-coyote hybrids, most likely with severe mange...even though their finders would like to insist they're something else...

--Mia

 

[milos_mommy]

Racoon! Why didn't I think of that.

 

[skittledoo]

oh my... i cant wait until they figure out what it really is.. I see both dog and raccoon. I originally thought sea turtle missing it's shell, but in some of the pics in the later links I swear you can see some hair... unless thats a moss or fungi of some sort growing on it...