Montauk Monster

Montauk Monster:“Montauk Monster” was the unidentified creature which allegedly washed ashore, dead on a beach near the business district of Montauk, New York, in July 2008. being the identity and veracity of stories surrounding it have been the subject of unresolved disputes and speculation, although the current consensus, based on the dental models and details of the front paws, he was a raccoon.
The story began with a July 23, 2008 article in the local newspaper, The Independent. Main Britton, 20, of Bay Shore, and three friends said they found the creature on July 12 at Ditch Plains beach, two miles east of the district. Beach popular surfing spot at Rheinstein Estate Park owned by the city of East Hampton. Chief Britton quotes:

We are looking for a place to work, when we saw some people looking at something … We do not know what it was … We joked that maybe it was something from Plum Island.

Her color photograph ran in black and white under the headline “Dog Bonacville” (take-off on the name of the Bonackers, which belongs to the natives of East Hampton and the Hound of the Baskervilles is a book of Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Carefree article suggests that there may be a turtle or some mutant experiment from Plum Island Animal Disease Center before noting that Larry Penny, East Hampton Natural Resources Director, concluded it was a raccoon with its upper jaw missing. The article concluded that “someone took … to be buried … we hope.” the local newspaper quoted an unidentified woman, who claimed that the animal was only the size of a cat, and was decomposed into a skeleton while press coverage. She would not identify its location for inspection. Father Hewitt denies claims that his daughter is to keep the secret places of the body.

Hewitt and her friends were interviewed on Plum TV, a local cable television show . Alanna Novitsky, an employee of Evolutionary Media Group in Los Angeles, California, the photograph was being Anna Holmes at Jezebel, claiming that the sisters saw each other a monster in Montauk. Holmes then passed it along with other Gawker Media website Gawker.com which gave it wide attention on July 29 under the headline “Dead Monster Washes ashore in Montauk”.

Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman at Cryptomundo first coined the name “Montauk Monster” July 29, 2008. nickname was distributed globally on the Internet at the following days. The photos were widely circulated via e-mail and blogging, and national media picked up on this increase is the assumption of being. The growth potential of the urban legend about a monster Montauk said Snopes.

In May 2009, National Post reported that the owner of the Montauk-monster.com claimed to have found another “incarnation” of the Montauk Monster.
Speculation in published reports included theories, Monster Montauk would be a turtle without a shell – a shell while the turtle can not be removed without damaging the spine, and they have no teeth appear in the photograph , dog, raccoon, or perhaps science experiment from the nearby government animal test facility, Plum Island Animal Disease Center. The appearance of the substance was believed to have been altered through immersion in water for an extended period before coming to rest on the coast, making it difficult to determine.

William Wise, director of marine living resources of Stony Brook University, interpreted the photo along with a colleague, in their view, being a fake, the result of “who got very creative with latex.” Wise minute following features:

* Raccoon (legs appear too long in proportion to the body.)
* Sea Turtle (Sea turtles have no teeth), a creature called a turtle, because it seems that seems to be a beak. But some pictures from different angles, show that the skin tissue and no face being.
* Rodents (Rodents have two huge, curved incisor teeth in front of the mouth)
* Dogs or other dogs, such as the coyote. (Prominent ridge eyes and feet do not match)
* Sheep (sheep, two-toed hoof, rather than multiple-toed paws)
* Sloth (fur fell after his death. Notifications hand, however, sloths do not have tails).

On August 1, Gawker published pictures and x-ray images of water rat, an Australian rodent with a few similarities with the Montauk Monster, such as the beak, tail, legs, and size. The same day, Jeff Corwin appeared on Fox News and claimed that upon closer inspection, the photograph, he feels that the monster just a raccoon or a dog, which expanded a bit. This was supported by Darren Naish, British paleontologist, who examined the image and decided that, if true, the creature was a raccoon. Naish says that “claims that the proportions of the limbs Montauk carcass are unlike raccoons are not correct,” and on his blog, he cites the example of an intact raccoon corpse drawn over the corpse in the photograph. In addition, he points to the strong similarity of skull profile, that of a raccoon, and long fingers, which are typical for raccoons, and unlike other predators, such as dogs.

August 5, 2008 Morning Fox News Channel’s Show repeats the assumption that the animal broke the corpse Capybara, though capybaras do not have tails. The next day, the same program reported that an unnamed man claimed that the animal’s carcass had been stolen from his yard.

In an episode of History Channel show Monster Quest, the representative of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center has suggested, seeing each other, close-up photos person of substance, that dogs, especially Boxer. August 7, 2008, the state and government officials said the unidentified substance, most likely a dog, as well as for the corpse, it will be taken to a nearby object for analysis and study.

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