While you were sleeping, the Montauk Monster story kept spinning, this time landing on PlumTV, Newsday and...CNN. In an attempt to reassure a jittery public, the CNN quotes "experts" who say it's either a dog or raccoon; some think it may have washed up from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
Newsday got a hold of another photo, which some people think makes the "monster" look much more canine (maybe that Corwin guy does know what he's talking about). However, Christina Pampalone and Ryan O'Shea (takers of the latest image, thumbnail in left corner), aren't convinced, saying, "Everybody I showed pictures to said it looks like a dead dog. But looking at the claws, and at the teeth in the front, it looked like it could be something else, something vicious." Newsday also reports that this isn't the first monster the ocean has spit up; one was allegedly found last month at Jones Beach, and one witness claims to have see it alive in the Montauk dunes.
Meanwhile, over at PlumTV they talk to the photographer, Jenna Hewitt (and friends), who took the original photo everyone has been trying to decipher. A scientist told them it's definitely not a dog, because its feet and eye ridge don't match up -- until someone can help them identify the poor thing, however, they're keeping the remains in a box. See their clip after the jump.
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To those who insist that it's a turtle you should know that turtles don't have teeth.
markman
I always wondered what happened to Madeline Albright
itsnorman
It's the CHUPACABRA!
NannyState
Maybe it's something Lizzy Grubman ran over. Lizzy washes ashore next week.
meganificent
While I do believe we've polluted the earth enough to create such a beast, I think this is a hoax. Too many things don't add up. Mar-ket-ing.
Future Taliban
Judging by the offensive, repugnant features and the putrid condition of the body I'd say it's George W Bush. But then again it might only be wishful thinking on my behalf.
But we can still always hope, right?.
abcohen
I like how the kids have it in a bag... so bring it to CNN and they'll do a live show with a vet -- get some DNA tests and make this monster a show...
I'll bet it'll air on FOX and Budweiser will sponsor it.
hungryghoast
maybe it wasn't a dangerous monster... maybe it was friendly!
and yeh, +1 to the "it's Lizzy Grubman"
Jerky
Funny how people are more willing to believe that an alien species
watched up on a New York beach rather than a dead mammal carcass that looks suspiciously like a bloated dog. Gee, which is more probable???
pazzia
turtles don't have ears like that. neither do seals (what one of the stories suggested it was).
Squard
How come "A Bloated News Story" isn't one of the options to vote for?
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