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July 31, 2008
Oh, Good GRIEF!!!
'Montauk Monster' Has Hamptons in a TizzyWhat's brownish-purple, goes to the beach and stinks of rotting flesh?
New York's celebrity-obsessed Hamptons summer season got even sillier this week when a strange-looking, very dead creature washed up on a beach in Montauk at the far eastern end of New York's Long Island.
After sleeping it off, Bingley was fine the next morning...
...and escorting a "none-the-wiser" NJ Sue to market.
Posted by tree hugging sister at July 31, 2008 05:43 PM
Comments
That is a strange looking thing.I did read a post where someone said it was a turtle without its shell.
I think that is it.Either that, or Art Bell is right and aliens are on earth.
Posted by: greg newson at August 1, 2008 04:51 AM
Totally a raccoon.
Posted by: WordGirl at August 1, 2008 06:42 AM
I'm still smarting from that sunburn.
Not smarter, obviously.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 1, 2008 07:00 AM
Nessie?
Posted by: nightfly at August 1, 2008 10:32 AM
There was another pic - I think from Newsweek? - where the thing had been moved. It totally looked like a dead bull terrier from that angle. The beak think may just be the angle of the photo.
Posted by: creatrix at August 1, 2008 03:22 PM
Really, creatrix? I'll have to go looking for that one, because this one IS pretty ghastly and alien-looking.
But it's great to tweak Bingley with.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at August 1, 2008 03:26 PM
Damn... I can't find it again.
Posted by: Creatrix at August 1, 2008 03:38 PM
Got it. Scroll down towards the bottom.
http://gawker.com/5031872/scientist-plea-from-montauk-monster-finders
Posted by: creatrix at August 1, 2008 03:44 PM
BLECH!!! But it is definitely more dog-like from that angle, I'll give you that. The whole "claw" thing has me intrigued though.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at August 1, 2008 03:52 PM
Yeah, but it has some sort of wrist-band thing on it. It has to have had contact with people somewhere along the line. Unless griffons are into friendship bracelets or something.
Posted by: Creatrix at August 1, 2008 03:55 PM
I thought that looked like one! Did you see where there was initially some suspicion it was an escapee/medical waste dump from a lab close by? That might lend credence to the story.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at August 1, 2008 03:59 PM