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Subject: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/01/08 at 10:34 pm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396182,00.html
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/montauk.asp

I ought to know better, but I'm a sucker for monster stories. 

Unfortunately, I don't think this beast is a demon, an alien, or an undiscovered sea creature; I don't think it's a dead dog, an unshelled sea turtle, a mutilated cat, or a raccoon.  The, ahem, authoratative consensus seems to be it's either a photo of an old raccoon shot at a funny angle so its decomposing head looks turtle-like.  I'm having trouble seeing the raccoon, but maybe I just haven't seen enough old dead ones!

I suspect it's bogus.  As with most cryptozoological claims, the details surrounding its deposit and discovery are too sketchy.  Photographic manipulation software and polymerplasty get better all the time.  Furthermore, FOX News is pushing the story!

Anybody care to differ?
???

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: 80sTrivMeister on 08/02/08 at 5:15 am

I saw the photographs online of this "creature" yesterday, and I was thinking... WTH? I couldn't tell you what it is, but it sure is ugly!  :o

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Bobby on 08/02/08 at 4:37 pm


I suspect it's bogus.  As with most cryptozoological claims, the details surrounding its deposit and discovery are too sketchy.  Photographic manipulation software and polymerplasty get better all the time.  Furthermore, FOX News is pushing the story!

Anybody care to differ?
???


Call me cynical but I'm thinking the same.

The photograph doesn't look natural to me.

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: woops on 08/02/08 at 6:48 pm

pitbull


...Wouldn't be suprised if this will be featured on "Monster Quest"

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/02/08 at 9:05 pm


pitbull


...Wouldn't be suprised if this will be featured on "Monster Quest"


I love Monster Quest! Why, that warn't no Bigfoot, that was just Big Eddie after a two-week bender!
:D

The body of that thing does look rather canine.  I'd say a pitbull is more plausible than a raccoon or a turtle!

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Gis on 08/04/08 at 10:25 am

I'd say a dog too.

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Tia on 08/04/08 at 10:27 am

coincidence?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/04/08 at 9:26 pm


coincidence?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project

Oooh! We better put on our tinfoil hats!
:D

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Tia on 08/04/08 at 9:56 pm


Oooh! We better put on our tinfoil hats!
:D
pfft! that's what They want you to do! tinfoil actually AMPLIFIES the satellite signals!

actually, that whole thing with the anthrax guy is so seriously weird, i have NO idea what's going on anymore. :\'(

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/04/08 at 10:01 pm


pfft! that's what They want you to do! tinfoil actually AMPLIFIES the satellite signals!

actually, that whole thing with the anthrax guy is so seriously weird, i have NO idea what's going on anymore. :\'(

"It's not that we don't  like you, you're an OK kind of guy/
We'll burn you at the steakhouse and we'll call it suicide!

--The Legendary Pink Dots
(Burned at the Steakhouse)

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/05/08 at 9:05 am


coincidence?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project


So the military is now using animals as psychological warfare?  NASA's gonna be upset when they find out where the usual funding is being funneled to.

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/08 at 9:08 am

Is it a bald gopher?

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Tia on 08/05/08 at 9:55 am


So the military is now using animals as psychological warfare?  NASA's gonna be upset when they find out where the usual funding is being funneled to.
i'm thinking more like the creature was the result of a time-travel experiment gone wrong. sorta like how the fly got stuck in the transporter?

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/05/08 at 11:10 am


Is it a bald gopher?


Probably not.  The U.S. doesn't like to do experiments with baldness, it's too sensitive an issue.

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/05/08 at 11:33 pm


i'm thinking more like the creature was the result of a time-travel experiment gone wrong. sorta like how the fly got stuck in the transporter?

That's what somebody was saying, that it escaped from Plumb Island Animal Disease Research Center, or whatever it's called!

Maybe God was in the middle of creating that animal when He had to go and renegotiate His grant.  Then He never went back to it.
:-\\

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/08 at 1:21 am

Is it a leftover prop from a movie shoot?

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/06/08 at 6:59 pm


Is it a bald gopher?

Is it a bad golfer?
???

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Shacks Train on 08/12/08 at 12:38 am

isin't it amazing what one can do with "Photoshop"


Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/12/08 at 2:22 am

It's a puppet!

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: greenjello74 on 08/24/08 at 10:51 pm

Looks like a dog to me that had been in the water too long.

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/08 at 7:46 am

Any further news on this?

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/01/08 at 12:02 am


Any further news on this?

It seems interest has waned fairly quickly.

Subject: Re: Cryptid craze: The Montauk Monster--what is it?

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/03/08 at 9:38 am


It seems interest has waned fairly quickly.
Will the interest pick up again in early April next year?

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