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Holy shit- MONSTER FOUND IN MONTAUK

post #1 of 86
7/29/08 at 11:28pm
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http://gawker.com/5030531/dead-monst...ore-in-montauk


AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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post #2 of 86
7/29/08 at 11:34pm
Not a big deal, there's lots of these things here. They eat babies, but besides that, they're harmless.
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post #3 of 86
7/29/08 at 11:36pm
If that doesn't freak you out, maybe this will
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2941186.html
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post #4 of 86
7/29/08 at 11:38pm
Thanks for the Del Toro-esque nightmares!
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post #5 of 86
7/29/08 at 11:40pm
This raises the question: what seperates the monsters from the animals?
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post #6 of 86
7/29/08 at 11:45pm
That they are fuck ugly.
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post #7 of 86
7/29/08 at 11:52pm
I think that's a drowned dog with part of it's face eaten off.
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post #8 of 86
7/29/08 at 11:55pm
I wonder if it tastes good.
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post #9 of 86
7/30/08 at 12:12am
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
I wonder if it tastes good.
Hell, dump some sauteed mushrooms on it and I'll down a jabberwocky steak. Or a chupacabra, or chimera, or hill giant, or yeti, or people.

Mmm, mushrooms....
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post #10 of 86
7/30/08 at 12:13am
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Originally Posted by KABONG View Post
Must have been a big ass cat...
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post #11 of 86
7/30/08 at 12:30am
Awww... I know what this little fella is... Montauk, NY... The tell-tale face and skeletals... And I am sad for him tonight.

BABY CLOVERFIELD just wanted a hug.

...But his parents are gonna be pissed.
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post #12 of 86
7/30/08 at 12:58am
Seriously, has this been verified as an actual animal or is it just made of fuckin latex or something?
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post #13 of 86
7/30/08 at 1:09am
Well, Cloverfield and TDK already came out so either it's part of the viral marketing for Watchmen or Star Trek, or the publicity department just didn't get their shit together in time and this thing washed up on shore too late.
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post #14 of 86
7/30/08 at 1:41am
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
This raises the question: what seperates the monsters from the animals?
Monsters don't taste good.
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post #15 of 86
7/30/08 at 1:41am
It seems to have some material around one of its front legs.
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post #16 of 86
7/30/08 at 1:42am
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
I wonder if it tastes good.
Monsters don't taste good.
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post #17 of 86
7/30/08 at 2:30am
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Originally Posted by Gabe Powers View Post
I think that's a drowned dog with part of it's face eaten off.
Agreed.
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post #18 of 86
7/30/08 at 2:39am
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Originally Posted by Gabe Powers View Post
I think that's a drowned dog with part of it's face eaten off.
Also agree.
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post #19 of 86
7/30/08 at 2:41am
Do drowned dogs lose all their fur?

The fingers don't look like paws either.
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post #20 of 86
7/30/08 at 2:41am
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Originally Posted by HarleyQuinn22 View Post
Agreed.
I dunno...maybe... but what's with the snout? And the neck beard?

If this IS a dog it sure decomposed weird.
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post #21 of 86
7/30/08 at 2:45am
Do dogs have beak? That have beak.
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post #22 of 86
7/30/08 at 2:46am
Yeah, that sure looks like a beak to me.
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post #23 of 86
7/30/08 at 3:16am
That's the beta version of Bubastis. Apparently Adrian started cleaning house already.
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post #24 of 86
7/30/08 at 9:59am
Shit! Al Gore was right! MANBEARPIG!
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post #25 of 86
7/30/08 at 10:24am
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Originally Posted by SneakyPete View Post
It seems to have some material around one of its front legs.
I think that's most likely what's left of it's skin. With the exception of it's head/face it looks like it's been skinned. Probably came off in the water when something tried to eat it.
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post #26 of 86
7/30/08 at 10:52am
Found nothing in the most obvious sources:


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post #27 of 86
7/30/08 at 11:00am
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Originally Posted by Andrew Eaton View Post
Well, Cloverfield and TDK already came out so either it's part of the viral marketing for Watchmen or Star Trek, or the publicity department just didn't get their shit together in time and this thing washed up on shore too late.
Close.

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Kudos are in order to the public relations company that "tipped" us earlier today about the supposed government-created mutant that washed up in Montauk, if for nothing other than its timing. The firm, described by its owner as a purveyor of "grassroots viral marketing," was wise to try and place a campaign than in the midst of the summer news doldrums. But neither Gawker nor Jezebel (original recipient of the tip) seem an appropriate place to plug a children's show, which a different tipster thinks is behind the Montauk picture.

Agreeing with us that the creature is almost certainly the product of viral marketing, the tipster pointed us to Cartoon Network's Cryptids Are Real, which has apparently been running targeted ads on GMail and which, as the rightmost pictures above show, has created similar monsters for its own website.
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post #28 of 86
7/30/08 at 11:08am
It looks a little like a baby Zuul.
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post #29 of 86
7/30/08 at 11:49am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
Found nothing in the most obvious sources:
Duh. You didn't check this:
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post #30 of 86
7/30/08 at 11:51am
What do you want from me, it looked more like a monster than a fiend.
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post #31 of 86
7/30/08 at 11:54am
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Originally Posted by Minsky View Post
It looks a little like a baby Zuul.
Bingo! Don't be surprised if you see it's brother taking down Rick Moranis at Tavern on the Green.... I'm just sayin', is all.
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post #32 of 86
7/30/08 at 12:00pm
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Originally Posted by Seabass Inna Bun View Post
Monsters don't taste good.
I'm guessing you tried to eat monster a la cart.
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post #33 of 86
7/30/08 at 3:02pm
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Originally Posted by Seabass Inna Bun View Post
Monsters don't taste good.
Monsters taste you.
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post #34 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:07pm
the head looks sort of photoshopped ... but just like Mulder: I want to believe.
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post #35 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:16pm
Sea Turtle without its shell?
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post #36 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:18pm
I thought snapping turtle first, too, but I'm pretty sure a turtle without its shell would be more of a bloody mess.
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post #37 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:22pm
The beginning of the viral marketing campaign for the Ghostbusters game is fantastic! Kabong you shill.
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post #38 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:26pm
Pardon the 22 second job, but I'm thinking turtle:

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post #39 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:28pm
Aren't the legs a little long? And the face a little ugly?

And no one mention of my awesome Ape-Pig?
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post #40 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:33pm


Head seems turtleish to me.
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post #41 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:35pm
It can't be a turtle due to the fact that for a turtle's shell to come off its spine would have to come out.
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post #42 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:40pm
It's a mutation! Fantasy slowly becoming reality.

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post #43 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:41pm
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
It can't be a turtle due to the fact that for a turtle's shell to come off its spine would have to come out.

Really? Learn something new every day.
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post #44 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:49pm
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
Do drowned dogs lose all their fur?

The fingers don't look like paws either.
Decomposition? Also, who knows how long it's been in the water. The jawline and basic contours are making me think dog.
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post #45 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:50pm
Yeah, but what about the fucking beak? Don't tell me decomposition spontaniously generates beaks.
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post #46 of 86
7/30/08 at 6:54pm
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Originally Posted by Krish-0 View Post
Really? Learn something new every day.
You woulda learned it faster if you watched Cannibal Holocaust.
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post #47 of 86
7/30/08 at 7:41pm
Well, duh.

It's a motherfucking GRIFFIN.
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post #48 of 86
7/31/08 at 4:16am
As a kitchen-sink cryptozoologist this story has actually grabbed me a bit I must say. Heres an update:

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Because it came from a marketing company, Gawker surmised, "our guess is that it's viral marketing for something." They later pointed to a Cartoon Network show, Cryptids Are Real, which features similar-looking chubby monsters. We called Evolutionary, where a woman named Alanna Navitski, who claimed to be responsible for the tip, swore it was not a viral-marketing campaign. "This is what happened," she said.
"I got this e-mail and opened it from my girlfriend who works at Harris Publications, which has nothing to do with anything. Anyway, my girlfriend's sister was there with her friends and one of them took the picture. And we were like, 'This is the scariest shit we've ever seen.' And so — I'm in marketing — were like, 'Maybe we should send it to a few blogs and see if anyone else is as freaked out as we are.' We had no idea that it would turn into this. Now it's literally a beast of its own. But it has nothing to do with any kind of campaign."

In fact, this turned out to be true. A number of eyewitnesses say they saw the monster with their own eyes. "I saw the monster," says Michael Meehan, a 22-year-old waiter at the Surfside Inn, which sits above the beach where the monster washed up. "I just came walking down the beach and everyone was looking at it. No one knew what it was. It kind of looked like a dog, but it had this crazy-looking beak. I mean, I would freak out if something like that popped up next to me in the water."

So did anyone there, you know, do anything about it?

"This woman kept calling animal control," said Meehan. "She wanted to name it after herself. I think they came and got it. The carcass. Whatever it was."
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07...f_montauk.html


I have to say tho, I reckon I smell bullshit with this.
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post #49 of 86
7/31/08 at 4:10pm
Y'know, the guy I'm dating lives on Long Island. $50 bucks says that with my luck, he's breeding beaked dog-monsters in his basement.
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post #50 of 86
7/31/08 at 5:00pm
Holy fucking fuck that's weird.
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