"Montauk Monster"...Long Island, NY...Hoax or Real?

[GRMonLI]

An "unknown creature" that washed up on the shore of eastern Long Island, New York, USA.

We still do not know if it is real or a hoax.


http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07/the_monster_of_montauk.html

[dracenstein]

I would guess this is a hoax.

[Bub666]

Yeah,this looks kind of fake to me.

[MikePizzoff]

If it were real I kinda think we would of heard something since this was first reported, back in July.

[Bub666]

If it were real I kinda think we would of heard something since this was first reported, back in July.

I did hear about this in July.I must of forgot all about it until now.

[GRMonLI]

You may not have heard of it in PA but it has been in the papers all along in New York.

We have a "Secret Governemnt" animal testing facility on a small island between the two forks of Long Island.

Not saying it is real but a lot of folks think it came from there. You never know. Just because the recent bigfoot was a hoax....Hmmmm. :D

[slickwilly13]

I am curious about this, too. Hope it is not a hoax. And some closure for this regardless of it being a hoax or not.

[Danny]

looks like a pig crossed with a chicken, maybe some experiment into a new easy to produce cheap foodsource?

[Yojimbo]

Yeah, could be a dead cat, or racoon, bloated from decompostion, hairless from rot and the weird beak looking thing could be a figment of jutting bone and the snout having been eaten off or rotted off.

But I think it is ... a Chupacabara!!!!

[DubiousComforts]

But I think it is ... a Chupacabara!!!!
Careful, I think Richard Rubinstein owns Chupacabara® so you'd better not mention it unless you want to get hauled into court.

[Yojimbo]

Careful, I think Richard Rubinstein owns Chupacabara® so you'd better not mention it unless you want to get hauled into court.

:lol::lol::lol: It would not surprise me if he really did. And I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to sue me even if he didn't.

[MaximusIncredulous]

looks like a pig crossed with a chicken, maybe some experiment into a new easy to produce cheap foodsource?

With a beak and teeth like that? Vicious looking mother. I wouldn't want to have to feed that thing just so fat slobs can have a fried [insert name here] sandwich.

If it is a hoax, it's a hell of a better dress up job than that pathetic monkey suit in a box.

[C5NOTLD]

Hoax.

[Eyebiter]

If you google splinterheads, apparently it's a prop from a low budget move about carnivals.

[EvilNed]

Probably just a promotional stunt for Spore.

[GRMonLI]

If you google splinterheads, apparently it's a prop from a low budget move about carnivals.


Actually the production company has denied anything to do with this:

WOW!!! Montauk Monster?! CNN? Fox News? Gawker? Gothamist? It’s amazing what a quick thinking 16 year old entrepreneur can do. Here’s what happened - Newsday does an article about our film (which is shooting near Montauk). Montauk Monster story breaks, kid steals some of our graphics, sets up a fake official Splinterheads website, makes up some names and voila - a national story.

I’d like to go on record and say our movie “Splinterheads” has had nothing to do with this Montauk Monster thing. We’re shooting a comedy out here in Patchogue - not a horror film. My producer Darren does not have a sister Rachel, but a Rachael Taylor is starring in the film. Along side Thomas Middleditch, Christopher McDonald, Lea Thompson, Dean Winters, Frankie Faison, Jason Rogel and Pamela Shaw. Check http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1254696/ if you don’t believe me.

[Neil]

An "unknown creature" that washed up on the shore of eastern Long Island, New York, USA.

We still do not know if it is real or a hoax.


http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07/the_monster_of_montauk.html

Looks like a turtle without a shell?

[Skippy911sc]

Looks like a turtle without a shell?

That is exactly what I thought...I shot a turtle once and the thing bloated up and turned white...I have no idea what it was...until I got a little closer.

[AcesandEights]

I thought the only only bloated, leathery monsters on the beaches of Long Island were all housewives.

[Bub666]

I thought the only only bloated, leathery monsters on the beaches of Long Island were all housewives.

:lol::lol::lol:

[MikePizzoff]

I thought the only only bloated, leathery monsters on the beaches of Long Island were all housewives.

:lol: BA-ZING!

[bassman]

http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/07/30_deadcritter_lg.jpg


http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/ghostbusters/images/thumb/6/67/Terror_Dog_02.jpg/250px-Terror_Dog_02.jpg


:rockbrow:
Related? I think so...

[Bub666]

http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/07/30_deadcritter_lg.jpg


http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/ghostbusters/images/thumb/6/67/Terror_Dog_02.jpg/250px-Terror_Dog_02.jpg


:rockbrow:
Related? I think so...

Could be,they look alike.

[Neil]

http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/07/30_deadcritter_lg.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/NaomiCampbell.jpg/180px-NaomiCampbell.jpg


:rockbrow:
Related? I think so...

[GRMonLI]

Looks like a turtle without a shell?

Biologists have said though, that you cannot remove a turtles shell without ripping apart its spine.

Its just freaky!

[Bub666]

http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/07/30_deadcritter_lg.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/NaomiCampbell.jpg/180px-NaomiCampbell.jpg


:rockbrow:
Related? I think so...


:lol::lol::lol:

[GRMonLI]

I thought the only only bloated, leathery monsters on the beaches of Long Island were all housewives.


It's all the "Hairy Guidos" in Speedos!!!!!!!

[slickwilly13]

Notice how the corpse has disappeared. I still smell fraud. Seriously, what do they have to hide? If it is new species, then let the experts prove it. Fame and fortune. Just like the bigfoot hoax recently. If it really was true, then it would be very valuable.

[bassman]

Notice how the corpse has disappeared. I still smell fraud. Seriously, what do they have to hide? If it is new species, then let the experts prove it. Fame and fortune. Just like the bigfoot hoax recently. If it really was true, then it would be very valuable.

Even if it's NOT true, there's a fortune in it. Didn't those bigfoot guys walk away with close to a million even though it was a fake?:stunned:

[DawnGirl27]

I hate when people claim to have "the real deal" of some animal like Bigfoot, and it's a hoax. Just gives those who have no imagination (regardless of all the unexplored woodlands and bodies of water on this Earth) more fuel for the fire that there are no such things as Bigfoot, lake monsters, etc. I love the possibility that there are indeed species of unknown creatures out there somewhere.
The Coelacanth was thought to be extinct, but a specimen found alive in 1938. The panda bear and mountain gorilla, when discovered, had eluded human detection for centuries, and scientists have found colossal squid, now, too.
But then we have to think about what a big discovery would lead too, as well. Some people want to kill animals for trophies, and then you face extinction, like what happened to the Tasmanian Tiger, dodo bird, and giant moa.
All in all, the kid in me still believes that there are species out there yet undiscovered....