Making it’s rounds through the internet are these latest images from Montauk beach in New York. What is it? People have already dubbed it the “Montauk Monster”.
I have to admit, it does look creepy. A dog-like creature with the beak of a parrot.
Our favorite website Cryptomundo has a bit more info on this:
“Christina Pampalone, of East Northport, however, had actually taken the first photos (one is shown at the top of this posting).
“I was telling people, all day (Wednesday), that I had better photos,” Pampalone said.
“Everybody I showed her pictures to said it looks like a dead dog,” her friend Ryan O’Shea, of Brooklyn, said.
“But looking at the claws, and at the teeth in the front, it looked like it could be something else, something vicious.”
It was relatively small, roughly 21/2 to 3 feet long, he said.”
What really is this creature?
To me it looks a little to similar to an American Pitbull. A badly bloated and decomposed carcass. In fact it even appears that some scavenger might have gnawed away at it’s nose.
Take a look at a skull of an American Pitbull:
There is some resemblance in the the short, stubby skull of the creature and that of the Pitbull skull. Although it seems to be missing its upper-front jaw, it’s bottom jawline closely matches.
Pitbulls are usually a very muscular canine. Short, stubby and rounded heads.
The fact that this washed-up creature has some hair patches left and what appear to be paws/claws, can tell us that it is not a marine animal. Quote from Cryptomundo:
” Joann Dileardo saw it at the end of Roe Avenue in Patchogue, a few weeks ago. “I didn’t know what that thing was,” she said. “It looked like a pig.”
Another reader, Pat, e-mailed that the ladies in his office saw it on an East Quogue beach — back in April.
Elizabeth Barbeiri said her family saw it about a mile east of Gurney’s Inn in Montauk, July 14. And Ryan Kelso, via iPhone, said he spotted it — alive! — in the Montauk dunes. “It looked about the size of an average fox, gray in color, eyes like a mole, hairless and was breathing quite heavily,” he wrote, “needless to say we were freaked out by this discovery and fled the area quickly.”
Lavey Fater saw a surfer bring one to shore, near Ditch Plains.
“It was hairless and gross,” Fater reported. “… The surfer said he had no idea what it was, but that he threw it in the dunes because he didn’t want to be surfing next to it.”
Keith found something last week in Greenport; Chris found one a month ago at Jones Beach east of Field 6. (”The one I saw had a longer snout or beak or whatever you want to call it.”) Sean said he buried one, 3 feet deep, in South Jamesport.”
So what is this creature that washed up in the beaches of Montauk? My guess is that it’s a young Pitbull that drowned or was dumped in the ocean.
Gnawed at by other animals and decomposing make for a good story. I guess DNA testing can only tell.
More to come…..
