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Montauk Monster: Fact or Fiction?

Plum's Nick Leighton interviews the three women who discovered, photographed, and began the web hysteria over the alleged "Montauk Monster".

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Is that real?

Is that real?

It looks like part pitbull

It looks like part pitbull and part boar to me.

Is it a wild boar? It has

Is it a wild boar? It has (had) hair and teeth like a boar.

I said to my brother "It

I said to my brother "It looks like a pig." And he thinks dog, we my never know.

I wonder if it is a

I wonder if it is a stillborn rhinosaraus. ???? Of course what rhinosaraus is roaming around free in our part of the world. Hmmm. Theirs always the possibility of science messing with nature again.

It looks like a deformed

It looks like a deformed turtle without the shell....

sorry turtles as everyone

sorry turtles as everyone should know by now. they have no skin underneath the shell. i have disected one before.

there are different pictures

there are different pictures of this animal/monster online. the picture posted on http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395294,00.html looks completely different than this, right? hmm...

well its real but those

well its real but those girls are not the ones who took the picture. by the way look at the old tag that hospitals used to use. thats all i am aloud to say. there will be more. you can count on that.

Sure doesn't look like any

Sure doesn't look like any raccoon I've ever seen. Wish I knew how big it is.

It's 2 1/2 - 3 feet long

It's 2 1/2 - 3 feet long

is it real or not ? but look

is it real or not ? but look like real. like a animal or some to different and difficult explain it...ohh but seem so fearfull...

is it real.... that to much

is it real.... that to much fearfull... not look like a animal. maybe came one of the other planets...

It doesn't look like an

It doesn't look like an animal to you? What have you been smoking? It's clearly a dog that the government have been testing on. You're reading way too much into it. You have to realize that it has been floating in the water for a week, baking in the sun and eaten by scavengers. Then it was baking in the hot sun on the sand for days. Of course it's going to be leathery and bloated. It also clearly has fur.

Get a grip.

Get a grip.

It sort of looks like the

It sort of looks like the body of a small dog or cat that has been bashed around on some rocks and it's nose cartilage is exposed and some of it's lower jaw is missing?

it's creepy...whatever it is. It may be an escaped cross breed that has been developed by scientists on plum island!!!

Where is the animal now? I

Where is the animal now? I don't think if they thought as much to photograph it that it that they would not have told someone about it. Also if there is something decomposing on the beach i don't think that those types would have gotten so close for the close up shot. therefore making the size unknown
It is a hoax at best and by the way, it looks like a rotting gopher note the large claws and the extremely elongated incisors

It looks nothing like a

It looks nothing like a gopher. What gophers have you been looking at? It does not have claws..it's hands are missing and those are bones sticking out of the flesh. If it was in the water for up to 6 days and on the beach for God knows how long, it was surely picked apart by scavengers.

they are full of it.

they are full of it.

whether it is real or not,

whether it is real or not, these three women are obviously milking it for their 5 min of fame.

While the interview of the

While the interview of the picture takers seems convincing, why wouldn't they have immediately called Animal Control and stayed in the vicinity until the 'creature' was safely removed from the beach. If not to protect the remains of this unknown animal, to protect a child or unknowing person from coming into contact with a decomposing life form? To take a picture, walk away, leave it there, then suddenly find this 'creature' missing - or taken away 'by a guy on the beach looking to mount it on his wall' is absolutely ridiculous...if not ignorant. The CDC would have had a field day with this.

I feel sad for this creature

I feel sad for this creature if it's real. People freaking out over a dead being of somekind.It would be awesome to find somemore of them but alive, so there can be some research done on a living one,but not to hurt it. I'd say if it smelled like stench it is real.But no idea what it could be.I'd leave raccoon,dog turtle out though.I love it.

Looks like a warthog

Looks like a warthog

It is El ChupaCabra

It is El ChupaCabra

Of course, we will never

Of course, we will never hear what this really is. As soon as it was found and the right people heard about it..... You know they will shut these girls up real fast and they will never talk about it again and we will never hear what it was.
Just my thoughts anyway.

Yes, they found a Griffin,

Yes, they found a Griffin, otherwise known as the "Messenger of Armageddon".

No way! that aint a griffin,

No way! that aint a griffin, a griffin is half eagle and half lion...Smart one!? a griffin is like 2 times that size. and to explain it more, it is a lion with white feathered wings and a white feathered head with yellow eyes and a dark yellow beak.

OH MY GOD THAT THING KINDA

OH MY GOD THAT THING KINDA LOOKS LIKE A GRIFFIN

It looks like a cross

It looks like a cross between a pig and a bird. It looks creepy!:)

Marie, and Im 10 years old *<:)

These women are full of it!

These women are full of it! Check out the nervous chick on the right who keeps sipping on her drink. Give me a break! They're too calm, and they're wearing dark shades. Guilty. They have too much time on their hands and they have definitely taken the time to come up with this. The second pic I've seen resembles the body of a man!

100% IT IS A BIRD!!!!

100% IT IS A BIRD!!!!

I know what it is, boring

I know what it is, boring and a waste of time

Honestly it looks like a

Honestly it looks like a rubber prop from a failed movie attempt that someone just dumped away ... unless the government is experimenting with cross-breeding animals!

It's a dog, people. Dog goes

It's a dog, people. Dog goes into water. Dog drowns, Dog rolls around on rocks for hours to days in the surf. Dog loses most of hair and much of the fleshy part of its snout. Dog washes ashore and people think that the underlying bone of the dogs snout is a beak. Hence a Montauk monster! Sorry to crush your hopes.....

dog.

dog.

Come on folks, It doesn't a

Come on folks, It doesn't a rocket scientist to see that it nothing more than a decomposed bog!!!! And where is it so it can be looked at by experts. These women are acting too flitty for it to be anthing serious.

Well, *someone* knows what

Well, *someone* knows what this is because it's front paws are tied together, meaning it was tossed into the ocean to drown and not allowed to swim.

I doubt if they will come forward, however.

It looks like a dead dog

It looks like a dead dog that was in the water for a long time after it died. Then it sat in the sun and bloated.

in june 2007 i started to

in june 2007 i started to keep an eye on news developments of your region in case any thing odd or strange appeared...this would rate as odd. i did ufo research from 1991 til feb 2008 as an independent investigator and was able to make some significant progress from 2005 til end of 2007. Some of those results i was forced to place on the internet since news and newspapers in my state and also fox tv and cnn never responded to my emails with film video of some of my work...i placed much of it on youtube.com. use search phrase "derr ufo" . oh about the odd creature and the info in the report saying others have been seen, having trouble breathing, thats because they are not use to our atmosphere, yet. To see the cargo ship they likely came in go to youtube.com search phrase "nasa worm" or "nasa ufo" it will show a massive flexible moving spaceship drifting in orbit of the earth...camera was onboard the passing space shuttle at the time... the cargo ufo was taking biomass from some other planet to ours or taking our biomass (likely in seawater) from earth to elsewhere... think it is a joke ? think again. -- Derr

Yeah if thats a raccoon, I'm

Yeah if thats a raccoon, I'm a dolphin. Never have i seen anything like that . Maybe its a hoax, maybe not. And just by chance if it is a raccoon or something like that, why did a raccoon wash up on a beach? Was he fishing?

If it is real I would say it

If it is real I would say it is a pig. The pictures are not that clear when zooming in but, it appears that the front feet are split looking like a hoof. The ears are also very triangular seen better on the picture of the opposite side. It also looks like the "beak" the bottom look like pig canine teeth and the top is where the snout would be. At any rate if it the thing did come from Plum island they (as they think it did)should have never touched or moved it not knowing the cause of death.

It looks like a dead pig.

It looks like a dead pig.

It is a new species on

It is a new species on earth. Scientist will need to name it. Or it is just a scientific study and they breeded a dog and a cat together with a little dropping of bird.

It's photoshopped. If it was

It's photoshopped. If it was real, they wouldn't be so vague about what happened to the body. As soon as it word got out the CDC and a team of other PhDs would have been there and the thing would be in a lab now.

it looks like the mexican

it looks like the mexican chupa cabara!

I would believe it if there

I would believe it if there was some kind of size scale in the picture. But, seriously, all they had to do was get a smart friend that knows photoshop and create the monster. Also, if it were me, I would have taken more than just the two pictures; it's obviously not a common thing to find. I think they just wanted to get on TV.

The Monster is a Water Vole.

The Monster is a Water Vole. Look it up. Mystery Solved. Now, the one thing I really want to know is, is this anchor person, Nick Leighton, for "Real?" No one is THAT flaming!

They should have called the

They should have called the authorities...not cart it off to someone's backyard.

Finally the aliens have

Finally the aliens have landed

It appears to me to be a cat

It appears to me to be a cat that was in the water and decomposed a bit with some bloating and it probably got roughed up on some hard surfaces; just like the previous comment. The missing fur and bloating gives it an "alien" appearance for sure. If it looked like that before it died it probably didn't have too many friends!

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