Brooklyn Bridge ‘Monster’ May Be Distant Relative Of Long Island Montauk ‘Monster’

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When news spread around New York City this week about the discovery of a grisly-looking, bloated, unidentified animal under the Brooklyn Bridge, many wondered if the legendary Montauk Monster had returned to the New York area.

Various New York media outlets – The Village Voice, Gothamist, Fox News – and overseas media, including the U.K.’s Telegraph, that reported on this animal, raised questions of its similarity to another grotesque creature that washed ashore in Montauk, N.Y., in 2008.

Denise Ginley previously told the Huffington Post, “We found the dead creature lying on the strip of sand beside the East River, on the Manhattan side. … It looked like the tide probably washed the carcass up there along with some driftwood.”

The pictures snapped by Ginley show something that looks very much like an unusual animal — with a hairless body and beak and claw — found on the beach in Montauk on Long Island’s eastern tip.

That animal, seen at right, was first dubbed the Montauk Monster by Loren Coleman, director of theInternational Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

“Ever since 2008, when I investigated the media madness over the stranded, decomposing unknown ‘thing’ found on the beach at Montauk, unfortunately, every dead animal body, every carcass, has taken on fantastic creature importance,” Coleman told The Huffington Post in an email.

“But all have been found to be dead raccoons, dogs, swine, seals, dolphins, and even in one case, a dead sloth,” he said.

According to Gothamist, Cornell University naturalist professor Paul Curtis believes the animal found under the Brooklyn Bridge “was likely a small dog that drowned and has been floating in the river for quite a while. It is obviously bloated, and all the hair has slipped off the carcass.”

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