Better "Montauk Monster" photo surfaces

[JHB]

Previously unseen photo:



and the first photo to become public:


From Joye Brown's column:
"The second time around, Christina Pampalone, of East Northport, borrowed O'Shea's camera. She aimed and kept on firing. The result is lots of -- ew -- gross photos of a carcass that looks more domestic than exotic, a bloated dog, not the Hound from Hell. It shows ears. A big swatch of fur. And its proportions appear to be less distorted -- making the head appear to be a suitable complement to the body.

"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," O'Shea 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."

Full column at:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-lijoy0801,0,5138315.column?page=1

[jimshoes]

1. It's probably a dog

with its snout bitten off. Or it could be manbearpig, from the silly South Park episode where they beat up on Al Gore.

[notadmblnd]

2. John, how many time has cindy told you ....

don't lay out in the sun?

[XemaSab]

3. Looks like a dog

with its top mandible broken open showing its sinus cavities.

(This website always needed more wierd shit washed up on teh beach! :D)

[Toucano]

17. I think you've nailed it.

And I don't mean that in a sexual way.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. File under: Karl Rove seen sunbathing nude on Long Island

[annabanana]

5. HA!

(good think I have a standing order for keyboards, to be delivered weekly)

[tuckessee]

6. What is that wrapped around his front right leg?

Was it on the carcass when when found?

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. CHUPACABRA! RUN AWAY! n/t

[TexasObserver]

8. the top photo looks a great deal like ...

... Barbara Bush after she's gotten drunk and slept it off on the beach

[Buttercup McToots]

9. They are doing things...

This looks like some kind of experiment gone wrong...
I know in my gut...this ain't natural...
They are doing things...
:cry:

[Sheets of Easter]

10. Please, relax. In all likelihood, it is a dead dog.

The top photo is supposed to debunk the "monster" hypothesis.

[Lorien]

19. Looks like a pug to me

poor thing. :-(

[usualblacksheep]

11. I told my mum

It looks like a griffin, with the beak like thing and all. She said it was either a turtle without a shell or a dead dog.
I dunno still. Probably a dog.

[jus_the_facts]

12. "Project Arrowhead" or "Cloverfield"...hmmmm?

:D

[donco6]

13. Definitely a dog

Lost his soft-tissue on the snout.

Poor thing.

[Bethesda Home]

14. When I first saw it...

...I thought it was a raccoon.

And I still do.

[JHB]

15. It's supposedly 2.5-3 feet long...

...that would have been a BIG raccoon

[Lorien]

22. Nah, it's a dog with a short snout, like a pug or a pit bull

raccoons don't have much of a brow ridge:

[Theres-a]

16. EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW!

Seriosly,though,I wonder wtf it is.

[dysfunctional press]

18. when i saw the first pic- i thought it looked like a dog with part of it's snout chewed off/missing.

that's what happens to dead things in the water- other living things eat parts of them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3708637&mesg_id=3708939

[KittyWampus]

20. Looks like a pig.

[Sentath]

23. Yup

The teeth are right. the ears are right. I think you've called it.

[bicentennial_baby]

25. Yep, I've never seen a dog with lower fangs like that

I'm thinking some type of pig-related species.

[MetaTrope]

21. Just another in a long line of unidentified corpses washed up by the sea

http://cameronmccormick.blogspot.com/2007/08/ambiguous-washed-up-carcasses.html

[Gabi Hayes]

24. I figured it out awhile ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6567232

[underseasurveyor]

26. That's better pic

Certainly is a dog. A bully type breed with a heavier/muscular jaw (even taking into consideration the bloating factor), perhaps an american bulldog or a staffie.

Poor guy:-(

[leftofthedial]

27. it's a dog.

[upi402]

28. so Republicans can't breed now? Whaaat????

:puke:

[Critters2]

29. I think it's a raccoon. The length of that one claw makes me think so.

Doesn't look like a dog's foot to me.