According to CNN, the ‘Montauk Monster’ , discussed in this thread , is a raccoon.
Wolf Blitzer says that some guys have come forward and said that they found a dead raccoon and decided to give it a Viking funeral. They put the raccoon into a hollowed-out watermelon, put the package in a wading ring, lit it on fire, and sent it out to sea.
Johnny_L.A:
According to CNN, the ‘Montauk Monster’ , discussed in this thread , is a raccoon.
Wolf Blitzer says that some guys have come forward and said that they found a dead raccoon and decided to give it a Viking funeral. They put the raccoon into a hollowed-out watermelon, put the package in a wading ring, lit it on fire, and sent it out to sea.
How did they connect the raccon they sent out to sea with the one that washed up in Montauk?
Is there a cite for the claim that it’s a raccoon? The Gawker article talks about it NOT being a raccoon.
ETA: According to this article, the claim seems dubious.
“Nice try,” said John Cook in Gawker. The man did provide pictures, and the crucible of a “viking funeral” would neatly explain the monster’s puzzling hairlessness." But the beach where this “anonymous” source said he and his friends set the raccoon afloat would have had to travel 16 miles, sidestep islands, and round Montauk Point to the open sea to have reached the spot where the Montauk monster was found.
Grant herself says she’s dubious, said Sophia Chang in Newsday, but that her friend’s tale is almost “too outrageous” to be untrue. Still, it doesn’t explain how a second Montauk monster allegedly washed up this year.