Montauk Monster

[bsvalley]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395294,00.html
Here you go David, Is it live or is latex. Weird little story.
Have fun

 

[Brian Now]

I've been wondering about this one too. I wonder if it's been photoshopped.

 

[musictomyears]

It's a viral marketing campaign for Venom Energy Drink:

http://www.zazzle.com/capturethebeast

http://www.capturethebeast.blogspot.com/

http://drpeppersnapple.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=59

Rather clever. They combined mythologies surrounding chupacabras and the Montauk Project with widespread revulsion against animal testing (at Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC).

 

[musictomyears]

I fact, here's a "new photo" of the beast that doesn't leave much to the imagination:

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/mm-newpic/

 

[Brian Now]

It's a viral marketing campaign for Venom Energy Drink:

From the links you gave it didn't seem like Venom came up with the "monster", just that they tried to cash in on the hype that was already there.
I don't know.

The second picture really looks like a doctored picture, or rubber dummy. It's got a lot of nice touches though, residual fur, mottled skin.

 

[musictomyears]

From the links you gave it didn't seem like Venom came up with the "monster", just that they tried to cash in on the hype that was already there.

They offered their stuff for sale virtually from the moment the story broke.

 

[DBTrek]

Test that DNA!

That'll answer this riddle.

. . . unless it doesn't match any known life form . . . what are the odds?

-DBTrek

 

[celia]

Has anyone heard anything on this? Why don't they test the blood or dna or whatever, easy as that, right?

 

[Koji K.]

Bernard Madoff??

 

[Aaron LeClair]

Has anyone heard anything on this? Why don't they test the blood or dna or whatever, easy as that, right?

Loren Coleman, and others, thought/thinks it's a raccoon if I remember correctly.

 

[sandman]

would be nice to have an object for scale in the pic, what ever it is its damn ugly.

 

[celia]

Loren Coleman, and others, thought/thinks it's a raccoon if I remember correctly.

I think Jeff Corwin said the same thing

 

[Aaron LeClair]

I think Jeff Corwin said the same thing

Yeah. Some guy from Animal Planet said it at least. Couldn't recall who though.

 

[Frootloop]

This is a pretty old story.... If I recall correctly, it was reported on LMH's Earthfiles ages ago. I think from what I read from other sources, the general idea was that it was a partially decomposed racoon as the nose structure is apparently simply part of the exposed skull..... not sure where I read it though.

 

[celia]

I actually saw this on the front page of the news on Comcast only a few months ago...