Mystery of the Beast of the East River.

Daily Mail Online ^ | July 25, 2012 | Daily Mail Reporter

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Dubbed the 'Manhattan monster', a horrifying mystery creature with a mutilated face, snarling snout and five toes on each foot has washed up under the Brooklyn Bridge, perplexing New Yorkers.

Amateur photographer Denise Ginley snapped the ghoulish pink carcass while walking along the East River on Sunday and the grisly images, first published by The Gothamist on Monday, have sparked an array of conspiracy theories as to whether it is a giant water-logged rodent, a cooked pig that a family couldn't fit in, a ballooned dog or some other, more sinister, being.

'We were horrified by it and we took some camera phone pictures and then finally we decided to come back with my camera and I got up the courage to climb over the fence and get closer to it,' Ms Ginley told blog Animal NY.

The New York Parks Department shrugged off the spooky find, that Ms Ginley guessed was 'maybe two feet, head to tail', insisting it was just a swine.

'It was a pig left over from a cookout,' a spokesman told Animal NY, adding that they had already chucked the creature.

But closer inspection reveals creepy, almost human-like hands and feet, which bare no resemblance to a porker's hooves.

[ridesthemiles]

I was raised on a farm.

We had pigs.

This is definately NOT a pig.

Pigs have cloven hooves-—2 halves.

[Isabel2010]

WHAT IS THIS THING? My guess~~~the madhi~~~crawled out of the rat hole to die~

[txmissy]

That was my thought, too.

Creepy whatever it is.

[peeps36]

I can see that island while deep sea fishing at the Race. I always wondered what kind of experiments they were conducting over there.

[Dusty Road]

It’s a raccoon.

[Rona Badger]

Wild! We went sort of close in our sailboat one day and I have driven out there to the end of the road... scary. What were you fishing for? Good sea and striped bass out that way.

[Rona Badger]

I'm voting for a giant hairless shrew!

Plum Island Animal Disease Center is now under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (since June 2003).

[tophat9000]

El Chubrcabra

[peeps36]

We fish for striped bass and bluefish. Sometimes we catch Bonita and Sea Bass. I hear the fishing is good around the Millstone nuclear plant because the water is warm. I think they're talking about the water the power plant releases back into the ocean.

[goat granny]

coons have 5 fingers....bloated and 1/2 bbq coon..