Posted on 07/26/2012 11:45:20 AM PDT by 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.
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Okay, FReepers.. WHAT IS THIS THING? It appears to have five fingers. WHAT IS IT, a raccoon?
Bloated dog
Hoffa.
Hmmmm.. It also resembles a opossum and has similar fingers.
A picture of the carcass:
Jaysus
And here’s me thinkin’ it was Christine Quinn!
Chupacabra with a pancake on its head.
If Obama had a son...
looking at the jaw, chest, ears and tail....Pitbull??????
Conspiracy Theory W/ Jesse Ventura: Plum Island: Island of Horror
Genetic engineering?
AlGore’s “ManBearPig”?
looking at the jaw, chest, ears and tail....Pitbull??????
Bingo. I’d bet $5K that is correct.
Decomp and bloat make normal things look funny and stink!
The most shocking aspect of this novel creature is the fact the eyes are on the bottom of the head, and the legs and feet are above the torso. It probably was able to walk on ceilings.
Dogs have four toes plus a ‘dew claw’ higher up on the foreleg. This animal has 5 toes so it’s not a dog. I’m thinking now that it’s a opossum.
Obviously many posters have not spent much time in the wild, nor have they encountered bloated carcasses (human or animal). The multiple pictures indicate features that negate many of the suppositions to this critters’ origins.
Animals do not lose hair when submerged in water. This is not a dog, raccoon, opossum, pig, goat, large cat or fox.
Genetically modified animal? In a way looks like a giant shrew or mole (hairless?). No this is not a critter ever scientifically identified.
Looking at the teeth and the ears: Yep.
Good point. It was possibly shaved for experimentation purposes at Plum Island.
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