[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Complete Title is, "Mystery of the Beast of the East River; Was washed-up pig really a dead rat - or even a dog?"

Okay, FReepers.. WHAT IS THIS THING? It appears to have five fingers. WHAT IS IT, a raccoon?

[ShadowAce]

Bloated dog

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Hmmmm.. It also resembles a opossum and has similar fingers.

[lowbridge]

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.

A picture of the carcass:

[brooklyn dave]

Jaysus
And here’s me thinkin’ it was Christine Quinn!

[ZX12R]

Chupacabra with a pancake on its head.

[null and void]

If Obama had a son...

[Rona Badger]

Plum Island test subject. I lived in Sag Harbor and can confirm strange things are going on out there. Watch on YouTube an episode from Jesse Ventura's "Conspiracy Theory" for more info:

Conspiracy Theory W/ Jesse Ventura: Plum Island: Island of Horror

[airborne]

Genetic engineering?

AlGore’s “ManBearPig”?

[Fully Awake DAV]

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.

[Isabel2010]

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

[tophat9000]

El Chubrcabra