Is the Montauk Monster real or fake?

Question

Is the Montauk Monster real or fake?

Answer 1

its a dog

Answer 2

Its a raccoon.

Answer 3

Never heard of it, but I would guess it is just a legend

Answer 4

fake

Answer 5

It is real, but just a dead animal that was hard to recognize when it started decomposing.

I was completely against the racoon theory until I saw this:

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/...

It's definitely real, but many people are unsure of what it may be.

I was leaning toward dead dog, but now I think it IS a racoon.

Answer 6

I have hear stories about that monster for years And for one reason or another I don't believe that all those witnesses are lying or ar a victim of mistaken identity..................

Answer 7

the creature found was most likely a rotting racoon. You place any creature with fur in water long enough after it has died, and the fur falls out.

Answer 8

It is simply a dead, rotting, bloated body of an animal.  

The only "mystery" is that the flesh around the nose had rotted away in part or in total.  If you look at all the different pictures taken -- not just that one side angle -- you can see that it's either a small dog's or racoon's body.  

Answer 9

It's real.

The Montauk Monster washed up on the beach in July of 2008 for the first time on Montauk Beach... which is East Long Island, New York. Lots of people saw it, more than 4 people photographed it.

However, before anyone could really determine what it was, a man picked it up and hauled it off, telling people he was going to mount it. Unless that guy comes forward and tells people what it was, we're never going to know for certain.

The teeth indicate that it's either a raccoon or an otter. Dogs don't have sharp teeth at that angle that jut out on the bottom jaw, while raccoons and otters do.

Turtles without their shells aren't smooth like that. The shell is integrated into their spinal column. There's a telltale rip on the back which wasn't there. Turtles also don't have teeth.

Jeff Corwin said it looked like a raccoon to him.

Therefore, it's real, we just don't know what it is.

Answer 10

I know people who live quite close to the "monster's" beach, and word is that they decided it was a tortoise that had somehow lost it's shell and died being without. And when you look at the photos, it kinda does look like that. That said, who knows what it was, you know?