When an eight foot tall, hulking humanoid with a sagittal crest and hair all over its body washes up on the beaches of Montauk, New York, THEN I’ll make a big deal out of it.

Unfortunately, this “Montauk Monster” is probably something a little less surreal:

Resembling a pig with a beak-like protrusion on the tip of its face, it has been supposed that the creature may be anything from a “turtle without its shell” to the more likely solution; some variety of canine or even a racoon missing a portion of its upper snout, causing the appearance of the strange “beak”. Many popular websites have been sensationalizing this discovery, much like other poor little dead puppies in the past which folks with nothing better to do with their time have tried to liken to monsters from horror movies as they lay helplessly rotting in the early stages of decay.

Hey, you’d look like crap too if you were dead, blue and bloated (not trying to be graphic, just look at the photo above)… and not very puppy-like, to say the least.

But whatever the case may be, the “Montauk Monster” has been the most-clicked story on Yahoo browsers today. Maybe this little guy (whatever the heck he is… ew) just goes to show that people are still as fascinated with monsters as they ever were… even if they don’t go to websites like this one to try and find info about them! That or, sadly perhaps, people are always looking for the next spectacle; the next big “freak show”. On that note, I wonder what’s gonna come of those guys with the “Bigfoot on Ice”? No, not the neanderthal looking dude wearing roller skates; you know, the young police officer who claims to have found one of the creatures dead and is preserving it on ice? Only time will tell, I suppose.