Was That a ‘Sea Monster’ Living Beneath the Brooklyn Bridge?
- Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:06pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Over the last few weeks, conspiracy theorists have been in their glory. Likewise, the blogosphere and local (NYC) news outlets have been abuzz. Why, you ask? Because an enormously large and grotesque mystery creature washed ashore near NYC’s Brooklyn Bridge last week.
The beast, affectionately referred to as the “East River Monster,” was seven feet in length and, according to witness accounts, quite ugly. Gawker dramatically described the enigma as follows:
It had the scales of a fish, body of a serpent, head of a pit bull, and was the size of a large alligator.
Quite a looker, no?
While New Yorkers were enjoying the mystery and cooking up all sorts of hilarious tales, experts were preparing to slash any and all sci-fi dreams. Within days of the discovery, marine biologists offered up a reasonable explanation, thus dispelling the rumors and calming the firestorm of excitement. According to biologists, the mystery creature was actually a gigantic decaying fish (called a sturgeon). FOX News has more:
“We could tell it was an Atlantic sturgeon right away,” Kim Durham, a rescue program director and biologist for the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation in Riverhead, N.Y., told Life’s Little Mysteries.
“They have bony plates all over their bodies. There’s no mistaking a sturgeon,” she said.
A not-so-mysterious looking sturgeon (above).
So, the hoopla was all for nothing. This scenario is oddly reminiscent of another NYC monster tale — the Montauk Mystery — an even creepier story that was characterized by an even more decrepit-looking animal. Luckily, there’s no legitimate mega-monster threat (for the time being, that is). Still, the speculation was fun while it lasted.
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Comments (101)
quicker
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:48pmFresh water sturgens can weigh bup to 1200 lbs or more .Also thats where cavirer comes from
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:47pmUgh, it‘s so funny how people get so far from nature the way God intended that they can’t even id a fish.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:44pmThey do have that animal experimentation lab on the island nearby?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:41pmbanjarmon
Report Post »Did they save the caviar for BO’s next trip to the big apple?
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Big apple ?
Isn’t that the flotus-seat ?
salvawhoray
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:41pmhere is some better news than this lame story.
If you like to watch a great movie that will have you think then try “The Man From Earth”
you can watch the trailer and read some peoples comments online
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVMhEAI3pvg
I came across it on line and went and got the DVD.
If you like it you can thank me at “Trikkerman1” on youtube plus you can check out my short vids if you like as for some laughs.
You might like my “Deep Cover Short”
Report Post »cobra two
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:38pmYep and that Chinese missile that was fired off the coast of California last year was just a bottle rocket too.
Report Post »onejimharris
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:38pmUm ta we ice fish for them here in Green Bay,WI every year…hahahah they can live to be over 100 years old. They are some of the best fish to eat its all a really white meat.. http://dnr.wi.gov/fish/seasons/lakesturgeon.htm
Report Post »thebarbarian
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:36pmit’s just a sturgeon …. hooked for the very first time ….. just a sturrr…rr..rr..geon.
Report Post »Liberal_Atheist_Critical_Thinker
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:34pm“Because an enormously large and grotesque mystery creature washed ashore near NYC’s Brooklyn Bridge last week.”
Palin was swimming there and drowned?
Report Post »End The Fed
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 1:11amYou use an Ad Homonym attack without a premise, evidence, or any argument at all, and call yourself a critical thinker. You should go and sign up with the Huffington Compost and change your profile to liberal atheist critical dumb@ss.
Report Post »Liberal_Atheist_Critical_Thinker
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:28amIt’s not an ad hominem – we’re not debating anything. It’s a joke silly.
Report Post »spotster
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 1:30pmand jokes like that are exactly why you hide here
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:31pmDecaying to fit into what New York looks like ….
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:30pmOr maybe an Obamacare patient.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:27pmDid they save the caviar for BO’s next trip to the big apple?
Report Post »Restaurant Run by Retired Kings
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:26pmI think if Nancy Pelosi could produce anything t would look like that thing.
Report Post »Bgroovy2
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:23pmIt’s global warming I tell ya!
Report Post »thebarbarian
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:43pmbushe’s fault that global warming , now this
Report Post »SAYNOTOSOCIALISM
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:23pmMoochelles aborted love child?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:32pm“What’s Love Got To Do With It”?
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:23pmNancy Pelosi & Harry Reids offspring. Flushed during a botched abortion.
Report Post »WatchingThePuppetShow
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:21pmWith the pollution in that water I don’t doubt a monstrosity was created…
Report Post »WeRunDCnotThem
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:17pmIt‘s gotta be Janet Reno Ya’ll.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:40pmHow about BIG SIS Napolitano?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:17pmIt had the scales of a fish, body of a serpent, head of a pit bull, and was the size of a large alligator.
Report Post »———-
It was Bawnee Fwaank dressed as a mermaid
thebarbarian
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:49pmroflmao oh my …. i can see the resembleance…
Report Post »thebarbarian
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:09amthe last post was in reaction to cheeze………….. funny scary and scarred me emotionally forever too. it’s bushes fault. lol
Report Post »SquirrelNYC
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:27pmOh my gosh….wow. I think I just threw up in my mouth.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:24amNice..lol
Report Post »dmwilliams
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:39pmLmao
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:16pmLike a Sturgeon..Cut for the very first time……..
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:22pmExcellent!
Report Post »American Saint
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:33pmI’m ******* on myself. Waaaaaaayyy funny.
Report Post »American Saint
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:35pmThat would be pi$sing.
Report Post »thebarbarian
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:41pmno way… when i posted my comment it said o now there’s 20 and yours is close to what i posted…
Report Post »lmao
Canuck GB Fan
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:50pmLol :D
Report Post »LastCallForEmpathy
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:16pmSo its a story about a washed up sturgeon…Aaa ok…
Report Post »crazytalk
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:15pmFound Jimmy Hoffa.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:15pmIt must be the years of progressive liberal union ran NYC waste that morphed into this ugly creature. The Bloomberg EFFECT…
Report Post »BrandyWilson
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:15pmAnother fishy story!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:48pmIndeed, and here I thought it was that Libyan dictator swimming to America for shelter from his ‘old brother’ Mr Obama…so much for hope in this nation. (Sacrcasm intentional)
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:14pmNow that that’s cleared up can we get a budget for the country??
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:41pmAgreed, we need to get on with the restoration of the country; and getting the budget, the deficits, and the debt tamed and under full control…or for the debt and deficits, on the path to elimination soon as possible.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:43pmDid they save the caviar for BO an ms potus’s next date in the big apple?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:50pm@Banjarmon:
And here I thought we were seeing one of those funky aliens that Russia seems to have crash in their land every few weeks or so; guess this may have been a mascot for Pelosi and Obama’s mother ship or something.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:57pmThrowing a 16oz Bud Light can at the carcass reassures boundries.
Report Post »adjams
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:01pmAs a native New Yorker, I would say “Worthy of News? Yes. Surprising? No”
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:05pmSpecies die everyday and have throughout history as written in the fossil record. Dinosaurs, trilobites and mammoths are the obvious examples, but there are thousands and thousands of fossils found that show the historical presence of plants, insects and animals that no longer exist today.
Somehow, they’ve been replaced. Now if you don’t believe in evolution, this would be an example of God putting a new creature on Earth by simply putting it there from scratch. But a lot of people, including Christians and other religion, believe in evolution. They believe the new species gradually emerge from others through the selective pressures that nature provides.
If you don’t believe in evolution, where did all the old species go and where did all the new ones come from? Does God drop in an new creature for every one that becomes extinct? Is the appearance the evolution is true just a big joke God is playing on us?
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:19pmAin’t that the truth!!! No budget for the last 2 years plus…what in the heck are we paying these people for?
Report Post »taxed
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:38pmWhatever it was, let‘s just make sure it doesn’t end up somehow voting for Obama like other non-living humans…
http://conservativepoliticalforum.com/index.php?board=1.0
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:51pmI …. don’t even….what? This is important how? What?
Report Post »Evileye
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:54pmUndoubtedly the victim of Global warming
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 12:05amI have some suggestions for stories: Emily Smart, Joplin MO. hero stories, JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE which we have not heard about at all in more than a month….Obama NOT responding to all of America’s disasters, including the flooding, and subsequent bombing of the Mississippi’s waters and levys…etc, etc, ad nausium. Why this dead time of stories, un-commentable? There is SIO MUCH more out there…
Report Post »I may apply for a job on the blaze to give real cutting edge stories that we all care about.
I may even declare my ethnicity as “other” and take a pay scale lower than yours.
jollylama
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 12:26amDidn’t Madonna sing a song about this?.. ‘like a sturgeon, caught for the very first time’
Report Post »theonefromabove
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 12:47amGlad to see a nice story for once.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »101
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:35amJust another RAT in Brooklyn
Report Post »@ Coyote2
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:10amHas anyone checked to see if Al Sharpton still alive????
Report Post »harmzway
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 12:30pmuh, did you and everyone else who is complaining about this story happen to notice that it is in the ENTERTAINMENT SECTION?!?! Lighten up, stress kills…
Report Post »101
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 1:08pmFinally figured out what Mc Donald’s been making their fish sandwich from, know if we can find where the meat comes from.
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 3:44pmGet that thing a treadmill!
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