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Bloated 'Rat Monster' Found Under New York City Bridge

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By Kelli Bender Jul 24, 2012

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    Unfortunately, this beastly picture isn't Photoshop at work. According to Gothamist, a woman discovered this deceased creature laid out under the Brooklyn Bridge on the Manhattan side of New York City, alongside the East River.

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    The unlucky lady who made this grisly find told Gothamist that the deformed "monster" was about two feet from head to tail. 

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    After looking at the photos, people are wondering if this could be another Montauk Monster incident, or just a super-sized rat that spent some time in the river. 

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    The Montauk Monster sighting was in 2008, when a hairless and unidentifiable animal corpse was found on the shore of the Long Island beach. Since that story broke, several other strange, beached creatures have been found. 

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    No conclusive explanation has ever been given for this variety of bizarre-looking animals. Ideas about their origins range from movie props to discarded lab animals. This new discovery appears slated to the same fate of mystery and conspiracy.

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childzoo

Pigs have cloven feet like deer, that is NOT a pig!!!

June 06 2013 at 3:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
DeviantDamien

looks like honey boo boo has finally died

June 05 2013 at 9:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
DeviantDamien

Looks Like Honey Boo boo has finally died

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Diane Evans

Edward, couldn't be a pig look at the teeth and it has no hooves , looks like a decomposed dog.

June 04 2013 at 7:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Edward Marshall

I still think it looks like a half rotted pig or one of the other escapees from that government experimental facility that produced the Montauk monster

June 04 2013 at 10:31 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
barbaranightbird

Looks like one of NYC's infamous rats that live in the rivers and subways. THey are bigger than cats and very vicious. Whatever it is, it is gross!

June 04 2013 at 1:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Ginger Smith

That is not a pig... Gee you people must live in the city....A pigs feet are hooves(retards)...

June 04 2013 at 1:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Edward Marshall

I know a rotting pig when I see one!

June 04 2013 at 12:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
ron

In a related side story, Mayor Bloomberg moved to have the carcass moved to Jersey, ruling it was clearly oversized, and anything deemed extra large is no longer allowed in New York.

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Edward Marshall

TE Johnson: So sorry you went through such horrors! Saddest of all is that you had so internalized the corrupt society's values that gives value to not havin sex even when it was hostility forced on a person! It is too bad that you see that as a matter of self esteem and self-worth. You are worth so much more because of your loving empathy!

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