{"id":7625,"date":"2011-05-30T01:15:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T19:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=7625"},"modified":"2012-11-16T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:30:13","slug":"scaly-sea-monster-found-under-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2011\/05\/scaly-sea-monster-found-under-brooklyn-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"SCALY SEA MONSTER FOUND UNDER BROOKLYN BRIDGE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/curious-carcasses\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-842\" title=\"curious-carcasses\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/curious-carcasses.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/05\/26\/sea-monster-discovered-beneath-brooklyn-bridge\/?intcmp=obnetwork\" target=\"_\">Fox News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5805877\/scaly-sea-monster-discovered-under-brooklyn-bridge\" target=\"_\">Gawker<\/a> have reported that a bizarre, serpentine, scaly, &#8220;pitbull&#8221; headed carcass has been discovered beneath the legendary Brooklyn Bridge.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>New York City has been consumed with the news that a &#8220;sea monster&#8221; has washed up at the foot of the famed Brooklyn Bridge. The strange 7-foot long beast, dubbed the &#8220;EAST RIVER MONSTER,&#8221; was found at the foot of the Manhattan side of the bridge on May 21st, 2011, by a Manhattan cyclist who was on his evening commute. Maureen O&#8217;Connor &#8212; a blogger on the Gawker website, which broke the story &#8212; described the critter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It had the scales of a fish, body of a serpent, head of a pit bull and was the size of a large alligator.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/brooklyn_sea_monster3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7632\" title=\"brooklyn_sea_monster\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/brooklyn_sea_monster3-300x168.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Theories as to this <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/unclassified\/\" target=\"_\">UNCLASSIFIED<\/a> creature&#8217;s origins have run the gamut from <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/sea-monsters\/\" target=\"_\">SEA MONSTER<\/a> to a <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/2009\/12\/kelpie-british-isles\/\" target=\"_\">KELPIE<\/a>-like creature to a <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/lake-monsters\/\" target=\"_\">LAKE MONSTER<\/a> that got washed out to sea. Skeptics, of course,\u00a0 wasted no time in pronouncing that the animal was nothing more than an Atlantic sturgeon.<\/p>\n<p>Julika Wocial, rescue program supervisor for the Riverhead Foundation, said that the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/curious-carcasses\/\" target=\"_\">CURIOUS CARCASS<\/a> was difficult to classify:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Those scaly things? The body itself looks like a sturgeon, the skull looks kind of weird &#8230; but maybe it&#8217;s the view&#8230; it doesn\u2019t really look like a sturgeon.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This may be the greatest monster mystery in New York since the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/04\/mangy-monsters-make-the-news\/\" target=\"_\">MONTAUK MONSTER<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News and Gawker have reported that a bizarre, serpentine, scaly, &#8220;pitbull&#8221; headed carcass has been discovered beneath the legendary Brooklyn Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[666,201,54,1121,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-7625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brooklyn-bridge","9":"tag-montauk-monster","10":"tag-nessie","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sea-monster"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Brooklyn-Bridge-sea-monster21.jpg?fit=660%2C371&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10119,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions\/10119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}