The purpose of this animal disease research clinic exists statedly to prevent the outbreak of communicable animal diseases such as foot & mouth disease in cattle, to study such diseases and be on the forefront of immunization against such outbreaks. They cite keeping animal food sources (including deer) free of contagious diseases… good luck capturing an immunizing a wild deer! Use a dart rifle? Would be difficult to know which deer have been inoculated and let’s hope that this isn’t being done from helicopters, causing the injection dart to be subsequently shaken off in the woods and be just lying about. –A used syringe with traces of immunization-chemicals and possibly also infected deer blood on it. Never mind syringes washing-up on shore now… they’ll be in the woods on the forest floor. Nice..

Plum Island Animal Disease Center

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Other than aiming to prevent the outbreak of communicable animal contagions, this Plum Island Animal Disease Center web site does not divulge too much more of their work. This is typical of a government agency, really. -Just the facts. Their site says that an outbreak of hoof & mouth disease for instance would cause our exported beef be rejected by foreign markets, hurting our economy and causing local/national retailers to raise their prices to recoup their financial loss. OMG –I smell cover-up! It is the old ‘the bottom line is this; we do good things to benefit you.’ Usually using ‘the bottom line’ expression at least once implies ‘we don’t want to discuss it further.’ Still, it is better than simply stating “no comment” when dealing with sufficiently aroused and highly suspicious public.

Is the Plum Island Animal Disease Center responsible for the so-called Montauk Monster? Did they create it, are they even studying this or is this something they are already aware of and are trying to cure? What is this monster? Experiment #6-2-6, I say. Oh wait, that designation is for the Disney creation “Stitch” from the 2002 movie “Lilo & Stitch.” And he turned out to be a really cute little fella.

I suspect that despite lots of media exposure, the government if it comments at all will officially deny that there are any such creatures, feigning if not claiming genuine ignorance to the reported cases. Or they will say in the most possible innocent androgynous voice “…we have read the report and are investigating at this time” and then, turn the page and we will hear nothing more about it from them.

The First Montauk Monster

A year ago, the first alleged ‘Montauk’ creature washed ashore and was purported to be some deformed creature that outwardly resembles a pig with a beak. There is even a website blog devoted the mythos of the Montauk Monster, as it is being called. I found a news site that reported or at last suggests that this first cadaver was merely a Hoax placed as a publicity stunt for a nearby film shoot. Of course the film crew denies any involvement in the event.

What really makes it difficult to decide is that nowhere in the video or in the current one of a few days ago do we see anything that gives an impression of size or scale. I would like to see someone’s hand or boot, a shovel spade or something to give me an impression of how big (or small) this creature is. I think it is ‘raccoon sized.’ That alone would be a pretty poignant clue. How big is it?

Deluxe Bigfoot in Georgia

Gosh, -it wasn’t so long ago that a couple of men from the U.S. state of Georgia claimed to have found a dead Sasquatch more commonly known as ‘Bigfoot,’ and carried it around in an ice cooler for awhile. Turns out it was a rubber gorilla suit. We were hoaxed, or ‘punked’ as they say these days. I was disappointed as I for one wanted it to be a real Sasquatch. Cryptozoology is name generally give to ‘the study of hidden animals’ to which all these would apply. Animals that have not exactly been proven to exist other than eye-witness reports, legend and folk tale accounts.

The Current Montauk Monster corpse to wash-up on shore looks even less likely to be an unknown cryptozoological specimen than the first one. This second one looks even more like a decayed raccoon than the first one, as suggested by the overlay background in the recent YouTube video.

Is This A Pterodactyl? A Condor or Thunderbird? Or is this yet another a Hoax?

Pterodactyls were my favorite dinosaur when I was young. My dinosaur toys were mostly of the terrestrial variety (stegosaurus, brontosaurus, tyrannosaurus, etc.) my secret favorite was the flying bat-like pterodactyl. They were the coolest!

Pterodactyl Sightings – Could it be a Stork?

That purported Pterodactyl could be just a Marabou Stork as shown in the video above. Certainly the shape of the wings as it flies towards the camera looks quite similar, as does the trailing position of the hind legs. And of course, look at that head and neck in the final sequence. This looks very ‘flying dinosaur’ to me.

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I could dream and hope that the Pterodactyl video and all reported cases (there are quite a few, really) of this ‘giant bat-like bird’ are real but my heart says it probably is not. I have been duped a few times too many. A few images in this video clip are just too good to be true! Who knows, -maybe this is another creation of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center? I mean as long as we’re blaming the creation of the Montauk on the nearby Research Center, let’s get all these Cryptoforms accredited to this place. Rubber-stamp them into validity by swailing the name of a government agency are their progenitor.

What a magical place this Plum Island must be… for they create new life forms, dinosaurs and monsters and then, turn them loose! And even if they don’t do this, we’ll create these monsters on their behalf and blame them for it. Even though I want to believe these things exist and very much enjoy the fantasy of it, I think we are all very gullible when it comes to rare, unknown and extinct animals typically ascribed to Cryptozoology. Most of us just want to believe in the incredible and the bizarre.