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Neither local residents Warrick Lovell, Rich Park, Basil Park, or anyone else it seems, knows what the big creature found dead on a beach here this week might be.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Corner Brook intends to check out the Lower Cove site today hoping to find some answers for the question of many curious onlookers who went there to see for themselves what Lovell found during a Wednesday afternoon walk on the beach.
“It would be nice to see if anyone knows what it is,” says Lovell. “First I thought it was a seal washed up (on the high tide earlier in the day), but when I went down to check on my boat that evening, I walked over to see and then I knew it wasn’t a seal.
“But, I don’t know what it is.”
Of unknown origin and species, so far, the odd-looking seaside carcass sits high and dry on the low tide, its approximately 15-foot length includes a pointed, 10-foot tail twisted in the sand, conjuring up Loch Ness monsters for some.
The animal, bearing a single flipper-like appendage on its right side, appears to have been decapitated and shows other signs of damage.
“I didn’t know what to think of it,” says Rich Park, also among the first to see it close up.
The long tapered tail on the squared torso of the carcass caused him to initially think the large hunk of flesh might be a tentacle off a giant squid Park said, but on closer inspection it became clearer what the protrusion was not that. It got hair on it in spots. I couldn’t (determine) what it was.”
“I’ve lived here all my life and never seen anything like it,” says Basil Park, who went Thursday went to take a look with friends and brothers Gilbert and Ernie Park, and neither one of them could say they knew what it was.
“There’s fishermen around here who fished all their lives and they couldn’t tell you.”
John Lubar with DFO says the Corner Brook office receives a number of calls from residents around the region each year reporting seals in brooks or to have rotting carcasses of whales or other dead things removed from a shoreline, but claims reports of unknown creatures from the deeps washing up are rare.
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Millions of miles of the ocean floor have never been observed and so it should not be surprising that if now and then, from out of the watery depths some new shape emerges…
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A mystery is brewing in British Columbia. Over the past 15 months, human feet in running shoes have been washing ashore.
Last Tuesday a couple, Ken and Diana Johnstone, were walking along the tidal flat area along the Fraser River and spotted a shoe. On closer inspection they discovered what looked like a sock with human remains inside the shoe. This makes it seven sch discoveries over the past 15 months.
Five disembodied human feet have mysteriously floated ashore in the Canada’s Georgia Strait since August 2007, and sixth foot was found three months ago in adjacent U.S. waters near Port Angeles, Washington.
There have also been a number of hoaxes, with one that turned out to be a pigs foot sneakily put into a shoe and put on shore.
The latest grisly discovery has been sent to the local coroner to test on whether it really is human, or just another hoax.
“Obviously due to the fact that a hoax was perpetrated previously and then extensively reported on we want to proceed cautiously until we know exactly what we are dealing with,” said Constable Annie Linteau of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told reporters.
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Trunko is the nickname for an animal reportedly sighted in Margate, South Africa on October 25, 1924, according to an article entitled “Fish Like A Polar Bear” published in the December 27, 1924 edition of London’s Daily Mail.
The animal was reputedly first seen off the coast battling two killer whales, which fought the unusual creature for three hours. It used its tail to attack the whales and reportedly lifted itself out of the water by about 20 feet. One of the witnesses, Hugh Ballance, described the animal as looking like a “giant polar bear” during a final fight.
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The creature reputedly washed up on Margate Beach but despite being there for 10 days, no scientist ever investigated the carcass while it was beached, so no reliable description has been published, and no photographs of it have ever been published. Some people who have never been identified were reported to have described the animal as possessing snowy-white fur, an elephantine trunk, a lobster-like tail, and a carcass devoid of blood.
While it was beached, the animal was measured by beach-goers and turned out to be 47 ft (14 m) in length, 10 ft (3.0 m) wide, and 5 ft (1.5 m) high, with the trunk’s length being 5 ft (1.5 m), the trunk’s diameter 14 in (36 cm), the tail 10 ft (3.0 m), and the fur being 8 in (20 cm) long. The trunk was said to be attached directly to the animal’s torso, as no head was visible on the carcass. For this feature, the animal was dubbed Trunko by British cryptozoologist Dr Karl Shuker in his 1996 book The Unexplained. In the March 27, 1925 edition of the Charleroi Mail, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, an article entitled “Whales Slain By Hairy Monster” reported that whales there were killed by a strange creature which was washed up on a beach exhausted and fell unconscious, but made its way back into the ocean and swam away after 10 days, never to be seen again.
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