Was there a secret mutant monster found recently on Long Island?”
No question about it. The creature found on July 13 on a Montauk beach, only a few miles west of where the government conducted the infamous Montauk Project time-travel experiments on children kidnapped from New York City streets, is definitely from outer space. No? How about a turtle without a shell, or a pug given a burial at sea from a passing yacht. Jenna Hewitt A photograph of what appears to be a dead dog or raccoon found on the beach in Montauk has become a Web phenomenon. Ever since Jenna Hewitt, Rachel Goldberg, and Courtney Fruin found the thing in front of the Surfside restaurant, the electronic clones of the creature have invaded computers — by way of Ms. Hewitt’s snapshot — until the Internet itself is threatened. “This is an actual monster, some sort of rodent-like creature with a dinosaur beak . . . a government animal-testing facility is close by,” according to the Phantoms and Monsters Web site, which picked up the story from