Huge, hairy, headless... what in the world is this monster of the deep stranded on a remote beach?
WITH mottled fur, tentacles protruding from its body and seemingly headless, it is like no creature known to man.
So it’s little wonder locals believe they have been visited by a monster from the deep after the mysterious mass washed up on the coast of Siberia this week.
Witnesses said the ‘smelly’ and ‘stinking carcass’ was longer than three men, and too heavy for them to move. While some claimed it was a sea beast from the Arctic, one scientist said it could be part of a decomposing whale. The discovery also prompted speculation the creature could be a woolly mammoth.
Even though the ancient species became extinct thousands of years ago, some argued the remains could have been preserved in ice.
The creature was discovered at a remote beach near the village of Pakhachi on the volcanic Kamchatka Peninsula, on Russia’s east coast.
Svetlana Dyadenko, who first came across the ‘monster’, said it looked like a ‘hairy octopus’ and was covered in ‘tubular fur’, adding: ‘Could it be some ancient creature? We googled it and couldn’t find anything resembling it.’
Russian marine scientist Sergei Kornev claimed the ‘globster’ – a word used for an unusual mass of decomposing sea creature remains – was part of a whale that had taken on a ‘bizarre’ form.