8/03/08 – VIDEO ADDED BELOW THE PHOTOS!

This is weird… It’s something residents have been calling the Montauk Monster. It washed up on the beach. I think it’s a decomposed and water logged dog, but what the hell do I know.

The surf was rough, flipping the thing, over and over, and over again.

Jenna Hewitt, of Montauk, and three friends crept up to examine one side. And Hewitt snapped the camera shot heard ’round the world.

But here’s the rub.

Her group was the second on the scene that afternoon.

The first was a quartet of sun-worshipers from western Suffolk and New York City.

“It looked like nothing I’d ever seen before,” said Ryan O’Shea, of Brooklyn. “It looked like it died angry.”

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