These photos of strange and sometimes creepy creatures made many people shudder and wonder, "What the hell is this?"
Images of them spread all over the Internet, giving many an opportunity to voice their incredible speculations about the origin of these creatures.
Here are some of the most amazing creatures ever discovered and who they really turned out to be.
1. Montauk monster
The story began when an unknown creature washed ashore in the Montauk area of New York in 2008. Local youth photographed the carcass and sold the pictures to newspapers.
Since the Montok monster was discovered, other carcasses have been found in the same area. There have been suggestions that it is a tortoise without a shell, a dog, a large rodent, or a scientific experiment that was being carried out at a government animal testing center.
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Experts concluded that the creature was a raccoon corpse, which matched the shape of its teeth and paws, but lacked its front jaw. The strange appearance is due to the fact that his body began to decompose.
2. Louisiana monster
In December 2010, the camera of an unknown person, installed for hunting deer, captured something frightening.
The picture shows a thin, clumsy, fast moving and, apparently, a creature of the night, which seemed to want to swallow your soul.
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The mystery of this creature has not been solved, although many believe that the image was processed using Photoshop. Two companies have tried to use snapshot for viral advertising.
For example, the Playstation company stated that the creature was in the game Resistance 3.
There were also those who claimed that it was the "fallen angel" captured on video in the forest, appearing at 45 seconds.
3. An alien child from Mexico
In May 2007, Mexican farmer Mario Moreno Lopez discovered a strange creature in a rat trap. He tried to drown him, killing him only the third time.
The creature was small - about 70 cm long with an elongated head, which led to speculations that it was a child of an alien with a high level of intelligence.
However, skeptics have said it could be a reptile or a squirrel monkey without skin, which explains the presence of a tail and spine, as well as a large head and eyes.
The farmer himself mysteriously died in a car at an abnormally high temperature some time after he drowned the creature, which many ufologists considered the aliens' revenge for the child.
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Scientists argued that the creature's teeth were not located like human teeth, and that it itself has a unique tissue that has not been changed, which refutes the theory of a monkey.
Later, after all, the farmer's nephew and part-time taxidermist admitted that the creature was the corpse of a monkey, from which the skin and ears were removed and which was placed in the liquid of various animals.
4. Horror Blue Hill
In September 2009, four teenagers playing in the village of Cerro Azul in Panama discovered a strange creature that ran out of a cave. According to them, the monster began to chase them, and the teenagers began to throw stones at him until they were killed, and then threw the body into the water.
In the newspapers, the creature was nicknamed Gollum (the hero from "The Lord of the Rings"), as it lived in a cave, as well as the "Blue Hill Horror".
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Scientists found that the teenage story was fiction, and the creature turned out to be the body of a sloth, which began to decompose. Due to its long stay in the water, its vegetation disappeared, which gave it a bloated rubbery appearance.
5. Alien corpse at a ceremony in Thailand
In 2010, a series of photographs appeared on social media, taken in 2007 at the funeral ceremony of a strange alien-like creature in Thailand. It had a large, round head, gray skin covered with white powder, resembling a satyr with tiny hooves and a tail.
Some argue that the ceremony was held to get rid of the evil spirits associated with the creature, while others believed that the inhabitants worshiped the creature as a deity.
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There were speculations that the creature was a disfigured cow, although it looked very much like a humanoid. Many point to the large number of anomalous animals appearing around the world, and believe that aliens are experimenting on animals, creating strange hybrids that will one day take over the world.
6. Humanoid from Chile
In October 2002, while traveling with his family to Chile, Julio Carreno discovered a tiny, 7.2 cm long humanoid in the bushes.
The creature had a large humanoid head, nails, and opened its eyes, and died 8 days after discovery. When he was alive, he had rosy skin that darkened and his body remained warm before being quickly mummified by itself.
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The humanoid body was examined by veterinarians from Santiago, whose opinion was divided about who the creature is. They confirmed that it was not a human fetus or the remains of a feline, and that its physical characteristics were more suitable for a mouse possum. However, the creature did not have small sharp teeth or opossum tail, and its head was twice as large.
7. Chupacabra from Texas
The creature known as the "Yeti" of Latin America has been seen several times in Puerto Rico and the United States, namely Texas. According to legend, the Chupacabra (which is translated from Spanish as “goat bloodsucker”) kills livestock and drinks their blood.
The creature was described as having no fur, and its skin had a bluish gray tint.
Several times these creatures were seen and shot in Texas for strangling dozens of chickens.
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DNA tests showed that the animal belonged to a hybrid of a wolf and a coyote, bald by scabies. Although the ability to suck blood from chickens and goats remained unclear.
8. Huge boar from Alabama
In May 2007, 11-year-old boy Jamison Stone from Alabama, USA, shot a huge wild boar weighing almost 480 kg and 2.80 meters long. The boy who hunted with his father shot the animal eight times and chased it for three hours. When the boar was shot, the trees had to be cut down to get it. The animal's head was left as a trophy, and about 200-300 kg of sausages were made from the meat.
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Many people signed the petition accusing the boy of cruelty to the animal. Skeptics consider the whole story to be fiction, and the boar was, in fact, raised on a farm and fed to make history sensational. Also, many thought that this was just the result of processing with Photoshop.
9. Eastern Yeti caught in China
In April 2010, hunters caught a bald bear-like mammal with a kangaroo tail making cat sounds. The creature became a real sensation and was named "Eastern Yeti". According to legend, the yeti had a bear figure that towered much above the person. This creature was no more than 60 cm in length.
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Experts concluded that it was an ordinary musang, which had scabies. The animal was sent to Beijing for examination, but the results were never made public.
10. "Alien" from Chelyabinsk
This creature was found in an abandoned pit in Chelyabinsk, Russia. He had a hard shell, several limbs located one above the other and a tail. Some have suggested that this monster is a huge shield, horseshoe crab, or trilobite, which became extinct even before the dinosaurs.
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Apparently, these creatures are crustaceans, one of the oldest animals, a species that is more than 200 million years old. Usually its size does not exceed 6-7 cm, while the discovered animal reached about 60 cm.
Filipenko L. V.
