Mummified Sea Monster

[Glibbidy]

Now This creature would make a great label on a beer. Denzians of the deep IPA. First toasted cheese sandwiches with the Virgin Mary on them, now Sea Monsters for sale on ebay?

 

[TxBrew]

Is that a hoax?

 

[ian]

Is that a hoax?

looks fake to me. But, I'm no marine biologist.

 

[the_bird]

Did you see the "currently featured on wayout auctions" link? Take a gander at that site...
http://wayoutauctions.com/

worth a chuckle.

 

[Caplan]

Did you see the "currently featured on wayout auctions" link? Take a gander at that site...
http://wayoutauctions.com/

worth a chuckle.

Don't knock all the auctions! That '8 person beer bong' might come in useful - but probably not.....

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Don't knock all the auctions! That '8 person beer bong' might come in useful - but probably not.....

I'm going to go with 'not'...I mean, have you ever heard of an 8-pack? Everybody knows beer bongs should come in multiples of 6. :cross:

 

[the_bird]

The "Antique ****** Kit" looks kind of like a piece of brewing equipment.....

 

[magno]

looks fake to me. But, I'm no marine biologist.

By looking at the picture (and the shadow) it seems the sea monster is resting on the sand in its swimming possition. If it were a real picture wouldnt it be laying on its side?

Also the sellers answer to the question about the heterodont teeth does not seem accurate. Wouldnt the species develop legs before large catlike teeth?

Q: Usually heterodont teeth are only found in mammals. Is this a link of evolution?? You may have the FIND of centuries.
A: All life evolved from the sea

- magno

 

[RichBrewer]

By looking at the picture (and the shadow) it seems the sea monster is resting on the sand in its swimming possition. If it were a real picture wouldnt it be laying on its side?

Also the sellers answer to the question about the heterodont teeth does not seem accurate. Wouldnt the species develop legs before large catlike teeth?



- magno

If I had to guess I would say an experienced taxidermist made that out of a fish and attached a bore skull and jaw to it. In doing some research on this at snopes, we found out that people have been doing this for centuries. Making half mammal and half fish "sea monsters" even mermaids from fish and monkey parts.

The guys screen name is seamystery and he says he has found other sea monsters. He is one lucky dude! How many sea monsters have the rest of you coastal dwellers found?

He found it on the shore completely mummified and dry. This seems strange for something that washed up from the sea.

He found it during a walk in the afternoon. No one else saw this thing during the day and took it?

He states "The skin, skull and teeth are 100% authentic, once living, organic flesh and bones". Why didn't he just state that it is an authentic creature from the sea? Once living as 2 different animals????

I would say that I am skeptical and I think he is pulling our leg. I just hope no one is serously budding on that thing.

 

[TxBrew]

It is BS for sure. Those are some skills though! He has a fish with a human face that looks real he sold for $350. Clever guy.

 

[Ivan Lendl]

damn thing is gone! I asked the seller about how he found the 'monster' on a "desolate beach" yet there are hotels, and restaraunts in the background. And he replied, "only 1 person on a beach is desolate to me" but my definition of desolate is abandoned, baren, ravaged, etc not lined with million dollar hotels and what not...its gone now though so fun is over.

 

[Glibbidy]

I'd consider the Backbay National Wildlife Refuge pretty desolate.

This auction was obviously a fraud.

 

[Ivan Lendl]

I'd consider the Backbay National Wildlife Refuge pretty desolate.

This auction was obviously a fraud.

wtf? Thats my back yard. Seriously im 2 miles form sandbridge beach. Thats crazy you choose that spot as desolate...The whale in my gallery washed up on that beach! It was a 60 foot fin whale. Ive caught many sharks and a few cobia off the beach there near little creek island park.
Back bay is cool though. There are all these horses that live there, every now and then youll see a wild horse running down the beach. Pretty crazy! Every year they have a raffel to hunt the wild boar that get out of hand too. I heard its a b*tch to hunt though, its all nasty thickets and crap. It be cool to kill some pigs though.

 

[Nate]

Pretty obvious this was a creative bit of taxidermy work which is fine but... don't try to deceive people. Check the guy's other auctions... also creative taxidermy. They're definitely interesting pieces so just sell them for what they are and don't make up ridiculous stories.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Who's stupid enough to buy something like that and actually has $350 disposable income? Why do all of my get-rich schemes involve useful items that would be productive to society? I don't think I could ever even come up with an idea like putting a bobcat jaw in a fish and selling it as a seamonster, or putting a LED on a windshield mister nozzle or valvestem cap.

 

[Ivan Lendl]

Who's stupid enough to buy something like that and actually has $350 disposable income? Why do all of my get-rich schemes involve useful items that would be productive to society? I don't think I could ever even come up with an idea like putting a bobcat jaw in a fish and selling it as a seamonster, or putting a LED on a windshield mister nozzle or valvestem cap.

hey its better then selling an eye-less stuffed bear with a juvenile 'scary' story attached to it...

or a peice of toast with the Virgin Mary burnt into it. (why is it always religious icons? How come you never see say an image of Pol Pot, or Hitler burnt into a peice of toast?)

 

[Cap'n Jewbeard]

Ha ha, wonderful! I would totally enjoy a Mussolini crumpet right now.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

or a peice of toast with the Virgin Mary burnt into it. (why is it always religious icons? How come you never see say an image of Pol Pot, or Hitler burnt into a peice of toast?)

The milk in my cappuccino looked like the Virgin of Guadalupe the other morning (my Mexican wife agreed), but there was no way to capitalize on it.

 

[Glibbidy]

wtf? Thats my back yard. Seriously im 2 miles form sandbridge beach. Thats crazy you choose that spot as desolate...The whale in my gallery washed up on that beach! It was a 60 foot fin whale. Ive caught many sharks and a few cobia off the beach there near little creek island park.
Back bay is cool though. There are all these horses that live there, every now and then youll see a wild horse running down the beach. Pretty crazy! Every year they have a raffel to hunt the wild boar that get out of hand too. I heard its a b*tch to hunt though, its all nasty thickets and crap. It be cool to kill some pigs though.

I grew up going to sandbridge on vacation as a child and that beach came to mind. Pungo, was also a pretty desolate place as I recall , one blinking light on the way to the Currituck ferry.

Ha ha, wonderful! I would totally enjoy a Mussolini crumpet right now.

OR Cleopatra's Twinkie

 

[Ivan Lendl]

now some loser is selling information on what it is. http://cgi.ebay.com/Mummified-SEA-M...oryZ1468QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[RichBrewer]

wtf? Thats my back yard. Seriously im 2 miles form sandbridge beach. Thats crazy you choose that spot as desolate...The whale in my gallery washed up on that beach! It was a 60 foot fin whale. Ive caught many sharks and a few cobia off the beach there near little creek island park.
Back bay is cool though. There are all these horses that live there, every now and then youll see a wild horse running down the beach. Pretty crazy! Every year they have a raffel to hunt the wild boar that get out of hand too. I heard its a b*tch to hunt though, its all nasty thickets and crap. It be cool to kill some pigs though.

Have you found any sea monsters?

 

[Ivan Lendl]

Have you found any sea monsters?

apparently these (fin whale) are common around this beach. They are the second largest whales next to blue. Pretty cool!
wjatever killed it must have been some monster! (or boat)

 

[the_bird]

I saw a video clip a while back of a whale like this blowing up (literally) from the gasses that built up decomposing. Very, very, VERY cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFNzuOTW0gI&search=exploding whale

Then, of course, there's the time they used dynamite...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_t44siFyb4&search=exploding whale

(I *love* YouTube)

 

[El Pistolero]

damn thing is gone!

It's back now...and quite the bargain at only $202.51. The last sea monster I caught cost me $400 to have stuffed and mounted.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

It's back now...and quite the bargain at only $202.51. The last sea monster I caught cost me $400 to have stuffed and mounted.

He lives!

 

[El Pistolero]

He lives!

The juries still out on that.