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The so-called Montauk Monster was a carcass supposedly found and photographed by three women on 13 July 2008 in front of the Surfside restaurant on a beach in Montauk, New York (on the South Shore of Long Island): The image of the monster provoked much debate over whether the creature photographed was a concocted hoax or a real animal, and if the latter, exactly what kind of animal it might have been. Various laymen and animal experts tried their hand at examining the photograph and determining what it depicted, but there seemed to be no consensus on the matter. For example, Newsday reported the opinion of William Wise, director of Stony Brook University's Living Marine Resources Institute: Others asserted that the creature was in fact a raccoon, however: Since the Montauk Monster's supposed remains were never made available for examination (they were said to be rotting in the backyard of a local resident who remained unidentified by the creature's putative finders), no definitive determination about the nature of object depicted the photograph was ever made. In September 2009, a photograph of another Montauk Monster — this one commonly known as the Panama Creature — was circulated with the claim that teenagers in Panama had spotted it crawling out of a cave and beat it to death with sticks:
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