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  • 2020-10-13 (xsd:date)
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  • Devil found dead on beach? No, fake image a composite of two old photos (en)
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  • An image of what seems to be a massive creature with a bird-like head and humanoid arms, lying on a beach with an ocean behind it and a crowd of people in the foreground, has been posted on a Kenyan Facebook page . Finally the devil found dead on the beach of Pacific Ocean, the caption reads. Now the world can live at peace. Data from CrowdTangle , Facebook’s public insights tool, reveals that the post has been shared in two public group pages with a combined membership of more than 1 million. But is the strange creature real? We checked. ‘Montauk Monster’ plus beached whale Africa Check cropped the image and ran it through Google image search . This revealed that it resembles a photo of an unidentified but much smaller creature that reportedly washed up on a beach in Montauk, a village in the US state of New York, in 2008. The Montauk Monster became an internet sensation in 2008, with much speculation about what the creature could be. The eventual and most likely explanation was that it was the body of a partially decomposed racoon , bloated from spending time in seawater. The beak-like structure on its face was in fact the racoon’s upper jaw with the flesh rotted away. The image shared on Facebook is a manipulated version of the Montauk Monster photo, flipped horizontally and with its colour changed. But what about the beach, ocean and people in the image? Another reverse image search led us to a photo of a dead whale that beached at Maule on the Gulf of Arauco in Chile in November 2011. The photo is credited to Reuters news agency and was taken by Jose Luis Saavedra. The image is fake, a composite of two different photos that have been online for many years. – Dancan Bwire (en)
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