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Mysterious creature’s carcass found on Chilean shore.

Submitted by on February 14, 2009 – 5:46 AM4 Comments | 1,733 views

A mysterious carcass has washed up on the shores of Chile. Found by tourists on a hiking trip, the body is described as being bipedal in appearance and having fins. I’ll translate the gist of what is being said on the video.

Translation mine:

Husband being interviewed: We were hiking for the day with our kids.
Wife: It has hair, wool, hoofs like a goat and fins.
Husband: We fount it, and honestly do not know what it is.
Wife: It has hide like a baboon, wool…

Reporter: A better way of describing the strangeness of this creature does not exist. It has hooves like a goat and arms that arm as long as it’s entire body. At the end of the arms it has a type of fin, that resembles that of a duck’s membrane on it’s feet. It has wool, but also has hair. A jaw that would make you cringe. The find was done by tourists form Iquique Chile that were on a camping trip.

Husband: It’s hind legs are like hooves, while it’s front legs are some type of fin like hands at the end.
Wife: It has a long base on the jaw, with a pronounced row of bottom teeth…it’s like a mixture of different animals in one. It has a lot of different and unusual parts, from the top to the bottom.

Reporter: Upon our reporting, members of the National Agriculture service came to our station to try and figure out exactly what we are looking at.

Marcelo Cortes (Agriculture service director): What we need to do before declaring what the creature is, is to go to where the body was found to get better information. We will have to travel to the location to study it and see if what we are dealing with is a carcass of a local animal or that of some type of extinct creature.

Reporter: The apocalyptic look of this creature was not enough for the members of the National Agriculture service to determine exactly what it is, so they will travel to the location to figure it out with certainty the origin of this strange creature.

So this is what we know based on the description from the locals and the reporter:

1. Creature has a mixture of wool and hair.
2. It has hind legs with hooves and front legs that are as long as it’s body with ‘fin like hands’.
3. Protruding bottom jaw.


criaturaCreature that was found that has unique characteristics like hooves and fins. Click for bigger image

So any biologists or veterinarians out there that might have a better explanation of what it is that was found in Chile?
My Zoology knowledge extends to that of my dog and maybe turtles :)

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I'm a writer, a runner, and a hell of a coffee drinker residing in Los Angeles. I'm currently working on a book about Doris Bither and her terrifying account of a haunting in Culver City, California. The case was dubbed "The Entity" and it stands to be one of the most controversial cases ever to be studied by parapsychologists.

  • Marie

    Morning Javier. Looks like a goat to me. The “fins” are actually the shoulder blades. The hooves are cloven, like deer,cows, goats and other ruminants – chambered stomach, chews its cud… They’re also relativly soft tissue and my be gone from the front legs. The skull is also goat-like. Things look very different without their skin! Did the Mauntauk Monster from last summer look like a raccoon? That’s what Cryptomundo says it was. Glad you found this, though. Your abiliity to translate these Videos and news items opens them up to those of us who’s Spanish is limited to Sesame Street and a couple of swear words! Thanks! – Marie

    P.S. Not a biologist, just an old Southern farm-girl!

  • http://ghosttheory.com Javier Ortega

    Marie,

    Wow, didn’t think of the “fins” being shoulder blades. You bring up excellent points.
    The carcass looks odd to me, but then again living in L.A. you really don’t see many animals besides dogs, rats and the occasional weirdo.

    I tried to contact the people from the Agriculture Dept. in Chile, but have not heard back yet. I’m curious to know what this is. I’m sure that a decomposing body that has been underwater or ripped apart by scavengers will look like it came from hell.

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  • Marie

    Yeah, so these poor city folks on vacation find something that looks like it came from the bowels of hell and call the media. Hope the kids don’t have nightmares. But the fact that they ran the story points to one of my “pet” theories – how very badly we humans want, need,even, to have mysteries in our lives. Science explains so many things that used to be sources of wonder for people, and Hollywood can whip them up out of thin air. What’s left?

  • http://ghosttheory.com Javier Ortega

    Marie,

    Yea, this is definitely some decomposing farm animal. Of course you know how the media will put a spin on a simple story.

    I think you nailed it when you said that the “fins” are in fact the shoulder blades.

    BTW, this article is on Cryptomundo.