Atlanta’s very own Montauk Monster

2008 August 8
by christa t


Oh yes, we’ve had our fair share of hoaxes! And at the Georgia Bureau of Investigations Crime Museum in Decatur, you can see the result of this venture:

At the height of UFO hysteria then sweeping the nation, two young barbers and a butcher took a dead monkey in 1953, lopped off its tail and applied a liberal dose of hair remover and some green coloring to the carcass.

Within 180 minutes, the GBI called the whole thing off and correctly identified the lil’ critter as a shaved monkey. Yet ANOTHER WAY NEW YORK IS SUPERIOR TO US: they get hoaxes like the Montauk Monster, terrifying mysteries that drag on for well over a week and are rumored to be tied to horrible top-secret government animal eugenics labs or at least a cool new action movie. We get three hicks who decided to dye a monkey corpse green and pass it off as an alien.

2 Responses leave one →
  1. 2008 August 13
    Hulio permalink

    That looks like my pappy.

  2. 2009 May 13
    Grammy permalink

    Your pappy was a ugly sumbeeeotch!

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