Since 2000, the government has been removing lots of toxic crap from the Army’s secret germ warfare and animal disease lab at Plum Island, including “hundreds of tons of medical waste,” according to documents acquired by the Associated Press. Read more »
Located two miles off the eastern coast of Long Island and boasting 840 acres surrounded by stunning waterfront views and sandy beaches, the government is getting ready to put the controversial infectious disease lab at Plum Island on the market. Interested? Read more »
Good news New York. A construction firm has been chosen to begin work on the animal disease and research labs in Kansas that are slated to replace Plum Island’s aging facilities. |PrimeBuzz|
Another strange beast, similar to the famed Montauk Monster, washed up on a Long Island beach. This latest slimy, horny nosed creature was discovered by a Southold couple the night of May 6th in Founders Landing Park according to blogger Nicky Papers. ANIMAL is on the story with the hopes of dispelling the myth, but for now an exclusive dead monster gallery below.
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There’s not many similarities between New York and Texas, except maybe when it comes to disease labs used to study pathogens that could wipe out the human race. Like the virus farm on Plum Island, the Lone Star State will soon boast a fully operational, dangerous bio lab on a vulnerable barrier island close to mainland populations too. Located in hurricane prone Galveston, which seems like the last place you’d want one of these, the facilities at the University of Texas will be housed in a new $174 million dollar building that Dr. James LeDuc claims is indestructible, “The entire island can wash away and this is still going to be here.” Somehow that doesn’t sound too scientific. |NYT|
The summer has come to an end, but the mystery surrounding the Montauk Monster continues to build, mostly because new beasts are still washing up. Last month, a unidentifiable carcass was found on Rocky Point and now there’s word of another corpse spotted at Ocean Beach Park in New London, Connecticut. It was found by a family strolling along the beach and like its predecessor, had a “pointed, turtlelike snout,” but unlike the backwater residents of Montauk, the Clapsadles notified experts who agreed to take look at the photos. An official from the Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration claimed it had to be a raccoon, there’s no other explanation:
“A debilitating shell disease affecting lobsters from Long Island Sound to Maine may be caused by environmental alkyphenols, formed primarily by the breakdown of hard transparent plastics,” according to scientist Hands Laufer. With this weakening of the shell, lobsters become more prone to “microbial invasions.” This isn’t the first time Laufer has witnessed the lobsters in peril. Back in 1999, he was studying the crustaceans that were dying off in record numbers. From the mid-1990s on, there was a marked increase. This was around the same time that the ominous Plum Island infectious disease lab was dumping all sorts of shit into the Long Island Sound and subsequently fined as reported by the New York Times:
“Plum Island, Restricted” reads the oversized letters emblazoned into the ground and visible from the air. Welcome to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. With all the talk of the Montauk Monster and other recent cryptozoological phenomena, one of the unintended effects of the media’s saturation has been an increased spotlight on the the government’s clandestine research facility. Located about 2.5 miles off of Orient Point and approximately 120 miles from NYC, it is referred to as Long Island’s Area 51. The lab’s official business is keeping the country’s livestock from dangerous diseases, but has been accused of simultaneously working on bio-weapon research that could wipe out an enemy’s food supply for the past few decades. But even before Plum Island was taken over by Homeland security in 2003, it has been steeped in controversy.
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The guy who says he dragged the Montauk Monster off the beach back on July 13 and brought it to a friend’s yard now claims the carcass was stolen. They were planning on letting it rot down to the bone so an artist could turn the remains into art and sell it for Damien Hirst prices. |EastHamptonStar|
Montauk residents claim that at least once a year, weird shit happens to them. |Newsday|
The Jews assure us that the Montauk Monster is not the Pale Horse of the Apocalypse, and is most likely a raccoon. |JewishJournal|
Public meetings to discuss Plum Island’s future are being held tonight in Long Island. Now is your chance to corner the island’s director, Dr. Larry Barrett, and ask him why a housefly doesn’t provide scale in determining the size of the monster. |Newsday|
And finally, the absolute worst Montauk Monster theory to date. No it’s not from another dimension made possible by a break in the space/time continuum. |ConspiracyGuy|
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Despite numerous theories about the Montauk Monster and an inability to properly identify it—even with newly published photos—many are convinced that it’s most likely some sort of creature from the clandestine animal experiment lab located on lovely Plum Island just off the coast of Orient Point. However, in an official statement to Associated Content, the Department of Homeland Security run facility emphatically denied it was theirs and even speculated that it’s most likely a “cat or raccoon” based on viewing the canine teeth from the widely dispersed photo. So today we reached out and they sent another explanation, that eliminated the feline theory, claiming it could actually be a “dog or raccoon.” They also maintain that “it’s impossible to accurately identify the species of animal from the photo. There is no scale from which to judge its size.” Are they not looking at the same photo we are? The above image clearly shows a fly—probably from the depths of Hell—feasting on the animal, providing some indicator of scale. You would think hope that an agency responsible for protecting livestock and specifically engaged in highly contagious animal experimentation would have all the information at hand. Then again, it is ran by Homeland Security. Official unaltered statement after the jump. UPDATE: new ‘Monster’ found in Connecticut within relative earshot of Plum Island.
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