Environmental groups are worried that the feds don’t do the best job cleaning up stuff like this when done in secrecy and are demanding more public oversight. The Department of Homeland Security is readying the sale of the now sparkling, 840-acre island as they move their monster-making facilities to Manhattan…Kansas.

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?

The prime real estate will go to the highest bidder and is the first step in shutting down the animal research facility in favor of a new, deadlier one to be built in Kansas. The deal includes numerous buildings, a “9.5-acre support facility on Orient point,” and although not listed, numerous genetic, Montauk Monster-like aberrations. |Newsday| (I’d link, but Newsday has a stupid pay wall system.)

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.

Photos by Nicky Papers/Montauk-Monster.com

Location where creature was found is approximately 17 miles to the southwest of the clandestine animal research center at Plum Island.

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Maggie Jones, director of the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center in Mystic, said Sunday night after examining photos that her best initial guess would be a raccoon. “I’m quite certain of it,” she said. “The arrangement of the teeth look like a raccoon and the skull is pretty distinctive. It’s nothing else I can think of.”

Some argue otherwise and are convinced it’s another experiment gone bad from the shadowy animal disease lab at Plum Island. While the scientific community is rather uninterested in this creature and would likely balk at a ‘Plum’ tie-in, when you look at the proximity of the two sites on a map and note the path of the ferry which just happens to pass right past the island and the beach it was found, the outlandish speculation becomes all the more real. And most importantly these continued discoveries keep the still not sold out official t-shirt all the more relevant. |TheDay|
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“According to the Environmental Protection Agency, from the mid-1990′s to 2002 there were violations of state and federal environmental laws, including illegal animal sewage discharges into local waters under the Clean Water Act. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation described the environmental pollution as troubling, and in December 2002, the island made the National Resources Defense Council’s ”Dirty Dozen” list of the 12 worst polluters in New York and New Jersey.”

While some maintain this as a possible cause to the dying seafood favorite, Laufer determined that toxins sprayed to combat West Nile Virus contributed to reducing the lobster’s natural immune system. Oddly, this is the same virus that many conspiracy theorists and PHDs alike have linked to Plum Island experimentation. Is it possible that the animal research lab double fucked the crustaceans?

Some claim it’s responsible for hatching and then releasing Lyme disease and the West Nile Virus—both of which reportedly emanated from regions around the tiny island. There’s also been discussion about the laboratory’s classification, with some arguing that the biolevel3 facility is actually a biolevel4 which basically means they can experiment with extremely dangerous pathogens and viruses that could kill off mass populations of animals and humans alike. The point is that it’s a semi-toxic place and that’s why any deer that swim to the island are shot on sight and workers must strip and shower several times—although for some reason they do encourage birds to nest. There’s also this Iron Cross helipad, but we’re not sure that means, although it must have a pretty significant esoteric meaning for someone else besides symbol studying conspiracy theorists.

“It is impossible to accurately identify the species of animal from the photo. There is no scale from which to judge its size. Additionally, when a body has had prolonged exposure to water and predators, it can be altered or appear different from its normal form. If we had the actual body, we could tell you what it is; however, from viewing the lower canine tooth and other physical characteristics evident in the picture, we could guess it may be a dog or raccoon. I can state categorically that it is not associated with the work performed at Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC). PIADC serves as the Nation’s first line of defense against foreign animal diseases of livestock by identifying such diseases through diagnostic testing and by developing vaccines to protect livestock from those diseases.”

-Dr. Larry Barrett, Center Director, Plum Island Animal Disease Center