Cowbeast of Death Is Latest Unskinned Monster to Wash Ashore

A young gentleman on Twitter asks, "I found the new montauk monster. Gawker, where you at???" Well, we're right here, young "hellatightshit." And what is it you have for your friends at Gawker Monster Investigations? UPDATE! He's named! More »

Gollum Found Dead in Panama

Pretty quiet summer monster season this year, right? Wrong, mi amigo. A distant cousin of the Montauk Monster emerged from its cave in Panama. Then terrified kids beat it to death. More »

Living Montauk Monster Terrorizing Canada

Summer is in full swing, so you know what that means: Monsters! It was exactly one year ago today that we first reported on the Montauk Monster and now something that looks like Monty's cousin has emerged in Toronto. Alive! More »

Montauk Monster Washes Up Again

Somebody forgot to do the exorcism, because the Montauk Monster has been found. Again. More »

Summer 2008: Our Monsteriest Season Yet

I have terrible news. The Broadway-bound revival of swingin' Godsex musical Godspell has been postponed. And you know why? The economy. Yes the bad economy is even stopping Jesus. What terrible, hellacious times are we living in, anyway? You'd half expect to see demons filling our streets... And! Wait, yes! Look, there they are. Hell beasts, and Bigfeet, and all manner of other two-headed ghouls. It's the summer of monsters, lurching into our world from the ruined corners of this modern world. After the jump we'll take a digested look at this season's many abominable creatures. More »

Monster In A Hall Of Mirrors

It's been fun while it's lasted, but the monstrous creature that washed up in Montauk, Long Island may have been nothing more than a prop from an independent movie about carnies, and a viral marketing scheme just as everyone initially suspected. There are enough untied loose ends in the hoax storyline to leave open the possibility that the hoax is itself a hoax, meaning the story has now entered a confusing phase where one must carefully sift the professed deceptions from the real deceptions and hard facts from intentional distortions. But one can try. Here's how a hoax would have gone down, according to a theory propagated on a few websites (linked below) over the past few days: More »

The 2008 Montauk Monster Yearbook

What the hell happened last week? Yes some guy went insane on a Canadian Greyhound bus, but more importantly a monster attacked our eastern shores. Yes some sort of bloated hell best carcass washed up in Montauk recently and we provided expert cryptozoology coverage from here in our fortified bunker. We've received countless emails positing theories and declaring conclusions. It's a dog, it's a raccoon, it is actually Lizzie Grubman, it's some sort of energy bar called a Nutria, etc. Some of those emails came with pictures, whether they were side-by-side comparisons or Photoshop mashups. So we thought we'd provide a definitive Montauk Monster photo gallery for you which you can look at, if you dare, after the jump. If you have more pictures, send them along. This X-File remains open... More »