Muck Monster Media Mania
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 28th, 2009
The Muck Monster has been a media darling, of late.
Palm Beach County has two active sea monster stories.
We didn’t stop with the seal-manatee hybrid beast, possibly with tusks, that was the subject of an episode of MonsterQuest on the History Channel. The trident-tailed “creature” was photographed in the Intracoastal Waterway near Singer Island. Our sea monster quota was filled by this … Tusked Sealatee – OK, I just came up with that name.
“That’s just a manatee with a cut tail,” said Greg Reynolds, the executive director of Lagoonkeepers.org, a non-profit group that removes debris from the Palm Beach County portion of the waterway.
Reynolds wasn’t falling for some cockamamie sea monster story. Plus, he had his own sea monster story to tell:
The Muck Monster.
About five weeks ago, Reynolds videotaped a moving wake along the flat surface of the waterway near the Flagler Memorial Bridge in West Palm Beach. Whatever was causing the wake was not visible. There was no dorsal fin, no fluke tip. No breaching for air. Reynolds trailed the wake with his boat.
“When I got within 10 feet, the wake disappeared,” he said. “Then it popped up 50 feet away without breaking the surface.”
Reynolds came up with the name Muck Monster because of the muck at the bottom of the Lake Worth Lagoon. He posted his videos on YouTube.
Frank Cerabino
Palm Beach Post
August 27, 2009
Read more…by clicking here…See the YouTube videos below.
You know you’ve made it when you’re the topic of David Letterman’s Top Ten List. Congratulations to the Muck Monster.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Top Ten Questions Received By Palm Beach County Authorities About The “Muck Monster”
10. “Is it single?”
9. “Can you get one of them Obama death panels to kill it?”
8. “Why do you keep asking if I’ve been drinking?”
7. “Is it true the Muck Monster is dating Kate Gosselin?”
6. “Can I follow the Muck Monster on Twitter?”
5. “Is the Muck Monster available for private parties?”
4. “Muck Monster, sounds like my ex-wife… Topeka, Kansas, you’re on the air, hello…”
3. “Any chance this is Geico’s new mascot?”
2. “If this thing attacks me, am I totally mucked?”
1. “Dick Cheney here — want me to take out the son-of-a-bitch?”
Reynolds is quick to call the one critter a manatee with a cut tail, but he’s quick to call something swimming in the water a sea monster…when he hasn’t even seen anything physical other than a wake/disturbance? Yeah, whatever…
The muck monster is as bad or worse than a blobsquatch…at least those have something to look at…even if it is fuzzy…
Well, if raccoons, dog carcasses, and bears with mange can become media superstars, I don’t see why a ray, or whatever of the other mundane species it could be, shouldn’t. Sigh.
I’m honestly surprised at how much attention this video is getting.
Seal manitee with tusks, Isn’t that a walrus?