Dead East River ‘monster’ confounds New Yorkers, animal experts
A gnarly, dead carcass snapped by photographer Denise Ginley has the Parks Department claiming it's just a pig, while naysayers are crying 'foul.'
What the hell IS that thing?
A bloated, pig-like carcass spotted beneath the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend has spooked New Yorkers buzzing about mutant river “monsters.”
Photographer Denise Ginley shot pics of the rotting, sand-covered corpse on Sunday. “My boyfriend and I were walking along the East River on our way to a farmer's market when we spotted it among some driftwood on a small stretch of sand below the Brooklyn Bridge that you can barely call a beach,” she emailed the Daily News.
"We were horrified by it and we took some camera phone pictures and then finally we decided to come back with my camera and I got up the courage to climb over the fence and get closer to it," she told the blog ANIMAL New York.
Denise Ginley
In the post, titled “We’re Supposed to Believe the New East River Monster Is Just a Pig?” Daily Intel writer Joe Coscarelli tagged the rotting hulk photographed by Denise Ginley, "Wilbur."
Denise Ginley
Photographer Denise Ginley thinks it is odd that the Parks Department so quickly said the creature was a “discarded cooked pig” and that the department “threw it out.”
But the purplish brute's long tail and hoof-less claws made for one freaky swine, naysayers said.
Denise Ginley
Photographer Denise Ginley shot pics of the rotting, sand-covered corpse on Sunday while strolling with her boyfriend along the Manhattan side of the East River.
"The Parks Dept. was probably very quick to identify it as a pig and dispose of it, but it is most certainly NOT a pig,” Denise Ginley stressed to the Daily News. “The most obvious sign being the lack of a cloven hoof, instead this creature has five digits all close together."
Denise Ginley
Photographer Denise Ginley shot pics of the rotting, sand-covered corpse on Sunday while strolling with her boyfriend along the Manhattan side of the East River.
In a post in New York magazine's Daily Intel blog, titled “We’re Supposed to Believe the New East River Monster Is Just a Pig?” writer Joe Coscarelli tagged the rotting hulk "Wilbur," and said it looked like something "in between a rodent of unusual size and a part-human werewolf."
Denise Ginley
Photographer Denise Ginley shot pics of the rotting, sand-covered corpse on Sunday while strolling with her boyfriend along the Manhattan side of the East River.
Dr. Paul Curtis, a Cornell University professor and wildlife specialist, mused to Gothamist that it could be a small dog that ballooned with decay.
“All the hair has slipped off the carcass,” Curtis said, explaining the animal’s creepy smoothness. The waterlogged ghoul drew comparisons to the "Montauk Monster," which captivated New Yorkers after washing ashore on Ditch Plains beach in July 2008.
That creature was rumored to be a raccoon, a shell-less sea turtle and a dog, among other possibilities.
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PLUM ISLAND
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/topics/biolabs
What Is on the Island?
Lurking in the dark waters of Long Island Sound is a mysterious
place known as Plum Island. Just ten miles off the coast of Connecticut,
this tiny speck of land has long been rumored to be the epicenter of
top-secret biowarfare research. The U.S. government acknowledges that
the island is home to a scientific facility. Its stated purpose is to
study animal-borne diseases. But investigators are beginning to uncover
startling new facts about this forbidding place. Insiders and
ex-employees have come forward to tell their stories. From security
breaches in germ labs, to escaped diseases and potential mass epidemics,
this is the real Plum Island story.
But the government denies anything is wrong.
Plum Island’s Secret Past
Although the origins of Plum Island are shrouded in secrecy, investigations have revealed the startling fact that, in the 1950s, the lab was run by a German scientist named Erich Traub, who was brought to America after the Second World War. His specialty in the Third Reich was virus and vaccine research. Along with rocket scientists like Werner von Braun, Traub was spirited out of post-war Germany to help jump-start the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The well-documented U.S. government project to recruit German scientists and technicians was known as Operation Paperclip. President Truman approved the project, so long as only nominal Nazi party members without SS affiliation were recruited. However, because the Nazi party promoted so many of its top scientists, Operation Paperclip ended up white-washing the pasts of many of its recruits in order to get them into the U.S.
Traub’s particular expertise was in disease-carrying insects—in particular, the common tick. Ticks are often carried aloft by birds, and can therefore quickly spread over large swaths of territory. Called “vectors,” ticks and mosquitoes are also genetically similar. Both contain bacteriophages or plasmids that transfer genetic material into a cell, or from one bacterium to another. In other words, they can infect whatever host animal with which they come in contact. Multiply this by millions, and ticks become the perfect insect army.
Plum Island (Reuters)During
the Cold War, both the Soviets and Americans searched for ways to
cripple each other, short of a doomsday nuclear attack. One idea was to
destroy Russia’s food supply. This is where Traub’s tick army came into
play. If the bugs could be injected with lethal pathogens, and somehow
released over the Soviet Union, we could literally starve our mortal
enemy to death. It’s well documented that Traub was using Plum Island
for this research.
In November 1957, U.S. military intelligence explored the elimination of the food supply of the Sino-Soviet bloc, right down to determining the calories required for victory:
But the government denies anything is wrong.
Plum Island’s Secret Past
Although the origins of Plum Island are shrouded in secrecy, investigations have revealed the startling fact that, in the 1950s, the lab was run by a German scientist named Erich Traub, who was brought to America after the Second World War. His specialty in the Third Reich was virus and vaccine research. Along with rocket scientists like Werner von Braun, Traub was spirited out of post-war Germany to help jump-start the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The well-documented U.S. government project to recruit German scientists and technicians was known as Operation Paperclip. President Truman approved the project, so long as only nominal Nazi party members without SS affiliation were recruited. However, because the Nazi party promoted so many of its top scientists, Operation Paperclip ended up white-washing the pasts of many of its recruits in order to get them into the U.S.
Traub’s particular expertise was in disease-carrying insects—in particular, the common tick. Ticks are often carried aloft by birds, and can therefore quickly spread over large swaths of territory. Called “vectors,” ticks and mosquitoes are also genetically similar. Both contain bacteriophages or plasmids that transfer genetic material into a cell, or from one bacterium to another. In other words, they can infect whatever host animal with which they come in contact. Multiply this by millions, and ticks become the perfect insect army.
Plum Island (Reuters)During
the Cold War, both the Soviets and Americans searched for ways to
cripple each other, short of a doomsday nuclear attack. One idea was to
destroy Russia’s food supply. This is where Traub’s tick army came into
play. If the bugs could be injected with lethal pathogens, and somehow
released over the Soviet Union, we could literally starve our mortal
enemy to death. It’s well documented that Traub was using Plum Island
for this research.In November 1957, U.S. military intelligence explored the elimination of the food supply of the Sino-Soviet bloc, right down to determining the calories required for victory:
In
order to have a crippling effect on the economy of the USSR, the food
and animal crop resources of the USSR would have to be damaged within a
single growing season to the extent necessary to reduce the present
average daily caloric intake from 2,800 calories to 1,400 calories;
i.e., the starvation level. Reduction of food resources to this level,
if maintained for twelve months, would produce 20 percent fatalities,
and would decrease manual labor performance by 95 percent and clerical
and light labor performance by 80 percent.
Attempts to obtain
records about Traub’s past, and his possible connection to Third Reich
war crimes, have been regularly rebuffed by Army Intelligence and the
CIA. Traub died in Germany at the age of 78.
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