Everyone has a vice--something you try to keep unsuccessfully from your friends. Ours here at the LNN is a preternatural hunger towards the field of oceanic cryptozoology, and we are always on the prowl for a new fix.



A bizarre image has surfaced from the shores of Panama raising new questions: Is is a sloth, a fetus of some large animal, the twisted result of some evil eugenics project by a mad scientist, an undiscovered species, or a hoax?



Watch a doe-eyed CNN anchor stammer through a confused analysis of this strange beast

From the Daily Telegraph
"The beast's hairless, rubbery body and revolting features have drawn comparisons with the Montauk Monster, the still-unidentified animal photographed on a New York beach last year.

According to reports in Panama, the teenagers spotted the creature crawling out of a cave while playing in the town of Cerro Azul north of Panama City.

They returned later to take pictures of the corpse which were then posted on the website of the Central American country's Telemetro television station. . . "

The following footage was allegedly shot by a plumber in the sewers of North Carolina. Several biologists have weighed in on the debate and believe--to our bittersweet joy--that the creature is NOT a shoggoth. Instead, the current best guess is that it is a mass of annelid worms, probably Tubifex. Worms or not, this is not something we would ever want to meet in dark alley at night sans heavy weaponry. -LNN