A hairless mystery creature, found and beaten to death by a group of teenagers in Panama, is drawing comparisons to the Montauk monster, which washed up on a Long Island, New York, beach last year.
The four teens, ages 14 to 16, claim they were playing near a cave at Jet Blue Hill in Cerro Azul on Saturday, when the terrifying creature crawled out and came towards them. Fearing for their safety, they attacked the beast, beating it to death with sticks, and throwing the lifeless body into a pool of water.
They later returned to take pictures of the mystery creature’s body, which were then posted on the website of Central America’s Telemetro television station.
A hooked claw can be seen in one of the photos, suggesting it may be a sloth that lost its hair. Others speculate it was a creature from another planet. I suggest that like the Bigfoot found last year, it is just another hoax.
UPDATE: Apparently I was wrong to assume this is a hoax. Zoologists in Panama are trying to identify the creature, so I guess that means they have the body. More on this story in CNN video below.
More photos of the Panama mystery creature below:
i cant believe that there are a different creature
This is stupid! I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT IT IS? A hoax of some kind probably!
1. Why did them stupid kids think it was a good idea….. to pick up some rocks…. and start throwing them at it… i mean theres programs like like Pokemon and Digimon out there, you dont see ash picking up rocks and throwing them at a new pokemon do you!!!
2. If the kids was scared of it and killed it with rocks… where the hell did they puck up the courage………. to touch it………. and throw it in the water………. haha bullshit! lol
Poor thing! How could they kill it? Look at it, what kind of damage could it do, it doesn’t even have teeth! I almost cried when I saw this, humans are killing everything that’s mythical and unknown.
If that thing walked out at me when i was chilling at a creek, Id be scared as hell and probably do the same thing. Its not like they wanted to kill it. Its a natural reaction. Fight or Flight
People need to learn kindness. Fear and killing others who are not the same exact as you is what leads to so much murder throughout the world. Why kill this little creature? It was a life. He was likely just curious about the kids.
maybe a lost dino or a hairless animal
THOSE KIDS SHOULDNT HAVE KILLED IT GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So what’s the word on this? What is it? We’re going on a year and still no word as to what it is??
it could be a hoax becouse its the first thing ever to been sighted in hundreds of years plus theres no wounds on the body not even blunt force is shown
I just wanted to thank you very much for this indepth article. I have already bookmarked your site, when I have more free time I am going to have to do some further reading. Well back to my dreaming of Panama or back to the books – I wonder which one is going to win out. :)
the creature was in panama city florida not in south america no sloths are not found in the wild in florida
We don’t know what it is. 70% of the earth is covered in water, and we’re finding new species every time we look. Whatever this is, you know the American/Panama government are keeping it under wraps to stop people from dropping a bollock and freaking out.
Next time I go to the beach, I’m taking a set of sedatives and a large net. You never know…
i think it is a blank brained alien that messed with the worng kids with sling shots
omfg holy shit
I would not say it was a sloth, sloths arms are really long. Maybe he wanted to phone home lol. Turtle could be a new evolved mamal since we have had a temperature change and animals are evolving. Squids are dieng we might be lowered on the evolution food chain. Funny
Did they need to kill it? Looks pretty harmless to me. I do not think it would attack 4 young men. They killed it just to kill it, pretty sad to say the least.
The article states “DNA” tests so there is a body? I’m interested to say the least.
i think it looks like a sloth also, with all the technilogical resources we have today, if it was anything but a hoax it would be sussed by now. typical fifteen-minutes-of-fame-stint?
They’ve killed the Jackovasaur! BOOOOOOOO-WUP!
HEY Rand_daddy FOX NEWS Ran it too I guess they are both equally ridiculous.
and also why do we need to kill anything that is different? imagine if the kids didn’t kill it and zoologists rescued it. it would have made for a much more compelling study of life. if indeed it is not a hoax.
really did these kids need to beat this animal to death? they could have just left it alone. it looks rather harmless. thats really sad.
Stupid kids killed Ja Ja binx.
Why is CNN being so gullible! You can’t believe all the bull s*** that gets posted on the internet. It looks to me like the body of a sloth. Thats the end of that!
CNN will run just about anything… As they did with the Coast Guard drill during Obama’s motorcade… I would hold judgement until more sources are found…
I think it is a large turtle decomposed with out its shell.