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Another Montauk Monster tale: Was it a raccoon?

Lo and behold: the Montauk Monster was borne not of scientific experimentation or beastly mutation, but of an ordinary raccoon of normal biology, given Norse funeral rites.

Or so says a Shelter Island resident who didn't want to identify himself.

When the man and a group of his friends found a dead raccoon on Shell Beach last summer, their fateful decision to give the animal a Viking...

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