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Huge ‘hairy sea monster’ washes up on Pacific coast: what can it be?

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15 August 2018

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Witness Svetlana Dyadenko said: ‘This unidentified and strange-looking creature was washed on the shore next to the village of Pakhachi, on the north-eastern side of the Kamchatka Peninsula'

The baffling behemoth - shown in a video here - was washed up in recent days on the shore of the Bering Sea, on the Pacific side of the Kamchatka peninsula. 

More than three times the size of a man, the smelly  heavyweight monster has puzzled locals here who are used to seeing what the ocean washes up.

It has a dirty chalk colouring, and appears to have a long tail - or tentacle - but no definite head or eyes as it lies on the dark volcanic sand.

Witness Svetlana Dyadenko posted: ‘This unidentified and strange-looking creature was washed on the shore next to the village of Pakhachi, on the north-eastern side of the Kamchatka Peninsula.'

She said: ‘The most interesting thing to me is that the creature is covered with tubular fur. 

‘Could it be some ancient creature? 

‘I wish scientists could inspect this enigma that ocean threw at us.’

Kamchatka sea monster


Kamchatka sea monster


Kamchatka sea monster


Kamchatka sea monster


Kamchatka sea monster

A puzzling find off the north-eastern coast of Kamchatka peninsula. Pictures: The Siberian Times


First comments asked her if it could be the remnants of an extinct woolly mammoth, perhaps released from an undersea permafrost grave by the warm summer. 

But Svetlana said:  ‘It looks more like a hairy octopus. Can’t guess what is it. 

‘People who saw it could not dig or pull it out.

‘You would need an excavator because part of it got completely covered with sand.’

Commenter Slava Shatunov wrote: ‘It looks like normal fur.’

Svetlana replied:  ‘It does look like fur, but it’s tubular, as if a lot of tiny pipes hang down the carcass. This is a really strange-looking creature. 

‘We googled it and couldn’t find anything resembling it.’

Kamchatka sea monster


Kamchatka sea monster


Kamchatka sea monster

Some suggested the 'creature' looked like a globster. Pictures: The Siberian Times


Another confused observer suggested: ‘I wonder if it came from a thawed glacier?’

Another woman replied: ‘It’s got to have been brought from the Arctic.’

More suggestions: ‘It looks like an octopus, or the pelt of some creature’.

Svetlana replied that it seemed to be ‘the carcass of an animal - but we can’t guess which one.’

Elena Vlasova suggested: ‘It reminds of a giant squid.’

But she also asked: ‘Is it a globster?’ 

Eyewitness Svetlana Dyadenko replied: ’It might be a globster, but after googling it I didn’t see that people came across lobsters with tails.’ 


The term globster was first coined in 1962 to describe a mysterious Tasmanian carcass which was said to have "no visible eyes, no defined head, and no apparent bone structure”.

These globsters  may at first resemble a gigantic octopus while others may have some bones or tentacles or flippers - or even eyes, say experts.

They are, though, not usually hairy as this one is. Scientists have suggested globsters are declared carcasses of large sea creatures, like whales or sharks.

They might be lumps of whale blubber released from decaying corpses. 

Yet the hair or fur on this Kamchatka monster doesn’t seem to fit with this description.

But Kamchatka marine biologist Sergei Kornev today partly validated the globster theory.

He believes the monster to be part of a decaying sea mammal.

'Under the influence of the sea, time and various animals, from the smallest to the largest, a whale often takes on bizarre forms.

‘This is only a part of a whale, not a whole one.'

Comments (16)

It looks like a sea weed. I have in the past seen sea weed with tubular hair like tantackles with green color
Alison, Portugal
20/10/2018 15:50
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Poor things I think they are getting killed from the Sonar and military and oil & gas exploration testing that goes on in our sea trenches around the world. The trenches are the ocean's arteries a transport system. Leave them alone they need to move nutrients and creatures freely. These creatures are part of keeping a healthy ocean to maintain a healthy planet.
Catherine , Sydney Australia
29/08/2018 04:07
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Polar bears have tubular fur also
Randy Mitchell, Yakima, USA
19/08/2018 00:57
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Perhaps this is a life form unknown to us because its habitat is under the arctic or antarctic ice. New life forms have recently heen discovered in the water under antarctic ice shelves. Maybe increased melt rates are releasing these creatures into the world we know.
Kris Piepenburg, Palatine, Illinois, USA
18/08/2018 12:10
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Has anyone taken a dna sample? Then send it off and compare to other species...
Aks, Texas usa
18/08/2018 08:32
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Baleen whales filter that is in its mouth.
CCFREE, USA
17/08/2018 19:51
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I recall a similar story a year or maybe 2 back where I think they thought something similar but it turned out to be a type of seaweed or something plant like.
Kat parker, America
17/08/2018 15:05
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Could it be an animal exposed to chemicals/nuclear waste?
Darrell Cross, Memphis/USA
17/08/2018 14:36
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Is this what is left of a mastadon (sp) that's been buried for centuries?
Mae, Daly City Ca. .
17/08/2018 12:05
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I can't wait to find out what it is. What a find.
Marie keehl, Michigan USA
17/08/2018 11:31
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In my opinion, this is not a tail but a trunk. Also the hair speaks for a mammoth, which was thawed out of the permafrost. The tusks have probably been lost in the sea.
Broglio Pietro, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
17/08/2018 05:05
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Looks like it could be baleen plates from a whale carcass ?
Joseph, Bristol
16/08/2018 17:21
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oh no Falkor!!!
Mike Nordin, rosemead, CA
16/08/2018 04:18
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Yummy!
John Holmes, USA
16/08/2018 03:05
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It almost appears that it could resemble a extremely large spider similar to a tarantula. It seems to have many legs, and that species are considered to be hairy arachnids and their hair types are barbed hairs. Regardless this is very fascinating and I hope researchers and scientists are able to obtain this creature for autopsy purposes.
Tonya Marie, OH/USA
16/08/2018 01:53
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