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.
Fearing for the safety as it moved towards them, the youths claim they attacked the beast with sticks before throwing its lifeless body into a pool of water. They returned later to take pictures of the corpse.
The images have since bounced around various cryptozoology blogs, with several explanations suggested for what it might have been.
A hooked claw visible in one of the photos has been cited as evidence for the popular theory that the creature was a sloth that somehow lost its hair.
2 comments:
couldnt be a sloth. sloths have black noses similiar to dogs.
...i think it is a sloth...it probably had nested in the cave since birth and became anemic over the years. I'm sad that it was brutally beaten to death....especially when you know that sloths are slow, peaceful, and passive vegetarians. Just goes to show that people, when scared; are slow to understand yet quick to judge.
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