Russians Caught “Squeaky Alien Monster” … and Ate It!

Russian fishermen caught a "squeaky alien" and decided to …. eat it!

Village residents from the Rostov region of Russia caught a weird creature two weeks ago after a strong storm in the Sea of Azov. The shark-looking creature was producing strange squeaky sounds. The fishermen originally believed that they had caught an alien and decided to film the monster with the help of a cell phone camera. The footage clearly shows the creatures’ head, body and long tail. The bizarre catch was weighing almost 100 kilograms, the Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.

However, ufologists and scientists were greatly disappointed when they found out that the fishermen had eaten the monster. They said that they were not scared of the creature so they decided to use it as food. One of the men said that it was the most delicious dish he had ever eaten.

Link - via Fortean Times

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February 13, 2007 at 8:48 pm by Alex
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11 comments to "Russians Caught “Squeaky Alien Monster” … and Ate It!"

Jimbo
February 13th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
and it taste like chicken, but ever since then the TV changes channels when they poot.
Lester
February 13th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Turns out it’s just a Guitar Fish… Damn.
MrPumpernickel
February 13th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
They found one of those in Sweden just last fall as well, though in that case it was probably someone who had discarded a dried, preserved, version of the same fish. Turns out they’re fairly popular souvenires…for some odd macabre reason.

Here’s the article about that find, though only avaliable in Swedish: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/stockholm/story/0,2789,999050,00.html
Ty
February 13th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
The way it’s sprawled on the table with its fins drooping and the camera drifting over it is a little reminiscent of Roswell, but that music just throws you off.

I would not eat something like that if I didn’t know what it was.
Miss Cellania
February 13th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
That reminds me of an anecdote Solzhenitsyn included in one of his books. There was a news story about a wooly mammoth discovered frozen in Siberia. The animal was so well-preserved that people ate the meat “with relish”. The point of the news story was to show how intact the specimen was. Solzhenitsyn (and probably every other Russian who read it) saw in that statement the desperate hunger of the citizens who would eat thousands-of-years old meat.
homer
February 14th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Mmmmmmm… squeaky alien monster… rhaaaaarglglgl…
Dave
February 14th, 2007 at 12:33 am
I think the Solzhenitsyn anecdote was in reference to an ancient fish that were found frozen in ice. I think it was in The Gulag Archipelago.
jonno
February 14th, 2007 at 7:22 am
gotta love the russian way of thinking - #scared of it ?!’ ‘nope!’ whack it on the grill then boys!
Leandro Ardissone
February 14th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Yup, it’s a guitarfish.. In my town, some old girl shows her “alien” to the world lucking for some fame.
magnus
February 14th, 2007 at 9:51 am
apropos mammoth - there is a Kotzwinkle short-story about 19th-century-or-so siberians finding and eating one …

apropos eating aliens: humankind is DOOOOOMED - retribution will be merciless!
xpargas
May 6th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
it looks like a Jenny Haniver go to
http://www.fiendishcuriosities.com/viewitem.php?selectItem=63

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