{"id":3044,"date":"2017-05-12T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T17:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2020-06-10T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:14:56","slug":"massive-unidentified-sea-creature-washes-beach-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/massive-unidentified-sea-creature-washes-beach-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Unidentified Sea Creature Washes Up on Beach in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>The following was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/05\/12\/massive-creature-washes-indonesias-serum-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a>. It is archived here for reference and research purposes, and all copyrights are help by their respective owners.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Indonesia: Mysterious sea &#039;monster&#039; washed up on Seram Island has been identified\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ipJQ16Wqw4o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>By Our Foreign Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">A\u00a0<\/span>giant carcass found washed up on a beach in Indonesia\u2019s central Maluku province puzzled locals and authorities trying to identify the massive creature.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>The massive carcass was found on Hulung Beach on Serum Island on Tuesday night by a local man, the Jakarta Globe reported.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\"><em><strong>Asrul Tuanakota, 37, said that he initially mistook the huge fleshy blob for a stranded boat, the newspaper reported.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">L<\/span>ocals first shared images of the carcass, measuring about 15 metres (50ft) in length, on Wednesday. The animal \u00a0is believed to have been dead for at least three days before being discovered.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>According to local reports, fishermen thought it to be a giant squid, but a coordinator of Indonesia\u2019s Marine and Coastal Resources Management said it was likely to be a whale. 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