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Sea Monsters Surface When Markets Plunge

Sea Monsters Surface When Markets Plunge
Historical precedent has it that monster sightings and stock market plunges go hand in hand but there is good news ahead!
A rash of monster sightings preceded the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman believes this same phenomenon is repeating itself in 2008. As the economy tanks, alleged monsters have been surfacing all over the place from here in Centre Island to Montauk to Georgia!
Coleman, who studies cryptids, which are mystery animals that have not yet been identified and classified by scientists, maintains people want a monster and a mystery to take their minds off of tough times. “Monsters are a projection of our fears,” says Coleman who is also a psychiatric social worker and has been investigating monster sightings and hoaxes for 48 years. “When people are fearful they’re more gullible.”
It’s no surprise then that the summer of 2008 was knee deep in monster sightings from the Big Foot hoax in Georgia to the chupacabra-blood sucking ET’s--in Texas to the East End’s Montauk Monster and finally to our very own Centre Island twin! “Now your case will be added to the list,” he says. For the record, Mr. Coleman, like Dr. Draud, has identified our local sea monster as a dead raccoon. Coleman says the Montauk Monster hoopla was about distraction. And because the economy has only gotten worse since the summer, our monster sighting didn’t surprise him.
But this isn’t the first time we’ve had a monster sighting in our neck of the woods. In 1931--at the height of the Great Depression-- a group of boys reported seeing an ape-like creature hiding in Albertson woods in Roslyn. A posse of rifle wielding police never found the so-called Albertson Ape Man. Though, this creature was later “sighted” in Wading River as well. The illusive cryptid was so popular that locals founded Wading River Expeditions whereby clients could hunt down the monster in comfort and style! And, of course, nearby Sag Harbor is featured in the greatest monster tale of them all-Moby Dick by Herman Melville! The story takes place in the mid 1800s when the whale trade was booming. Later, of course, the whalers would be out of business and Sag Harbor's economy would collapse.