The 15 creepiest things that have washed up on shore (With Pictures)

6. St. Augustine Monster

Yet another globster to have graced the headlines is the St. Augustine Monster. This one, also named the Florida Monster or Giant Florida Octopus, showed up on the coast of St. Augustine Florida in 1896.

Though this creature has been dubbed to be an octopus, it does not fit the rules for it to carry this classification according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The results after studying the creature read “One arm lying west of the body, 23 feet long; one stump of arm about 4 feet long; three arms lying south of body and from appearance attached to same (although I did not dig quite to body, as it laid well down in the sand and I was very tired), longest one measured over 23 feet, the other arms were three to five feet shorter.”