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

12. Sakhalin Monster

Another creature washed ashore in Russia in 2006, and has left witnesses and scientists baffled. The creature is estimated to be over twenty feet long and covered in some kind of hair or fur which, as almost everyone knows, is a trait reserved for mammals, not fish.

Typically, even sea mammals lack much hair to speak of. When Russian soldiers found the creature, they named it the “Sakhalin Island Sea Wolf.” It did no favors to the attempts to identify the creature that it washed ashore where local indigenous tribes have come to believe that sea creatures called Kami frequent the area.

We do know that it has the head and fur of a canine, but it has the skeletal appearance of a large crocodile. Whatever it is, it is just more proof that we know very little about the waters around us.