A globster or blob is an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water. A globster is distinguished from a normal beached carcass by being hard to identi
The "St. Augustine Monster", a carcass that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida, in 1896
The partially excavated carcass of the St. Augustine Monster
The St. Augustine Monster is the name given to a large carcass, originally postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, that washed ashore on the United States coast near St. Augustine, Florida
Globster
…Stronsay Beast (1808)—believed to be a basking shark carcass St. Augustine Monster (1896)—identified as a whale carcass Trunko (1924)—not identified, possibly a whale…
The earliest surviving photograph of the St. Augustine carcass, taken on December 7, 1896. For a long time considered lost, it was obtained by Gary Mangiacopra in 1994.
Drawing based on the above photograph that appeared in the Hartford Daily Running on February 18, 1897.