Crabzilla or Claws?
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on October 14th, 2014
The internet is going crazy over a photo of a giant crab, dubbed Crabzilla…
No, not this photo… 🙂
This photo:
Quinton Winter
A photo depicting what appears to be a 50-foot crab hanging out near a wharf in Kent, England, started making the rounds on the Internet earlier this week. The photo was featured on a local curiosities site called Weird Whitstable, and eventually dubbed “Crabzilla.”
He believes he saw the giant lurking close to the shore when he took his son crabbing last summer in the harbour at Whitstable, which is famed for its oysters.
He said: “At first all I could see was some faint movement, then as it rose from the water I thought, ‘that’s a funny looking bit of driftwood’.
“It had glazed blank eyes on stalks, swivelling wildly and it clearly was a massive crab with crushing claws.
“Before this incident I thought the aerial photo showed an odd-shaped sand bank. Now I know better.”
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
Really? Good grief, Charlie Brown!
Well, I think a sand formation is off the table. Where does this leave us?
A 50-foot crab? Seems ludicrous, but it sure looks like a crab. A mighty big ‘un, too…
The base image is from Bing Maps. Even the shadows are identical. And Bing doesn’t rotate smoothly the way Google Earth does. It rotates a fixed number of degrees. And this is one of the fixed orientations. Conclusion: Clearly a fake.
and you wonder why the public thinks cryptozoology is fake…
There’s a lot of baloney in this crab dip. Seriously, such an obvious fake shouldn’t get any attention anywhere no less here on Crypto.
Seriously?
LOL