P.T. Barnum would be proud. The legendary 19th-century promotional genius, who once passed off an elderly black woman as George Washington’s 161-year-old former nurse and a monkey-fish construction as “the Feejee Mermaid,” would have loved the Montauk Monster. A couple weeks ago, a mysterious creature apparently washed up on the eastern shores of Long Island, … Continue reading The Montauk Monster: A marketing gimmick?