Truck-sized ‘globster’ with ‘stringy white hair’ shocks beachgoers

An unidentifiable sea creature that washed up on a beach in Oregon remains a mystery despite its gargantuan size.

Local resident Adoni Tegner came across the strange beast while driving along the coast near Florence, Oregon, on Wednesday afternoon.

The large creature was described by Tegner as a monster, and was reportedly covered in long white hair and smelled of “decomposing mammal.”

“It just didn’t look anything like what I’ve ever seen,” he told KOIN 6 News. “It looked more stringy and it almost looked like it had been a large squid or something.”

Tegner called his girlfriend Merica Lynn to look at the creature, but neither of them could figure out what it was.

“We’ve seen whales wash up before, and some that had been stuck on the shore for a few weeks, and never have they grown hair like that,” she said. 

According to Lynn the beach mass felt “firm but squishy” and felt blubbery. She said she couldn’t tell what it was the body of.

Tegner recalled being confused by long tendrils attached to it, adding he could see them move in the water. “If it had been torn apart, it was really odd how the muscle structure broke down and almost made it look like it had some kind of tentacles on it,” he said. 

Still unsure of what the creature was, he posted a video to Facebook asking if anyone could identify it.

Many witnesses theorized it could be a “globster,” a name given to indistinguishable marine animals that wash up to shore.

However, according to the Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, the creature appears to be a whale carcass.

“What looks like hair is the decomposing remains of other body tissues: muscle, nerves, tendons etc. I would estimate that this one has been dead for several months,” stranding program manager Jim Rice explained.