CRYPTOLINK: A Forgotten Sea Monster may Reappear in Boston Waters this Halloween [Video]

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A sea creature with gleaming, solar powered eyes, a sinister, serpentine physique, a dragon's head and matching fangs once roamed an eery creek which funnels directly into the Boston Harbor. And, unlike the legendary "Nessie" the Loch Ness Monster, there's proof – incontrovertible visual evidence – of this Bay State beastie's existence.

Feast your eyes upon the "Mill Creek Monster," which made its public debut shortly before Halloween 2013.

Yes: It's made out of wood – a prank. And the person who built it is looking for Kickstarter funding to build more this Halloween.

Crafted by Marine veteran and InkTank Boston artist/founder Bobby McKenna, the Mill Creek Monster briefly drew the attention of local residents, the media and even the police last October, after some caught glimpses of a mysterious object floating above the water's surface.

The prankster, McKenna, a Revere resident, explains on Kickstarter how it all went down:

I launched it near Halloween 2013 in the middle of the night in secret to see what the neighborhood reaction would be. Within days, there was calls to the newspapers, police and fire in both cities (creek is the border) and tweets/fb posts from commuters on the train. The local newspaper found out I was the culprit and did a story, citing that many people reported it was a seal in trouble, upturned shopping carts, a dead body...or a real monster.

Nope, just the whittled-out-of-wood brainchild of a man, inspired by the myth of the Loch Ness Monster, Monty Python and the Holy Grail , and the place he calls home.

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