Creature record / 2001
August 2, 2001. St. Bernard's, on Fortune Bay, on the south coast of Newfoundland. Overnight, the sea had left something on a local beach. An enormous, whitish mass of rotting flesh. About 5.6 metres long. No head. No tail. No bone. Along one side ran seven or eight lobes, and the surface was fringed with what looked like hair. Residents called the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Experts came, cut it open and took samples. Fourteen days later, Memorial University of Newfoundland had an answer. It would be called the first notable globster unmasked by DNA.
Fortune Bay cuts into the south coast of the island of Newfoundland. On its shore sits the community of St. Bernard's. Shapeless carcasses that wash ashore have a name in the field. Globsters. The St. Augustine Monster of 1896. The Tasmanian Globster. The Bermuda Blob of 1988. Each began as a mass of flesh nobody could name.