The "East River Monster" was an animal carcass that washed ashore on a beach under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York.
 It was photographed by Denise Ginley on July 22, 2012.
 The creature has been compared to the Montauk Monster discovered four years earlier.
 The NYC Parks Department said that it was a discarded cooked pig, but Ginley says "the feet are not pig-like at all," and that there were "No hooves or cloven feet to be seen — it definitely had five toes on all its paws, front and back."
 Paul Curtis, a naturalist professor at Cornell University, identified the animal as a small dog after examining the photos.
The St. Augustine Monster is the name given to a large carcass, originally postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, that washed ashore on the United States coast near St. Augustine, Florida, in 1896.
 It is sometimes referred to as the Florida Monster or the St. Augustine Giant Octopus and is one of the earliest recorded examples of a globster.
 The species that the carcass supposedly represented has been assigned the binomial names Octopus giganteus (Latin for "giant octopus") and Otoctopus giganteus (Greek prefix: "oton" = "ear"; "giant-eared octopus"), although these are not valid under the rules of the ICZN.
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges in the United States.
 Started in 1869 and completed fourteen (14) years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River.
 It has a main span of 1595.5 ft and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed.
 It was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and the East River Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" and formally so named by the city government in 1915.
 Since opening, it has become an icon of New York City and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.
A whale carcass, initially unidentified due to decomposition, was found washed ashore at Muriwai Beach, 42 kilometres from the centre of Auckland in New Zealand, in March 1965.
 At some point in time it was dubbed a ""globster"", after the Tasmanian Globster, a whale carcass found in Australia a few years earlier.
The Newfoundland Blob was an unidentified mass (globster) that washed ashore near St. Bernard’s, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland on 2 August 2001.
 The specimen was 5.6 m long.
 Analysis of samples in 2002 showed that the Newfoundland Blob was a portion of the carcass of a sperm whale.
The Hebrides blob was an unidentified, 12 ft long carcass that washed ashore on Benbecula beach in the Hebrides, Scotland, in 1990.
 Louise Whitts, who discovered the carcass, described it as follows: "It had what appeared to be a head at one end, a curved back and seemed to be covered with eaten-away flesh or even a furry skin and was 12 feet long [and] it had all these shapes like fins along its back."
The "Montauk Monster" was an animal carcass, thought to be a raccoon, that washed ashore on a beach near the business district of Montauk, New York in July 2008.
 The identity of the creature and the veracity of stories surrounding it have been the subject of controversy and speculation.
 It is not known what happened to the carcass; it was said to have mysteriously disappeared.
The Folly Boat is a boat that was washed ashore near Folly Beach in Charleston, South Carolina during Hurricane Hugo.
 After nobody claimed the boat, passers-by began painting messages and pictures on the boat.
 It has become an unofficial symbol of Folly Beach.
 During hurricane Irma, on September 11th, 2017, Folly Boat floated away; at the current time, its location is unknown.
 It has been reported to be in the back yard of a Sol Legare Road home.
The Four Mile Globster was an unidentified mass that washed ashore in Four Mile Beach, Tasmania, in 1997.
 The carcass was 15 ft long, 6 ft wide, and was estimated to weigh 4 tons.
 It was described as having paddle-shaped flippers, strands of white hair, and six fleshy lobes along its sides.
The Stronsay Beast was a large carcass or globster that washed ashore on the island of Stronsay (at the time spelled Stronsa), in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, after a storm on 25 September 1808.
 The carcass measured 55 ft (16.8 m) in length, but as part of the tail was apparently missing, it was estimated the animal was longer than that.
 The Natural History Society (Wernerian Society) of Edinburgh could not identify the carcass and decided it was a new species, probably a sea serpent.
 The Scottish anatomist John Barclay gave it the scientific name "Halsydrus pontoppidani" (Pontoppidan's sea-snake) in honor of Erik Pontoppidan, who described sea serpents in a work published half a century before.
 Later, the anatomist Sir Everard Home in London dismissed the measurement, declaring it must have been around 36 ft (11 m), and deemed it to be a decayed basking shark (basking sharks can take on a 'pseudo plesiosaur' appearance during decomposition).
 In 1849, Scottish professor John Goodsir in Edinburgh came to the same conclusion.
 The largest reliably recorded basking shark was 40 ft (12.2 m) in length, so at 55 ft, the Stronsay beast still constitutes something of a cryptozoological enigma.

Question: An animal carcass tha twashed ashore on a beach under the Brooklyn Bridge has been compared to another animal carcass that washed ashore on a beach near Montauk, New York, in what year?
Answer: 2008