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?

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. <SEP> 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. <SEP>  It was photographed by Denise Ginley on July 22, 2012. The "East River Monster" was an animal carcass that washed ashore on a beach under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York.  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. <SEP> 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.