Creatures, Myths & Legends

Giant 50ft crab appears at Whitstable harbour

By T.K. Randall
October 13, 2014

Image: Japanese Spider Crab
Credit: Takashi Hososhima / CC BY-SA 2.0 (adapted) The picture, which was sent in to the website 'Weird Whitstable', shows the harbor from above with what appears to be a giant crab sitting just below one of the docks.

The image has been featured on a number of mainstream news sites and has generated something of a buzz on social media with Internet users speculating over whether it's an optical illusion, a clever hoax or an actual creature.Quinton Winter, the owner of the site the image was published on, claims that he witnessed the huge crab himself during the summer. "It had glazed blank eyes on stalks, swivelling wildly and it clearly was a massive crab with crushing claws," he said.

Mystery of 50ft 'giant crab' caught on camera yards from British harbour http://t.co/KQ1zo7pksH pic.twitter.com/QmxCn4KN7h

— Mirror Weird News (@MirrorWeirdNews) October 13, 2014

A wider aerial view of the crab in the context of the surrounding area can be found - here.

Source: Mirror

Tags: Crab, Whitstable