Creepy eye-less sea creature ‘like orc from Lord of the Rings’ found on beach

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A beachgoer was left terrified after she stumbled across an eyeless sea creature which looked like "an orc from Lord of the Rings."

Andrea Jud, 39, stumbled across the lifeless corpse while strolling on a beach at Gabr el-Bint on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.

The foreign creature had its mouth wide open which showed its two sets of jaws, which is believed to help it hunt for its prey.

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Andrea says she is baffled by the alien-looking beast but worried that it "suffered a rather horrible death."

“I didn't touch it. Just looking at it made me feel uneasy,” she said.

“It freaked me out. It looked like a Lord of the Rings orc.”

Adding to the mystery was the creature’s location – Andrea estimates it was 40ft inland, beyond the reach of the waves.

She said: “I was camping with a bunch of friends, we had hiked to the location along the coast from Dahab.

“It looked really dead – the skin was dry and dark grey and patchy. It has a distinctive head, with an open mouth showing sharp teeth.

“There was an opening further back on the head where one would suspect the ears, but it might have been the gills.

“I could not see any eyes. The body was long and curved, with the end pointing up towards the head, like a seahorse.”

She continued: “I was surprised at how big it was – maybe the length of my arm – and the head was bigger than my fist.

“It was gruesome to look at, and reminded me of the reality of death."

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Looking for answers, the Swiss development consultant shared her photos with a marine identification group on Facebook.

“Baby Loch Ness monster,” one person claimed.

“Voldemort, I think,” said another, referring to the villainous Harry Potter character.

Others suggested it was a mermaid, a “demogorgon” – the monster from the Netflix series, Stranger Things – or more simply “the stuff of nightmares”.

But others thought that the jaws-within-jaws offered a clue.

Moray eels have a second set of jaws within their throat – and when a fish is caught within the main jaws – this second set launches forwards, dragging the prey back to be swallowed.

If it is a moray, the harsh Egyptian sun might have scorched it beyond easy recognition.

Andrea said: “It was too far inwards to have been pushed there by waves, as far as I know.

“The locals were fishing nearby and it might have been caught by them, but it was not near the other traces of fishing like sea shells. It was just alone.”

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