A freaky “ alien creature from the deep” has left locals mystified after washing up on a beach.
A localm named only as Drew found the sea beast on Tuesday while taking a morning stroll with a friend.
“I've been living in Bondi for the past 20 years and I've never seen any creature that looks remotely like this,” he said.
“It had these weird lips that looked like it had been to a cosmetic surgeon and had way too much filler put in, and also it had these weird teeth.
“I thought 'is it a shark? Is it a stingray?'
“We had no idea what it was. It just seemed to me like an alien creature from the deep.”
The creature’s discovery by the Sydney resident on the famous on Bondi Beach, came after a month of severe weather for Sydney and Drew thinks it’s no coincidence.
He said: “Sydney has just recorded the wettest March on record so it's just been torrential rain every single day.
“And so last Saturday we had what they call a king tide in Sydney and the water was literally coming right up to the road of Bondi beach.
“There was this massive — almost football field length — pile of seaweed that washed up on the beach.
“My belief is that the creature just got caught up in all the seaweed, it drowned naturally and it just washed up on the shore.”
Sharing his photos on a local webpage, Drew got dozens of comments from his puzzled neighbours.
Some said it looked like a sex toy, a mermaid or the notorious drop bear of Aussie urban legend.
While others more seriously suggested it was a decaying numbfish, coffin ray or cuttlefish.
In his video, Drew suggests it might be a horn shark, but now he’s leaning towards a coffin ray.
He said: “I thought it was some form of a baby shark — an unusual one that we never would see in Sydney before normally.
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“Every single person on the Bondi local group suggested it was one thing or another.
“Whatever I call it on the video is not what it is.”
He added: “I've never seen anything like it washed up on Bondi Beach.
“I've seen blue-ringed octopuses, I've seen a massive dead shark washed up one day, I've seen sea snakes, a dead penguin.
“I’ve seen lots of different things but I've never seen this kind of a creature.”
If the creature is a coffin fish, then it’s right at home in Australian waters, where it buries itself in the sandy seabed during daytime, with a powerful electric 200v shock to ward off predators.
