Exactly what it was has been a mystery ever since.
But now an anonymous man claims it was a raccoon.
He says he and his buddies found the dead animal on shelter island and decided to honor it with a Viking's funeral.
He says they burned the carcass in a raft and pushed it out to sea.
It drifted ashore two weeks later.
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