'Stranger Things Monster' sea creature found on Welsh beach – and it's worth a fortune

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Netflix hit Stranger Things after a creepy-looking sea creature washed up on the shore.Found on Bennar beach near Dyffryn Ardudwy in Gwyneed, the other-worldly looking creature was compared to the Demogorgon from the show.The creature has around eight worm-like arms, with barnacle shells at the end – and could definitely make small children cry.READ MORE: Clueless paddle boarder stalked by shark in nerve-wracking drone footage It was found by Shell Longmore, North Wales Live reports.She said: “The stuff of nightmare’s.

That’s what it is.“I thought I had seen all the local wildlife until I found this – it was a massive shock!“It was a strange-looking creature but also very beautiful.”However, rather than being something from the Upside Down, it was actually a Gooseneck barnacle, and is known as a delicacy in many countries.It can be exported to many in Spain and Portugal for around £300 per kilo, but usually requires specialist fisherman to grab them known as Percebeiros.One user on Facebook told Shell to take advantage of the finding.They wrote: “Pick them up, sell them or eat them!.“Apparently they are lovely and are really expensive!”The barnacle is also called the Stalked Barnacle, and have a strange place in Christianity.According to Michael Allaby's booked Animals: From Mythology to Zoology, the creatures was eaten on days when eating meat was forbidden centuries ago because it was seen as “neither flesh, nor born of flesh”.Mr Allaby writes: “The confusion – for such it was – arose from the fact that the barnacle goose, which is a small black-and-white goose and most definitely a bird, visits the coastal fregions of Ireland and western Scotland in winter.“In spring it migrates northward to breed in the.