Residents of South Carolina recently found something strange (pictured above) on the shores of Folly Beach. Folly Beach is a city of about 2000 people, located on historic Folly Island, in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States.

The people viewing the beached beast thought it might be a “Sea Monster.”

The stranded creature was large, scaly, and, well, looked monstrous.

But a local vet quickly identified it. It was an Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus).

End of mystery.

I do not feel we need to go so far as to call this Folly Beach’s Folly, now do we?