A mysterious creature described as looking like “an orc from Lord of the Rings” was discovered washed up on a beach in Egypt recently. Andrea Jud, 39, told News.com.au that she was exploring a beach at Gabr el-Bint on the Sinai Peninsula when she stumbled upon the unidentified creature, which she said had two sets of jaws and no eyes.

“I didn’t touch it. Just looking at it made me feel uneasy,” Jud said. “It freaked me out. It looked like a Lord of the Rings orc.” Additionally, Jud said she estimates the creature was about 12 meters (13 yards) inland, which would’ve been beyond the reach of waves.“I was camping with a  bunch of friends, we had hiked to the location along the coast from Dahab,” Jud added. “I saw it early in the morning when I was walking back from the shore.

“I saw it early in the morning when I was walking back from the shore. “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.

A woman camping with friends near a beach in Egypt has made a gruesome find 12km from the water’s edge while on a walk.https://t.co/9X4tPXrxML

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“There was an opening further back on the head where one would suspect the ears, but it might have been the gills.” Ms. Jud said she was “surprised” by how big the creature was, with the head being bigger than her fist.

“It was gruesome to look at, and reminded me of the reality of death,” she said. “My initial impression was that it was a being who suffered a rather horrible death. I couldn’t figure out what kind of creature it was.”

Looking for answers, the Swiss development consultant shared her photos with a marine identification group on Facebook. The answers were imaginative, to say the least. “Baby Loch Ness monster,” said one person.

“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.