The Call of Cthulhu

I am not a big conspiracy theory fan, actually I'm more of a debunking enthusiast, but take a look at the two images in this article. I took the pictures in some museum/exposition/whatever - shame on me for not remembering it right now - in Greensboro, NC. It was behind a glass wall so I couldn't touch it but it looked like dried skin. Two questions popped into my mind right away: 

1. What is Cthulhu doing in North Carolina.
2. Is it/he/He/HE shedding?

I'll answer the questions from the bottom.
Since I am pretty sure that the guy is a little bigger in reality I can only surmise that this is an older form and that he is actually shedding. However, judging by the perfect shape and seemingly hollow tentacles, I am pretty sure that he's, in fact, molting.

As for the first question, I think it's pretty simple. We all know that  the guy is supposed to be living in R'lyeh which is somewhere in the middle of the biggest patches of open ocean water. Now, he's been around for quite a while and Lovecraft may have easily projected his story into the present (1900) although the story may be a lot older, in fact older than Columbus / Eric the Red / Coke addicted Pharaoh/etc 'S trip(s) so it wouldn't be far fetched to suggest that the land in the big patch of ocean is the two Americas. Wait, don't laugh it off! Here comes the real part: R'lyeh looks eerily similar to Raleigh which is the capital of North Carolina and lies about 80 miles E-S-E of Greensboro, NC. 

How about that? Messed up, right?


Edit: it seems that the mask was not behind glass. I guess it was just my contacts.