27 TERRIFYING STORIES OF SEA MONSTERS

I have heard of stories of my uncle encountering this thing when he was fishing but none of them were ever very clear or accurate so i never gave much thought until the day i believe i saw the same thing myself this was back in 2012. my little brother and i went off fishing of a pier with some friends on an island off the coast of alabama called dauphin Island we didn't catch anything that day so we decided to pack up early right around noon before anybody else has come down there yet since leaving would be

easier instead of having to deal with everybody around us we started hearing strange noises in the water around us which immediately caught our attention lots of movement and splashing Even my little brother was perplexed so we both turned and watched expecting something to happen because we weren't quite sure what all this movement in the water was about were the fish suddenly biting and then i don't even think it was more than a few seconds later out from the water suddenly emerges this dark figure that was the strangest thing i've ever seen In fact it had

come so close it could have easily reached out and grabbed hold me the thing was shaped like a snake or serpent of some kind and appeared to almost have a sort of beak at the end of its face and sharp fins on both sides of its dark slender body it stayed horizontal to the water surface as if swimming forward towards us getting ready to strike Before disappearing back into the depths below from which it came without ever taking its glowing eyes off of us we sat there in shock waiting for about five minutes after just

to make sure that this thing wasn't going to come back well i think it was more so from shock than anything else i mean it's not like we were want to wait around for this thing To this day i don't know exactly what it is we saw out there in those waters yet whatever it may have been i know one thing for certain i don't ever want to see it again i was fishing one day out off the coast of costa rica we had already caught a plenty amount of fish some new species as well

that apparently have never been seen before in this area And tons of jellyfish we begin also descending closer to the basin when we got a radio call from one of the nearby ships saying that we need to back out of the area immediately apparently and here's what's weird is something very large was ascending from below and apparently judging by the sonar equipment was set to collide with us while waiting for instruction everyone prepared their equipment in Case they should return immediately or continue on course to try and avoid collision with whatever was coming upward an

enemy submarine or what we weren't exactly sure we were told it was a biological life form and nothing could have prepared us fast enough for what was to come if we did collide the impact would have been devastating on our fishing boats This was no military craft of any kind we were a fairly smaller fishing boat nothing fancy by any means we turned the ship around and headed back in the opposite direction and as we're turning around we're getting word over the radio that whatever the signal is that's giving off to other equipment is supposedly

colossal in size and had completely ascended from the depths below After being showed a readout of the machine estimate calculation reading somewhere or anywhere between 50 meters or 60 meters in length i don't know about you but i'm really unaware of anything living underneath the water that is that large my first thought was whale but i'm pretty sure whales don't exist in this part of the ocean and if they do none get that big that i'm aware of Unless we're talking colossal-sized whales but either way it was pretty scary to say the least i'm pretty

sure that on that day we were bound to encounter something far beyond our imagination something that only exists thousands of feet below the surface something we probably didn't know exactly existed nor would we may not want to but i can tell you this that since then My fishing days have been far and few in between i don't want to say that this experience directly contributed to that but i would be lying if i said it didn't have a piece to play the thought of being capsized out in the middle of the ocean by something large

coming up to the surface is downright terrifying in fact everybody on board was scared out of their wits I think we all avoided a huge tragedy and a special thanks goes out to the boat nearby that it warned us it was late at night when i went out to do my last check on the net and before finally calling it a night it had been yet another successful day of fishing i was feeling pretty good about everything as i walked alongside this side of the boat the sun had just began to go down Roughly about

an hour ago and there was still more than enough light for me to see clearly at least when i needed to around the ship without needing any real artificial lighting on board that's how large some of our fish were getting out here since we started setting up shop here four years ago nothing has really changed about our fishing methods yet the fish have been Getting larger and larger and more consistently better i don't really know what to think about it anymore other than the fact that we're going to need a much larger boat if we

plan on doing this long term as i was walking alongside the boat something large came up into view ahead in the distance it looked as though it were just floating there as lifeless and not moving at all I thought it was odd at first i assumed maybe it was just a large piece of driftwood or some sort of buoy that had drifted out from somewhere else that had just managed to drift out somewhere else then i see a large mass begin shifting around slightly from side to side before coming to rest once again several more

seconds had passed by And nothing just lifeless movement now i was going concerned as well as confused at what it was i was seeing as it began to take shape more and more i could tell that this was some sort of large serpent-like creature something that was too large to be just a normal fish and larger than a regular sea serpent i assumed it had something to do with all the large quantities of fish that we Had been catching recently probably a food thing whatever it was though i wanted nothing more than to get away

from this large mass because the more and more i looked the larger it seemed to become i started cutting across the water towards the stern of my ship hoping beyond whatever this large thing was if anything it would go away quickly i didn't feel like paying attention to Its movements anymore i continued on the way i had originally come not wanting to turn around or look behind me for any reason whatsoever but something told me to turn and look and as i did even though i had probably made it no more than 50 feet away

from where i was when i originally put my eyes on this thing it had grown in size No not grown in size more of it had emerged on the surface and i was stunned to see that it was larger than i could have ever imagined much larger than initially speculated and now it wasn't quite so lifeless but actually having much more movement and it was very clear now and unfortunately not very far away it was undulating up and down slowly kind of like a giant eelwood Instead of side to side like i had originally thought

it might be doing since i first saw this thing i realized that this oceanic monster was much larger than i could have ever thought possible if this thing would have been several hundred feet long i would have believed you while not so massive in girth the body of this thing as it continued to emerge more and more throughout the Water proved to be longer and longer and longer and i could tell it was sort of stretching outward it was really hard for me to tell if there was a face or eyes because i couldn't really

see that in fact i was just so focused on the jet black inky color and how long and slimy its body looked like an elongated tentacle sprawled out I wanted nothing more than to get back up on deck as quickly as possible but i worried about appearing weak or frightened so i ran for my life where i left my crew before turning around and seeing this thing again the adrenaline pumping through my veins had made me feel like i was running faster than i'd ever run and i could finally breathe at a sigh of relief

As i had reached up onto our boat's deck and nobody else appeared the least bit concerned i turned around once more for a third or fourth time to see it fully vanishing under the water surface it's been several months now on sea since seeing that thing and i'll never forget it for as long as i live i've seen all sorts of crazy stuff out on sea The things you probably wouldn't believe and yeah this is among them even my captain has some pretty scary stories of being out on the ocean himself seeing things like leviathans

or large sea serpents from time to time although i don't exactly know how valid they are considering every time he's ever told about them he's been pretty drunk off rum So i've always tried to take that whole sea monster stuff with a grain of salt and while there might not necessarily be krakens and leviathans there is definitely life forms out there that exist in the grand ocean that probably don't want to be seen until they're ready to be seen the sea could be an incredibly deep place with all sorts of creatures living within them it

would only make sense for any of you sailors out there to exercise A bit of caution whenever sailing exploring or just plain out enjoying the world i believe this thing possibly had left us alone because either a we weren't food or b it did not see us as a threat either way i'm glad things never escalated further it could have gotten really ugly very quickly I thought this day would be like any other well i was wrong i sat there looking at the water from my family's back porch the day was gloomy and overcast with

little peaks here and there of sunshine it always kind of looked foreboding but that didn't stop my crazy family from wanting to go jump in the lake I was a little nervous about going in the water i always was i hated how cold it was and the initial shock it is when you jump in of just the icy cold water pretty much gripping onto your entire body but my family well they loved it 65 degrees and they'd all be out there going head first diving into the water me it could be 85 degrees and i

would still need a wetsuit and a preferred heated Pool but that's just me and unfortunately and this experience did not help but reinforce those feelings ever more so my cousins were all taking their sweet time getting into the lake just having fun so i put on my shirt my shorts i wanted to show them i wasn't afraid to go swimming just yet i stood up quickly Walked down towards the dock where everybody else had already just now jumped off and were heading towards the center of the lake if not the other side to possibly try

and race each other even my sisters made their way back to shore before i could even get in they were already getting their towels on and walking back up to the house we were a pretty close family so we spent a lot of time together It was nice but at times i felt like i was a little left out sometimes they would just go off and do whatever and leave me with little no choice but to drag myself behind this was kind of one of those times well eventually everybody else started heading out into the

lake instead of just sitting around talking even my mother got in which is weird She virtually never goes swimming it's still her decision if she wanted to get in or not but after watching everything that happened in my cousin not wanting to get in again after that well i guess i shouldn't be too shocked so i made my way back down the dock and see that majority of all my family was getting in the water calling for me to get in I'd be lying if i said i wasn't nervous but a few minutes later after

my brothers had all fully submerged in the water i of course was the square one them were being eager wanting me to jump in and i could feel my skin tingling with goosebumps as i walked down toward where i knew the water's edge was the wind at this point had begun picking up and there's this unmistakable chill in The air that had not been there all morning everybody else seemed completely unaffected i tried my best to ignore it i made my way onto the dog jumping off without any hesitation and as soon as my feet

hit the water they were nearly numb from how cold it was it felt like jumping into an ice bath so as soon as i re-emerged i swam out Away from the dock towards where everybody else was swimming around together i didn't want to see anybody that was too scared to go even a few feet further my family ecstatic that i was now in the water all decided they should have a race to the other side of the lake and they did so of course leaving me behind i was not the best swimmer in the world

although i could swim fairly well i felt Like the rest of my family were all olympic swimmers according to their speed and stamina that always blew me away but just then in that moment as i was probably about 50 to 60 feet away from the dock i could feel something slithering underneath me something slimy like seaweed brushing up against my legs i kind of had an urge to grab onto Something to pull myself away but there wasn't anything near me since i was just treading open water at this point and the feeling of dread grew

inside me like wildfire as i swam further away from the dock not wanting anybody to see how scared that i really was for some reason i kept drawing closer and closer until i could feel it all Around my legs this long slimy thing wrapping tightly around and making movements now impossible slightly panicking i tried kicking at it but i didn't feel like anything was really there squeezing so hard now i could feel everything that's when i full arm panicked i tried to scream but my voice locked up no matter how hard i tried It began

to drag me underwater and everything got darker the further i sank the harder i fought against whatever this was dragging me down the stronger its grip became around my legs squeezing them tightly together like a snake or a python constricting its prey what initially felt like slimy seaweed brushing up against my leg now felt like a tentacle of some sorts some sort of long muscly arm holding Against me pulling me down i continued to push upward reaching towards the surface for what felt like forever but i couldn't quite get there no matter how hard i

kicked or swam with all of my strength so i decided that instead of panicking in that moment i would do everything i could to fight back against this my arms were now burning But the more i reached for the surface the closer it came to me my whole body now was on fire with pain and my lungs felt like they were going to explode from the inside out i could not stop fighting against whatever was dragging me down and i felt something brush up against my face now and instinctively grabbed at it it did nothing

to slow this thing that had grabbed me in its clutches Instead i felt a branch or something that was drifting that might help and in that moment i felt what can only be described as teeth sinking into my leg jaws locking themselves around my thigh and pulling hard enough back it nearly pulled me back down in the water and for a split second i took in a large Cup of air before being yanked down back under the surface and of course my family at this point were so far away from me completely oblivious to what

happened to me they didn't hear notice a thing at first this thing whatever it was began to be wrapping around me even longer and tighter its body wrapping around mine several times over before finally coming back towards its head to join with what Looked like a fin sticking straight out of the top of it the pressure inside my lungs were growing worse and worse as whatever this thing was was pulling me deeper into the abyss below us both it would move in these modulating patterns of slowly releasing me and then gripping tighter releasing me a

little more than gripping tighter it's almost like it was Reworking its muscles so it can get a tighter stronger grip on me all the while pulling me down down down and in one of its modulations of movement as it was releasing itself to pull tighter i used that moment to break free from the excruciating pain of my entire being and just as i broke free i felt these teeth biting down onto my Arm this time i felt flesh tearing for my arm and for a second i was free from its clutches but i wasn't entirely

out of danger yet finally free i swam towards the surface began going as fast as i could towards the shore with this thing under the water right next to me pursuing me my whole body now was going numb from the lack of oxygen the blood loss I didn't dare slow down not even for a moment or try and scream because i knew that would deplete my oxygen i could feel the water on me churning as this thing swam upwards towards me directly below my feet whatever it was it was big and it was now gaining

on me fast enough i knew i was not going to make it far before its teeth were locked around my legs again Knowing how close behind me this was made me swimming nearly impossibly fast as i kicked harder than i ever have in my life i felt like forever before all of a sudden this thing came right back at me and slammed into the side of my leg so hard i went completely under the water yet again then i was pulled down by this thing yet another time and somehow it managed to break free a

Final time and got towards the shallow part of the shoreline now whatever this was appeared to be retreating towards the darkest deepest part of the lake i was able to drag myself out of the water and onto the safety of land where i could finally catch my breath every single inch in my body felt like it was on fire and burning like i just nearly died I don't think there would have been any better feeling than being back on dry land my whole life had been consumed by an intense fear of open bodies of water

and that continues to grow to this day i never wanted to go into that lake for as long as i lived but even more so than before this if only i could have got a better look at this thing maybe if i knew what to expect when i Went out looking for it the sheer terror of the unknown mixed with the pain in my arm and leg were enough to weaken me so much all i wanted to do was curl up into bed and stay there forever finally my family hearing all the commotion as soon

as i had climbed back onto shore and collapsed they were freaking out and i had an ambulance called After seeing the lacerations and bite marks on my arms and legs they were very unsure of what had happened as soon as i was back home they were worried about me they didn't want to leave my side for a second funny how things change that once you're hurt now all of a sudden they're there for you i couldn't keep living like this There had to have been a better way for me to cope with what happened out

there instead of letting myself stay paralyzed by fear i aim to finally put all this behind me i hate using the term lake monster but there was something in that lake that was going to drag me down and finish me had i let it i've gained a lot of perspective on life since this has happened i feel with every day that passes i feel like i Need to do more and more life exploring if there's anything out there on the big blue sea waiting for me then it's for me to find out what it is

i refuse to let myself be held back by fear anymore not after this it feels good knowing that if something wanted to try and get me again i'm ready the setback has only made me stronger in mind and body Which is exactly why ever since this happened i've been working on holding my breath under water longer than anybody else doing deep training exercises it doesn't matter how hard or long it takes one day i will defeat whatever was looking beneath the surface of that lake i refuse to let anybody ever get in the way of

achieving my goals after this experience I feel i've grown so much as a person i feel liberated by what happened the biggest thing that has changed is probably the fact that i know for sure that there are things out there things we don't know about whether or not they meant to harm me or not or maybe this was just some terrible accident maybe i was the next thing on the food menu whatever it was i'm glad i survived The whole ordeal has even taught me how lucky i am who knows what would have happened to

me if i not been saved at that precise moment i'm ready to take on anything my friend and i had been diving already for a couple of hours we decided to take a quick break we found a cool little underwater cove that was lighted just at the mouth below the water surface No visible openings at least so it looked more like a little alcove we wanted to explore more we decided to dive down there and see if there was anything in this little alcove my fear began to grow as we neared my friend kept going

deeper and deeper past his safe limits now this was turning into something else entirely to my terror this large eel looking thing emerges As we're swimming away in fear i could see this thing slowly following us while he continued looking behind his shoulder towards us until we swam out in open water somehow beyond its reach because it started turning around my friend had a very hard time getting back up to the surface but was able to make it after struggling through decompression sickness he did not stop for his decompression Stops as for me i did

not go diving again after that day at least for a long time if i ever see that thing again in an underwater cave or anywhere else i would definitely not be ready for it this time around and unfortunately my friend passed away from the decompression sickness this is a tragedy i've had a very hard time coping with When you lose a best friend it's something that you can't wish on anybody i always try and keep his memory alive so i remain loyal to the things he enjoyed which is why i try and recreate those things

that are fun and exciting that he enjoyed on land and my fear for the unknown was so intense that it paralyzed me leaving me no control over my own body it was like watching a horror movie Unfold before your very eyes just as you were being attacked and all i could think about was the danger we were both in real time for this whole ordeal but also felt bad for other people who were out there on the boat they had no idea what was about to happen next along with thinking about how much worse it

would have been if something actually got one of us instead of only part of us And after everything was said and done all i can really say is that i just wish we could have done more and more with the time we had together and my friend who at times appeared like a very experienced diver he must have panicked and made very rookie mistakes we're not super experienced by any means but we've gone diving here and there we know the diving basics so for him to forget those things I can imagine the fear that he

must have been experiencing but this eel or whatever it was was chasing after him and we have never at least i have never seen an eel that size before my life maybe someday in the future when we're both free of our mortal coils we'll meet up with each other again one day i can only hope it was 2009 And we just had a very bad storm off the coast i had been on a commercial fishing vessel as a first hand account of what it was like to see a large storm even though all these events

are true i would rather have them attributed to somebody else in order to maintain my anonymity we were out fishing when we all saw something large come up from underneath their boat Causing us to rot back and forth in the water violently as if i was in danger due to whatever large thing came up from under my boat making me feel unsafe in my own little world out there in the ocean you feel so small compared to everything around you it didn't surface but i've heard of stories like this before As if these dangerous encounters

with large dangerous sea creatures are common they're common enough that they're a staple in the community of fishermen and sailors alike i was also on a fishing vessel out at sea when we first saw it on our starboard side coming up from the depths where it lived as you could imagine we were more concerned about being capsized or having our boat damaged By whatever this thing was that was approaching us it was only visible though for a few seconds before finally disappearing back down into its underwater habitat it looked long and serpent-like as some have

described them to be i couldn't see what kind of skin those lines along its body were i was too busy panicking and protecting myself from this sea creature this is something that has been passed Down throughout the generations of fishermen based on their stories and legends but keep in mind that this is only a fraction of all the crazy stories and tales you'll hear people talk about i'm only now willing to share this with the world in order to try and save other sailors fishermen and ocean lovers alike as if these dangerous encounters with large

sea creatures are common enough i don't want anybody else to have to go Out there and go through this i mean life is precious especially when you're so far away from land it's hard to see shore always reminding you you're that far away from home i was in a boat off the coast of virginia on the ocean i was out that day just hoping to catch some fish for my family since they always ask for more every time i bring something home It was around noon a gorgeous day not a cloud in the sky and

it was such a great time of year for fishing it was at its peak it wasn't cold but it also wasn't hot even the bare sun was beating down on me it was great and there was very little waves to that day too which i think is strange since it always seems like there's some sort of movement On water even if it's very slow and barely noticeable but all there was on this day was calm waters as far as the eye could see the only thing moving in the water were schools of small fish darting

here and there near the surface i started to hear some disturbance from underneath those little fish dashing but i didn't worry too much about it though i mean it does happen from time To time i started making my way out further and it seemed that it was coming from a spot slightly away from where all the fish were darting around i didn't think much of it it definitely wasn't anything to be scared of so i kept going on with what i was doing but it looked as if more fish were there up closer to the

edge closest to me And they were getting more and more frantic by the second now this very strange behavior since fish are normally not timid at all it's just something you see them do often especially in a large group i just kind of wrote it off as it being weird and then it hit me i was the only one there and of course this happened to me I heard large amounts of movement in the water like a large fish coming up to the surface i looked across in the distance in the water and something large

just barely breaks the surface at first i wasn't sure what it was but as it began coming towards the boat this was nothing that i'd ever seen it looked like a snake or an eel A lengthy body making its way closer to my boat its head that was submerged down into the water i couldn't fully see it but it was kind of swimming and moving weird it wasn't side to side as you'd expect it was moving in a zigzag pattern i froze up realizing i never seen any sort of thing like this before in my

life The appearance and everything was strange it had multiple sharp fins jetting down its back and little black plates or so looked like that's why i say it kind of resembled an eel but it didn't it was very girthy and very long it acted very aggressive i wasn't exactly sure how to do or how to act then it began to violently thrash about Jumping out of the water the same way a shark does when it comes up from underneath and catches a fish it would land back down with a loud thud and it seemed like

it was doing its best to trying to get in the boat it got closer and closer each time with each lunge coming out of the water this thing was massive in size i'd say roughly 25 to 35 feet long we're talking humongous a massive body with girth for its size It tried to get in the boat one last time leaping out of the water and landing almost near the edge of my boat opening its mouth each time trying to nip with razor sharp teeth i was startled and terrified so i quickly cut my engine on

my boat this thing suddenly disappeared underneath the water presumably swimming away from the boat however Although no longer visible on top of the water i did not want to take any more chances to have this thing get near me due to its size alone but we're talking about a large aquatic predator here and let me just reinstate to you this thing was easily over 30 feet and this is why i threw me off first seeing it i never could have imagined a thing like This i almost wonder if they thought my boat was a threat

for food or for what and i was only roughly seven miles off the coast of virginia when this happened and i've been out here many times and have never seen anything like this and so i suddenly hear another loud thud and this thing is back it's now thrashing around more violently than before Jumping out of the water again and landing with such powerful force it would cause my boat to rock back and forth after seeing all these crazy movements out of nowhere i try to go as fast as i can and while it kind of

just disappeared after that that's about the extent of my sighting for all i know this was some unknown sea serpent or sea monster i i don't know My grandfather and i were going fishing on a lake outside modesto california it was a beautiful summer day and we had just pulled up to the boat launch with our brand new blue canoes fully assembled after having put it together inside my own grandfather's garage i watched my grandfather pull the canoe into the water while i untied it we both jumped in and got settled we were sitting on

opposite ends of the Boat with our fishing poles in hand when he finally decided it was time to get fishing it didn't take long before we realized how hungry we were after not just having any breakfast or lunch so we decided to finally have a quick break for a bite to eat my grandfather had brought some freshly cut fruit Pineapples and strawberries the two of us sat there and quietly enjoyed our snacks while just taking in the beautiful surrounding in the lake taking notice of its rather deserted state even though it was a very busy

saturday elsewhere there appeared to be no other boats on the lake very rare after a break of about 30 or so minutes we both got back into our spots in the Canoe and decided to try some fishing again this time i had my hook in the water and i could feel something nibbling at it right away my grandpa was no doubt watching me as well because his line was a long behind mind when he finally had a tug on his end our excitement builded and crescendoed as we realized we were catching fish And before too

much longer we each reeled up two decent sized bass they weren't massive but definitely large enough to eat and enjoy nothing to scoff at for sure we continue to fish like this for a while longer after about an hour so of catching these fish with no end in sight my grandfather tried something a little bit different it was another hour and a half before my grandfather began to pull up his fishing Rod and i watched as he reeled in faster than usual this had me ready for anything but what happened next only made the hair

on the back of my neck stand up like never before i heard him shout out holy hell i says arms strained from a solid tugging force coming from underneath the water's surface Turning our day into something much more interesting my first thought was that he must have hooked a massive catfish which would have been incredible considering how big these fish are he began to pull up on his fishing rod with all his might no doubt the fish she hooked was a lot stronger than him i watched as my grandfather started to struggle from trying too

hard and at That moment i decided to stop admiring the view around me jumping into action i thought it would be best for me to move closer to where this tug-of-war was going down so i could try and help him if needed i pushed myself over towards where he was struggling when i got close enough I saw what he had hooked a massive fish that looked like a shark that was pulling with all his might after a few seconds more the line had completely snapped and this thing dove down and vanished the shark looking thing

must have been at least five feet long my grandfather and i both stared in disbelief for a couple of seconds before deciding to fish again after all This was our last chance we cast our lines and headed towards the center of the lake where it got deeper we knew that's where the big fish were hanging out now after about two hours or so my grandfather started to get yet another tug on his line he reeled it in faster than usual once more this time i wanted to be ready just in case Something happened i pulled

my fishing run up and held it in hand waiting for whatever he had hooked to come to the surface it must have been another massive fish because as i watched my grandfather begin to strain again from pulling so hard the line nearly snapping once more but this time there was yet another tug at my Grandpa's end of the line whoever was on the other side of this thing was not done yet and what happened next is something that will forever be burned in my memory i saw what appeared to be a shark-like face emerging just

below the water the way it moved seemed unearthly the way its head emerged and the way its body followed after it was much more massive than i could imagine At least 10 feet long grayish skin and almost kind of having scales it wasn't a shark but it was shark-like it also had a wide flat nose and two small eyes a mouth full of sharp teeth that were more jagged teeth they looked broken and disgusting i could tell that whatever this was it wasn't going to let go anytime soon i jumped into action yet again And

i moved over in an attempt to help without hesitation this thing dove under the water and i knew we had to get back to shore so we quickly grabbed our oars and began going as fast as we could towards the shoreline i don't know what that thing was or what kind of shark it could have been or maybe a fish but i hope it will not return i can tell you that one thing for sure Is my grandfather and i will probably avoid that lake next time but at least we got some killer bass this

story is one that still deeply bothers me the way the water moved strangely that morning like something was rippling through it the sky in eerie yellow color like the sun wasn't bright enough to light up the whole scene but there were no clouds in sight No sign of any oncoming storms or bad weather we were supposed to be here for another hour at least but i swear something was off about this whole place even when we began moving again everything just seemed wrong somehow at first there didn't appear to be anything wrong we have been

seeing tons of strange fish lately since coming from our normal Fishing spots around the alaskan coast even all the way down to cali the government has been sending us all over the coast we sounded the depth and checked our readings it said that we were shallow but too shallow to be where we were apparently we shrugged it off we've had faulty equipment reading before and sometimes if you don't let it recalibrate itself It can cause temporary issues like this one so we continued with our work catching a few more fish than usual which is good

because they won't be able to hide from us at these depths until evan caught something of concern on his line a long black thing was attached to his hook looked like some sort of kelp or something It was too thin to be fishing line however so he cut it off and threw the rest of the small piece overboard what was that who knows maybe our equipment messed up after all wait did you say something everything seemed calm for now we've definitely seen plenty of strange things happen in this area before but this hasn't been anything

like whatever roscoe saw earlier during a shift He didn't even describe it because he said no words could really do it justice to what he saw i thought it would end up being some sort of whale or giant squid they've both scared me half to death before when i first started out on a fishing boat but this was different i know i've said that before but trust me when i said wasn't anything like the whale we saw the other day with its innards spilling out on sea Or even just earlier today when we began working

and that giant squid came up from below clamping onto our nets exploding into pieces whatever roscoe saw was far bigger than either of those things smaller than the island in all honesty though but still not to be messed around with what he was doing at such an early time like i said There's only so much you can do especially in these parts there's hardly anything in the water to begin with so at least up here we have a decent view of things i don't know why you'd want to get up here early and come out

this early in the morning when there's nothing around here to see no matter how much time you spend staring into the ocean's depths who knows Maybe he just wanted some peace and quiet or maybe he had one too many drinks last night and was trying to clear his mind whatever it is it doesn't make sense because we're supposed to be doing any maintenance or whatever they're calling it now until our normal shift today too but like i said evan got curious and snuck out before anybody else could notice him leaving He's always been that way

i'll give him that much either way i wasn't near as worried about it as the others were they were running around trying to fish something out of the water well evan was still trying to figure out what this weird fish was that he caught earlier everybody else seemed pretty concerned for some reason scared even If i could dare say so but unlike them evan had a different look in his eyes when looking at this thing interested it didn't make any sense to me why somebody would be intrigued by such an ugly thing considering that it

looked like it had just come from itself but then again we've come across some pretty strange things during our time Out at sea the whales and the squid were just a couple of them so maybe this is another one of those sea creatures that people keep talking about don't really know why they're called creatures if they aren't living but i guess not everything can be perfect it's hard enough keeping my mind straight on even just normal days without thinking like this happening So honestly i'm glad to be alone right now and away from everything else

until we settle back down and go back home for a day it didn't look all that harmful to me if anything it seemed more scared than we were i don't think it wanted to be caught all that much as soon as we let it go it tried to unclip the fishing equipment From the tail that it got away from with ease it was like it was using some sort of telekinesis or something diving back in the water and disappearing nothing too out of the ordinary happened after that but evan's reaction was still pretty weird he

didn't seem afraid at all if anything He was glad we got to see something like this something not many fishermen get to talk about commercial fishing boat life is not as glamorous as many sailors make it out to be it's a rough life and can be for many of us on board you were stuck out at sea for months on end minimal shower access you stink all you smell is sea The food sucks i can go on and on but that's not what i'm here to write to you today about we were about 40 miles

out from the coast of maine fishing large amounts of tuna we got word that another boat was trying to contact us to the radio but we couldn't hear them so we went up on deck and noticed these extremely large fins emerging from the ocean After seeing five or six of these things emerged completely out of the water one came right under the boat this thing was at least four times larger than i was the creature that we saw was pitch black jet black eyes the depths of its pupils swallowed all light it seemed it had

what looked like multiple limbs protruding from its body not sure if they were fins or appendages The head looked very crusted and elongated i know it sounds like some form of alien life from a movie or something but what came out of those depths was real it just kind of swam circles around our boat with the other five or six we felt like we were in danger having no idea what it was we were dealing with this was about eight months ago now back in january It still feels so real to me i know what

i saw there nobody can argue with me about that these things came right up under us they never resurfaced again after that moment and we were all very alarmed by this uncanny experience i'm writing this as a witness to what i saw on the lake it's been several years since this happened And it leaves me shivering and petrified if you have seen what we saw in the lake you would understand how we feel about this unknown monster of unknown origin we were fishing in a bay days after trying to get people by boat we found

a good spot where the fish were plentiful and the waters were peaceful and calm the afternoon was clear enough that one could see through the top of the water we could catch things like salmon But not so clear that it left us vulnerable the shadows were still deep and unknown i remember my good friend joe going frantic on the boat making those little noises that only a panicked man can make as he tried to pull up a particularly heavy fish but it got stuck in the engine i turned around and saw what appeared to be

tentacles stuck in the rudder but this wasn't from an octopus These were longer and they appeared to have stingers all over the arm at least from what i could see not wanting to say or see anything bad happen we all ran over and carefully pulling at it and trying to pry it off and not lose our focus however my heart sank when we could see what it was attached to its face Gill slits and dark eyes its whole head covered in this dark purple like shape nothing like we knew of any fish before us we

tried to think what would have happened here and how this thing's tentacle got caught up in the rudder my sister who was with us kelly didn't seem too convinced that this thing was actually living Since she claimed that there were no records of any kind of fish like this ever existing and freshwater octopi did not exist but yet i try to convince her this thing is right here in front of us hundreds of hundreds of teeth but you could tell it was stuck in the rudder shrine rapidly to break free so joe just grabs the

machete and cuts right below the rudder as it's Writhing and severs the tentacle just like that while my other friend with his rifle shoots a bullet into this thing's head as soon as the sever is made this thing rides and squirms and disappears further into the depths we get the engine started and the rudder's going spinning off all the blood and gunk and tissue that was tightly wrapped around the rudder before How this thing got its arm stuck in a rudder or how that happened we have no idea but all we know is that this

was some sort of freaky mutated octopi looking thing hopefully it's now dead my family and i grew up in a village off the coast of peru while it may seem strange to some we were always dealing with things that many other cultures would never deal With for example we would often see large shadows underneath their boats in the distance thinking they were large schools of fish like sharks we would always be prepared to be attacked by arming ourselves with proper knives and spears it wasn't until we got close the first time we realized the shadow

was moving much too quickly to be any Kind of fish or even a whale as we continue toward it to try and understand what it could possibly be and to be safe its head rose from the depths to face us its eyes were the largest i'd ever seen of anything in my life and they were blacker than night though it wasn't like the dark knight we had on land these were almost sinister looking eyes with a mouth full of dagger sharp teeth And gills almost as large as i am we attempted to jump back in

the boat but my father remained too shocked at what he saw missing his opportunity my mother would reach down and grab him by a shirt just before he fell into those jaws that could swallow me whole without even masticating he quickly fought off her grip fumbled with the boat then pushed us away from that thing It launched right for him with its jaws open my mother pulled him back just before it could have taken his leg off i didn't understand what was happening at first but as soon as she saved my father's life i realized

he must have fallen overboard we fought against this creature tooth and nail trying to spear it shoot at it though its mouth is so wide even one of our best spearmen would have trouble Hitting it without being swallowed whole regardless of how well his aim might have been he managed to score a hit on its body causing enough damage to attract sharks which wasn't too hard once they smelled the blood the sharks began attacking it preventing it from coming back to us but my father was pulled underwater several times by this thing The fight ended

after i saw the creature's eyes roll back into its head falling limp in the water the sharks had finished the rest hurrying to the bloody mess and ate on it much quicker than you could think this was a common occurrence that we dealt with more often than not being out here in part of a village always all sorts of creatures we'd have to deal with being out on our fishing boats where sharks were the least of our Worries it was like a whole other world out here well after arriving back on land my mother took

me to a seer who referred to herself as a water spirit she referred to herself as chica who even gave me an amulet that claimed it would allow me to breathe underwater for short periods of time while it never exactly did that i feel like it has been sort of a luck Charm that has saved me from the curse and waters near the river of lost lifeboats my mother claimed it would be needed more often than not because there were more of these creatures out there on the coast as we would be traveling from one

spot to the other as well as on these fishing boats and for a while my father spent weeks talking about our Encounters with this thing only few believed him parents would stop sending their children down to the docks for fear of losing their loved ones to these creatures especially after more of these things began showing up by the shoreline my father went out less after that day almost never with my mother anymore because she knew what he'd seen was real she did not want to risk him being eaten Consumed by what lived in the depths

of the sea now there are tons of tales and legends about mermaids living at the mouth of the river right near the ocean where these things happen in fact a lot of the legends of mermaids luring sailors in with their songs originated a lot in this area despite what popular culture wants you to believe at least in my culture there is So things like sea monsters and sea creatures are not really something that are this wide myth where you are and sometimes these mermaid creatures were even more hideous than you can imagine consuming the flesh

of men and even worse things this is really a dangerous area to be and growing up here wasn't exactly the easiest especially for my parents who Were devout fishermen of our village i'm a marine biologist stationed off the coast of west africa we've been having a disturbing amount of whales washing up on shore this past year completely eaten by an extremely large predator of exponential size we're not sure what exactly is causing this even the local fishermen have been saying it's the kraken A sea monster we were on a routine long-range aerial scouting patrol cruising

at about two thousand to three thousand feet i was only the biologist along at this moment and had a couple of hours before we were scheduled to return back to base the co-pilot spotted something large in the water ahead of us He brought us down for me to take a look since you know i'm good with stuff like that i couldn't believe what i was seeing it wasn't an average sized whale but one that had to have been easily 60 meters long of course it's a rough estimate but you could tell by the science alone

this creature was gargantuan in fact it had to have been a species that had been extinct for thousands of Years we circled around this massive creature that was on the surface it was alive and it moved surprisingly quick for something so bulky but at least it didn't seem aggressive the co-pilot brought the small craft back up to our cruising altitude and then reported what i just saw at a base command before flying back into port as we were both expected to be back there soon anyway The following week we flew over to where i last

saw to try and find if there were other whales nearby and if this one could possibly be studied more and found while the weeks after we scoured and we scoured and we tried to find it again but we never did the thing that really bothers me the most about all this is if there are whales that are that size That must mean that there are things that feast on said whales and predators much much larger i'm about to go into very specific detail here so i hope that you have at least a basic understanding of

the technology behind sonar if not google is your friend with that being said i work on a fishing boat off the coast Of australia it's one of those huge long line ships that's roughly 650 feet maybe 80 feet wide which is large by most standards as can be expected with such a ship we don't carry too many people at a time i was the only singular sonar operator and there were five crew members including myself and four other deckhands along with the captain The morning of our encounter had started off pretty typical we'd set out

to see some days prior and had already completed one long line operation without any real sightings we were heading back towards port for resupply when we stopped due to another run the weather was pleasant although a little on the windier side which isn't too unusual we dropped our lines around mid morning And within an hour so i noticed something strange on my screen after looking for it again to make sure i hadn't imagined things i woke up the captain who came over to take a look at what i'd found we stood there in silence for

about 30 seconds before he told me to zoom in as much as possible at this point we could both clearly see two very big dark objects just below the ocean's Surface no more than 200 meters away the water depths being approximately six thousand feet they were right there we couldn't make out exactly what they were but we assumed it had to have been something large but strange though because they were staying still and not moving we watched them for about 20 minutes on The radar and then they disappeared which means they sunk back down into

the depths we continued fishing like nothing happened once we finished up we headed back in i looked up a few photos of wheels online and compared them with our own footage trying to see any cross comparison unfortunately this is where things got even stranger The two objects we saw appeared vastly different from any known wheel species rather than looking like something that was sun glinting off a huge whale's fin it looked more like an enormous black shadow looming which really didn't make sense well we all talked about it more and tried to look more at

the readings the next day things went off without a hitch And like the previous evening there was no sign of anything unusual but i did notice that our sonar seemed to be picking up small signals very close by i showed them to the captain who said that he had noticed this and dismissed it as rebounding waves from other ships i'll fast forward through everything else pretty quickly anyway our final day out before docking into Port turned out to be more eventful than expected a couple of hours after we started fishing we began seeing these strange

black shadows all over my screen only they were much larger than the first ones and we counted at least 10 all circling very slowly now we all started freaking out this was no normal behavior from any marine animal we'd ever seen before They were roughly 4 200 feet below us we tried to ignore them as best we could but within a half hour or so it became obvious that they were ascending to the surface and now they were roughly 1800 feet below us some seem to be slower than others as they were not all at

the same depth but they were staying pretty stationary as in not moving left or right only vertically up and down As if these things were descending and ascending that's not marine like at all especially not over the course of time it's also important to understand this these creatures which we still write down on paper as whales were much too big to be any kind of other marine life or a submarine for that matter and we're easily by our estimations longer than 45 feet Even more importantly but at one point or another i accepted that we

had no idea what it was we were dealing with they definitely were not whales at first we decided against going on any further we don't want to run the risk of running some weird ocean floor terrain towards us it's safe to assume that we thought there's no way that we should continue to fish in these unknown waters Not while there are these things underneath us circling that was probably the scariest part of the whole thing just knowing that these things could easily come up if they wanted to and do knows what to our ship these

things that were incredibly large again these were bio life forms not submarines judging by the signals they gave off i'm still trying to figure out what it Could have been and there was a lot of discussion on board when we decided to continue going back it would be too dangerous if we went further so we figured it would be best to turn around and head back to shore we did not bother assembling another search party in hopes of finding a new spot well this was our last day out anyway i don't really have anything else

to add So i'll try and answer any questions any of you have no none of us got too close with our camera or sonar equipment but there's no way i think really any of us wanted to not with knowing what it could have been i've heard of some weird stuff happening out here at the scene but not like this in 1991 My family was visiting the beach near santa monica we were camping out on a big cliff that overlooked the ocean everything had gone well we were enjoying our time there were no complaints at nightfall

we set up our campfire and sat by it to keep cozy and warm it was during this time that i noticed something off in the distance to my Binoculars since i'm really into marine life this wasn't like any normal scene of wildlife or even ships passing by it appeared to be some sort of creature it wasn't moving at all though simply sitting on top of the water but looked to be this large black shape kind of just hovering it appeared long and flat and at some point it kind of just Descended into the water i

can tell you this that it definitely was not a whale it appeared much larger i don't think it was a submarine either it didn't look like one honestly after all this i'm more confused than anything else it wasn't until recently that i would find out about the ogopogo through online research i wonder if there's any connection here I mean if that thing does exist which i'm not sure about maybe that's what this was the sighting and all only lasted about 10 or so seconds i wasn't exactly keeping track the year was right around 1989 in

the summer my cousins and i were hanging out at my grandparents house we always had this old broken down boat in the backyard that never worked One day we decided to drag it into the lake since we lived right on lake erie and just to see if it would float and of course it didn't it sat there all summer long with all of us trying to mess around with it trying to get it to work again finally one evening after everybody else was asleep i being a dumb teenager snuck out of my room Dragging the

boat across the water just to see if i could maybe get it to go i don't know why i thought this as i descended deeper into the water i was probably about about waist deep or so and this huge creature came right out of the water with a long neck that almost kind of had a white line going down beneath it it turned and looked at me and then resubmerged I was in complete shock and immediately threw the boat running back up to shore sitting there half soaking wet from the waist down unsure of what

just happened to this day i really have no idea what it was it could have been a plesiosaur could have been the loch ness monster i don't know i ran back inside changed my clothes and cleaned up before anybody could ever Notice although they did ask me while the boat was dangling right around the shoreline the next day instead of being pulled up on the land i was driving back from camping at around 9 30 pm just as i was about to turn south off of kootenai pass towards my home in nelson i noticed a

disturbance on the lake many meters below our vantage point i slowed our vehicle to get a better View of this unusual sight it appeared as if the wake of a motorboat was making its way towards us but i cannot see any craft nor hear an engine and the disturbance was moving south towards the west shore of kootenai lake where we were we stopped the car and then saw that the disturbance was bumping up against itself as if something large were moving under The water it came towards us creating a wake which made it difficult to

distinguish exactly what it was for some reason i felt compelled to shine my headlights on this object so i could see its profile while that thought didn't even leave my head the creature lifted its head out of the water And cocked it at an angle towards our direction my wife screamed and the intensity of the moonlight made this creature's scales glow a silver green color which almost kind of shimmered as if there were diamonds embedded within them this only lasted maybe three or four seconds before submerging creating a loud whooshing noise as a dove and

i froze what seemed like an eternity But was likely only seconds before punching the gas and speeding home i can assure you that a vehicle going 80 kilometers per hour goes a lot faster than a normal speed does i realize just how incredibly lucky we were to witness such a thing if i had not been as observant as i was nor is quick on the gas pedal who knows if we had may have missed it or not we were right in its path Well my wife son and myself were on a boat heading east and

i was looking out at the lake when something rose up out of the water shaking its head this aquatic animal was at most 20 to 30 feet from the shoreline it had a head kind of like a sea lion or maybe a snake roughly a foot long black shiny scaly skin roughly probably i'd say no more than 12 Feet in length total its body but it moved it swiftly without any sign of a tail or movement in the body i assumed there was much more body and tail below the water surface it looked like a

sea monster if you've ever seen one kind of like an oarfish except an oarfish has a dorsal fin down its back this had nothing going vertically from its midsection to indicate any kind of Fin or any sort of fish-like qualities it seemed more mammal-like than anything else its movements were also unusual this was the strangest thing i've ever seen it came up out of the water about six feet and there was no splash or real ripple it seemed to be breathing really heavily when it broke the surface but after that Nothing there was also a

small boat roughly 100 feet in front of us at this moment the captain turned his head just in time to see our petrified eyes as we pointed towards what had just shown itself he slowed down his engines to clear way for the vessel we kept our eyes locked on it until it submerged back in the dark waters below never to be seen again by us or who knows who else There was others that had witnessed this as well when working at the lighthouse on the coastline it was common to experience a wide range of strange

phenomena but i will say on a handful of occasions i saw some weird stuff out in the water too usually in the early morning hours or in the afternoon One time a few years back in the early afternoon during a shift change i was heading down to my car went out of nowhere this guy starts shouting at me about this big monster that has been seen swimming in the ocean i looked at him like he was crazy for a moment but he insisted that it had been spotted eating up harbor porpoises or dolphins or some

other type of smaller sea creatures He then went on to say that he has seen the creature himself even offered an exact location to where he had seen it last it was roughly six miles out into the ocean past a large sandbar near the tip of a cape it's no easy swim by any means after listening to a story i did not really know what to say or think about this so i just kept it short simple and said Yeah that sounds pretty crazy he then went on to tell me that a diver actually saw

the screecher too and even apparently had a picture that he had showed this guy and keep in mind this guy was a total weirdo and also had been known around here with a history of mental illnesses which is why i did not really take this guy seriously or at least at all although the picture was blurry he said it depicted some type of sea lizard-like Creature multiple rows of teeth swimming through the water eating whatever came in its path so i asked him if he could stop by and drop by any pictures that he had

captured himself and he says the only one he had was the one the diver had showed him weird story but you know so many people go missing and cheering these waters i've yet to see any oversized fish Swimming near a coastline you'd think if they were myths until you see them with your own eyes maybe he is right if he can prove to me that he's got the pictures well i'll believe him but anyway that's all i got for now one time when i was practicing scuba diving i was out at sea and there was

something unusual I had just plowed straight into the water and it happened first i looked around to see if anybody else saw what i saw it all happened so quickly i thought maybe somebody else did but as soon as this animal hit the surface of the water almost immediately another one mimicked it right after then they both dove back down under the water for probably no more than 10 Minutes they came back up multiple times within five feet of us making these high-pitched chirping sounds similar to dolphins but not quite like them they were much

higher in pitch these were very small probably only about three feet long they seemed to have very powerful propulsions The strongest part of this is that one of them seemed to have no eyes just a large skull protruding out of its head where the eye should be i don't think they were baby whales i mean i guess they could have been but they appeared to be more human-like as strange as that sound immediately we all became very concerned having no idea what these were After they disappeared my partner and i began asking questions did we

just encounter two baby whales or what were these they were kind of like baby porpoises but different they looked different and they sounded different and we didn't get the impression they were infants and they were also white i haven't really shared my encounter With anybody else because i mean i feel like people won't take me seriously even though i'm a very experienced diver this all happened right there i sought plan to stay and so did my partner this is why i'm making this report it also seemed like the best thing to do at least there

are people here who got on boat rides and sometimes know that there's no such thing as baby whales here I had a sighting of a sea serpent on tuesday june 24th 2014. i was at the swimming area in peachland next to the private marina with my wife we were just about to go for a swim when i saw something that resembled a large fin emerge from the water it appeared to be about three feet tall dark gray in color and vertical as it moved south parallel to the beach i observed it as it surfaced about

20 times before finally disappearing below For good after around 30 or so minutes after that i kind of followed it for a while because it would quickly reappear and then disappear again and then pass the diving tower before disappearing i watched expecting to see it resurface but after five seconds of waiting i went inside the water leisurely some swimmers had already seen me Watching at this point and after about 20 minutes or so i went back to the shore got dressed quickly before this thing could resurface again it appeared gone for good after that i'm

not sure what this was but i've never seen a thing like it before in my life it was definitely not a submarine and it didn't have any propellers or anything the day was clear Calm waters there were no waves so what you saw was exactly what was on the water i find myself talking about this encounter quite often i've not seen anything like it before so i feel compelled to share the experience with others even though most will look at me as if i'm crazy when i describe to people what i saw i would like

to add that this is not an Isolated incident i've read heard and seen similar things at least three times in the okanagan area dating back to when i was just a little kid fishing off the coast is always fun you always seem guaranteed to find something good this day however i saw something completely different that i can't be too sure what it is let me explain the waves were roughly five to seven Feet high and it appeared to be a long way out at least a hundred meters away from land i saw something large surface

but wasn't sure what to make of it so i just kept my distance and watched closely a large fish came up at first i wasn't sure what it could have been until i saw the head more closely thinking maybe it was an angler fish This creature had the ugliest face i've ever seen and it was certainly not an angler fish its eyes were extremely large and its mouth was full of sharp long jagged teeth kind of like something you'd see in a top-rated horror movie the sighting only lasted for roughly five seconds before it went

under again but that was more than enough for me to be afraid and to step back onto shore Well afraid is an understatement it really did scare me i've never seen quite anything like it in my life it is a clear day there wasn't much time before high tide so i don't think i was going to be able to get into whatever it was out there but you better believe i'm not fishing within 50 kilometers of this place anytime soon as a full-time marine biologist It's my duty to look at all the scientific evidence when

studying data for potentially new species that is exactly what we were doing on this day we were in the process of setting up one of our miniature submarines to go exploring on part of the coral reef of australia's great barrier reef that was near enough 12 months ago now but my mind still recalls all of what happened on the day back in 2008 the day began normal enough with us Going out to our dive site nothing seemed off or weird at first the water was clear and fine no clouds and no rough winds after we

finished prepping everything i entered into the sub along with three other members from my team everything went well but once again nothing abnormal stood out from before we began making our descent down into the reef below Reaching at about 10 meters below the surface everything around us was exploding with life a colorful amount of fish aquatic beauty all around this was of course before the great death of the australian barrier reef as we're pushing forward there was a slight drop off ahead that went down maybe roughly 80 to 85 meters below Still plenty of coral

reef around us we begin to make our descent very slowly all along the rock wall where homes for eels and other fish that like to burrow in the small caverns in the walls we continued our descent downward getting more and more or less coral reefs all around us then we finally hit the base this section was much more cavernous than the rest We were now roughly 93 meters below the surface the coral reefs down here were pretty much non-existent due to the lack of light and much more poor nutrients coral reefs actually grow much better

at roughly 18 meters below the surface so we were not surprised to see a large lack of coral reef life however we did see lots of other types of small organisms Some worms and some small fishes sea stars and other things all moving about in unison the reason why we were down here was because it's been recently noted at the time that there had been a lack in population for several different kinds of animals that lived on the coral reef we were here to explore around get samples of water sediment and bring up any sort

of life forms back up with us The mission was going well until something happened roughly 40 or so minutes into our expedition as i was looking at one of these societies inside the caverns i looked away for a brief moment not noticing anything out of the ordinary but when i turned my head back to where i saw this group i couldn't see these fish anymore surely they hadn't vanished into thin air At the time i didn't think much of it and thought that my eyes were just plain tricks on me or something i decided to

head out and explore a bit more of what was beyond this cavernous section as i got closer to the opening of this cavern something happens i get a really bad feeling but at the same time i just ignore it and head through We shine our brights on and begin descending all the way to the small cavern tunnel and explore this brought us into a very small chamber where it opened up and let us keep it going we went a little further and it looked like they would lead us out on the other side judging by

the light right as we were coming out we see something directly ahead of us What i can describe as a giant sea monster roughly 12 meters long from head to tail it had a long body two fins on the side and instead of any gills on its face it kind of had two small ones near the base of its neck the head was that of a large crocodile sharp sets of teeth running across its upper jaw it also appeared to be kind of glowing from a bioluminescence of sort It was amazing at first when we

saw this all of our minds went blank and we were in complete disbelief i realized in this moment we were probably staring at something prehistoric we were fearful by the sheer size of this alpha aquatic predator but also in awe and amazement of this thing this creature had found its way back Down to this reef system not sure how many years it's been since it was here but i'm sure glad we were the first ones to run into it this thing got me out of my frozen state when the creature began to kind of slowly

move in our direction but not at us my heart went right to my chest it seemed like time was standing still this massive thing slowly kind of moved out of her way descending down much Lower than we can go after that we decided it was time to head back up to the surface while we didn't exactly find what we were originally looking for we had found something much more exciting unfortunately this was an expedition we did not have any cameras equipped on now after reappearing on the surface we told everybody else on board about Our

excitement what we had seen and everybody was quite confused but it's not like we expected this to be common knowledge it wasn't until we got back and did some research that we were kind of able to figure out what we kind of generally saw our team is incredibly excited to get back here as soon as possible and begin doing more expeditions maybe we can find This elusive creature again if there's one there's definitely more of them my brother and i have grown up together and we love to swim and this day was no different we

were out swimming on one of our favorite lakes panderson lake in ohio we've swam there since we were kids even though it's been years since i'd last seen him When he texted me asking to get together to swim i didn't hesitate it was already august so the water was warm but we've always loved swimming in lakes something about swimming in natural bodies of water just felt better than over chlorinated pools and on this day there really wasn't anybody else out on the lake with us which is why my brother chose it No one was ever

out on pundi except for maybe some fishermen or kayakers just passing through that's what made everything that happened next so strange so my brother and i are out there swimming around and my brother notices something off in the distance climbing into the water on the shoreline he looks over at me and says hey we don't have alligators this far north do we And i look at him strangely and said no we don't it's far too cold he looked back at me and said yeah well what's that i looked back at where he was kind of

pointing to and with my own two eyes this large dark green shape that resembled some sort of crocodilian creature descending into the water the longer we stared at it though the more we both realized this wasn't just some crocodilian It was squatting as if squatting like a standing upright man would do and crouching down and jumping into the water the same way a diver would all this took place over the course of about three seconds as dove into the water like a man even arms connected in front of it just like that vanishing underneath the

surface i looked at my brother and our faces Both agreed it was time to go we swam back to the shore as fast as we could not wasting a second when we got back to the beach we sat down talking about it for quite a while and my brother even ended up finding some footprints out in the sand and they were like large crocodilian prince But larger than our own feet determined to get some more proof we wanted to try and follow them but ultimately decided it probably wasn't a good idea the feed prince just

disappeared into the woods and you know looking back there's no way i don't think any of us were going to follow those and see where those led i know what i saw and my brother saw too I've come to realize that what i saw was real i can't say that i know much about crocodilians living up in ohio due to the weather and i can't say much about what we saw that day and the fact that it looked more like a man than it did an actual crocodile i try not to think too much into

it if i did i think i'd freak myself out But i will say this what got into that lake was not a crocodile and what was standing upright on land and diving into the water was not a man either something strange happened on penderson lake that day whatever it was leaves behind a couple of footprints as proof and i just thought i'd show you my story and maybe your audience knows of Anything similar going on i know you have a large amount of reptilian encounters and i don't really know what those are but it sounds

like it would be up my alley maybe that is kind of what i saw that day i guess i'll let you be the ultimate one to decide that thank you my grandparents saw something terrifying while swimming out on the lake one day It was the summer of 1990 just before my grandfather had died of a massive stroke i can't remember what day it was but i always tend to think of it as a monday it's when the big tv channels have new episodes on all their schedules my grandparents had taken me with them to their

cabin at this lake they always go to it this is only about an hour drive from Our house they also brought me there for two weeks every summer after school until roughly i turned 18. this particular year someday around four to five pm it starts raining heavily all of a sudden so my grandfather decides to take me to the dock it's elevated and we could see the lake very well The water is darkish almost a black brown color i always remembered it because it was so unique compared to the other links my grandpa takes his

cigarette and lighter out of his pockets lies down on the planks of the wood holding an umbrella over himself with one hand while he smokes silently we both grew up in a small town surrounding this lake and my grandparents have lived out there For like 50 years already at this point so he pretty much was friends with the new everybody around there fast he started talking about how much fun it must be living there year round instead of just like the summer it was right when the rain stopped and the clouds began parting i can't

remember whether it was all of a sudden when stages but the blue sky slowly became visible Again to the big dark clouds and before long you can now see clear patches of blue between the really thick dark clouds the water was still mirror-like even though it had rained for quite a while grandpa began his usual small talk after that asking me who my friends at school were and who i was closest with we didn't really have the chance to Socialize with other kids growing up we'd always want to spend our time with each other and

by the time i had gotten in high school i became friends with a few people who also really enjoyed hanging out at my place they didn't have any siblings either and no friends of their own we all shared similar interests so it was easy Now the sun had hid behind some thin clouds for a second when it came back out after a minute or two grandpa began pointing in the water he said that i don't have to worry about going to school tomorrow he felt like something wasn't right today and that maybe just maybe we

should go home he then asked me a very strange question if i saw something in the water But without looking in that direction because i didn't want to look stupid if i saw nothing he told me he was going to go take a quick swim before we left and i said i should probably go inside the cabin it was kind of a colder day i went into the cabin after that but just as grandpa was about to leave the dock he turned around and said i should come Out here again whatever it was that we

saw before had returned i looked down at the water from the cabin's deck i couldn't see anything grandfather was swimming now though but i wanted to make sure he wasn't in any danger he can't swim all that well i shouted down at him if he was all right but he didn't hear me over the splashing Noises he was making while swimming around aimlessly i went back inside after a few moments of waiting for him to come back up so i could ask what it was he saw earlier when i went back to the cabin i

wasn't really thinking about grandpa or what he saw in the water at this point i mean it's not often you see your own grandpa swimming around for no apparent reason Just as i fired up a racing game on my pc i got for christmas grandpa burst through the door shivering looking pale as a ghost he told me what he saw what he thought were two big logs turned out to be something entirely different he said he reached an area of the water that was much deeper than before and while swimming around looking for the bottom

he could see that these logs were Something and totally different according to him these turned out to be massive fish dark gray skin as long as an adult is tall while lying down sharp jagged teeth with what appeared to be seaweed-like tentacles growing up the back these things were coming from my grandfather about to eat him that enough freaked him out and he fled We both just kind of sat there in silence for a while we didn't know what to say about all this i mean what do you actually see grandpa all sorts of thoughts

were running through my mind at that point why would he lie about such things he was old but he was sharp as attack and no way senile or just make things up off the top of his head I really miss him anyway that's my story mariah my best friend and i were on a dive boat off the coast of mexico vibrant blue water corals and marine life of all kinds very beautiful we've been diving for days exploring caves and all sorts of amazing holes in the earth this particular day We decided to dive at a

cavern site much deeper than the other dives we descended down into this large cavern opening approximately 30 feet under the surface the hole was large and circular with a small drop-off point where you could swim deeper and straight i was closer to the drop-off hovering near my buddy who stayed at 30 feet i looked around and saw nothing unusual Until i turned the face forward again the moment i turned and there it was seeing this unknown creature darting back and forth in front of me swimming parallel to the ground with its large body keeping it

upright so could swim this was the most impressive thing i'd ever seen in my life i couldn't believe what i was seeing it looked prehistoric with its long dorsal fin It made me think of a plesiosaur when you see the type of fin what revolutionized everything for me was after this experience the fact that we were just 30 feet below the surface nowhere near or barely deep enough to be this animal's habitat its movements were so fluid it kind of reminded me of a cobra with the way its head was swaying up and down and

side to side It was so elegant to wash i watched her for about two minutes before deciding that i wish i could photograph this thing so i swam straight up with my friend to the service told the boat captain what i just seen when i reached the top of the water that day we both got back on the boat and i pointed out to the captain And he saw too we could see this thing coming up closer to the surface but still staying underneath and it swam right alongside the boat its head still swaying up

and down like a cobra my heart was racing i couldn't believe what i just experienced and a few days later i was able to obtain a sketch of this Creature made by an experienced local fisherman on a boat this is not a fake or a hoax of course it's been several years now since this experience but it's still just as vivid today as it was that very day i have not been able to find very much information on the web regarding this strange creature so writing this has been a way for me to Share my

experience hopefully bring awareness to those who may not know what it is the day had just begun like any other i had awakened and remembered to turn my alarm off before venturing out on a boat leaving for scuba diving practice the sun was beginning its ascent it would be another hot sunny day in florida i had prepared for the stay ahead of time I carefully inspected my equipment to see if everything was in working order all that needed fixing or maintaining were tended to correctly before venturing out on the ocean i made sure to have

a small breakfast at home my instructor started me off with some lighter breathing exercises so i could properly prepare myself for what would be hours upon hours of breathing underwater As the morning progressed we went through more advanced techniques using our diving gear while being submerged underwater eventually it reached noon and the sun now began to beat down on us harder than before the bright light above becoming brighter by the minute as it stayed high up in the sky without any clouds in sight this meant there were no shadows in the sight Which meant it

would be easy to become disorientated when diving at deeper depths or so i've been told the water was calm as little waves gently caressed the whole of our ship moving us closer to whatever destination the ocean had in mind as we drew near to where we were practicing all divers began placing their gear on their backs once everybody was ready They jumped into the ocean following one another and down into the depths below i had to stay back for a second at the surface looking around to see if i can sight something unusual but the

ocean was calm and beautiful with underwater flora and fauna sprawled across its vast seabed we began practicing how to maneuver our way through debris on the ocean floor while not being spotted As we were diving further down into the deep i felt as though something up above us was watching our every move my breathing became very erratic and shallow so i began letting out short gasps of air quickly resulting in me panicking suddenly without my warning my breathing apparatus stopped functioning Not allowing me to take an oxygen at all in my panic my breathing apparatus

had become partially stuck on part of a rock that i was next to i tugged and tugged and pulled until it finally came free but now i could hardly move as one of my flippers became stuck on something buried beneath the sand below me and i was really panicking it was at this point that i could feel a Pair of eyes watching me from down below in the black abyss i begin moving again only to be stopped once more by another object coming in contact with my equipment this time nearly immobilizing my whole body forcing

me to struggle helplessly against the water currents as much as i tried all attempts seemed futile as i kept Getting tangled up in unseen debris right below the surface and just when things could not get any worse i noticed a figure slowly making its way closer to me from the dark and the deep abyss sprawled out everywhere around me my heart is racing panic sets in once more my eyes are quickly skinning the depths below as this figure continues to close In on my position and then it reaches on to me or what feels like

it reaches on i could not believe what i saw right before my eyes an extremely large octopus looking creature but gigantic the beady black eyes just staring right at me and before i knew it i could feel its tentacles slithering up Through the water towards my leg one after the other and gripping simultaneously shaking me holding on to me trying to pull me down i could only watch on helplessly as this thing held me still with its tentacles and i watched yet another one of the same kind approach a spear shot down and scared both

of them away it was my diving instructor he was up on the boat He had a spear gun he had aimed it right near me to try and scare these things away long story short i made my way back up to the surface very quickly breaking free and stupidly ignoring my decompression stops making it to the surface in a very short amount of time you bet i got very sick i'm actually very lucky to be alive I almost died and not from the octopus but from the decompression stops or lack thereof whatever those things that

came into contact with me and they were unlike anything i'd ever seen before nobody else including my instructor mentioned it he just told me i needed to be more careful and not be such a newbie