[OT] Mysterious Glob...

[Andrew D. Gable]

Check this out. Weirdly enough, this thing (especially the lower photo) resembles almost exactly the "St. Augustine Monster" which washed ashore in St. Augustine, FL in 1896 (also note this same photo shows what may be gills, and a possible eye?). It also appears to have the same cilia-like structures seen in other globsters which wash ashore all around the world (again more visible in the second picture, along the long structure [a tentacle?]). The St. Augustine Monster was an octopus. Globsters are usually written off as dead basking sharks, but they seem to be quite different than the ones like the Zuiyo Maru carcass, which ARE basking sharks. Not plesiosaur-like at all...

The Chilean Blob:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030701/sc_nm/chile_science_dc_2

An article I wrote about the St. Augustine Monster and globsters:
http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/siren/552/marine_globster.html

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Ia, Ia, Cthulhu Fhtagn!

 

[Angcuru]

Hoster Hoster Hoster!

 

[blackshirt5]

That's "Hastur, Hastur, Hast-". I'm not gonna finish the third one.

Good article though; definitely some food for thought.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Tut, tut, Angcuru. You'll never summon the dark powers that way.

It's "Hastur, Hastur, Hastur!"

Edit: blackshirt5 beat me too it, but I see he lacks the power to follow through!

Gee, what is that strange tentacled shadow that appears outside my window? Aieeeeeeee ...

 

[Angcuru]

I'm summoning his half-brother, dummy.
Hoster gives out free macadamia nut cookies to everyone who chants his name.

 

[blackshirt5]

"Hey!!! Where's the cream filling?!" *Giant tentacled horror appears, with Twinkies* "Now that's the stuff! Hoster!"

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Ahh, I recall that the globsters were always thought of as Deep Ones or Shoggoths on the Delta Green mailing list...It's so easy to make them some sort of R'lyeh dweller.

The cryptozoologist in me points out the legends of the Hide (pronounced hee-day), a (you guessed it) giant octopus among the Chileans. The fringe or flap around the big lumpy section, again in the second photo, is very much like the Hide was described.

BTW, the 'Trunko' mentioned in the article was a creature which washed ashore, which supposedly resembled a legless elephant covered in white fur.

 

[blackshirt5]

Lovely thought, a legless furry elephant, there.

NOTE: When Hoster appears, he gives out Twinkies; not macadamia nut cookies. Twinkies are a staple of the Far Realm, they're certainly capable of shattering a man's sanity; plus, with their shelf life, they give new meaning to the words "That which is not dead may lie forever".

 

[Angcuru]

Twinkies work. I hear that powergamers live off of those things.