[OT] Mysterious Glob...

[SpiderMonkey]

*looks at photos*

*sanity score plummets*

 

[Shemeska]

I still says it's either Michael Jackson's real nose, or Scott Peterson's 1st wife....

*waits to be devoured by 'ol Cthulhu for the utter lack of taste in that last one....*

 

[Aeolius]

it's......a blancmange!!

CNN.com updated their story 3 times, today, regarding the weird giant jellyfish/whale skin thingie... I'll have to use it in my undersea game

 

[creativecontrol]

So that is what an advanced flumph would look like...

 

[William Ronald]

Fascinating. This makes me wonder what else lives in the deep that we have no ideas about at all.

If I recall my Cthulhu Mythos geography correctly, isn't R'lyeh suppose to be off the coast of Chile?

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

If I recall my Cthulhu Mythos geography correctly, isn't R'lyeh suppose to be off the coast of Chile?

Closer to Australia. At least thats where the ship encountered the Big C in Call of Cthulhu. And most people think that was also the site of R'lyeh. But they could be wrong. Derleth said it was off of Massachusetts...I guess he was getting R'lyeh and Y'ha-nthlei mixed up. Dang these HPL undersea cities with their crazy names!

And things living in the sea...who knows. This also makes me think of Heuvelmans' idea that sea serpents could be some sort of marine invertebrate.

A buddy of mine said he thought the thing was an extremely large jelly, or a mass of them that got stuck together. Somehow, the idea of a giant jelly seems not at all far-fetched...they are pretty simple animals. No reason at all one couldn't get huge.

Aeolius: what's a blancmange?

 

[Merlion]

Oh I think its beyond any reasonble doubt thats theres all kinds of crazy stuff living down there that we have no idea of.
Its just interesting to me that the scientists are so desperate to explain it away as a whale skin. They cant even cope with the idea of a giant octopus...to me it doesnt even look that much like a giant octopus...it looks like a really big jellyfish...or...I dunno what. the second from the right pic in your article was pretty freaky too.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

the second from the right pic in your article was pretty freaky too.

That was the one with the girl sitting above it right? That was at Benbecula, in Scotland, sometime in the late 90s I think. I forget the exact date. Unless you meant the one lying on the boards, which was the St. Augustine Monster, probably right before (or after) Verrill moved it.

 

[Gellion]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

 

[LGodamus]

CryptoZoology rocks...I wish there were money to be made in it...it would make a great full time job