The Globby Caribbean Sea Monsters

Scientists are very honest about the ocean: after
decades of exploration, they still know
relatively little about marine life. More people
have walked on the Moon than have been to the
deepest parts of the sea. So if you live in the
Caribbean, surrounded by water, it's
understandable that you'd develop a few sea
monster urban legends like the lusca.

Amusingly, the lusca is a whole species of
monster, not just a single one - a species that
hasn't been proven to exist, naturally. It's
called a "cryptid;" a creature whose existence
has not been definitively proved by science.
When it comes ot lusca, descriptions and reports
are based off of carcasses and sightings out in
the open ocean. Believers claim that the lusca
grows to over 75 feet long (and some swear that
the adults break 200 feet!), and it hunts
crustaceans in large undersea caves, where it
makes its home. Depending on who you ask, the
lusca either resembles an enormous octopus, a
multi-headed dragon creature, or a half-shark,
half-octopus monstrosity.

Swimmers in the Caribbean, especially around the
Bahamas, swear that they've seen luscas in "blue
holes," the underwater sinkholes that are
hundreds of feet deep. In 1896, a carcass washed
up on the Florida coast; considered to be the
remnants of a lusca, the enormous body was
dubbed the St Augustine monster. However, recent
evidence shows that the blob was likely just a
huge piece of decomposing blubber from a Sperm
Whale. The largest octopus ever found wasn't
even half of the estimated length of a lusca.
Simple to explain too, are the stories of
sightings at sea: sightings of especially large
giant squids, are the most plausible kinds of
encounters.

In fact, decomposing blubber is the culprit in
many different "sea monster" sightings;
happening with such regularity, these hoaxes
have been dubbed by scientists as "globsters."
Many of the ocean's creatures are much larger
than what we land-dwellers are used to; when a
whale dies, for instance, there's a lot of
tissue left behind and it decomposes in
unfamiliar ways. Heavy bones drop to the ocean
floor, but the lighter adipose tissues may get
swept up in currents and attacked by carrion
eaters. By the time an organic mass washes up on
a beach, it's usually unrecognizable; sometimes
they contain eyeballs without any surrounding
structure, or the creature may have no bones
except a few flippers. Sometimes it is skin that
seems to make up the bulk of the creature, and
sometimes there seems to be no skin present at
all! Even the moderately skeptical bystander
would be confounded by such a find.

Intriguingly, some globsters do not turn out to
be decomposing whale or shark tissue. Some are
the remains of colossal squids, and others are
still unexplained. This adds fuel to the fire
for those in the "sea monster" camp, who remain
convinced that these bodies are proof of
undiscovered oceanic life. As specific parts of
our enormous ocean ecosystem is studied, Marine
biologists announce newfound species on a
regular basis. Some globster remains are in such
an advanced state of decomposition that it's just
impossible to verify exactly what they were
originally. Whether you believe or not, it's
certainly an intriguing and fascinating notion,
and a reminder that we still know relatively
nothing about the ocean that surrounds us.


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