From a hidden alien city to a nightmare creature from the deep, here are ten of the creepiest
and craziest discoveries from the sea!
10: Hidden Alien City A video recently released by the US Navy appears
to show an unidentified flying object diving into the ocean off the coast of San Diego,
California.
Officials have confirmed the footage as authentic.
These videos can be interpreted many ways since we don’t have a lot of information,
but this sighting has led some to believe there may be an underwater alien base nearby!
The footage shows a spherical object flying above the water before stopping and slowly
disappearing beneath the waves.
(video https://globalnews.ca/video/rd/4e066d4e-b83b-11eb-a9db-0242ac110007/?jwsource=cl) The footage was recorded off a monitor inside
the USS Omaha‘s Combat Information Center, and a few military members can be heard remarking
on the object in the video talking about it.
There was no wreckage or evidence of any kind once it splashed through the surface of the
water.
Now, according to alien hunters from UFO Sightings Daily, they have discovered an alien base
underwater near Mexico estimated to be about 76 miles long.
Apparently, this could be the reason why so many UFOs are sighted over the country.
Perhaps it’s because they have a base just 45 miles from the coast.
The UFO search team was searching Google Earth when they spotted a series of straight lines
and lumps underwater that they believe are 100% made by an intelligent being other than
humans.
There also appears to be a gaping hole of complete blackness that could be the entrance
to the base.
It almost looks like the yawning door of some secret mountain facility – only it's underwater.
As of now, nobody has actually gone down to explore what this structure might be.
Since the release of documents by the US Government regarding what they call UAP or Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena, many are saying the structures should be explored using remotely controlled
underwater drones, but it hasn't happened yet.
So far explanations of the UAP sightings vary from drones to weather balloons or new technology
from China or Russia.
In any case the government is taking a more open approach to these sightings to raise
awareness about possible security threats.
As for what this structure might be under the ocean?
We probably won’t know for many years, if ever!
9: Glowing Ocean Tubes Scientists are always amazed when they encounter
this giant glowing tube in the ocean.
It's actually a living creature, and perhaps one of the strangest creatures around!
It’s also one of the biggest, measuring up to 60 feet long!!
It actually looks like a floating ghost or some kind of spectral entity, but in reality
it's known as a pyrosome.
It has no teeth, no eyes, no fins – it has nothing that makes it look like an actual
animal.
Instead, it's literally just a tube of glowing light, cylindrical and iridescent.
How does it breathe or move or even exist?
The enormous pyrosome is actually formed by thousands or millions of tiny creatures together
in a colony.
Also referred to as colonial tunicates, they are shaped like a tunnel except one side is
closed off.
They may look enormous and scary but they are no threat to humans.
However, biologists warn you should never try to swim inside one.
K Gowlett-Holmes of CSIRO Marine Research in Australia reports finding a 6 1/2-foot
long pyrosome with a dead penguin trapped inside.
The penguin apparently suffocated inside the pyrosome, unable to escape.
Pyrosomes are so rare that marine researcher Rebecca Helm referred to them once as the
“unicorns of the sea”, completely improbable and utterly mysterious.
They are similar to coral reefs in that many polyps come together and combine exoskeletons
into one giant mass.
The pyrosome is made up of many tiny creatures called zooids.
They link together, joining their tissue, and constantly filter the water to eat plankton,
jetting out water as they go to propel themselves.
They eventually form these giant tubes floating listlessly through the ocean.
To add to their mystery is the fact they are also bioluminescent, and when one zooid decides
to light up, so do the ones around it.
Light from one colony will cause another colony to light up as if they were communicating
with each other.
8: Submerged French Weapons A collection of terrifying weapons and other
maritime equipment has recently been salvaged from a creepy shipwreck off the coast of Florida.
But this wasn't just one shipwreck, it was actually three vessels that sank sometime
around the 16th century and created a giant field of debris underwater, filled with strange
artifacts.
The weapons were discovered by Global Marine Exploration Inc, an underwater archaeology
company.
The artifacts probably came from a group of Protestants fleeing religious persecution
in France, though the vessels themselves may not have been of a French origin.
Some of the best artifacts discovered from the wreckage include ornate bronze cannons,
heaps of munition, a whole pile of anchors, and one grinding wheel.
Archaeologists also uncovered a French coat of arms from the early colonial period.
Workers were able to date the shipwrecks thanks to a marking on the side of one of the cannons.
The marking was from the reign of King Henry II of France, back in 1548.
Archaeologists have speculated that these ships were actually from either England or
Spain and that their crews had taken cargo from Florida originally brought by French
settlers – the ones who were escaping persecution.
Many French people were fleeing France at the time because of escalations in the hostility
between the Catholic Church and the Protestants.
This was actually the beginning of the French Wars of Religion, which devastated France
for a full 35 years.
7: The Sunken Leg A teenager named Sebastian and his father
were looking for treasure in the Gulf of Mexico.
They strapped on their diving equipment and dove into the murky depths, and that was when
they discovered something altogether creepy.
They found what at first seemed to be a person's forgotten leg!
Sebastian was the one to spot it first.
He saw a leather strap waving in the water and something stuck in the sand.
It took him about 10 minutes to pull the strange object out of the bottom, at which point he
realized he was holding on to somebody's leg.
Of course, it wasn't a real leg in the traditional sense but somebody's prosthetic.
Sebastian and his father hauled the leg onto their boat and decided what they were going
to do with the weird artifact.
In the end, they agreed to try and find the owner of the lost leg.
It seemed like an impossible task, but they would try it anyway.
Sebastian and his father made a Facebook page for the leg, uploaded a photo, where and when
it was discovered, and then they sat back and waited.
It didn't take long before Carter Hess, a veteran who had lost his leg and taken to
surfing using his prosthetic, was alerted to the discovery.
He reached out to Sebastian and his father and just days later, they met at a beach restaurant
and the leg was returned to its rightful owner.
A creepy discovery turned into a heart-warming reunion.
6: The Black Scabbard Fish The black scabbard fish is one of the creepiest
deep-water predators anywhere in the ocean.
It lives at a depth of around 5500 feet but has been known to migrate even deeper into
the ocean veiled in utter darkness.
This is not a fish you want to meet in the wild, as it has teeth like sharpened icicles
and a voracious hunger that could lead to a person's arm being bitten clean off.
The black scabbard fish looks like a deep-water eel with black skin so dark and slimy and
slick it could be soaked in ink.
It has huge bulging eyes and a protruding lower jaw.
Because of how deep the black scabbard fish lives, it's pretty rare for someone to find
one, let alone catch it at the end of your fishing line.
But the fish is also a delicacy in Portugal, and there are some fishermen who use special
deep-water lines to catch it.
Would you be adventurous enough to try it??
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5: Secret Underwater Town Something unbelievable has been discovered
underwater and it has made the conspiracy theorists go crazy!
The discovery was made off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico, near a popular tourist
destination called Snapper Ledge Reef.
It's been described as a secret underwater town, and it's nothing short of creepy.
Tables, chairs, antennas, and other mysterious artifacts populate the strange underwater
venue.
Nobody was immediately sure how it got there or what its purpose serves, but it was apparently
discovered using Google Earth.
Some have speculated that the town could have been built by underwater humans, aka mermaids.
After all, it's not like ordinary fish need antennae to get a Wi-Fi signal.
If not mermaids or some breed of sea people, just who exactly is all the furniture in the
submerged town there for?
Unfortunately, the truth is far less shocking than the speculation.
The underwater town was actually built as a coral nursery to help ocean life regenerate
after the devastating coral bleaching that has been going on off the coast of Florida.
Coral bleaching is destroying huge patches of coral all the way from Florida to Australia
and this coral nursery is one way that marine biologists are trying to help the ocean to
heal.
4: The Thing with Eight Jaws An utterly terrifying new species of sea monster
has just been discovered and it's frightening enough to give you nightmares!
The creature looks like something straight out of H.P.
Lovecraft’s darkest fantasy, like a monster from another dimension.
It was found thanks to researchers with the French Natural History Museum about 1600 feet
beneath the surface of the ocean, 120 miles from New Caledonia.
The creature was located on top of a seamount, what’s essentially an underwater mountain.
It has an array of tentacles with hooks on the ends and dozens of razor-sharp teeth inside
its mouth.
It also has eight separate jaws to rip and tear its prey more easily.
This is a one-of-a-kind species of brittle star, the most violent and terrifying ocean
star you’ll ever encounter.
It's officially named Ophiojura, and it's reminiscent of the monsters that used to live
during prehistoric eras.
It's not actually a starfish as brittle stars are only distantly related to starfish.
They hang out on the seafloor and live a life of constant eating.
Each of its eight jaws has rows of sharp teeth which it uses to snare its prey.
Think about a bear trap, but there are eight of them hooked together ready to crush anything
that accidentally gets too close.
But where did such a strange animal come from?
DNA evidence suggests the Ophiojura evolved about 180 million years ago, around the end
of the Triassic and the beginning of the Jurassic, when dinosaurs still roamed the land.
The nightmarish brittle star has remained the same, untouched by evolution, ever since.
3: The Whiskey Fish A fisherman got the surprise of his life when
he caught a large fish, but it wasn’t the fish itself that was exciting.
It was what was INSIDE the fish!!
A video on Tik Tok is showing a fisherman pulling his catch onto his boat, where he
drops it on a table and starts to cut it open.
He was gutting the innards of the fish when he noticed something rather strange about
its stomach.
It was unusually hard.
So, the fisherman quickly cut out the organs to see what the fish was hiding.
As it turned out, the fish had an entire bottle of unopened Fireball Whiskey inside of its
belly!
Since it was revealed on Tik-Tok some have accused the fisherman of faking the entire
thing by putting the bottle of whiskey there himself.
But at the same time, it is possible that the bottle fell off someone’s boat and the
fish swallowed it whole thinking it was food.
After all, it wouldn't be the first time a fish was caught eating something it shouldn’t
have.
2: Sea Lion Cancer Scientists at the marine mammal center near
San Francisco have come across a horrible and tragic phenomenon going on in the ocean.
For the past 20 years, these scientists have been trying to understand why Californian
sea lions have the highest rates of cancer of any marine mammal on our planet.
To give you an idea of just how many sea lions are coming down with cancer, it's about 25%
of the adult population.
But get ready to be creeped out, because between 2005 and 2015, that 25% of adult sea lions
was discovered with urogenital carcinoma directly linked to the herpes virus.
But until just recently, scientists couldn't figure out why these sea lions were coming
down with this disease.
Recent evidence has shed light on the mystery.
Scientists now know the sea lions have been exposed to toxic pollutants that began being
dumped off the southern coast of California in the 1940s.
By the time barrels of toxic waste stopped being dumped into the ocean here in the 1970s,
it was t oo late.
All these years later, the chemicals are still decimating the sea lion population.
The area in which the barrels were dumped happens to be where 90% of sea lions are born.
As of right now, scientists see no way to stop the trend and save the sea lions from
cancer.
1: The Singapore Shipwreck Off the coast of Singapore, archaeologists
have found a creepy shipwreck over 200 years old.
According to the National Heritage Board, the wreck was found off Pedra Branca, a rocky
outcrop in the ocean east of Singapore.
Divers accidentally came across ceramic plates, and this led them to the wreckage.
It had probably been carrying Chinese ceramics for trade back in the 14th century, when Singapore
was known as Temasek.
This was a pretty significant find for archaeologists, as they were able to confirm Singapore's importance
as a trading hub way before the British ever arrived to colonize it in 1819.
But the discovery didn't end with one shipwreck.
A second was found nearby and identified as a merchant vessel constructed in India that
sank in 1796 while returning home from China.
The second wreckage revealed even more fascinating artifacts, such as anchors and cannons.
These cannons were what helped the British Empire to expand in Asia during the 18th century
and were usually mounted onto merchant ships used by the famed East India Trading Company.
There's not much left of the actual ships, other than some creepy wooden hulls left on
the rocks like the broken rib cages of sea monsters.
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