A Giant, Awful-Smelling, Hairy-Looking Mystery Creature Washes Ashore In The Philippines
Viral Press/The SunLocals think the creature is a warning sign of something bad to come.
As far as science news headlines go, few are as repulsive as this discovery.
The carcass of a strange, 20-foot-long sea creature washed up on a beach in the Philippines earlier this year. Except for massive amounts of shaggy grey hair and a reportedly putrid smell, the unidentified creature nicknamed “globster” lacked features.
“It’s definitely a very decomposed sea creature in the later stages of decomposition,” Lucy Babey, head of science and conservation for the charity called Orca, said at the time. They also believed the shaggy “hair” was decomposed muscle fibers.
As for this most recent finding, government officials sent tissue samples to be tested at a lab. “For now, we can say it’s a whale, but the exact species is still unknown,” said Vox Krusada, the fishery law enforcement officer who took the tissue samples.
Krusada also said that after being that close and getting the full power of the smell, he “almost puked.” “And damn it smells awful. It smells like something from another planet,” he said.
Some locals reportedly believed the monster-looking creature was actually a sign of an impending natural disaster.
“Many were alarmed including me when we learned the news about it,” said Vincent Dela Pena Badillo. “It has been told that when creatures from the deepest parts of the ocean start appearing, something bad will happen.”
