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Monday, February 18, 2013

Lovecraft Monster Pulled from Lake

A photo of a creature looking like something out of the horror novels of H. P. Lovecraft is a sea lamprey, according to a spokeswoman for New York's Department of Environmental Conservation. Sea lampreys are eel-like jawless, boneless parasites. Sea lampreys grow to about three feet in length, so the one in the photo that has been widely circulated online is likely to not be as large as it appears.

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"Sea lampreys only measure to about three feet, so the specimen in this image must appear gigantic because of the camera angle. It also could be seriously photoshopped."

Still, three feet - that's a lot of lamprey.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2013-02-17 09:51 AM | Reply | Flag:

DOC

www.youtube.com MYSTERIOUS & WEIRD

Remember the video that Goatman posted a while back of this weird blob of a sea creature that was caught on camera nosing around under the platform of an oil rig.

Well, it's weird for sure but not so mysterious. It's actually a giant jelly fish called Deepstaria Enigmatica that lives about a mile down in cold arctic waters.

There's no editing of this video. This thing is real and I guess you could say beauty is in the eye of the beholder ~ if you're a female Deepstaria Enigmatica that is.

Watch this video ~ it appears a few seconds in.

#2 | Posted by Twinpac at 2013-02-17 10:18 AM | Reply | Flag:

2.
That is pretty cool

#3 | Posted by zack991 at 2013-02-17 10:23 AM | Reply | Flag:

ZACK

You can see other pictures of this creature on Google Images.

By the way, those white flowering looking nodules you see at about 4.05 are it's testicals. The rest I'll leave to your imagination. Suffice to say this creature seems to be in the mood for love.

#4 | Posted by Twinpac at 2013-02-17 10:37 AM | Reply | Flag:

4.
4.05 are it's testicals. The rest I'll leave to your imagination.

Wow it makes me think if we should invest more money into looking into what our own seas have to offer for life and not space.

#5 | Posted by zack991 at 2013-02-17 10:52 AM | Reply | Flag:

#5 | Posted by zack991
"Wow it makes me think if we should invest more money into looking into what our own seas have to offer for life and not space."

Then again, why not both?

#6 | Posted by TheTom at 2013-02-17 04:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

Snookie after-birth?

#7 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2013-02-17 06:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

Hoax. Seriously shopped. Three times as large as normal.

#8 | Posted by coyote at 2013-02-17 06:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

8
Even if it is, it still puts a shiver up my spine. lol

#9 | Posted by zack991 at 2013-02-18 07:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

N'yarlathotep.

#10 | Posted by Harry_Powell at 2013-02-18 09:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

is that a lamprey in your shorts or are you just happy to see me?

#11 | Posted by AuntieSocial at 2013-02-18 09:47 PM | Reply | Flag:

That joke sucks.

#12 | Posted by Harry_Powell at 2013-02-18 09:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

ever see the movie teeth? LOL

#13 | Posted by AuntieSocial at 2013-02-18 09:53 PM | Reply | Flag:

Unfortunately, I am aware of it.

#14 | Posted by Harry_Powell at 2013-02-18 10:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

#15

Agreed.

Camera angle is everything. As you can see, the protrusion of the spear closest to camera is looks much larger in diameter than the opposing end being held by the presumed photographer, IMO.

#16 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2013-02-18 10:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

Use that trick on Craigslist, dontcha?

#17 | Posted by Harry_Powell at 2013-02-18 10:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

Sorry, but H.P was into real horror - made Poe look like a piker.

#18 | Posted by MSgt at 2013-02-18 11:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

Sea lampreys are eel-like jawless, boneless parasites, when they have a law degree, they are called lawyers.

#19 | Posted by visitor_ at 2013-02-19 07:25 AM | Reply | Flag:

That's gonna be one heck of a fish story he gets to tell.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2013-02-19 11:25 AM | Reply | Flag:

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