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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. Giant Octopus Flesh A lot of blubber or what? This could be a chilly one. In Santiago, Chile, a fat blubber of flesh or whale blubber or take another wild guess has been found on a beach. European zoologists called in by the Chilean authorities are trying to help identify a 40ft long splash of whatever, yeah, piece of gelatinous tissue said closely resembling descriptions of a specimen found in Florida in 1896 of ‘Octopus Giganteous’. It’s baffling the experts. Other informal sightings of deep-sea creatures by fishermen and divers from the Bahamas to Tasmania are the stuff of folklore on the ‘Bermuda Blob’ as well as academic study. “We’ve been in touch with zoologists from different countries. We’ve had responses from France and Italy from people who say, based on the preliminary data we sent them, it could be a giant octopus,” said Elsa Cabrera, she’s the director of the Centre for Cetacean Conservation in Santiago. “I daren’t say what it is. I’m hoping the experts can tell us,” she added. James Mead, a zoologist from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, thinks it is whale blubber. “I don’t have enough data to say, yes it’s an octopus or it’s a whale but I would hazard a bet that when it’s firmly identified, it’ll be a whale,” he told Reuters by phone. He said a whale could have died of old age, simply decayed and a big piece of it could have drifted a shore. The largest of the 100 species of octopus are up to 20ft long. Cabrera went to see the waste matter last weekend after the Navy alerted her centre to what it thought were two beached whales. One carcass was a hump back but the other a complete surprise. “We’ve never seen such a strange specimen,” she said. Its characteristics, however, do match a carcass found by a scientist in 1896, the one at Florida, who described pulling at the 60ft animal with a team of horses and hacking at it with an axe and not making a dent on it. Blubber, blubber, blubber…! Giant Octopus Flesh written by Bill Barber |
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