A giant Doomsday Serpent fish was found dead off the coast of California this week. Strangely, the incident came just days before a series of earthquakes hit the world. Kayakers and snorkelers exploring San Diego’s La Jolla Cove came across the carcass of a 12-foot oarfish. As its other name suggests, this fish is believed to bring particularly bad luck.
Unbeknownst to the general public, the fish brings bad luck, and the crew posed next to its floating body before reporting the animal to UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. According to Ben Frable, a fish expert at the institution, this is only the 20th time an oarfish has washed up in California since 1901.
The marine animals live in the deep sea and are rarely seen by humans. Even their carcasses rarely float in shallow water, making last week’s discovery all the more rare. The oarfish’s legendary reputation as a predictor of natural disasters has gotten a boost in recent days.
After the sighting of the orfish, earthquakes and other disasters in many places in the world are being linked to it. (Photo: Scripps Institution of Oceanography/Facebook)
Several major earthquakes have occurred since the fish was spotted last week. The first quake was of magnitude 4.3 and shook Los Angeles on August 12, while two quakes hit Taiwan, causing problems in the cities of Taipei and Hualien. The sight of the catastrophic fish is not the only frightening omen about the end of the world recently.
Last week, a 190 million-year-old geological structure called the Double Arch in Utah suddenly collapsed. In July, a 1,100-year-old pyramid in Mexico collapsed due to heavy rains. Descendants of the Purépecha people who built it described the collapse as a “bad omen” of a coming catastrophe. Earlier in the year, another giant “catastrophic” oarfish was spotted by fishermen in Thailand’s La-ngu district in the Andaman Sea on January 3.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : August 17, 2024, 08:51 IST
