Can I have a cursed giant creature fact?
sure! at lengths of over 55 feet and weights of 600 pounds, our friend the Oarfish surely qualifies :)
we don’t know a whole lot about the world’s longest bony fish, aside from that it rarely comes to the surface and inspired most of the Sea Serpent legends floating around. they’re fairly rare and live only in the Abyssopelagic Zone, around 3,300 feet down. but this is old news to everyone who’s seen the info posts about these guys going around, so what’s so cursed about this? well, I’ll tell you!
have you ever wondered what the Oarfish gets up to, way down there? we didn’t realize this until we started sending ROVs and submarines into the deep sea to observe live ones, but Oarfish are… a little nontraditional as fish go.
see, they don’t normally swim horizontally all majestic-like like in the pictures up there, it turns out that instead they spend their time just kind of… hanging vertically in the water column.
motionless, staring at the surface with all 50+ feet of them vanishing into the darkness below.
and I don’t know about you but frankly, I find that a little creepy.
