The Dagobah Beach Crash of 2201
So, to start off my blog I wanted to go over one of my all time favorite mysteries. A somewhat lesser know (local ;0) incident that happened some years ago, it’s still stumping people to this day.
In the early morning of March 14th, 2201, a large object plummeted from the sky. It landed in the ocean, a little ways out from Dagobah beach. The only reason we know of this incident to begin with is the four eyewitness accounts of this happening.
The first eyewitness account is from Ito Tanaka, 27 years old at the time, who was out for his morning jog before work. His accounts goes as follows;
“It was about four in the morning, I think. I was jogging along the path above the beach when a large object caught my eye. It fell from the clouds and landed with a giant splash in the ocean. I couldn’t really tell what it was, but it sounded like a duffel bag of some kind. The ocean seemed still after the ripples disappeared. Nothing surfaced. So I called it in to the local police station and kept going. I didn’t want to be late for work.”
His account is certainly short compared to the others, lacking in much detail. But it does contain a rather vital clue. The object that fell into the ocean that day came from within or above cloud level. Now I’m sure you don’t know a lot of casual information about clouds, and I don’t fault you for that. Who takes the time to read about clouds? Me, I do that. Some basic information; within our troposphere clouds can be anywhere from the earths surface to about 60,000ft above. It all depends on where in the world you are. We generally divide these heights into three categories. High clouds usually occur between 10,000ft and 60,000ft, and as the name suggest are the highest clouds. Below that we have mid-level clouds, occurring at roughly 6,000ft to 25,000ft. And finally we have low clouds, that usually hover between the earths surface and under 6,500ft. Why is this important? I hear you ask yourself this and I’m getting to it! I promise! Bear with me.
As a rule of thumb, landing on water from 250ft is 95-98% fatal. Time for some math. 250ft is roughly 76 meters. If we use the average weight of a person (80kg), you’ll be going about 38.6 meters per second while falling, and it’ll take you roughly 4 seconds to fall this distance. If the same person (80kg) we’re to fall from a height of 6,000ft (about 1829 meters) however… well let’s just say that falling at 189 meters per second is decidedly more deadly on impact. It would take you about 19 seconds to fall that far. So not only are you falling to your death, you’ve got time to see it coming. Ouch. BUT remember that this does not in any way take into account the existence of the many varied quirks we have today! Okay okay I’ll get to the point. If a person were to fall from such a height, it’s very likely they would die. I know that people have survived falls from like 30,000ft before, it’s all about what you land on after all. And while water is definitely better than concrete, it’s still not ideal. This is all to say that I don’t think it was a person that fell from the sky that day. No bodies were washed up on the beach the entire month following this incident, and with how close the splash seems to have been, it definitely would have made its way onto the beach eventually. So hey, that’s some good news! Right!?
Anywayyyyyyyy, the second account is actually from both eyewitness #2 and #3! Sawayama Hana and her wife Kauri (45 and 48 at the time) were watching the sunrise that morning, like they usually did, when a sudden great splash startled them both.
Hana’s account is more sparse; “I saw a dark shape and then there was the sudden sounds of splashing water. When I looked over I could only vaguely see a dark lump sink down beneath the surface. It didn’t look like a person, and so I asked Kauri if she’d seen it too, and she said yes. I asked if she thought it was a person, and she said no. But she sounded a little frightened. We scouted for a bit, before I called the police station and we went home. I kept an eye on the beach and the news for a couple weeks after that, but I never heard anything. That made me feel a little better.”
Her wife Kauri tells it slightly differently; “I wasn’t looking at the sea at first, we were watching the horizon and the sky, but then I saw this dot falling towards the water and I turned. It looked like the sea rose up and caught it, but then it splashed so large I couldn’t be sure. It looked like a patch of darkness in the glimmering water. Where before there had been the reflection of colors from the sunrise, a black stain now appeared. I watched the shape in the water as it descended. It didn’t look like a person, and it worried me. When Hana asked me if I’d seen it and if I thought it was a person, I couldn’t bring myself to give anything other than short answers. Yes I saw it. No, that wasn’t a person. I was unsettled, and couldn’t really follow what my wife was doing. I know she called the police, and then we left soon after. I couldn’t bring myself to stop watching the sea. I felt like that shape would surface again. I was scared that it would. When Hana told me that there was nothing in the news about it a month later, I was relieved. I felt this heavy thing in my chest let go, and I haven’t thought much about it since. But I don’t go swimming at Dagobah Beach anymore either.”
Personally, Kauris telling of the incident has always stuck with me. I feel like I can see it myself. It always calls up such ominous images in my head, and really plays into the whole seamonster angle of the story. Which is what I wanna touch on right now. The old and well worn seamonster mystery. Even from before the age of quirks, all the way back a millennia ago, people have been scared and fascinated by what might lurk in the deep dark waters of the ocean. There’s still so much we don’t know. The talk of a seamonster that lurks beyond the shallows of Dagobah beach began all the way back in 2186, when what we classify as a ‘Globster’ washed up on the normally quiet beach. It was a warm autumn morning, September 17th, and the rotting flesh soon attracted both a crowd, and seagulls.
If you’re familiar with Globsters at all you’ll know that for a long time, due to our increased knowledge about seacretures and ways to identify them, Globsters kind of fell out of fashion so to speak. For those of you who don’t know, a Globster is a blob or mass of organic material characterized by the difficulty people have in identifying them. At least by initial observes who may be untrained, and thus creating controversy as to its identity. Globsters have been cropping up as far back as 1808, with notable appearances in 1896, 1924, 1960, 1965, 1988, 1996, 1997 and 2003. But like I said, as our knowledge and technology developed, many of these blobs were later proved and/or theorized to be the decaying bodies/pieces of giant squid, whales and sharks. During the 21st and early 22nd century, most Globsters found were quickly identified, thus stripping them of the Globster title. My own favorite Globster is Neo Nessie (named for the Loch Ness Monster aka Nessie, which is another great classic mystery I hope you’ll all check out if you don’t know anything already). This is all to say that we’ve seen a resurgence of Globsters! Rejoice!
My personal belief is as we ourselves as a species develop quirks, and subsequently mutations, so are the animals around us. We’re seeing it more and more, and it seems the most likely to me that the return of the Globster can be credited to the rise of quirks. To this day we still don’t know what washed up on the beach in 2186, and we might never know! The carcass vanished roughly six hours after it was first discovered, only two hours after authorities were notified of its existence.
Damn I feel like I’m diving too deep into the 2186 Dagobah Globster, maybe I’ll make a separate post about it later. To conclude, it could be a sea creature we’ve never seen before! But if it is, it’s certainly not dead. :D
The fourth, and final, eyewitness is one that not many who cover this mystery actually include. And that’s totally fair, because she didn’t see something fall into the ocean at four am on March 14th 2201. No, what Kageyama Kumori (16 years old at the time) saw was something crawl out of the water, at about 4:15 in the morning. A little bit after the three other eyewitnesses had left, Kumori was walking home from her nocturnal extracurriculars. As her quirk gives her the characteristics of a bat, she is also part of the nocturnal side of our society. After a long day of classes and activities, she was heading home for dinner and then bed, when she spotted something on the beach below.
“I was super tired, and just kinda walking home on auto pilot. Not really taking anything in, but then I glanced over the water and I saw this… this thing. I don’t know how to describe it. Just like, a big shape. It was moving, so it had to have been alive, I think. It was kinda like, dragging itself out of the water. It looked pitch black, kinda slimy. Like it had a bunch of tentacles or something. It looked bigger than a person. I was terrified. I didn’t notice I’d stopped walking until it like, tilted it’s head? I don’t even know if it had a head but it felt like it had cus I could’ve sworn it looked at me. I’m sure it did. I couldn’t see any eyes or any features at all really, but it started kinda like, dragging itself in the opposite direction of me? Like I was standing to the left of it, like where it was at the edge of the water, and it started turning to go more to the right. Away from me. It’s weird but now I can’t help but think it was scared of me too. Anyway, at the time it just scared me even more, so I turned and I ran home. When I got home my dad was worried, since I looked so scared I think. He made me write a report to the police, just in case. But I never heard anything else.”
I mean, you understand why I include this account in this case, right?? I know the extent of the similarities are simply “black shape” and “kinda scary” but come ooooooon. Plus it sorta gives it a happy ending, right? Whoever, or whatever, plummeted into the ocean that morning, from a probable minimum height of 6,000ft, survived! We have no idea where they might be, or what happened to them, but they’re out there!! And isn’t that wonderful?
Anyway I think that’s everything I wanna say about this, there’s a couple articles about this mystery floating around the internet, I’d suggest checking the local news sites. This never really got much attention. If there’s any interest in a deep dive into Globsters (specifically the Dagobah Globster) lmk and I’ll try and write up a post about that too!
Until next time, it could have been aliens 👽