{"id":18566,"date":"2019-10-30T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=18566"},"modified":"2019-10-31T10:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:12:22","slug":"halloween-horrors-mysterious-dark-atlantic-mass-eats-a-torpedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=18566","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Horrors: Mysterious Dark Atlantic Mass Eats a Torpedo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever heard of the cryptid known as the Lusca<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The Lusca has been described in varying ways. Some cryptozoologists have suggested it is merely a giant octopus that has been misidentified. Many others have described the Lusca as a half-shark, half-octopus hybrid monster.<\/p>\n

It has razor-sharp teeth and multi-suckered tentacles. It sometimes has many of the same characteristics as a colossal octopus, but has also been described at different times as having multiple heads, dragon-like features, or even appearing as a vaguely described evil spirit.<\/p>\n

Some eyewitnesses have described the Lusca as appearing like a squid-eel hybrid, rather than the shark-octopus combination.<\/p>\n

The Lusca is said to be over 75 feet long, possibly growing as large as 200 feet in some cases. It can change colors, much like some smaller species of octopus. Its habitat is rugged underwater terrain, large underwater caves, the edge of the continental, or other areas where large crustaceans are found, as this is assumed to be its food source.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s said to inhabit “blue holes,” deep blue pits in the ocean floor, especially in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to this story<\/a>, relayed second-hand by a guest of Joe Rogan’s:<\/p>\n

Back in the \u201890s, this pilot\u2019s job was to fetch BQM aerial target drones and submarine telemetry torpedoes from the ocean. At the time, the pilot was flying a CH-53\u2014\u201ca big, heavy-lifter the Marine Corps uses for certain things,\u201d Fravor told Rogan. \u201cOff the East Coast they do a lot of shooting, at the time it was off Puerto Rico.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe helo drops a swimmer in the water, he hooks the whole thing up and they fly back,\u201d Fravor said. \u201cThe first time they were out and they were going to pick up a BQM, he\u2019s sitting in the front\u2014in the CH-53 you can see down by your feet\u2014and as he\u2019s looking down, they\u2019re 50 feet (15 metres) above the water, he sees this kind of dark mass coming up from the depths.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the pilot picked up the BQM, he was apparently at a loss for words. \u201cHe\u2019s looking at this thing going, \u2018What the hell is that?\u2019 And then it just goes back down underwater. Once they pull the kid and the BQM out of the water, this object descends back into the depths.\u201d<\/p>\n

One dark mass coming up from the depths is weird enough. Two is officially cause for concern. A few months later, the helicopter pilot saw the exact same thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s out picking up a torpedo, they hook the diver up on the winch, and as they\u2019re lowering him down, he sees this big mass. He goes, \u2018It\u2019s not a submarine\u2019. He\u2019s seen submarines before. Once you\u2019ve seen a submarine you can\u2019t confuse it with something else. This big object, kind of circular, is coming up from the depths and he starts screaming through the intercom system to tell them to pull the diver up, and the diver\u2019s only a few feet from the water.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey reverse the winch and the diver\u2019s thinking, \u2018What the hell is going on?\u2019 And all of a sudden he said the torpedo just got sucked down underwater, and the object just descended back down into the depths. They never recovered it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some people are obviously going to think of UFOs, but I thought of the Lusca…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever heard of the cryptid known as the Lusca? The Lusca has been described in varying ways. Some cryptozoologists have suggested it is merely a giant octopus that has been misidentified. Many others have described the Lusca as a half-shark, half-octopus hybrid monster. It has razor-sharp teeth and multi-suckered tentacles. It sometimes has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[2390,1109,26,2393,1788,2391,2392,1984],"class_list":["post-18566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird","tag-caribbean","tag-cryptozoology","tag-halloween","tag-joe-rogan","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-submarine","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18618,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions\/18618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}