Fishermen And Sailors Describe the Creepiest Things They've Seen at Sea (15 items)

• (#12) Unusual jellyfish completely surround boat in freak thunderstorm

  "I was sailing by the coast of Okinawa, when a thunder storm started up in the middle of the night. Strangely, the ocean was completely still and the weather was giving us a wonderful light show. Lightning would strike the water and light up everything around us. Suddenly, lighting struck near our boat and we saw the most incredible sight. Jellyfish. Jellyfish everywhere. There's were not the usual jellyfish that you see around the US, these things were HUGE. The lightning would strike the water, and the jellyfish would light up.

  The ocean literally looked like it glowed purple and red that night."
• (#13) Ocean becomes inexplicably, terminally calm in the middle of the Pacific

  On the Pacific side of South America - I believe we were off the coast of Peru or Chile, I can't quite remember - I was working night shift, so I was out on the flight deck to watch the sun come up.

  Strangest damn thing I've ever seen. The ocean was dead calm, like a lake. Seriously, no ripples, no waves, just dead calm. Like you found a small pond up in the mountains that was completely undisturbed. The moon was bright in the sky, but there was still a lot of light from it. The moon made it feel all the more eerie. And besides the noise from the ship, it was completely silent. One of the weirdest experiences I've ever felt.
  
• (#10) Navy technician describes bizarre sounds coming from the ocean

  US navy submarine sonar tech. I've heard some strange sounding fish that people can usually identify or at least have a colloquial name for (such as the boingfish).
   

  Then I've a lot of weird, unnatural, disturbing sounding fish that nobody can identify. Fish that sound like an opera singer singing while puking into a papershredder.
• (#5) Crew mate spots something ominous amid unusually large swells

  "I have family who sailed around the world. One day in the North Atlantic, their sailboat was going over some GIGANTIC swells. They didn't have breaks at the top, so it was safe, but the boat was rising and falling way beyond the neutral.

  At the bottom of a trough my uncle looked up to see the sun behind a wave and the silhouette of a whale inside, above him."
• (#6) Aircraft carrier crew sees object flying at impossible speeds on radar

  "I was on an aircraft carrier. No flight operations, I was the junior guy that had to sit around and watch the radar/ CNN/ basic instinct on continuous loop...

  
  I noticed a blip which was no big deal. Either commercial or a French carrier (Foch?) had something go on, however, the next blip showed it had traveled quite a distance. At seven seconds per sweep, it was running over 2,000 MPH. My first thought was that it was an SR-71 type badass but my radar was for ATC, that thing would have to be pretty low for me to see it (50,000 feet, tops). The next return verified the speed. It was the fourth turn that qualifies as "creepy." The aircraft had turned 90 degrees. It was headed south, then it turned east. We had planes that could run that fast, but nothing that could turn that fast (that I'm aware of, in the early 90s). Another sweep and it was gone.

  buddy of mine in the CDC (combat direction center) saw the same thing. Both of us were pretty excited about it. Reported it up and they blew it off.

  So, I don't know about cow mutilation or alien abductions, things like that, but I was (am) absolutely convinced I saw a UFO."
• (#9) Fishing boat receives unexpected visitor 10 miles offshore

  "I was on a fishing charter boat on Lake Erie, it was around 5 AM, and the water was scary calm and glasslike, and it was so foggy you could not see more than 30 feet if that.

  We all started hearing this plopping sound, like somebody was slapping the water with open hands, and it kept getting louder and closer.

  At this point we had all slowly moved to the other side of the boat not knowing WTF it was - even the boat captain was standing there in total silence as we all just stood there and listened to this plopping sound getting closer and closer. And to the shock of us all, a deer swam by the boat - yes, a deer - it looked to be a very large buck with at least 10 points on his rack. We were more than 10 miles off shore so it made no sense at all.""

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