I know this is the second fish story in as many days, I apologize, but there’s an Oarfish sitting here with a gun to my head.
“Down at the water, there was something big floating,” Kurt Ove Eriksson, one of the people who found the fish, told Svenska Dagbladet. “At first we thought it was a big piece of plastic. But then we saw an eye. I went down to check and saw that it was this extremely strange fish.”
“Eriksson and his companions brought the fish to the House of the Sea Aquarium in the nearby town of Lysekil.”
The Oarfish lives in deep waters at least 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) deep and they can grow to lengths of up to 50 feet. The occasional beachings of oarfish after storms, and their habit of lingering at the surface when sick or dying, make oarfish a probable source of many sea serpent tales.
“The last sighting of an oarfish in Sweden came in 1879, but a handful of giant herrings have been spotted in other countries as the creatures come to shore and die.”
“Believed to live the majority of its life on the ocean floor, the oarfish can grow to a length of up to 50 feet, making it the longest fish in the sea.”
A local cat who was interviewed at the beach said simply, “Hot Damn.”
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