#ocean cryptid

🌊What Happens at Camp Eglarest, Stays at Camp Eglarest by @polutrope

🌊Nowhere Man by lotrfan

🌊An Elf in the Woods by @admirablemonster

🌊And now each night I count the stars by @bloodwingblackbird

🌊As the Tides Flow by @kanafinwe-makalaure

🌊Consonance by @elesianne

🌊The Flowerpot Incident by @maglor-my-beloved

🌊Laughing All the Way by @polutrope

🌊A contest by @ettelene

🌊Home Through Shadows Journeying by @maglor-my-beloved

🌊Buttered Up by @polutrope (NSFW)

🌊Where no storms come by @arrivisting

🌊 Good night and good luck by @grundyscribbling

🌊 Hearken still unsated by @polutrope

This list has been brought to you by @tinnurin, @elennalore, Mel, @symbieote (please get me your handles because #team), and my own little person ❤️

Twice, at least, decaying bodies of plesiosauruses have been found. The crew of the Kaz II disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a still-running laptop and an unspilled mug of coffee.

There are perfectly logical, scientific answers for everything, but doesn’t that make it all the more fascinating?

The ocean follows every rule of physics and biology and yet uses them to present us with the strangest of circumstances. Cryptid bodies of long-gone creatures. Vanished friends. Beings too large to comprehend.

All without breaking one single law of science.

How strange is it that the corpse of an ancient plesiosaurus would wash up in a Scottish loch? You could say it takes away the intrigue that the body was only that of a shark. But how strange is it that a shark, when rotten, can resemble so closely the body of something known only by bones and fossils? The ocean is playing with us. How could anyone think that a shark would rot and shrink away to resemble such a unique a creature? How contrived we would say it was, if an author were to make such a claim, that trained professionals could mistake a shark for a plesiosaurus?