It’s time for a new cryptid!
Today I give you all… the Ningen!
About four years ago, on a Japanese forum, someone posted a story about gigantic (20 – 30m) long semi-humanoid creatures that had occasionally been witnessed in the antarctic oceans by researchers and sailors,
They are said to be ghostly white, very large, with humanlike faces and two long wing-like ‘arms’. They are often sighted at the surface, but are believed to be deep-sea creatures. Apparently they are slow moving and non-aggressive.
Other reports soon followed, and this cryptid was picked up by a magazine from which the story spread. All of a sudden there were many anecdotal reports of Ningen, accompanied by a few (obviously fake) ‘photographs’ (including the ones in this entry).
A ningen has even been spotted on Google Earth:
And here is a video of one, allegedly taken by an underwater ROV (this is particularly creepy):
Hostile or not, I wouldn’t want to run into that underwater 🙂
So, what do you think? Real or not?