If you ask me , globsters have the makings of a terrible ( but great ) horror movie . What is a globster ? So glad you asked . A globster is " ¦ well " ¦ it ’s kind of hard to define . Basically , it ’s a blobby - looking , unidentifiable carcass that has washed up on a shoring somewhere . Some globsters have bones , some do n’t . Sometime they have tentacle , flippers and eyes , sometimes they do n’t .
One of the most famous globsters is the St. Augustine Monster .
It was first spotted by a brace of Thomas Kid drive bicycle on the beach on November 30 , 1896 . It had sunk into the Baroness Dudevant under its own weight " “ only about half of it was visible to the boy . They call up it might be the leftovers of a beach whale , because something similar had befall in the same country a couplet of age before . They report the blob to a local MD , who went to the beach to inspect it the next day . He estimated that the carcase consider five tons and that it might be a gargantuan octopus because he could make out what he thought was four weapon system soapbox , with another stump bury in the sand nearby .
Another doctor came for a looking at and described the affair as such :
Yikes . Over the years , it has been theorize that , among other things , the carcase was that of a sea monster , a giant devilfish , a sperm whale and a giant squid . A clump of the blob was continue at the Smithsonian , and over the years it has been test by various scientists . The most recent , carry in 2004 , concluded that it the globster had once been a heavyweight .
In fact , enquiry is now showing that most of the globsters are probably just big chunks of fat that have go down off decomposing whales . Delightful . Or peradventure that ’s just a conspiracy to make us think that ’s what globsters are ( I see Cloverfield last weekend , people).Nevertheless , some other well - known globsters include :
" ¢The Tasmanian Globsterwashed up on the shores of westerly Tasmania in 1960 , measured about 20 by 18 feet and weighed somewhere between five and ten long ton . It did n’t have any eyes , and instead of a mouth it had " soft , tusk - like protuberances " . It did have a spine , in addition to six fleshy arms and potent lily-white bristle all over its body .
" ¢The Bermuda Blobwas discover by fisher Teddy Tucker in Mangrove Bay , Bermuda , in May 1988 . Compared to the others , this cat was relatively small : only about three fundament loggerheaded . He described it as being white and sinewy and having five arms kind of like a starfish . Turns out it was just the clay of a large shark .
" ¢ Tasmania is a pop assemblage primer for these things , I guess , because theFour Mile Globsterwas found on Four Mile Beach in Tasmania in 1997 . It was 15 fundament long and count about four tons . It was described a batch like the first Tasmanian Globster : filament of white hair , sarcoid lobes and some fin / branch like things . This one was also never tested . Suspicious !
TheChilean Blobreally takes the cake " ¦ or the beach , as it were . The 13 - ton ( ! ) globster ( below ) was launch in the sand in Los Muermos , Chile , in July 2003 . At the fourth dimension , biologists could n’t visualise out what it could perhaps be and thought that it might be some sort of giant devilfish previously unknown to man . About a year later , after desoxyribonucleic acid testing , they discovered that some of the deoxyribonucleic acid matched that of a sperm whale and the blob was just part of a whale ’s corpse .
Really , all I have to say about any of that is " ew " . Can you imagine swim in the ocean and accidentally brushing your pegleg up against any of that ? I ’m so grossed out right now .
What do you guy cable think ? Whales ? Unidentified sea creatures ? Government cover up ? ? Despite my joking , I think whale blubber seems middling plausible .
