Three giant ‘doomsday fish’ wash up in one week, but harbinger of calamity a damp squib, say experts (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Dave 6 points 1 year ago

I love that there's an actual study on this. The link in the article is paywalled but you can download it here.

[-] liv 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like that one was worth investigating!

[-] Dave 4 points 1 year ago

It was! There is actual potential if it turned out to have a basis, and to be fair it's likely worth the time to do a study on any widespread myth/old wives tale like that because you never know if there might be something to it, and if there's not well at least now you have proof.

[-] liv 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly! There is truth in some of them, though I can't remember which ones!

[-] eagleeyedtiger 6 points 1 year ago

Don't these usually surface or show up when they're sick or dying anyway?

Either that or Cthulhu is awakening

[-] Dave 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The study starts:

In Japan, folklore says that uncommon appearances of deep‐sea fish are an earthquake precursor.

I guess if three show up in a short time (as in the article) then there might be something else going on? More likely to be climate change than earthquakes though.

[-] eagleeyedtiger 3 points 1 year ago

I'd presume in the folklore it means seeing deep sea fish swimming around the surface, meaning something is happening below (undersea earthquake, eruption, pressure changes etc.). Them washing up dead make me think already sick or dying. Who knows, deep sea creatures might as well be aliens, the environment they live in is actually so weird when you think about it.

But it's definitely Cthulhu this time though.