Globsters

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Chile Beach Blob

Globsters, or sometimes Blobsters or beach blobs are usualy considered to be carcasses or globs of flesh that wash up on beaches, specificaly ocean beaches, or are found in the stomach of whales that can not be identified as a known creature. Many Globsters show the looks of Sea Serpents and Contemporary Dinosaurs. Some Globsters have been identified as creatures like basking sharks and decayed whales, while most are still unknown. Beach Blobs are usually large masses of flesh that wash up on the beach. Due to the massive size of these blobs, their identification is very hard if not impossible. There are many theories as to what a globster may be, anything from a giant octopus, a squid, a whale, or even the elusive cryptid known as the bloop.

1 A Beach Invasion
2 Speculation Ended?
3 List of Well-Known Globsters
4 Relevant Discussion Threads
5 Related Links

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A Beach Invasion

There have been many documented cases of the so-called beach blobs over the last several centuries. In most cases these are the facts surrounding each instance: a gigantic, rotting carcass has washed itself up on the beach. There are no bones in the mass. No one has been able to positively identify what the creature could be. The most common explanation given, up until this century, is that these creatures were the remains of giant octopii. While there are many tales of giant octopii,such as the giant squid found off the coast of Japan in 2002.

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Speculation Ended?

There was a large blob that washed up in Chile a few years ago. Samples were collected and then dna tested. Even though the samples were badly decayed, scientists were able to positively identify the mass as that of a sperm whale. Apparently what had happened is, the whale died, possibly out at sea. After decaying for a long time, the blubber slides off of the skeleton. The blob then, bloated with gases from rotting, floats and finds it's way on shore. However this explanation does not convince everyone for all the cases of beach blobs.

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List of Well-Known Globsters

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Ataka Carcass

The Ataka Carcass was discovered on a beach on the Gulf of Suez in 1950. The carcass was whale-sized, with a blowhole, no eyes and two large tusks protruding from either side of the mouth. Egyptian scientists were unable to identify the creature. Many scientists now speculate that it was a decaying whale whose mandible was cracked in half, the halves protruding through the skin on either side.

Image of the Ataka Carcass

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Okanagan Carcass

In 1914, a group of Canadian Indians came across a corpse of an unknown creature on the banks of Rattlesanke Island in Lake Okanagan, home to Ogopogo. They showed the corpse to an amatuer naturalist, who measured the corpse.

The naturalist reported the creature was of around 400 pounds and between five and six feet long. It had a tail, four flippers, and blueish-gray skin. There was no head on the carcass. Many now believe that it was the carcass of a juvenile Ogopogo.

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Bermuda Blob

The Bermuda Blob washed up in 1988 in Bermuda. The object was a classic Globster, no bones, skin was pale, 8 ft. long, 3 ft. wide, pale skin, and five limbs, like a starfish.

The skin was very tough, and it took effort to remove a section for lab study. The sample was reportedly taken to a lab, but no results have ever been given out.

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Canvey Island Creatures

In 1954, two corpses washed ashore on the British Canvey Islands. The corpses were three and four feet tall, with red and pink skin. The head had two large nostrils, sharp pointed teeth, and two arms and two legs. The feet had five toes shaped in a U position, the bottom of the U where the toes met the foot.

The first corpse was cremated by officials for reasons unknown, the second's fate is unknown.

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Four Mile Blobster

On Tazmania's Four Mile Beach, a globster washed up said to be a cross between a Giant Squid and Walrus. The globster had paddle shaped flippers, spaghetti like strands of white hair and six, long, fleshy lobes on its sides. It was fifteen feet in length, and six wide, with no bone structure. A local biologist did a DNA test, the results being inconclusive.

The Four Mile Blobster

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