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WELCOME TO THE FOURTH ADDITION TO MY 2023 HALLOWEEN POSTER SELECTION.
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For this post... I thought we would take a plunge into the largest habitat on the planet earth.
the orginal birthplace of all forms of earthly lifeforms and a place of majestic and dread.

I am of course talking about THE OCEANS!

Now older viewers will remember that this isn't the first time we've taken a look
into the horrors of watery nature. After all, looking back several years...

We had 2020, where we explored:
the elder being DAGON > HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2020) 2- DAGON
and deep sea Cryptids found by William Beebe > HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2020) 3- DEEP SEA CRYPTIDS

In 2019, we took at gander at:
a mythical shape-shifting sea serpent > HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2019) 4- THE KELPIE
deceptively beautful mermaids >HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2019) 5-MERMAIDS (aka- SIRENS)
a town full of freaky "frog-fish" people > HALLOWEEN POSTER (2019) 9- INNSMOUTH

in 2018, we looks at:
a HORRIBLY mutated fish monster > HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2018) 6: THE HOST
the beautiful love story of a woman and a fish-man> HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2018) 7: THE SHAPE OF WATER

and WAY back in 2017, we trembled in fear at:
THE MIGHTY KRAKEN! > HALLOWEEN POSTERS(2017) 2- THE DARK DEPTHS

And this year... we'll be looking at TWO water-based enities
I won't yet say what one of them is (yet) but the tonight's topic...much like the kraken.

IT'S OF TRULY MIND-BOGGLINGLY GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS!!!
For tonight's post... we shall be dicussing arguably one of the BIGGEST
animals every dicussesd in the entire (somewhat dubious) study of cryptozoology!

one SO large... that IF it ever existed (and IF is a strong word) it would make ALL other life
ON EARTH look like tiny skin crawling parasities by comparison.
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And yet... despite all that bravado, it has such an absurdly simple name.
one that consitutes a single Five letter word.

Allow me to introduce you lot to:
THE "BLOOP" Creature!

To answer you lot as to what "the bloop" is...
allow me to put it like this:

"The Bloop" is the given nickname of a mysterious underwater sound recorded in the late 90s, specfically... in the year 1997, researchers listening for underwater volcanic activity in the southern Pacific recorded a strange, powerful, and extremely loud noise in the deep dark depths of the ocean. Using hydrophones, or underwater microphones (typicaly used for studying whale calls), that were placed more than 3,219 kilometers apart across the Pacific, they recorded numerous instances of the noise, which to put it in a very understated way of speaking, was unlike anything they had heard before.

Not only was it loud, the sound had a unique characteristic that, when sped up, produced a strange "bloop-ing" noise.
hence why they they ended up nicknaming it "the Bloop". Cute right?

However... when played at NORMAL speed, it sounds MUCH more ominous.
You can have a little listen to it right here > www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGcSYS…
or here >

As you can well imagine, Scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) were eager to discover the sound's origin, but the problem was... the tasking of figuring it out proved FAR more dauting than most would expect. For one, though we don't casually think about it much, for one the ocean is VAST, covers 70 percent of the world's entire surface and has an average depth of 3,688 meters (or 2-3 miles) but some points are SO deep, they reach a staggering 11034.065 meters (right around 7 or 8 MILES) and down there, light cannot reach and the water pressure would be so great it would crush you like a titanosaur stepping on a tennis ball.

Heck, even today... we've navigated more of the surface of THE MOON AND MARS than the vast untouchable abyss of the ocean.
Even for something so loud, it would be akin to find a needle in a haystack. Furthermore, they didn't even know WHAT IT WAS.

Theories abounded, some suggested it was military operations, some suggested ship engines,
others suggested fishing boat winches, or volcanoes or giant squids, or collective whales...

However... one theory became very popular among laymen and cryptozoologists alike.
WHAT IF... "the Bloop" was the call of some sea creature unknown to science?

A true "sea monster" if you will.

The reason for this rumour was down to the notably "organic" way the sound was structured.
but the thing is...the largest known animal alive (the blue whale) makes a call that registers
on hydrophones from about 800km or 500 miles away.

The "bloop" sound was heard on hydrophones from 5,000 km or OVER 3,000 MILES AWAY!
To put that into perspective, if such a creature existed to make a noise like that...

It would have AT LEAST 5 to 10 times LARGER THAN ANY BLUE WHALE!!!
Forgive me for my reaction but....That is literally INSANE! Basically a gigantic Kaiju.
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CULTURAL IMPACT:

As you can well imagine... those implications spawned DOZENS of scary images, videos and stories.
many of which leaned qutie heavily into the theme of Thalassophobia (a intense fear of deep water).

One of my favourites would include: this simple short film by Ankit Kapoor on youtube. simple imagery, simple arrative but VERY unnerving > www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM15Z0… and the most common image depicted of the "bloop" creature is rather like what I've shown here
an immense, vaugle fish or whale like organism with smooth skin, small eyes and a dark, void
like cavern for a mouth, striking fear into the heart of ANYONE who sees it.

Ironically though if such a creature existed, even though it COULD very likely eat us and everything in sight, I'd imagine it to be a non-malicous being, like a mega-sized whale shark, if it even saw you, it would be HIGHLY unlikely to show any meger interest in you, because after all, you would be barely a quater of an inch of rice to it, simply not worth the effort of it's immense body.

And that, among two reasons, is simply why such a being COULD NOT exist. it is simply TOO LARGE for even the ocean's vast ecosystem's to properly sustain one of them, let alone a WHOLE SPECIES.

The OTHER reason is as follows....

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A DISAPPOINTING CONCLUSION:

As the years slowly passed, PMEL researchers continued to deploy hydrophones ever closer to Antarctica in an ongoing effort to study the sounds of sea floor volcanoes and earthquakes.

It was there, on Earth’s lonely southernmost land mass, that they finally discovered the source of those thunderous rumbles from the deep in 2005.

As it turned out, The Bloop was just the sound of an icequake—spefcially an iceberg cracking and breaking away from an Antarctic glacier! With global warming, more and more icequakes occur annually, breaking off glaciers, cracking and eventually melting into the ocean, creating more "bloop" sounds if you will. So it's a little sad on two accounts, one is that there is NOT some immense unseen sea monster and the other is that humanity is pretty much responsible for it in the first place.

But all that said, the bloop still stands as a shining example of how enmormous the human imagination is, to produce sea monsters that would make even even the real titans of earth look puny by comparison... and also a clear reminder of just how deep, dark and void like the ocean really is. Personally as far as i'm concerned i'll probably never go down there.

If there IS such sea monsters down there, I think they'll be happy to remain undisturbed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

so that is the creature assoicated with "the bloop"
I hope you liked this one. Write your thoughts down in the comments please :3

like seriously... this thing even makes the JW mosasaur look like a teeny tiny lizard by comparison.

Description
WELCOME TO THE FOURTH ADDITION TO MY 2023 HALLOWEEN POSTER SELECTION.
=============================================
For this post... I thought we would take a plunge into the largest habitat on the planet earth.
the orginal birthplace of all forms of earthly lifeforms and a place of majestic and dread.

I am of course talking about THE OCEANS!

Now older viewers will remember that this isn't the first time we've taken a look
into the horrors of watery nature. After all, looking back several years...

We had 2020, where we explored:
the elder being DAGON > HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2020) 2- DAGON
and deep sea Cryptids found by William Beebe > HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2020) 3- DEEP SEA CRYPTIDS

In 2019, we took at gander at:
a mythical shape-shifting sea serpent > HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2019) 4- THE KELPIE
deceptively beautful mermaids >HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2019) 5-MERMAIDS (aka- SIRENS)
a town full of freaky "frog-fish" people > HALLOWEEN POSTER (2019) 9- INNSMOUTH

in 2018, we looks at:
a HORRIBLY mutated fish monster > HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2018) 6: THE HOST
the beautiful love story of a woman and a fish-man> HALLOWEEN POSTERS (2018) 7: THE SHAPE OF WATER

and WAY back in 2017, we trembled in fear at:
THE MIGHTY KRAKEN! > HALLOWEEN POSTERS(2017) 2- THE DARK DEPTHS

And this year... we'll be looking at TWO water-based enities
I won't yet say what one of them is (yet) but the tonight's topic...much like the kraken.

IT'S OF TRULY MIND-BOGGLINGLY GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS!!!
For tonight's post... we shall be dicussing arguably one of the BIGGEST
animals every dicussesd in the entire (somewhat dubious) study of cryptozoology!

one SO large... that IF it ever existed (and IF is a strong word) it would make ALL other life
ON EARTH look like tiny skin crawling parasities by comparison.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And yet... despite all that bravado, it has such an absurdly simple name.
one that consitutes a single Five letter word.

Allow me to introduce you lot to:
THE "BLOOP" Creature!

To answer you lot as to what "the bloop" is...
allow me to put it like this:

"The Bloop" is the given nickname of a mysterious underwater sound recorded in the late 90s, specfically... in the year 1997, researchers listening for underwater volcanic activity in the southern Pacific recorded a strange, powerful, and extremely loud noise in the deep dark depths of the ocean. Using hydrophones, or underwater microphones (typicaly used for studying whale calls), that were placed more than 3,219 kilometers apart across the Pacific, they recorded numerous instances of the noise, which to put it in a very understated way of speaking, was unlike anything they had heard before.

Not only was it loud, the sound had a unique characteristic that, when sped up, produced a strange "bloop-ing" noise.
hence why they they ended up nicknaming it "the Bloop". Cute right?

However... when played at NORMAL speed, it sounds MUCH more ominous.
You can have a little listen to it right here > www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGcSYS…
or here >

As you can well imagine, Scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) were eager to discover the sound's origin, but the problem was... the tasking of figuring it out proved FAR more dauting than most would expect. For one, though we don't casually think about it much, for one the ocean is VAST, covers 70 percent of the world's entire surface and has an average depth of 3,688 meters (or 2-3 miles) but some points are SO deep, they reach a staggering 11034.065 meters (right around 7 or 8 MILES) and down there, light cannot reach and the water pressure would be so great it would crush you like a titanosaur stepping on a tennis ball.

Heck, even today... we've navigated more of the surface of THE MOON AND MARS than the vast untouchable abyss of the ocean.
Even for something so loud, it would be akin to find a needle in a haystack. Furthermore, they didn't even know WHAT IT WAS.

Theories abounded, some suggested it was military operations, some suggested ship engines,
others suggested fishing boat winches, or volcanoes or giant squids, or collective whales...

However... one theory became very popular among laymen and cryptozoologists alike.
WHAT IF... "the Bloop" was the call of some sea creature unknown to science?

A true "sea monster" if you will.

The reason for this rumour was down to the notably "organic" way the sound was structured.
but the thing is...the largest known animal alive (the blue whale) makes a call that registers
on hydrophones from about 800km or 500 miles away.

The "bloop" sound was heard on hydrophones from 5,000 km or OVER 3,000 MILES AWAY!
To put that into perspective, if such a creature existed to make a noise like that...

It would have AT LEAST 5 to 10 times LARGER THAN ANY BLUE WHALE!!!
Forgive me for my reaction but....That is literally INSANE! Basically a gigantic Kaiju.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CULTURAL IMPACT:

As you can well imagine... those implications spawned DOZENS of scary images, videos and stories.
many of which leaned qutie heavily into the theme of Thalassophobia (a intense fear of deep water).

One of my favourites would include: this simple short film by Ankit Kapoor on youtube. simple imagery, simple arrative but VERY unnerving > www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM15Z0… and the most common image depicted of the "bloop" creature is rather like what I've shown here
an immense, vaugle fish or whale like organism with smooth skin, small eyes and a dark, void
like cavern for a mouth, striking fear into the heart of ANYONE who sees it.

Ironically though if such a creature existed, even though it COULD very likely eat us and everything in sight, I'd imagine it to be a non-malicous being, like a mega-sized whale shark, if it even saw you, it would be HIGHLY unlikely to show any meger interest in you, because after all, you would be barely a quater of an inch of rice to it, simply not worth the effort of it's immense body.

And that, among two reasons, is simply why such a being COULD NOT exist. it is simply TOO LARGE for even the ocean's vast ecosystem's to properly sustain one of them, let alone a WHOLE SPECIES.

The OTHER reason is as follows....

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A DISAPPOINTING CONCLUSION:

As the years slowly passed, PMEL researchers continued to deploy hydrophones ever closer to Antarctica in an ongoing effort to study the sounds of sea floor volcanoes and earthquakes.

It was there, on Earth’s lonely southernmost land mass, that they finally discovered the source of those thunderous rumbles from the deep in 2005.

As it turned out, The Bloop was just the sound of an icequake—spefcially an iceberg cracking and breaking away from an Antarctic glacier! With global warming, more and more icequakes occur annually, breaking off glaciers, cracking and eventually melting into the ocean, creating more "bloop" sounds if you will. So it's a little sad on two accounts, one is that there is NOT some immense unseen sea monster and the other is that humanity is pretty much responsible for it in the first place.

But all that said, the bloop still stands as a shining example of how enmormous the human imagination is, to produce sea monsters that would make even even the real titans of earth look puny by comparison... and also a clear reminder of just how deep, dark and void like the ocean really is. Personally as far as i'm concerned i'll probably never go down there.

If there IS such sea monsters down there, I think they'll be happy to remain undisturbed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

so that is the creature assoicated with "the bloop"
I hope you liked this one. Write your thoughts down in the comments please :3

like seriously... this thing even makes the JW mosasaur look like a teeny tiny lizard by comparison.