On February 13, 1958, a Japanese icebreaker, the Sogu, was sailing off the coast of Antarctica. Suddenly, the crew on deck shouted "Godzilla..." and pointed to the sea in front of the bow!
300 meters away, a "hairless monster" with a bulging back is looking at them coldly...
It was around 5 p.m., and the Sogu was moving slowly, the surrounding area was eerily quiet, and the crew had been sailing for days, but still performing their duties in an orderly manner.
Suddenly, the crew member on duty in charge of the lookout shouted a few times. The mournful cries caused a commotion on the otherwise quiet deck.
At this time, Matsumoto, the captain of the Sotani, happened to be on the deck.
So, together with a dozen crew members, he saw a scene that he would never forget...
Just over 300 meters from the bow of the ship, a huge dark brown "monster" floats on the surface of the water.
If at first, people subconsciously think that they may have encountered whales or something, but at this moment, no one will think so anymore!
Because this "monster" has a pair of big eyes like two bells, and at this moment, it is staring at Funazu Valley.
Whales don't have that "cold" look!
However, this thing actually released a "contemptuous" expression in his eyes, as if he was not afraid of the big ship approaching him...
"Godzilla! This is Godzilla..." The ship suddenly shouted again, causing another commotion.
According to Captain Matsumoto's later recollection, the "monster" should have been floating on the water at that time, because only the head and half of the dorsal fin were exposed.
The monster has big eyes and obvious ears! The head diameter may be 80 cm! What impressed him most was that the monster's dorsal fin seemed to have a prickly bulge, which reminded him of the "monitor lizard"...
So, why did the crew shout "Godzilla" at that time?
In fact, just four years ago, around 1954, Japan released a monster movie "Godzilla" - this monster living in the deep sea returned to land because of nuclear radiation, causing great panic and shadows.
Since then, "Godzilla" has quickly become synonymous with a giant monster in the deep sea, and even swept the world.
Four years later, Japan's Munakata encounters an unknown monster in antarctica, and the crew naturally thinks of Godzilla...
Captain Matsumoto later called the monster they witnessed "the Godzilla of Antarctica."
Looking at the incredible scene at the bow of the ship, the captain quickly turned and rushed back to the cabin. He wanted to take out his camera and take a picture of the monster...
However, when he returned to the plywood again, the sea was empty, and there were no "dark brown" monsters except for the ice floes.
The crew told him that after about 30 seconds, "Godzilla" turned and dived to the bottom of the water and disappeared...
It is conceivable that in the era of the Japanese Godzilla movie fire, Antarctica suddenly exposed such a "monster infested" news, and its sensational effect is huge!
This "monster sighting" has certainly attracted the attention of scientists, and speculation has continued from all sides.
Some serious experts believe that according to the route of the "Zonggu", the "monster" seen at that time may be an "abandoned iron barrel"!
It turned out that just before the Japanese ships reached that sea, the American icebreaker Burton Island also passed through there.
Experts believe it may be black and brown objects dropped or abandoned on the surface of the water by U.S. ships. After a long voyage, the Japanese crew formed an "illusion" to see it as a "monster".
More coincidentally, how does this monster "look" like Godzilla in a Japanese movie? According to the crew's description, isn't it that the subconscious is affected by the movie?
Faced with many questions, the people on the Zonggu could not deal with them one by one. However, the captain later published a book called "Antarctic Transport", which became a popular figure for a time.
Of course, the most controversial feature in this Antarctic Transport is an illustration – a hand-drawn painting of Antarctic Godzilla!
Skeptics grasp this detail and exaggerate it!
It turned out that this monster hand-drawn drawing was not painted by eyewitness Matsumoto, and the publisher never announced to the public who the author was...
However, by the time of the publication of Antarctic Transport, Matsumoto had died of illness and his son was in charge of the content.
According to Matsumoto's son, before his death, his father often mentioned to him "Godzilla of Antarctica." He asked someone to draw this picture according to his father's description.
Things have come to this point and seem a little bad...
Decades have passed, but none of the national scientific research vessels that have entered Antarctica have "seen" the monster...
The Japanese "Munakata" became the only witness ship, but also became an "isolated case".
In the face of this mysterious Antarctic monster, whether it exists or not, it will not affect the heated discussion of human beings...
So, if such a deep-sea beast really existed, what would it be? How many secrets remain in the inaccessible and bottomless waters of Antarctica?
Perhaps, at the moment, no one can answer this question.
Twenty years later, however, another Japanese ship went to sea, and the "sea monster sighting" incident occurred again.
In 1977, the Japanese Ruiyang Maru once again witnessed a sea monster in New Zealand waters. This time, this Japanese trawler actually "fished" a strange sea creature corpse from the sea!
After measurement, the monster's body is about 10 meters long, its neck is 1.5 meters, and its tail is 2 meters! Unfortunately, the crew ended up throwing the body into the sea out of fear!
Luckily, they brought back some photos (Figure 3) to prove that this did happen.
The next time I have a chance I will tell you the story of the sea monster "Ruiyang Maru" in detail...
Do you think "Godzilla" or "Sea Monster" really exists?
