Oh, for hake from heaven.
Last weekend, a huge fish called the “harbinger of doom” was seen sulking off the coast of California. This is the latest sign that the end of the world is near.
The magical fish was already dead, which made things even worse.
People kayaking and snorkeling in San Diego’s La Jolla Cove saw the 12-foot oarfish body, which is said to be a sign of an upcoming earthquake.
As promised, the “doomsday fish” caused a 4.6-magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles just two days after it was found.
However, the team cuddled up next to the fish’s body and smiled for pictures with it before telling the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego about what they had found.
An autopsy is being done to find out what killed the young oarfish and dumped its body in shallow water.
Oarfish live in the deep sea and people rarely see them. The fact that their bodies rarely float into shallow water makes last week’s findings very unusual.
The Oceanography Center said that since 1901, only 20 oarfish have turned up in the whole state.
As the Ocean Conservatory says, they are “strikingly large and odd-looking fish” with a long, silvery body shaped like a ribbon that can get up to 30 feet long.
The red spines on their heads stick out in a crown-like pattern, giving them a creepy look.
It was scary enough that the doomsday fish showed up in California on its own, but it’s not the only bad sign that has happened this summer.
Geologically, Utah’s Double Arch, which is 190 million years old, just fell apart last week.
Two weeks before, a 1,100-year-old pyramid in Mexico collapsed in heavy rain. The people whose ancestors built it said it was a “bad sign” of bad things to come.
Even worse, the rare white buffalo calf whose birth in Yellowstone National Park was a sign of good things to come is still lost.
A Lakota prophecy says that the newborn will bring good luck. No one has seen it since it was taken with its mother and siblings in June.
