# Bloop! Monster from the Deep!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloop-monster-from-the-deep/113883
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 13, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloop-monster-from-the-deep/113883 "2002-06-13T17:09:28Z")
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### Author:  [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloop-monster-from-the-deep/113883/1 "2002-06-13T17:09:28Z")
Okay, now [this](http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/06/13/bloop/index.html) is fascinating.
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> LONDON, England – Scientists have revealed a mysterious recording that they say could be the sound of a giant beast lurking in the depths of the ocean.
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> Researchers have nicknamed the strange unidentified sound picked up by undersea microphones “Bloop.”
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> While it bears the varying frequency hallmark of marine animals, it is far more powerful than the calls made by any creature known on Earth, Britain’s New Scientist reported on Thursday.
It’s distinctively biological in origin. Something is down there.
I’m picturing either…
1. A huge, tentacled, Old One, just about to surface and devastate the planet with its otherworldly wrath.
Or…
1. A giant unicellular organism, which spends its entire life anchored to the sea bottom, accumulating gases slowly over centuries, so that, just at the moment of its death, it can release all the gas at once, making an enormous “bloop!” sound and amusing its neighbors to no end.
Any theories?
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloop-monster-from-the-deep/113883/2 "2002-06-13T17:27:58Z")
[This](http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/photonovels/fury/index.shtml) immediately springs to mind. Well, all right, to _my_ mind…
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloop-monster-from-the-deep/113883/3 "2002-06-13T17:29:06Z")
Its a big 'ol Kraken
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloop-monster-from-the-deep/113883/4 "2002-06-13T17:45:42Z")
It’s Flounder and Ariel, having fun at the expense of the scientists.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloop-monster-from-the-deep/113883/5 "2002-06-13T17:47:53Z")
I’m going with that Old One theory…
All Hail the Great Elder God, Cthulu!