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Whatever Just Washed Up in Indonesia is Maybe Not of this World
And people wonder why I stay out of the water.
In case you’ve been living under a rock (and you’ll probably want to after you lay eyes on this thing), a massive blob-like monster just washed ashore off the coast of the island of Seram in Indonesia. Video footage of the unidentified creature/monster/thing has mostly come courtesy of a local by the name of Patasiwa Kumbang Amalatu, whose uploads to YouTube today have positively gone viral. And it’s not hard to see why. Because nobody is quite sure what the hell he even captured footage of.
Here’s what we know. This thing is MASSIVE. Measuring 50-feet, it’s the size of a large passenger bus, and it’s decaying under the hot sun and spilling guts and copious amounts of blood into the water. Some have speculated that it’s either a giant squid or a super-sized humpback whale, but if it’s either of those things then I’d like to know why the hell it looks like it exploded from within. This looks more like viral marketing for Pacific Rim 2 or maybe the next Cloverfield film than it does anything I’ve ever seen here in the real world, so it’s hard to believe it’s merely a whale.
Whenever bizarre-looking things like this are found, they’re always written off with simple explanations. But ya know, I’m just not convinced.
Watch the creepiest ever found footage below.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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