Lusca, a huge octopus that ate the horse

In the Caribbean Sea, near the Bahams, there is a huge octopus to which the locals gave the nickname “Lusca”.

It is believed that they are rarely seen because they will take shelter in so-called blue holes-very deep, round underwater submarines, which are many around the Bahams.

It is Lusca who often blames himself for the mysterious disappearance of swimmers and fishermen, whose corpse is sometimes found with unusual wounds, but most often their bodies disappear without a trace.

Similar huge octopuses were also noticed in other Caribbean areas, as well as off the coast of Kuba, Belize and even off the coast of Mexico. In general, where there are deep holes for shelter.

One of the first known reports of Luscy took place in 1863, but already in 1836. Benedict-Henri Revoil wrote in his book that the unnamed American captain told him about how “giant Kraken” attacked his ship in Strait Lucayes (Bahamas).

“Kraken stretched out giant arms, reached out and pulled two members of his crew into the sea. In vain their companions tried to save these two misfortunes from death, all efforts were in vain. However, the crew gained a partial victory, because the senior helmsman cut one of his arms with an ax.

In 1872, one JS George, a resident of Nassau, described that “the huge octopuses that are here are considered occasional.” But the main flow of information began in the mid -twentieth century, when a note about observing a giant octopus with a tentacle 60 meters appeared in the press.

This creature was noticed near the blue hole near the Nassau coast, after which there were reports of local residents that it was a fairly large person and that smaller octopuses were observed here – with the Mack “only” 24 meters (78 feet).

In the 1960s, Bruce Bruce Bruce S. Wright visited Andros after he was about Lusk by a local resident. He did not see the creation himself, but he swore that many fishermen saw it. He also stated that he saw in the water a “huge dead delay”, which was longer than his 5-meter boat.

In the seventies, the article about Lusk was published in National Geographic Magazine, and the whole world learned about it. He also described that local fishermen are afraid to swim in blue holes because of the danger of attacking huge octopuses. When the famous oceanographer Jacques-yves Cousteau read this article, he sailed there to try to find these creatures.

He and his team heard many stories from fishermen about some large creation that cut off their lines, and they also managed to photograph the suspicious brown body in the water, but it was difficult to say what it was.

The story of a Heitor Ishmel of the Bahams, before whom something huge pulled the dead horse into the depths, became very famous.

When journalist Randy Wayne White went to Cat Island in 1997, the locals tried to convince him not to dive in the nearby Mororzyn Lake, which they were afraid of as a house of a monster eating man. One respected local, older farmer Gaitor Ishmel, told White that he once saw something that seemed a large, carnivorous animal in the lake that kidnapped the corpse of a horse who died on his father's farm.

“Large animals die on this island, we always smoke or put them in the water. I was a juvenile man at the time and I remember how it was. It was on Sunday and we pushed this horse into this lake, and not so long we see a gigantic ridge in water approaching us, like a great wave, I understand.

“And this thing comes from under the water and takes the horse. It drags the whole horse under water. It disappears in the depths! That when I know a dangerous creature living in this lake, because the horse is not small.

“I know that this whole island lay under the sea, and when content to God lifts some of them to be desiccated earth, it could have been that they remained great creatures underwater. Maybe gigantic octopus – maybe I don't know. But there is something in this lake, man. I know so much because I saw it my own.”

In 2009, the band from the TV series with paranormal phenomena “Destination Truth”, headed by Josh Gates, went to the island of Andros to look for Luscmy, and during the exploration of the blue hole they filmed something much splashing on the surface of the water.

Jeremy Wade, the host of the “River Monsters” program at Channel Planet Animal, also visited there in 2016, but without success.

Described as a gigantic scuttle, the word usually used to the octopus, many cryptosophymers theoretized that Lusca is actually a giant octopus, unknown to a similar size to a gigantic squid.

No known octopus is officially registered as reaching such a gigantic size; The largest is the gigantic Pacific octopus (Enterocopus Dofleini) from Pacific Rim, which has a medium ARMSpan of 14 feet (4.3 m), although some larger records contain specimens with 30 feet frames (9 m) and 9.8 m (32 feet). Lusca would be even twice as gigantic.