June 26, 2025

El Demonio Negro (The Black Demon Shark)

El Demonio Negro (The Black Demon Shark)
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There's plenty of fish in the sea! And one really, REALLY big one! In this episode, Ayden takes a deep dive, and a bite out of, the story of El Demonio Negro. A mega-sized shark said to inhabit and terrorize the Sea of Cortez.

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A cool friends, it's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way,

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I am still your host and you are still listening

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to Sousto, the podcast of paranormal folklore from Latin American

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and Hispanic cultures. I hope everybody is staying cool. It

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is starting to get very warm. It's been warm, not

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starting to get it's been warm. It's officially summer, and

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I am in that mode where I am thinking I

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need to just do a batter recording of a bunch

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of episodes so that I don't have to sit in

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our apartment with the AC and fans everything off so

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that we don't get all that background noise. That or

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I find a studio and pay for in studio recording

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because it is hot. It's warm, so I'm gonna brave

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the heat right now, and that's me issue that. Hey,

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you don't worry about it. That has nothing to do

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with you. I will take care of it as always.

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If you are a.

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Best cool friend on Patreon, you have the opportunity to

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watch this video episode so you can see my lovely,

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really cool shirt that is from and after that, if

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you can't see it, it says abolish ice. So I

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hope that you have been staying cool while you have

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been using your First Amendment right to say buck ice

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and abolish ice. A lot has been happening in the

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world and in the news, and you all already know

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how I feel. I at least I hope so, because

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I say it often and I say it loud, and

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I will keep saying it, and especially if you've been

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following me on social media, at Cystal podcast, on every platform,

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we got to keep these conversations going. So hopefully you

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all are staying cool, you are staying safe, and you

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are staying vigilant. That feels like a very strong word

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to use, but there are there's some wild shit happening

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right now. So pardon the French, but not really. I'm impassioned.

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I'm angry, and that's how I'm choosing to express it.

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And I hope that you are keeping saying, you're finding

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ways to keep saying, and you're keeping cool and you're

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keeping safe. Anyway, I don't know, I just I came

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out here with some really strong energy today. It's the heat,

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you know, it's got me all rattled up. You know,

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It's not the extreme and horrific violations of human rights.

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It's the heat.

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With that being said, I will also say Happy Pride Month.

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I hope that we are also remembering to celebrate, but

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again to bring it all back. Remember Pride Month or

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Pride was and is a riot. We must continue to

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fight and honor those who came before us, those around

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us currently, and those who will come in the future.

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So again, you know, it's because we're also in cancer

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season right now, so I'm really feeling myself. I'm really

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feeling in my element that that strong water energy, you know,

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like the waves of the ocean, those currents. I'm just

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dragging and pulling things around. I'm feeling it, you know. Okay,

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specifically about sustal major announcements or some announcements.

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That I have for you.

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You may have seen on social media already that we

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have officially launched the Susto spell Book Club. So this

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is a book club for listeners of Sustal, for followers

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of SUSTOL. Huge shout out to my patrons on Discord

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who helped me develop the idea for this. They actually

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reached out and said, hey, you know, the last few

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books I've read have been recommendations for you.

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Would you ever do a book club?

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And I said, you know what, one person asked, that's

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you already know me. That's all it takes for me.

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So the spell Club has officially been launched. I want

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to encourage you to use the time between now and

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the beginning of July, which is when we will.

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Start the book, to go out and purchase it.

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We are going to read Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Steven

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Graham Jones, who you may also have read before. He's

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written another really popular title called The Only Good Indians

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and other acclaimed works of course, but we are going

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again to be reading Buffalo Hunter Hunter. So the way

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this is going to work is we will have the

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whole month to read the book. At the end of

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the month, I am doing a public Zoom meeting, so

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for anybody who wants to join, feel free to join

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on On that meeting, we'll have discussions about it. But throughout

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the month. If you are a goolfriend or a best

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Goolfriend on Patreon so that's the middle and the top tiers,

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then you have access to the book club channel on Discord,

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which means that you will be able to.

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Discuss the book.

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Hopefully spoiler free would want to ruin it for each other,

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but we'll be able to discuss the book throughout the

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reading and not just at the end during the zoom call.

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If you have any questions about that, please let me know.

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I have posted it on the Patreon and of course

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we've talked about it on discord already, so if you

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have any questions, please feel free to reach out. But

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this is going to be something that you can participate

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in without being a patron. Of course, there are additional

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perks if you are signed up at patreon dot com

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slash Sustal podcast.

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Moving forward, so you have a couple of days to

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get that together.

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If you haven't seen the post on social media, this

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is your not your This is your heads up to

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participate if you'd like to.

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If not, don't worry. Moving forward.

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I want to thank Austin Public Library for having me

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at the Luise branch to do a live storytelling session.

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I've done these events with the Public Library many times

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and I always enjoy them. The crowd that showed up,

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thank you so much for being there and for being

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so engaged. It was so much fun. I hope you

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feel that way that you had fun. I certainly did.

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Getting to talk with you all and answer questions and

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of course tell scary stories live in person with lights

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and music and sound effects. So hopefully more events at

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the library. Definitely for sure at least one. I will

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be at the Austin Public Library the Luise Branch again

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on October tenth for another of those events, and I

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will be at the night Owl's Spirit Social on Halloween Night.

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You can follow night Owl Podcast on Instagram and I

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think on their other socials and on their website. They're

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posting about the events already. I will be posting more

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about it as we get closer. That's going to be

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Halloween night. So this is also kind of heads up

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if you know anybody, if you are booking for events

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coming up in the spooky season, this is generally when

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people start reaching out to me. So take our opportunity

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reach out. Let's work something out before I get too

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too busy. Last year was really, really fun. I had

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several events throughout the month of October and I would

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love to do that again. I think you had at

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least one thing every weekend, So please feel free to

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reach out to me if you're in the Texas triangle,

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so the Houston, San Antonio, Austin area, Please please reach

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out to me, and of course in the valley. I

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am always looking for reasons to visit home, and if

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there's an event going on that somebody wants me at,

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that's more than enough for me. So again, please reach out.

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Email me shustopodcast at gmail dot com, visit the website,

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send me a DM on social media, whichever is easiest

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for you. I will be patiently waiting and I am

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excited to get out there this spooky season. It feels

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like it's so early, but I mean, honestly, this is

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when it happens every year. You got to start early

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and get things locked in, right. Okay, let's go ahead

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and get into today's episode, which is in honor of

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the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws. Just a tiny quick thing

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about it. Jaws was originally released on June twentieth, nineteen

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seventy five, in a moderate amount of theaters, and after

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it was a hit, a cult classic and instant success,

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it was widely released all across the US and Canada.

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And I'm not gonna lie. Although it is propaganda against sharks,

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not intentionally right, that's not what they intended. It is

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still the reason that I am afraid of big open

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bodies of water. You know, I know, sharks are not

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as dangerous as literal scientists say they are, but it

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still freaks me out. So again, the Jaws Anniversary was,

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I believe, on the twentieth, and Shark Week is actually

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July twentieth. So this whole month right here, this month

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span is all about sharks, and that is why we

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have decided to do the story of Demonio Negro. San

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Philippe in Baja California is the kind of town that

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always smells like sea salt. Even in the dry heat

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of the afternoon. You can catch the scent of the

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sea blowing through the market stalls, mixed with frying oil

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from the food stands and the sharp sweetness of mango

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from the fruit carts. It's a place where people take

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the time to enjoy life. Fishermen lean on dock rails

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long after their boats are tied up, kids kick soccer

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balls between pickup trucks, and the market stall employees treat

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every customer like a long time friend. When the sun sets,

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the lights come on string by string, little white bulbs

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hanging across yards. Families gather, music plays, and the night

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feels like it might never end.

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That night, it was.

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Even more alive than usual. It was Lita's birthday, Domas's

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youngest daughter, just turn to seven. She was wearing a

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plastic tar from the corner store and holding a melting

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ice cream cone in both hands.

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Like it was treasure.

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His wife made Lita's favorite, theamalis, and hung papel picgado

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across the patio. Everyone was there, neighbors, cousins, even the

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old man from down the road, the one who always

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said Domas owed him a beer but never meant it.

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But Domas wasn't relaxed, not entirely. He kept checking his watch,

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glancing toward the shore. His neighbor had come by earlier

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and said there was a run, a school of Dorado

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passing through Big Ones too, and plenty of them. The

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Americans called them Mahi mahi, and they were always in demand.

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That kind of opportunity doesn't come often, not this late

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in the season, and Domas hadn't had a great month.

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Engines breaking down nets, getting torn, bait not hitting the

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sea hadn't been generous lately. So when his wife caught

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him looking toward the shore again, she gave him a

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tired understanding smile and nodded. Go. She said, bring something home.

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Leetha pouted Damas, kissed her forehead and promised to bring

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her back a goldfish big enough to ride. He didn't

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know that he would not be able to keep that promise.

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He set out just after ten.

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The night was.

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Warm, the sky clear, stars so bright you could see

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them for miles. His little boat, twenty feet long and

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made of wood, rocked gently as he headed east toward

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deeper waters. Everything felt right. He reached the spot around midnight,

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tossed out his line, and within minutes tug tug, tug.

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He had his first dorado, bright green and gold, flipping

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wildly as he pulled it in, Then another and another,

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For the first time in weeks. He smiled without worry.

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The cooler filled, fast, fat, healthy fish the kind buyers

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paid good for. He wiped his brow, cracked a beer,

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and leaned back against the edge of the boat. The

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moon hung low, The water was like black silk. A

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good night. Then a shift in the water. He didn't

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notice at first, just thought the fish had moved on,

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But then he realized something else. The water had gone still,

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not calm, still, no currant, no breeze, not even the

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hum of distant insects from the shore, just silence and emptiness.

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The sonar on his little depth finder was blank, no fish, nothing,

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as if the ocean had emptied. Then the smell hid him, rotten,

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metallic like rust and spoiled meat baking in the sun.

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But he was miles from the shore. Nothing should have

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smelled like that this far out. He turned to check

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his bait cooler, and the boat moved, not from wind,

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not from waves.

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From below.

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A thud like something brushing the hole. Then a scrape, slow, long,

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like claws dragging along the underside of the boat. He froze,

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held his breath, then leaned over the edge with his flashlight.

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At first nothing, then movement, a shadow, long, wide, moving

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just beneath the surface, maybe twenty feet long, no longer

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much bigger. He backed up, grabbed the radio, clicked it dead.

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He hit the radio again and swore till nothing, just

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another part of his boat breaking when he needed it most.

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Then Domas heard it. It started low, almost felt, more

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than heard, a vibration in his bones, like standing too

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close to a subwoofer.

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But it was coming from the water.

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The sea itself was humming, And then the tail rose,

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a massive tail, black as tar, shot up from the

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deep and crashed down across the stern of the boat.

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The whole boat lurched sideways, supplies spilled into the dark

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Domas was thrown against the side, shoulder cracking against the railing.

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He looked up and saw the black fin. It rose

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out of the water like a monolith, jagged, tall as

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a man, not curved like a great white, not smooth

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like a whale. This was wrong, primitive, covered in scars.

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And then he saw an eye, one eye, just under

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the surface, glinting in the moonlight. Huge, dark, cold, no

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curiosity in it, no hunger, just awareness. It watched him.

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Then it vanished, though Moss held still, barely breathing, prayed

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to every saint he could remember. He waited one minute,

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then five. The sea stayed still, no tail, no eye,

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no shadow, just open water. He eased himself toward the console,

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hands trembling, slipped his fingers around the key. The engine started.

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He didn't cheer, didn't smile, just gripped the wheel and

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steered toward the coast. It was still pitched black, but

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he could just make out the silhouettes of land far

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in the distance at least an hour away at this speed,

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but it was something. He sped up. The boat began

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to move, slow at first, then faster. Domas excelled, wiped

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his face salt, water and sweat. He was going to

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make it, but twenty minutes into his escape, the water

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changed again. The surface behind him rippled once more, not

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from the wind, something just beneath. He didn't look back

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at first, didn't want to, but instinct forced him, and

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there it was a giant dorsal fin, slicing through the moonlight,

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maybe fifty yards back. No sound, no wake, just following.

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Domas gunned the engine. The fin disappeared. He kept going,

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jaw clenched, pulse hammering in his ears. Ten minutes later

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he glanced back again, abe it had gone. Then something

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bumped the hole, soft at first, then again, this time

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on the other side, thunk, like something massive was nudging him,

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toying with him. Then the engine sputtered. He hit the

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gas again. The motor screamed, then stopped dead. No smoke,

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no backfire, just gone. Domas stared down, wide eyed, then

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dropped to check the outboard. Everything looked fine, but they

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were dead in the water. And then he heard it

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that hum again, closer, now deeper, bone chilling, as if

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it was coming from inside him.

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He looked over the.

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Edge and saw bubbles rising fast. Then bam, the tail

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struck again, this time from the front. The boat pitched backwards.

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Domas slipped, hit his ribs and caught himself just before

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falling overboard. Another strike, this one not from below, but beside,

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like it was circling, taking its time playing. He grabbed

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a flare, his only one, and fired it into the air.

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The red light flickered on the surface, revealing a shape

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the animal just beneath the waterline, sixty feet long, maybe more.

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Not like anything he'd seen before, something older, something monstrous.

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Domas backed away from the edge. He whispered to the sea,

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please no. The water calmed, too calm. Then the boat

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lifted up. Domas screamed, grabbing the rail as the stern

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rose beneath him, like something was lifting the entire vessel

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from underneath. He didn't have time to pray. The boat

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hung for a heartbeat, then the ocean let go. The

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boat shattered as it slammed back down hole split in two.

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Lomas hit the water hard, gasped, choked, kicked, upward through

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floating debris and blood. Somehow he surfaced. Somehow he clung

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to a half sunken plank and drifted into the dead calm.

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The sea swallowed everything else, and Thomas blacked out.

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He was found the.

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Next morning by the Navy patrol, alone, half frozen, eyes wide,

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lips cracked. He wouldn't speak at first, would an eat,

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just stared out at the horizon. When they got him

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into the clinic, they found the marks on his back,

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a semicircle of wounds, each four inches wide, as if

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something very large had started to bite him but changed

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its mind. Domas never fished again. He moved inland, bought

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a repair shop. He doesn't talk about the sea, doesn't

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talk about that night, But others have seen the same thing,

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shadows beneath their boats, water going still, that low hum

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from the depths, and every few years a boat never

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makes it back. Welcome back, well friends, thank you so

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much for tuning in to this episode. Again, we deeply

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appreciate it, and by we I mean myself and of

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course our resident ghost writer and research assistant, Jeffrey Doyle.

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So we're going to go through the sources that we

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have prepared for you today. The first one that we

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have here is from a website called Nature World News

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and its Nature worldnews dot com. This entry is called

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El demonio negro what is the black demon.

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Shark of Gortes.

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And of course all the direct links to these sources

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will be in these Sustal Google docs on Patreon dot

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com slash Sustal podcast. But once more, this is Nature

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World News and this was published in twenty twenty three

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by A Luis Franco and just to give you a

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direct kind of not report, but a collection or kind

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of what the general understanding of what el demonno negro is.

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This is a source we wanted to include because the

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story of Domas and being out in the boat that

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is of course something fictional.

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It's an original that Jeff and I wrote.

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And this says El demonno negro, a Spanish term used

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to describe a giant, fearsome shark, is stalking the waters

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off Baja California in Mexico, prompting years of speculations, concerns,

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and curiosity not only amongst locals but also internationally, responsible

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for the alleged deaths of hundreds of wales and attacks

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on boats. The legendary animal dubbed as the Black Demon

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Shark of Cortez is still yet to be confirmed. So

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this is one of those things that's very urban legend y.

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And you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna figure this

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out right now.

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What is an urban legend?

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Right a humorous or horrific story or piece of information

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circulated as though true, especially when purporting to involve someone

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vaguely related or known.

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To the teller.

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I think this would qualify as urban legend as compared

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to folklore or general kind of ghost story, because there

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are people saying that they have had run ins or

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they know someone that knows someone. It's one of those.

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But this feels very also obviously related to one region,

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so definitely this is like the urban legend realm of things.

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This continues despite the uncertainty. Anecdotal evidence or eyewitness accounts

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of the giant black Shark has been recorded in several

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reports and documentaries, although different perspectives, so of course, there

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again there's the idea of it being an urban legend.

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Although different perspectives are provided, there is a resounding and

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common theme. The accounts are implying the black demon or

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the mono negado, as it's called in this region, has

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a size of up to sixty feet in length and

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similar to a school bus. You terrifying again. This again,

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it's an urban legend. It's probably not real, right, but

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you know, we know more about space than we do

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about the ocean, our ocean floors, so this freaks me out.

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This continues with this. The predatory shark is often compared

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by many to the now extinct Megalodon or autodos megalodon,

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which is like the scientific name. Others think it is

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a new yet unknown species or is just a large

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great white shark. Regardless of the monio negado has struck

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fear to the minds of people, with some claiming that

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it could exist and is scarier than the megalodon. The

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oceans cover This is okay, This is the part that

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really gets me.

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This is the creepy part.

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The oceans cover seventy percent of Earth's surface, and humans

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have only explored five percent of the ocean floor, a

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gradual exploration process that has stalled for a long time

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due to the dangers and depth of the oceans. In

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this context, marine scientists have not identified and described all

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sea creatures out there.

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What is down there.

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It is for this reason that the existence of some

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unknown species like the Black Demon of Gortees is possible. Again,

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that really weirds me out. Okay, And there's a really

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cool picture here on this website of a giant fin

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with these near these kayakers. That is scary. This continues

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long before photoshopped images and videos were uploaded online. Tales

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of the Black Demon of Cortes are passed around locally

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in Mexico. Stories alone of the gargantuan beast have been

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terrorizing both fishermen and tourists alike for several generations. According

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to the Shark Week program of the Discovery Channel, so

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at lononno negadro. They know who who they are. They

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know this shark. This shark is well known, shark is famous.

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Has been featured on Shark Week and other shark related programs,

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and this says. In this one episode entitled Mega Jaws,

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the Discovery Channel covered the purported claims where it interviewed

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several local fishermen who have allegedly seen the quote demon shark. However,

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investigations revealed that the animal could potentially be a whale

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shark or any other known animal species like a manta

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ray or great white shark. And then this gives like

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the core details of what this thing is. It says

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the legend originated from local people who reported having seen

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a large black shark in the Sea of Cortez also

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called the Gulf of California, off the coast of Mexico,

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claiming its jaws are wide enough to swallow a whale

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as a whole. According to the website Azy Animals, so

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shark in Mexico and not again the idea, Like, I'm

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trying to comprehend the size of this thing. This says

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about sixty feet long, so the length of a school bus,

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the length of a school bus, a shark the length

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of a school bus. And I think somewhere else they

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say that Eddemonio negro is a equivalent in weight to

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several elephants. I think it said six elephants. This thing

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is huge, youw. And again the reason they call it

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the mono negro, and why people say it may be

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a whale shark or maybe a white shark is because

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it's similar in size. Whale sharks get pretty big, great

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whites get pretty big. I think the average is like

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twenty to thirty feet. Again, this thing is much bigger.

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But one distinctive feature about the monio negaedro is that

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its skin.

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Or do fish of skin? Sharks don't have scales. I

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don't know.

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It's I'm gonna say skin. Its skin is black, is dark,

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and its eyes are dark. But I mean all sharks

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eyes are black too, But anyway, so it's black in color,

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and that's why people think it is its own thing.

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And then we're going to talk more about the pigment

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or the melonin later. In these other sources it does

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come up. This continues. It says the attribution of the

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monno negro of Cortes with the megalodon is hard to prove,

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since the ancient shark went extinct around two points six

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million years ago, so the megalodon has been long gone.

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That rhyme was beautiful in which research is blamed due

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to food competition with great white sharks that we see today.

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So basically, the megalodons when extinct because they just didn't

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have a sustainable diet or they just weren't able to

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sustain their eating habits with other predators in the ocean.

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This continues.

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According to the National History Museum, the megalodon can grow

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between fifteen to eighteen meters or forty nine to fifty

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nine feet in length, which is three times longer than

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the biggest recorded great white shark. So again, great white

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biggest size is going to be like what twenty feet?

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The museum added that the size of the megalodon is

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comparable to today's largest whale sharks. Okay, so great whites and

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then in terms of size, it's great whites whale sharks,

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and then Megalodon or the Mono Negro if it was

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a real thing, which I'm raying to God it's not

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because I don't want to get in the water. This

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next source is from Mexico Unexplained dot com. It's titled

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the Black Black Demon Gigantic Shark of Mexico. And this

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one takes a different approach of how we discover of

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the Mono Negro. This is really interesting. This says, and

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I'm sorry. This was published in twenty eighteen by Robert Beido.

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And this says.

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It was a cold winter day in London. The year

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was fifteen sixty four. English sea merchant John Hawkins had

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recently returned from a successful trading voyage that took him

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from the West African coast to the Spanish colonies of

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the Caribbean and South America. Hawkins made a considerable amount

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of money for his London investors, and on that winter

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day in fifteen sixty four, he knelt before his Queen,

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a dour Elizabeth I, who granted him a seven hundred

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ton ship to continue trade exploits. This says a few

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more things, and then it picks up here it says.

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In fifteen sixty seven, Hawkins embarked on his third voyage,

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which took him from West Africa to the coast of

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the Yucatan Peninsula and to the Spanish settlements in the

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modern day Mexican state of Veracruz. While in the waters

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around the Yucatan, Hawkins and his crew encountered a large

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flesh eating fish they had never seen before. When Hawkins

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asked the locals the name of this strange aquatic beast,

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an indigenous Maya person replied shock or xoc, which was

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00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:13.599
the name for the gigantic fish in the Yucathec Maya language.

474
00:28:13.640 --> 00:28:17.119
When Hawkins and his crew returned to England in fifteen

475
00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:20.880
sixty nine, the seafaring Englishman added a new word to

476
00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:24.400
the ever growing lexicon shark, so it went from shock

477
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:27.839
to shark, the word used to describe a creature not

478
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:30.200
seen in the waters around Great Britain, would be the

479
00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:32.920
only word in the English language with its origins in

480
00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:36.279
a Maya dialect. Few English speakers know of the very

481
00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:39.480
Mexican roots of the word shark, or how it entered

482
00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:42.839
every day English. So sharks or Mexican essentially is what

483
00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:45.799
I'm hearing my people getting.

484
00:28:46.319 --> 00:28:48.240
But this was really quiet. Never knew this.

485
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:52.039
History before, so again it was xoc or shark, and

486
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:54.640
then you know, they of course changed it to shark

487
00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:57.519
for whatever reason. This continues while many varieties of sharks

488
00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:00.880
exist in both Pacific and Caribbean waters around Mexico. On

489
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:03.519
the opposite end of the country from the first English

490
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:06.480
encounters with sharks exists a tell of terror which has

491
00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:09.799
only garnered attention recently. In the waters of the Gulf

492
00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:12.839
of California, also known as the Sea of Cortes, between

493
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:16.400
the Baja Peninsula and the state of Sonora, a gigantic,

494
00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:20.119
dark creature is said to lurk for generations. Fishermen have

495
00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:23.519
told tales of ed Demonio Negro, or in English, the

496
00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:28.079
Black Demon, a massive, aggressive shark that overturns boats, attacks whales,

497
00:29:28.119 --> 00:29:30.759
and swallows sea lions in a single bite.

498
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:32.240
Is this just a big.

499
00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:36.200
Fish story or could a previously unknown species of gigantic

500
00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:39.319
shark exist in the cold depths of the Sea of Cortez.

501
00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:43.359
Am I saying species weird? I feel like species species.

502
00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:46.000
I feel like I'm trying to hit that sea real fancy.

503
00:29:46.119 --> 00:29:52.240
I don't know, but anyway, so this sentence here chilled

504
00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:52.759
me a bit.

505
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:53.519
It says a.

506
00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:58.440
Massive, aggressive shark that overturns boats, attacks whales, and swallows

507
00:29:58.440 --> 00:30:01.640
sea lions in a single bite. This is giving that

508
00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:05.200
it's an intelligent creature, and as we mentioned in the story,

509
00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:08.559
because of the influence of these sources, it is intelligent.

510
00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:11.400
It likes to play with its food like killer wells,

511
00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:13.640
and that freaks me out because it's aggressive and intelligent.

512
00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:14.599
That's very scary.

513
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:17.079
Kind of keeping that in mind is a terrifying thing. Also,

514
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:19.319
this next part freaks me out. It says of the

515
00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:23.880
over four hundred types of sharks on Earth, only ten

516
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:27.079
pose a danger to humans. That still, I don't know.

517
00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:29.359
They say it's only ten, but I don't know it's

518
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:33.119
only ten right now? Until an eleventh poses danger to people.

519
00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:35.640
But I did not know that there were over four

520
00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:38.480
hundred types of sharks on Earth, as I wonder how

521
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:40.039
many there are on the Moon. Just kidding, that was

522
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:42.599
a terrible joke. This says as an apex predator, sharks

523
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:44.920
tend to generate a great deal of fear, even though

524
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:47.839
shark attacks on people are very rare. In twenty twelve,

525
00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:50.599
a twenty foot long, two thousand pound great white shark

526
00:30:50.759 --> 00:30:53.559
was killed in the Sea of Cortez near the coastal

527
00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:56.759
city of Guayamas, and was one of the largest great

528
00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:59.759
whites ever seen off the Mexican coast. This is also

529
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.480
making me think of that scene in the Craft when

530
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.240
they invoke or when they call the corners and they

531
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:08.279
invoke men on it's on the beach, and then the

532
00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:10.960
next morning they wake up and she's like, these are

533
00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:13.279
my gifts and it's all the sharks. That scene always

534
00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:14.960
made me sad. I feel bad for the sharks, although

535
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:17.279
I'm scared of them. It's like a respect thing, you know,

536
00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:20.400
when people are shocked that they are attacked by an

537
00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:23.720
animal in the wilderness. My first thought is, obviously I'm

538
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:24.480
empathetic to them.

539
00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:25.720
It's terrible. It shouldn't happen.

540
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:28.680
But I'm also thinking you're in their house. You broke

541
00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:31.000
into their house, and you're just having fun in their home.

542
00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:33.000
So I don't know, it's not that I don't feel

543
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:36.920
bad for people. It's just that I'm not super surprised. Like, yeah,

544
00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:39.559
of course water is wet. If you go swim around

545
00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:42.920
these wild animals, there's no telling exactly what they will do.

546
00:31:43.079 --> 00:31:45.440
And that's for any wild animal like bears in the

547
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:48.720
forest too. But I'm getting off track anyway. This continues

548
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.759
later in this piece. It says some cryptozoologists, or those

549
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.000
who research and describe legendary creatures, claim that the gigantic

550
00:31:56.039 --> 00:31:59.839
black shark of Mexico may be a megalodon, a species

551
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:05.960
species species of large prehistoric sharks that lived in the

552
00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:09.880
oceans from twenty three million to two point six million

553
00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:14.039
years ago, So somehow a couple or one may have

554
00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:17.000
survived and is still living on It says the megalodon

555
00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:20.599
had seven inch long teeth and a bite force between

556
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:24.880
twenty four thousand to forty thousand pounds, more than three

557
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.640
times that of a t rex, So this thing was

558
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.200
stronger the or at least its bite force was stronger

559
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:32.839
than a t rex. The average length of a megalodon

560
00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:35.759
was about thirty five feet. The black demon fits the

561
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:39.720
megalodon description pretty well, although some accounts by fishermen say

562
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:43.119
the Mexican shark may be even bigger than the megalodon.

563
00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:46.759
So they're saying megalodon average size was about thirty five feet.

564
00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:49.160
But remember earlier the other store said they could get

565
00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:51.640
up to fifty nine to sixty feet, And now this

566
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:54.799
is saying the monno negro may be even bigger than

567
00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:55.519
a megalodon.

568
00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:57.160
That's wild. This continues.

569
00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:02.279
Mexican paleontologist Roberto Diaz Sibacha and his blog Paleos the

570
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:04.920
History of Life on Earth gives an explanation as to

571
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:08.599
what happened to the gigantic prehistoric fish. Translated from Spanish,

572
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:11.519
this says, quote, Megalodon became extinct, and we were talking

573
00:33:11.559 --> 00:33:14.920
about this earlier. The food sustainability. This says, Megalodon became

574
00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:20.000
extinct before the Pleistocene began, when environmental changes caused by

575
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:23.559
alterations in the circulation of marine currents.

576
00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:24.240
Cooled the world.

577
00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:27.559
In this new world, the megalodon food sources began to

578
00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:31.240
become scarce, some went extinct and others packed their bags

579
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:34.200
and they moved to the coldest waters away from the

580
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:39.160
shark that, when unable to adapt, perished so more tacnically,

581
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:43.880
that is what happened, according to an actual doctor or scientist. Sorry,

582
00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:46.720
I was going to say ocean doctor, but that's also wrong.

583
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:50.039
But this palaeonologist, this this real scientist broke it down

584
00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:53.359
and they said that when the world climate, when the

585
00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:59.039
currents changed, the megalodon's food sources either when extinct or moved,

586
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.279
and the megalodons stayed there so it didn't have food anymore.

587
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:07.000
This happens when the creatures hyper specialize in the exploitation

588
00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:07.799
of one.

589
00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:09.079
Or very few resources.

590
00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:12.639
So essentially, what I'm reading here in my mind is

591
00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:15.360
that the megalon died because they're a picky eater. That's

592
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:18.519
what that sounds like to me. They hyper specialize in

593
00:34:18.599 --> 00:34:21.559
the exploitation of one and you know what for you

594
00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:23.400
all who have kids out there, and I'm going to

595
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:26.719
use that for my nibblings and siblings, and next time

596
00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:28.280
they're being a picky eater, I would be like, why

597
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:30.880
are you hyper specializing the exploitation of one or very

598
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:38.719
few resources? Wait a minute, why that hits really good. Actually,

599
00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:43.280
that's it, y'all use that one. Thank you paleontologist Roberto

600
00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:48.119
ds Cibaja for that banger. That's amazing. So this continues on.

601
00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:50.880
I want to read the last part of muski Heads,

602
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:52.800
the last part of this entry, because this was also

603
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:56.719
very interesting. And this it's starting to teeter on conspiracy

604
00:34:56.760 --> 00:34:59.119
theory a little bit. This says the Internet is full

605
00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:02.599
of fringe theories and urban urban legends. There's that word again,

606
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:06.920
and sometimes these stories and legends intersect. An interesting comment

607
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:09.639
in the comment section of a YouTube video about the

608
00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:12.800
Monon Negro tied to the sidings of the gigantic shark

609
00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:17.079
with a supposed secret underwater base in the Sea of Gortees.

610
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:21.000
The alleged base was first described by researcher Scott C.

611
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:24.800
Waring after he discovered some anomalies on the ocean floor

612
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:26.800
when looking at Google Maps, and there's a.

613
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:28.280
Photo here, I'm going to put it up in the video.

614
00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:31.559
The seventy six mile anomaly, sometimes referred to as a

615
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:35.840
sunken city or alien underwater bass by fringe researchers, ironically,

616
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:39.039
is located forty five miles off the Baja Coast near

617
00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:42.480
Lobos Island, the site of Eric Mack's famous siding and

618
00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:45.000
the location of the filming of the Monster Quest show

619
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.599
about the Black Demon Shark. So we skipped over this

620
00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:49.639
part in in this entry. I'm going to go back

621
00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:51.960
to it Siana who Eric Mack is, because that is important.

622
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:54.320
My bad, But this continues. A possible connection to a

623
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:57.559
supposed secret underwater base brings up a whole host of

624
00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.960
new theories, which it seems are only limited by the imagination.

625
00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:03.719
Whether or not this creature exists cannot be determined at

626
00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:06.559
this time. For now, the Moonno Negro plays into our

627
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:10.039
most primal fear as humans, and as all legends go,

628
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:13.320
the story will only grow and morph with time. So

629
00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:15.800
this now is saying there is there are some theories

630
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:19.280
that intersect some conspiracy theories and this urban legend of

631
00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:23.400
Nero that I don't know. Possibly there is some sort

632
00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:26.639
of my mind is going to People are saying that

633
00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:29.360
the government is involved in this, or it's tied to

634
00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:35.679
a sunken city or an alien base. So this shark again,

635
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:41.559
Elmonnio Negro, very famous shark. You guys, this really now

636
00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:44.960
can just go any direction, right, Okay? So jumping back

637
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:49.159
to Eric Mack and his encounter, because there are many. Again,

638
00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.320
it's an urban legend. It's very much I heard that,

639
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:55.000
someone heard that, someone said they saw, or friend of

640
00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:57.960
a friend, whatever, you know. It's it's always that Eric Mack,

641
00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.679
I think is modern day someone who said they had

642
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:02.960
an encounter and who has gone on record to share

643
00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:06.199
his encounter. This says, although there have been numerous stories

644
00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:09.800
and intergenerational tales of the the mono neegatal shark, there

645
00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:13.719
have been no verifiable incidents of actual attacks. No local

646
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:17.199
newspapers have ever carried stories about the creature with verifiable

647
00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:21.039
names and dates of purported attacks. The stories say that

648
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:24.360
the shark goes after medium sized boats and then retreats

649
00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:26.719
to the depths of the sea, which can go down

650
00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:30.199
to below ten thousand feet in the Gulf of California. Again,

651
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:31.159
what is down there?

652
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:31.760
Halvy in.

653
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:35.679
Remnants of whales washed ashore are often cited as evidence

654
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:39.400
of the shark's existence. One eyewitness account often cited in

655
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:43.039
the literature on this creature comes from American sport fisherman

656
00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:46.239
Eric Mack, who was sailing off the coast of Baha

657
00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:49.079
in July of two thousand and eight close to ten

658
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:52.559
years ago when he had his encounter with this gigantic fish.

659
00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:56.599
Mack describes it as being around fifty feet long, dark

660
00:37:56.639 --> 00:37:59.960
in color, and with an enormous hind flipper. The creature

661
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:02.440
hit and rocked his boat, flipped up its tail, and

662
00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:06.360
descended rapidly underwater. Mac never saw this huge fish again,

663
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:09.320
but his story got nods from the locals and caught

664
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:13.119
the attention of the TV series Monster Quest, which dispatched

665
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:15.639
a film crew to the Sea of Cortez to investigate.

666
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:18.800
The crew set up near Lobos Island, about one quarter

667
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:21.519
of the way down the eastern coast of Baja. After

668
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:24.280
days of investigating and filming, the Monster Quest show came

669
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:27.480
up empty. They broadcast their findings on March eighteenth, two

670
00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:30.400
thousand and nine, during their third season, on an episode

671
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:33.639
called Mega Jaws So Again. And this is how we

672
00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:35.800
got back to that was because it was they what

673
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:38.920
were they say? They set up base near where those

674
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:42.800
underground anomalies are. So those anomalies appeared to be on

675
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:45.000
the ocean floor. And I'm guessing that's why people are

676
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:47.880
saying that the shark has something to do with it, because,

677
00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:51.239
according to this eyewitness account, the shark just descends, and

678
00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:53.360
to the other stories, the shark just goes straight down,

679
00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:56.599
assumedly to the ocean floor. We're gonna go ahead and

680
00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:59.760
move on to the next source. This is from shark

681
00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:03.360
of dot com and it says a legend of the

682
00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:05.599
Black Demon Shark. I really just wanted to bring this

683
00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:08.000
one up because it says a lot of the things

684
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:11.079
that we've covered already. But I like this one because

685
00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:13.719
if you all can find it, there was a movie

686
00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:16.880
made about this. I feel like I remember watching this,

687
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:19.760
but I'm not quite sure. The movie is called The

688
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:23.800
Black Demon, and it looks like it's available to watch.

689
00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:26.159
On Paramount right now. I'm not seeing it.

690
00:39:26.119 --> 00:39:29.679
Available anywhere else to watch, just Paramount, but the trailer

691
00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:31.960
is on YouTube. It's called The Black Demon. It is

692
00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:36.000
from twenty twenty three, and I watched the trailer in

693
00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:38.400
preparation for this episode. Of course, I feel like I've

694
00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:40.679
seen this movie before, but again, it's like it just

695
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:44.719
could be generic shark movie, creature feature, kind of horror movie.

696
00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:48.000
There's so many out there now, and it doesn't have

697
00:39:48.599 --> 00:39:49.519
great reviews.

698
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:50.800
It has a three.

699
00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:53.320
Point seven out of ten on IMDb and twenty eight

700
00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:54.559
percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

701
00:39:54.599 --> 00:39:58.159
But be your own judge, be your own reviewer.

702
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:02.039
Maybe we'll do this for the Susto movie night, because again,

703
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:04.639
this shark is famous. I want to be like this shark.

704
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:07.719
It has its own movie. So again, it's from twenty

705
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:10.840
twenty three. It's called the Black Demon, and this source

706
00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:15.000
or this article published in twenty nineteen. They embedded it

707
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:19.000
in there at the top because you know it, it's

708
00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:22.159
extremely relevant. Yeah, this doesn't say too much different from

709
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:25.239
the other sources, but it does reinforce or it does

710
00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:30.400
restate that many cryptozoologists this has become kind of like

711
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:34.159
a cryptozoologist hot spot, this area of Mexico or of

712
00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:37.320
the ocean, at least because people want to look for it,

713
00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:40.000
which I don't know why you would go out looking

714
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.519
for that thing, but yeah, people are very interested to

715
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:44.440
try and prove if it's real. It falls into that

716
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:48.559
category of the Luckness Monster, Bigfoot. I feel like it's

717
00:40:48.599 --> 00:40:52.880
more believable than those though, because sharks are real. Megaladon

718
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:55.960
sharks were real. This could be one that for some

719
00:40:56.039 --> 00:40:59.400
reason is still here for a reason I don't like

720
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:02.039
or in joy and freaks me out. The next source

721
00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:06.119
that we have this is from paranorms dot com. It's

722
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:10.599
titled the Black Demon Prehistoric Predator or Misidentified Species. That

723
00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:13.519
word again, species? Am I saying it wrong?

724
00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:13.840
Someone?

725
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:18.280
Okay, species is option one. I feel like that's coming

726
00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:21.280
off with the ch. Species is just with the C

727
00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:24.159
and I feel like I've been saying species with the

728
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:27.360
C instead of species. I don't know why I'm having

729
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:32.760
such a conundrum with this word anyway. This was published

730
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:36.559
by Catherine Karkainen. I believe is how that's pronounced into

731
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:40.920
twenty twenty three under Monsters and Cryptozoology. This says, is

732
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:44.679
the Black Demon Shark real? The Black Demon Shark or

733
00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:48.119
the Monio Negado is probably not real? Since no verifiable

734
00:41:48.159 --> 00:41:51.119
proof of the Black Demon's existence has ever come to light,

735
00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:54.519
the creature's true identity may never be fully understood. Yet

736
00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:57.719
those who insist upon the creature's existence may never be

737
00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:01.760
deterred by the theories offered by scientists and skeptics. But

738
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:04.840
are there massive documented sharks in the coastal waters of

739
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:09.559
California and Mexico, Yes, youw Here are a few possible

740
00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:12.559
theories on real life encounters with the Black Demon. So

741
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:15.519
this is explaining away what it may have been again,

742
00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:18.599
well shark comes up, and I wanted to talk more

743
00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:21.320
about this. This says, there is in fact a known

744
00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:24.280
shark species that can grow beyond twenty feet, and it

745
00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:27.400
just so happens to inhabit the Sea of Cortez. It

746
00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:32.119
is known as rhine Codon typus, or the well shark,

747
00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:35.719
a filter feeding, gentle giant that eats tiny shrimp and plankton,

748
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:39.039
a far cry from human flesh. And these, if you

749
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:41.280
can imagine, just to explain to you, these are the

750
00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:44.360
ones that are they're spotted, so they're a darker color,

751
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:47.519
but they have light spots or dots all over them.

752
00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:50.599
They're actually kind of cute too, and they're very gentle.

753
00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:51.920
Apparently they're filter feeders.

754
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:52.280
This says.

755
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:55.360
The well shark is equipped with a large, wide mouth

756
00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:59.039
fit for sucking up small organisms through its gill rakers.

757
00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:03.199
As alarmingly huge as this behemoth's mouth may be, large

758
00:43:03.239 --> 00:43:06.599
animals are not on its menu, though it usually sports

759
00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:09.400
spotted patterns on its skin. The whale shark can be

760
00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:13.000
noticeably dark and even black in color under certain lighting conditions.

761
00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:16.039
It stands to reason that fishermen making trips out the

762
00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:19.280
sea at night could just see a portion of the animal,

763
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.320
such as a tail or dorsal fin, and mistake for

764
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:26.119
belonging to a big, dark, and far more dangerous predatory shark.

765
00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:29.639
This is an especially likely scenario considering most people would

766
00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:32.519
be rightfully startled to see a large, ambiguous shape in

767
00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:35.199
the water, and fear is well known to distort how

768
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:39.199
humans visually perceive their surroundings. That is a great observation.

769
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:42.360
Amped up on adrenaline, an eight foot long shark could

770
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.199
easily become twenty feet or more in length, and a

771
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:47.880
twenty foot shark could perhaps be mistaken for an even

772
00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:50.519
greater size. I'm not gonna lie that would happen to me.

773
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.039
I would be scared, and I would see a goldfish

774
00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:56.519
and I'd be like there were one hundred piranhas in

775
00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:59.679
the water trying to kill me, because it would freak

776
00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:01.679
me out. The next one here, it says, is great

777
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:04.840
white sharks, ranking right behind the whale shark. Great white

778
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:08.360
sharks are the second largest shark species that inhabit the

779
00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:11.199
Sea of Cortez. Since reports of the black Demon tend

780
00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:13.760
to point to a shark that resembles great whites, this

781
00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:16.760
could be a potential candidate for the creature's identity. There

782
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:19.639
have been fully documented accounts of large great whites in

783
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:22.960
the region, such as the two ton specimen that was

784
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:26.639
hauled onto the shores near Guayamas by fishermen in twenty twelve.

785
00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:29.280
I think we mentioned that one already. However, individuals never

786
00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:32.159
seem to grow past twenty feet in lengths, so individual

787
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:33.920
great white sharks, they never seem to get bigger than

788
00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:37.280
twenty feet and sharks scientists theorize this is due to

789
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.039
constraints on the animal's liver that would keep it from

790
00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:45.199
reaching larger dimensions. Think goodness, the universe said, We're going

791
00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:46.920
to give you a liver that can only make you

792
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:49.440
this big, because even then a twenty foot shark is

793
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:53.440
two big shark sharks should be like a foot in

794
00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:55.719
length that most and then the last one here of

795
00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:58.440
the three that it says people may be getting the

796
00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:02.000
the monionegati confused with giant manta ray, it says. Another

797
00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:06.320
theory includes the possibility that eyewitnesses are simply seeing Mobila

798
00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:10.880
by rostras. Simply it's simply the Mobula birostris or the

799
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:14.039
giant mantray. These rays can grow up to thirty feet

800
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:18.719
in length, with their wingspans reaching a comparable size. That's huge,

801
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:22.079
though they look nothing like sharks while viewed in their entirety,

802
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:25.079
a passing glance at a giant manta ray's fin as

803
00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:27.760
it glides through the water could easily be mistaken for

804
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:30.559
the tip of a large sharkfin or tael So, before

805
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:33.719
we move on to the next source, sorry, I'm all

806
00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:35.480
over the place with these. I want to move back

807
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:39.679
to sharkophile dot com because I accidentally missed that thing

808
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:42.000
about the melanin that I mentioned. But this goes in

809
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:46.000
hand with people confusing other things with the mono neegro.

810
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:48.800
In a section here that says Unraveling the Mystery, it

811
00:45:48.880 --> 00:45:51.199
says one common origin for the myth is that the

812
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:54.639
shark is actually a megalodon, a prehistoric predator that could

813
00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:57.280
grow to lengths of up to sixty feet. The biggest

814
00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:00.599
flaw with this explanation is that, despite its appearance in

815
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:03.360
pop culture, the megalodon has been extinct for over two

816
00:46:03.400 --> 00:46:06.760
point five million years or so. They say that they

817
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:10.360
want us to believe we've seen the underground anomalies on

818
00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:13.679
the ocean floor. Anyway, this continues another possible explanation is

819
00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:17.519
that the shark is actually a hyper melanistic great white

820
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:20.679
that has been able to grow to its fullest adult potential.

821
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:25.559
Although we know now that typically the fullest adult potential

822
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:29.679
is twenty feet because of their livers. We are learning

823
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:33.599
biology today. We are all scientists. However, again, we also

824
00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:36.280
know that when people are freaked out, when they're scared,

825
00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:39.559
they tend to exaggerate or they really believe that they

826
00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:42.760
saw something that big because the fear is influencing what

827
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:46.800
they're seeing. Anyway, this continues. Hyper Melanism is the overabundance

828
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:50.679
of melanin the opposite of albinism, which can cause animals

829
00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:53.760
to have darker skin than usual, the hypermelonism it causes

830
00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:56.280
animals to have darker skin than usual. This condition has

831
00:46:56.320 --> 00:46:59.679
been observed in some species of cat, sharks and rays,

832
00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:03.079
so it may be possible that it could occur with

833
00:47:03.159 --> 00:47:07.239
great white sharks, which can reach over twenty feet, So

834
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:10.159
I'm guessing that on average twenty feet sometimes maybe over.

835
00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:13.519
Melanism might also be a factor for whale sharks, which

836
00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:17.079
normally have a very distinct skin pattern. Again, those dots

837
00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:20.719
being mistaken for the legendary predator whale sharks can reach

838
00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:24.079
lengths of over forty feet and often can be seen

839
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:27.079
creating massive waves with their tails at the surface of

840
00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:30.679
the water. Well sharks, however, would not qualify as vicious predators,

841
00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:33.599
as they are filter feeders which eat krill and other

842
00:47:33.639 --> 00:47:36.400
tiny fish and pose absolutely no threat to humans. Again,

843
00:47:36.440 --> 00:47:40.360
we know that well sharks are cute, sweet, big softies.

844
00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:42.119
I would hug one, I would hugg a well shark.

845
00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:44.239
I'm not gonna lie because I'm not a shrimp or

846
00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:47.079
a krill. But again, if it has that hyper melanism,

847
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:50.159
it can appear much darker. Maybe it makes the spots

848
00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:53.079
darker as well, so they're not as contrasted the pattern

849
00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:56.039
of the whale sharks skin. Yeah, there's many reasons or

850
00:47:56.039 --> 00:47:59.519
many ways that people could confuse an already existing animal

851
00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:00.320
that is not.

852
00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:04.119
The the Ammonia negato with the ammonia.

853
00:48:03.760 --> 00:48:06.880
Negato, or saying it's comparable to a megalodon, right, which

854
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:10.320
blows my mind that these animals are out there just

855
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:15.519
being big and huge. The next source here is from

856
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:18.920
Weird California dot com, and this one's a shorter entry.

857
00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:21.360
This again just kind of goes over what the Demmonia

858
00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:24.639
negato is it talks about Eric Mack and his alleged

859
00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:27.159
run in with the Demmonia Negator, and just to get

860
00:48:27.199 --> 00:48:29.119
specific about that one more time, I'm not sure if

861
00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:32.079
I mentioned it, but it says he reported having Themonion

862
00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:33.960
negatal rock his boat.

863
00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:35.280
So it ran into him.

864
00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:37.119
So you could say that our story, the story of

865
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:40.159
the Maas was based off of Eric Mack or inspired

866
00:48:40.239 --> 00:48:42.480
by his run in. It also talks about here the

867
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:46.000
melanism with the whale sharks, the Great white sharks. But

868
00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:48.039
again this is just another source that we wanted to

869
00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:52.559
include just because again this is Weird California or WEIRDCA

870
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:55.599
dot com. The Black Demon, and the final thing that

871
00:48:55.639 --> 00:48:59.400
we have here, this is from Discovery dot Com or

872
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:03.039
the Discovery Channel, and this is talking about It says,

873
00:49:03.079 --> 00:49:06.480
behind the scenes mystery of the Black Demon shark or

874
00:49:06.519 --> 00:49:09.760
the Monon Negro in Mexico, legends swirl around ed the

875
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:13.119
Mono Negro, a fifty foot shark that has terrorized fishermen

876
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:16.079
and tourists to like for generations. Is this an undiscovered

877
00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:19.639
predator forrest gallant hunts for answers in the most rugged

878
00:49:19.679 --> 00:49:22.239
and remote parts of the Baja Peninsula. And then it

879
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:24.960
says stream Mystery of the Black Demon Shark and all

880
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:27.599
Things Shark Week on Discovery Plus so as you can

881
00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:29.679
sell here. A Mystery of the Black Demon Shark is

882
00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:35.119
a TV show on Discovery where this person, Forrest Gallant,

883
00:49:35.559 --> 00:49:38.559
is looking for him, and there's pictures of him in

884
00:49:38.639 --> 00:49:41.519
this entry that we have here, just out there swimming

885
00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:44.000
in the water, in the open ocean water in this

886
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:47.679
region where they're saying that Edemonio Negro is just looking

887
00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:52.239
for him. This is either one of the most brave

888
00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:55.039
or one of the most skeptical, or one of the

889
00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:58.079
most both of those things persons I have ever seen,

890
00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:00.840
because he's out there and there's really cool pictures.

891
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:02.239
There's a picture here.

892
00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:05.119
Of the well shark and its spots. There's also a

893
00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:08.679
picture of I'm assuming it is forest, yeah, forest next

894
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:11.840
to a large ray and this thing looks like it's

895
00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:15.159
twice his size, like the wingspan. They're honestly really pretty

896
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:17.880
pictures too, but again terrifying. I don't know how people

897
00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:19.480
do this, just go out there in the open water,

898
00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:22.960
but this show was about Forrest looking for the Monna Negro.

899
00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:24.000
And again at.

900
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:25.880
The top of this page it says that Shark Week

901
00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:28.920
starts on July twentieth, which again I love that timing

902
00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:32.519
that it's anniversary of Jaws and then Shark Week. Is

903
00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:50.320
that intentional? Am I missing something? Welcome back well friends,

904
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:53.199
Thank you so much for joining us for another episode

905
00:50:53.320 --> 00:50:56.559
of Soustal. Real quick recap of what we have going

906
00:50:56.599 --> 00:50:59.480
on for Soustal again. Thank you so much to the

907
00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:02.079
awesome pub Library for having me out. I'm looking forward

908
00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:04.519
to October's event and to hopefully many more aside from

909
00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:07.280
that one, and to all the other events in October

910
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:09.880
that will be happening or throughout spooky season. It doesn't

911
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:12.000
have to just be October. You know, we did win

912
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:14.239
in the summer. We can do events all year round.

913
00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:17.480
So if you are booking for events, or if you

914
00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:21.239
know anybody booking for spooky themed events, please feel free

915
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:23.719
to reach out to me any way you can. I

916
00:51:23.719 --> 00:51:26.320
am always excited to work with people, but definitely for

917
00:51:26.360 --> 00:51:28.360
Spooky season. We want to reach out as early as

918
00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:30.239
possible so that we can lock in dates before I

919
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:32.840
get busy, because I will get busy. Aside from that,

920
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:36.840
we have officially launched Susto's Spellbook Club, so again we

921
00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:39.760
will start the reading at the beginning of July and

922
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:41.559
then at the end of the month we will do

923
00:51:41.719 --> 00:51:45.800
a public zoom book discussion that is open to any

924
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:48.119
and everybody. So if you would like to join the

925
00:51:48.159 --> 00:51:50.920
book club, just pick up your copy of Buffalo Hunter

926
00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:53.079
Hunter and have it read by the end of the

927
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:55.440
month and we'll do our book club meeting. And of

928
00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:57.920
course if you are a Patreon subscriber, then you will

929
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:01.920
have access to the spell book Club discord channel where

930
00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:04.519
we can have discussions or just kind of talk about

931
00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:06.199
the book or oh my god, have you read this

932
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:06.679
part yet?

933
00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:07.800
Hopefully no spoilers.

934
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:10.400
Will find a way to avoid spoilers, but that discord

935
00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:13.280
channel will be open for discussion throughout the reading and

936
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:16.480
an addition of course to the public discussion at the

937
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:18.199
end of the month. As always, if you have a

938
00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:20.800
scary story that you would like to hear on a

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00:52:20.920 --> 00:52:24.400
Letters from the Beyond episode, please visit sustopodcast dot com

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00:52:32.119 --> 00:52:34.320
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944
00:52:34.440 --> 00:52:38.079
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945
00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:40.440
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946
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:42.440
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Your support means the underworld to me. I will talk

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