Originally Posted by wehateporn

If Japanese stories are to be believed, the aquatic giants, which usually live more than 3,000 feet below the surface and away from human eyes, come up to the surface and beach themselves as a prequake warning bell.

Case in point: According to several reports, in the months after an 8.8 magnitude quake in Chile in 2010 and a year before the giant March 2011 tremor that rocked Japan, several oarfish, called ?Messenger from the Sea God's Palace? in Japanese, were either beached or caught near the quake?s epicenter off the coast of Honshu."