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Yo, oh, oh, yo, oh, oh, oh.

Hey, you salty sea dogs, hello.

Oh, ho.

Hi.

This is Terrestrials.

I am Lulu, and I'm singing in a subpar impression of a sailor because today's story takes place at sea on a boat.

It's about something that for centuries people thought was a tall tale, something sailors would occasionally spot out in the waves like mermaids or the

Loch Ness monster, but most people on the land didn't think it was real until one day, in the

recent past, a new kind of technology, a satellite in the sky taking pictures and collecting

data, was able to solve the case. It's a beautiful

tale about this earth and it comes to us from our friends over at the Atlas Obscura podcast. We wanted

to share their work today because like us, they make a podcast that is all about cool stories

that take place on this earth. Neat animals, neat places, things you might not have heard about that make this planet

feel a little more alive and wondrous.

So this is a great one.

It is literally sparkling with delight.

And I will say no more except to hand it off to their host, Dylan Turris. Here we go. Like all good

sea stories, this one starts on a dark night aboard a big ship, hundreds of miles out to sea.

John Brian, the captain of an oil tanker called the SS Lima and his wife Brenda were standing up on the deck.

It was such a lovely evening.

We were actually just taking some time out, chatting with the officer of the watch,

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