True tales of horror, bizarre happenings, unexplainable events.

On our podcast, disturbed, terror takes center stage, kidnappings, serial killers, hauntings,

and the very essence of your worst nightmares coming to life on this weekly true horror show.

Enter at your own risk.

It's so cold that it makes the metal grown.

Wind skins low across the deck of a Japanese research

vessel. It's moving slowly through the southern ocean, just off the coast of Antarctica.

It's deep into the night, and this level of darkness wraps around you.

Now, the man on deck, his name has never been given, was part of a small night crew.

Nothing official, just standard rotation.

Equipment checks, temperature logs, watch duty.

Now, that kind of thing.

It was routine, and he was tired.

The sea was quiet in that strange, pressing way it gets

down there, when ice floats silently alongside you and even the ship's engine sound is distant

and muffled. And that's when he saw it, something moving in the water. He thought at first

it was ice, a shift, maybe a chunk,

flipping over. But then it moved again, slowly and smoothly. Whatever it was, it was enormous,

pale and just beneath the surface. And it didn't register all at once. It was like seeing only

part of something that's slowly coming

into view in the fog. And then he noticed something that he wouldn't tell anyone about

until years later. And even then, only anonymously on an internet forum, it was the shape of it.

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