Thread 41035333

I'm an experienced but "unlicensed" cave diver. I've been diving hundreds of times over decades, but after what I saw you'll never get me into the water ever again. None of my diving buddies that I could tell about this believe me. They think I must have had nitrogen narcosis or something.

I was part of an informal under-the-radar group who basically cared more about YOLO than sitting on our asses getting licenses and qualifications for every little thing. It killed the adventure for us to have gay organizations and other diving assholes on our case teaching us how to suck eggs and which way we're allowed to piss and when. We'd get some basic paperwork so we can get gear without raising too many questions but otherwise get it from our friends and lie our asses off about where we're going and what we were doing.

A friend and I were illegally diving in a cave and he was killed by some kind of organism that I only saw briefly, but it looked like picrel. I had passed over it seconds earlier, felt a sudden current and turned back to see the tentacles rising around my buddy. He didn't seem to notice at first because he was looking in the direction of his light, and it was surrounding him slowly, I tried to warn him but at the last second they closed around him and I saw his momentary panic as in a split second they dragged him down into a smaller crevice in the cave floor.

The rapid action threw up sediment reducing visibility after that and I was so panicked I used up an embarrassing amount of air just getting the fuck outta there. Divers aren't supposed to panic and I've stayed perfectly calm in innumerable critical situations but this was so sudden it triggered an animal instinct I never felt before. I wasn't even thinking and I'm actually surprised I even kept my regulator in my mouth or managed to quell my panic enough during the ascent to avoid decompression illness.

Caves are supposed to be devoid of larger or dangerous lifeforms due to a minimal food chain.

>>41035333 (OP)
>he was killed
How do you know.

>>41035365
it was me, i was his friend

>>41035333 (OP)
Name the cave / GPS coordinates or gtfo

Dude, I am sorry you lost your friend. That sounds super scary. I am glad you made it out safe.

You may need to talk to someone about this, PTSD is a really bad thing.

I don't know if you can get in trouble, but if you see a therapist, they can not call the police on you.

Did he eat an hour before he went swimming? I always wait an hour for this very reason.

Please be safe, and I hope you feel better.

>>41035365
I momentarily saw the crevice he was dragged into equipment and all before water suddenly flowed back out kicking up sediment. It was smaller than he was. I also felt a sickening "crack" sound that I'll never forget which I believe was his body getting instantly broken and maybe his metal equipment breaking some of the rock on the way through. It left me in no doubt about the amount of force involved. Just the speed alone was inhuman and characteristic of a predatory strike. I have no reason to believe he could have survived. I guess all that is what hit me so hard in the moment.

The depth we were at and the cave system we were in there should have been anything anywhere near that size or aggression. There was little current to speak of historically and I still don't see how something like that could get enough food to survive on a long mostly horizontal section of cave. I can only figure it is long-lived and lies dormant for long periods waiting years? decades? centuries? for something to come by. The fact I didn't trigger it myself might be indicative of it being in a dormant state it's not easily awoken from.

The other weird thing is it was the same dark colour as the surrounding rock and same texture as the crap on the bottom, but as you would probably know organisms that live that deep and without sunlight are usually devoid of any pigmentation. That made me think maybe it was some kind of giant octopus or cuttlefish or some related species but I could see the spined bulbs on the end of the tentacles which I've never seen before. It makes some kind of sense to slowly circle them around the back of its prey and then when enough make contact and hook into it somehow that it just pulls straight down to a central point with maximum speed and force. I'm not sure what else does that though if anything on Earth.

>>41035401
The reason I don't is that as I said we weren't supposed to be there let alone that part of the cave system and I haven't even been connected to that location or his disappearance. There's no body and anyone I tell thinks I'm somehow delusional. I don't want his family or the cops thinking I murdered him or something like that and I can't help him now. He would understand. I need to talk about it but I can't really do so anywhere else.

You guys know about cryptids and such. Has anyone else reported anything like this or know anything about it? What it could be? I'm not crazy and I know I didn't have any kind of diving-related cognitive impairment at the time. I had the right mixtures and no excess CO2 or anything like that. My equipment all checked out afterwards. If it had been something like that my panic would have instantly made things worse and probably killed me too. It was just due to my experience and having done this stuff so many times that I got back at all. I barely remember doing a lot of it but I know I did on sheer muscle memory.

I also wouldn't want to send anyone down there looking for my buddy's body or the creature especially if they didn't really believe me. They wouldn't stand a chance and god only knows how many there are in those caves or others. Since that day I've been thinking about other divers who suddenly seemed to go missing even when with other people relatively close by the sudden kicking up of sediment attributed to panic and bodies never found. I don't think they all happened that way. It can't be a coincidence. I figure maybe somebody saw something or thought they saw something at some point. Even if old reports you guys may have heard about. Maybe these creatures don't have to eat very often due to very slow metabolism, so after eating a human they don't react to others for years and people just think the cave is safe.

That's why I will never go back.

>>41035463
>The reason I don't is that as I said we weren't supposed to be there let alone that part of the cave system and I haven't even been connected to that location or his disappearance. There's no body and anyone I tell thinks I'm somehow delusional. I don't want his family or the cops thinking I murdered him or something like that
You told your friends that your other friend got killed by a monster, and they didn't tell like, his family?

>>41035472
It's complicated. We are an informal group that is largely disconnected and anonymous to avoid liability in case of accidents. We help each other out with fake qualifications, contacts, under the counter deals, etc. We'd mostly keep it to small groups. I mostly dived with my buddy. Most of them don't know him personally or know he's involved and he did some legit diving too. He just got a kick out of doing the off-the-books stuff. When I told them about this most knew who I was referring to by pseudonym at best or have every reason to not get personally involved. None of them know his family that's for sure. All that obviously made convincing them of what happened a lot harder too.

Not trying to be funny but the best way I can think to describe it is it would be like some two-bit street-level drug distributor trying to convince an entire organised crime syndicate he just got beat up by Batman. And I don't mean to imply what we were doing was that bad the risk was to ourselves we just didn't want people interfering with our choices, so the less everyone inside and outside knew the better.

>>41035522
Is he reported missing or something?

>>41035333 (OP)

>333

Trips of truth.

Sounds like an anime monster.

>>41035579
>Is he reported missing or something?
He must have only known OP. Otherwise they would trace his phone and connect it with OP's phone.

Anything's possible but I think it's made up.

>>41035463
Share the location faggot , nobody knows who you are and you lied about where you were going anyway as you said above .

Don't you believe you have an obligation to try and spread awareness of some kind in an informal way? The coordinates would keep me far the feck away but someone with a submersible drone could attempt to go down there and get the data with equipment.

Why is this site off limits? What's the situation with this that we should believe your story isn't just creative fiction? Give us something. I want to believe you.

I've got a primal fear of open water and things of that nature because in my heart I believe in the power of nature and the terror of the deep.

>>41035522
Op I believe you. It’s impossible for us to know every creature in the ocean especially if it’s fast, hides, and kills humans like that. That’s not something I feel governments would want to share.

From what you described it sounds like some type of octopus cousin. Using force and speed if it’s large enough could possibly do what you said.
Why wouldn’t that exist?

>>41035579
Yes. He's been "missing" ever since and it was reported by his family after a while because he used to go on trips for indeterminate periods and would lie about the details. Nobody knew where he was actually going. My family didn't know where I was going either. We had our phones just in case, but disabled them before the final leg just in case the authorities could pick them up and triangulate out location illegally diving at the cave. He didn't bring his vehicle. I met him at a third location and then drove there directly.

I almost turned on my phone and called someone but frankly I was in shock and couldn't even work out how I would even explain everything. I drove back alone. Later it got harder for me to even consider reporting it to the cops knowing how it looked. The second I admitted I was the last person to see him alive and with such a "fantastic" story there would have been skepticism and endless questions way beyond the repercussions for illegal diving.

The police had no real clues only the misleading information he told his family and a cold trail. There's nothing for them to go on and figure out the truth unless I tell them. I feel bad about his family never knowing but I think it's best to leave everything where it is. Which only leaves the creature.

Of course I feel a responsibility to warn people about the danger, but when they don't believe you anyway, what can you do? It's like if Bigfoot posed a danger and you tried to warn people of course they're not going to listen. I'm still trying to figure this out from the safety of dry land though. People who have gone missing in caves with no body found.

>>41035884
The closest thing I know of is cuttlefish hunting in a sorta similar way. Maybe it could conceal part of it's body down a shaft. Maybe it got in there when it was smaller and grew later but nothing about that makes real sense to me or really matches what I saw.

>>41035333 (OP)
Op are you familiar with the tale of creature 46b?
Your encounter sounds familiar. Bump for interest

>>41037464
I haven't no.

>>41037464

I thought the same thing.

>>41037464

There was one in LOTR too, Watcher In The Water. Underground too.

GO TO SCHOOL

I promise ya

It the best.

>>41035333 (OP)
Nice larp bro

>>41035333 (OP)
Sounds terrifying. What part of the world was this? About how deep were you guys?
>>41037464
Hadn’t heard of this guy but he’s supposed to be around 30ft, though that one was found in an underground Antarctic lake. This could be a smaller relative maybe. Pretty disconnected geographically and very different climates.

>>41037564
Whatever you say bro.

I guess nothing every happens in your parent's basement, so you'd find it hard to believe that people even go outside in the first place.

>>41037526
>>41037988
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Organism_46-B

Tell the state or the country at least please, fresh or salt water?

>>41035333 (OP)
That sounds like it would be a good sci-fi movie or something, lmao

>>41038465
>https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Organism_46-B
>Dr. Padalka and his story was made up by the fiction author C. Michael Forsyth

>>41035333 (OP)
this is why we don't dive in caves

>>41035463
>>41035463
idiot faggot

>>41039049
I also thought about these two lol.

>>41038426
You don’t even have scuba gear to post with timestamp.

Congrats op you met the black carpet

>>41039240
more like watched le chasseurs video and made babbys first green text after school

> IN THE HOLES!? !!?!

> POS U MUST BE KING!!!! !!!

>>41035375
Damn sorry to hear that, hope it gets better for you.

>>41035333 (OP)
>won't share location
>won't post obituary
>didn't tell his family
>no evidence at all
Just a trust me bro story.
Im going to hate that some dude will screen cap all your posts and it'll fall in with other scary diver stories.
Larp
>post pics of your diving equipment
Ohh uhh ya see lost it in a boating accident
>post blurred face pics of you diving
Ohh uhh were underground we don't do photos

Good job agent 47, time to exfil.

>>41035333 (OP)
Yeah. No. Pick a piece of evidence and post it or fuck off larper.

>>41039809
I'm used to not being believed at this point. I'm here for help identifying the creature. I'm through trying to prove anything to people who think they know everything already. There is stuff that is irrelevant to you either way and you wouldn't accept any kind of evidence I could provide anyway.

>>41041676
I think the problem is that you outright dismiss any comments about proof, then expect help.
Anyway, this clearly isn't

>>41041676
You know just a minor handful of things about diving from youtube and you don’t have any diving equipment, retard. Stay in school.

>>41041676
Yeah no one believes you because you have 0 proof you even dive, let alone knew someone who died, let alone saw a creature.
Besides one big thing no one pointed out, you're buddy.
Gets pulled through a Crack smaller than his body, hearing a loud noise you assume his body being broken to fit.
He's strapped to an air tank, said airtank dosnt rupture?
Or did the monster rip him from his harness?
Why wouldn't you tell people, or get a group to go back and hunt it. Pretty easy to make a spear, or poison.

>>41035333 (OP)
You guys sometimes give others ideas for a movie but ergmagerd imma gonna post a story and have users just guess. Yay! Its like a movie of some bobbit worm. Yuratard

>>41042436
Let me guess, you're a Navy Seal with 300 confirmed kills so you'd know all about diving.

>>41035333 (OP)
>needing a license to swim
the absolute state of bongland

>>41044569
>fact

there is a giant red squid species that has killed men before. "El diablo rojo", it's the name they use in Mexico.

>>41035333 (OP)
Even retards can get SCUBA licenses. I think you’re lying.

>>41041676
You need to provide some basic information so we can identify it for you. Knowing around where the thing lives is the bare minimum.

>>41035463
I'm currently at this point in the thread so sorry if someone's already mentioned it, but have you heard the black carpet or whatever it's called story from here about a big supposed colony of thingies underwater that looks like a giant black mass with stingers attached to it? If this story is made up (I had fun reading it btw), I assume it took inspiration from that story. I'll try to find a link to an upload of it somewhere.

>>41044569
fact: OP doesn't even own any diving equipment

>>41041676
>I'm through trying to prove anything
>After not even attempting to prove anything
???

>>41035404
Fuck off reddit.

>>41046598
Well if OP is lying then why don't you go down there? Yeah I thought so. Not so brave now and where is your scuba gear tough guy? If you were so sure he was lying you'd do it and prove him wrong.

>>41039049
Guy on the left looks like a homo.

>>41035463
You dont need any certifications to dive or cave dive. You cant get arrested for not "registering" a dive. People will think your a fucking retard though because those rules are in place for a reason, and buying 2nd hand scuba gear is also fucking retarded. Its not illegal to do any of the shit your claiming will get you in trouble. This reads like some AI jeet slop

>>41042553
Nope, and you’re not a diver.

Do you niggas think those slop channels that use AI to narrate greentexts and le spoopi stories come here and post their own shitty stories (most likely also made with AI) so that they will never ran out of shit to narrate?

>>41048297
x greentext vids died with chass

>>41048118
We can’t go down there because he didn’t say where it is.
>>41048297
There have been threads where anons have admitted to coming here because they like to write fiction and it’s what they do all day long.
Issue is they are now the majority.

>>41048579
Sounds pretty legit to me, doesn't sound like usual AI slop at all, plus could easily happen and something like that could easily exist. Same with a couple of fags diving and one getting killed doesn't matter how, then just pretending it didn't happen because nobody knew they were there. Nothing they could do except avoid problems for the survivor.

>>41035333 (OP)
Posting, just so the thread Is still alive. Interesting story, anon

>>41048675
>just pretending it didn’t happen because nobody knew they were there.
Yeah sure because anonymity is so strong here that it’s totally safe to talk about a friends death that you refuse to acknowledge happened in real life.
Also no one said it was AI. They said anons come here to write fiction.
This is one of those.

>>41035426
>The fact I didn't trigger it myself might be indicative of it being in a dormant state it's not easily awoken from.
You said you felt the temperature change just as you passed over, no? And then it was your friend just behind you who got the snibbedy snab?
Sounds to me like it was you who activated it. Lots of ambush predators wait for a second stimulus after the first to strike so they avoid revealing themselves on a false positive from a blown leaf or some such (on land, obviously). Both trapdoor spiders and Venus fly traps operate on this same principle.
My point is that this is pretty typical predator behavior, which is scary. It's always a dead giveaway when somebody talks about cryptids and their behavior doesn't remotely match their adaptations/location. My guess is squid/octopus. Fucking terrifying

>>41049201
Whoops, wrong image kek

>>41035333 (OP)
known species of giant squid are more then capable of this.