It was a calm, sunny day at Bikini Beach, just outside Punta del Este, Uruguay — until something in the water changed everything.
A small group of surfers sat waiting for the next set when a massive, dark shape breached the surface near them. The water swelled and hissed, and the surfers froze — because what they saw didn’t match anything they’d ever seen before.
The encounter was captured on grainy footage now circulating online, showing a shadowed form surfacing disturbingly close to the lineup. Whatever it was, it was large, black, and moving with intention.
One of the surfers, Andrés Fernández, was close enough to see details that still haunt him.
“What I’m going to say is very confusing,” Fernández recalled. “I heard a whale-like noise — that deep blowing sound — and when I looked, I saw a black back with no visible dorsal fin, but it had little scales. It seemed like everything in the center of the spine had little scales. Like a single row of scales… I looked for whales that had that and I didn’t find any.”
The animal — if it was an animal — surfaced only once before diving back into the depths.
“It was large — not to exaggerate, maybe seventy centimeters wide, maybe a full meter,” he continued. “And it seemed to be very deep underwater. It went to the bottom and disappeared. The moment passed… and nothing else happened. It was like a herd of something, but there was one that was bigger than the rest.”
Even when reviewing the video, Fernández noticed something odd — a brief glimpse of what could have been a fin, like a shark’s, but the behavior didn’t match. Sharks don’t make whale-like blowhole sounds, and whales don’t have scales.
Marine biologists have yet to identify the creature, leaving plenty of room for speculation — from an undiscovered deep-sea species that wandered into shallow waters, to something more enigmatic.
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Theories from the Deep
- Cryptozoologists suggest a new aquatic cryptid — possibly reptilian, given the scales and shape.
- Local fishermen whisper about El Lomo Negro (“the Black Back”), a regional legend said to appear before storms.
- Skeptics argue it was likely a distorted view of a large ray or dolphin caught in turbulent surf.
But those who were there insist — this was no ordinary marine life encounter.
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The ParanormalLink Take
Footage continues to circulate across social media, with experts split between biological mystery and optical illusion. Yet Andrés Fernández remains convinced that what surfaced beside him that day was not a known animal.
And in the restless Atlantic waters off Uruguay, where the deep meets the unseen, maybe some things are better left unexplained.
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