Yussie is a marine cryptid carcass reported from Yushi Beach, Mikata Town, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
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Description[]
In March 1979, a local fisherman was fishing with a net when he found a huge bone in the net. It was a 10-meter long, articulated skeleton with a bit of ivory-colored flesh, a fin bone resembling a Japanese aralia leaf, and a skull the size of an oil drum at the end of its spine. The carcass was already rotting, and fishermen, thinking it would interfere with fishing, carried it 20 kilometers offshore and dumped it.
Around May of the same year, the smell of decomposition wafted into neighboring areas, and chunks of flesh and fat floated in the sea. The fishermen picked up these pieces of meat and carried them offshore to dump them.
On July 29, a person diving in the vicinity saw the skeleton of a giant serpent-like creature submerged at a depth of 5 meters. It was thought that this skeleton was the carcass found in March, but the location where it was found was far from the point where it was dumped in March, and from the standpoint of ocean currents, it was unlikely that it could have traveled this far.
Explanation[]
It is highly likely that this is a whale carcass of some kind. As for the mystery of the skeleton migration, it is consistent with the idea that this is a separate individual and that two other whale carcasses were merely found in the area within a short period of time. Based on this theory, it is likely that the oil and meat chunks that floated around in May were detached from the individual that was found as a skeleton in July.