There is a new legend apparently, of a strange sea creature that has been given the name Ningen, and emerged around the 2000’s in Japan. I saw what is supposed to be a picture of one, and checked out what the story is – but it was the artists drawing of what they think it looks like that made me think of another. From the Mappa Mundi actually, a strange humanoid with a face in their chest area and no ‘head’ at all.

I have put a collage together of the pictures so you can see what I thought about. I’ll list what they are, then I guess it will be more obvious. Top left – Beluga Whale, top right – apparent Ningen sighting, middle left – the Blemyes people from Mappa Mundi, middle right – Ningen sighting, bottom left – strange creature sighted in Japan, bottom right – artist impression of the Ningen.

To me there is similarity to all of them, and personally I wondered if after the 2011 incident at Fukushima, could it have affected some of the wildlife to the point of making it seem like a new species? Possibly, but most of the sightings and info on them is before. And it all kind of looks like the same thing, but different at the same time.

One of those side thoughts now I tend to have, based on the name it has been given, Ningen. Take away the starting letter and you get Ingen, the fictitious company in charge of Jurassic Park bioengineering in the movies. And I wondered, if it could be possible, they have some crazy islands out there, aside from the trafficking ones they have that taken all the attention? Somewhere between Japan and Hawaii, in that deep, dark blue Pacific Ocean. Like Doctor Moreau’s Island too which is of a similar setting but a far darker idea than just resurrecting supposed beasts of the distant past. And while we were also distracted by the thought of dinosaurs, there have been other quite serious ‘projects’ that have been occurring, big ships able to travel further than your average one, submarine able to explore and stay underwater for months at a time, quite possibly a lot longer than they tell you. Where do they go? What do they really need to be doing down there and what is it they are exploring? I really would like to believe the ocean is as they say, it takes up 70% of our area, all the land is where they say it is and all the maps and satellite images are as they say they are. But for some reason, I just can’t help thinking there is more…

(c) K Wicks