#also hiiiii fellow cryptid lovers

[havinganormalone]

One thing I love about the giant squid is that one of the reasons people were so convinced they existed were scars on sperm whales. The LARGEST whale, largest animal we knew existed on earth, would occasionally be seen with scars on their bodies. What could possibly pick a fight with a creature as massive as the Sperm Whale? What's more, while most of these scars were straight lines, sometimes clusters of circular scars could be seen.

Imagine seeing these marks on a whale. You know smaller squid exist, and they make marks like this, just on a micro scale. It's 1910. You are a whaler. The creature you hunt is dangerous, capable of destroying you and your crew if you are unfortunate. And yet somewhere out there, in the vast ocean beneath you, is a creature that can hurt even a behemoth sperm whale. You don't know where it lives, or how common it is. All you can do is pray you never meet one.