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I love that there's an actual study on this. The link in the article is paywalled but you can download it here.
I feel like that one was worth investigating!
It was! There is actual potential if it turned out to have a basis, and to be fair it's likely worth the time to do a study on any widespread myth/old wives tale like that because you never know if there might be something to it, and if there's not well at least now you have proof.
Exactly! There is truth in some of them, though I can't remember which ones!
Don't these usually surface or show up when they're sick or dying anyway?
Either that or Cthulhu is awakening
The study starts:
In Japan, folklore says that uncommon appearances of deep‐sea fish are an earthquake precursor.
I guess if three show up in a short time (as in the article) then there might be something else going on? More likely to be climate change than earthquakes though.
I'd presume in the folklore it means seeing deep sea fish swimming around the surface, meaning something is happening below (undersea earthquake, eruption, pressure changes etc.). Them washing up dead make me think already sick or dying. Who knows, deep sea creatures might as well be aliens, the environment they live in is actually so weird when you think about it.
But it's definitely Cthulhu this time though.
My worry was that it's some military sub messing around in their habitat.
At the moment that's entirely plausible. Maybe they are a harbinger, just not for earthquakes.
Maybe both!