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This is a topic I’ve had my mind on for quite some time. Although horrifying, it still remains to be an interesting theory of mine and others. H.P. Lovecraft created a series of fiction that revolves around ancient gods who ruled this Earth for millions of years with powers that we cannot begin to comprehend. This article is a theory on how Cthulhu could exist and why we all are possibly doomed to become enslaved by the Deep, Ancient, Old Ones.

Many of you already know this story, but I will briefly touch up on it. In 1997, scientists that were great distances from each other picked up a very low, loud, and repeating sound somewhere along the coordinates near S 50″, W 100″. Now, this sound was said to have been made by an animal much larger than any whale known to us. The noise has been said to be similar to a whale’s song.

In the early 20th century, H.P. Lovecraft wrote many classic horror tales set in first-person taking place in the madness of the Cthulhu mythos. It was a horrifying tale of men being driven to madness as their environments begin to change dramatically for the worst. Things that go bump in the night that we cannot begin to comprehend slowly entering our reality. While Cthulhu is not the most powerful being in the Cthulhu mythos, he certainly has gained the spotlight.

We know that this was a huge collaboration of some rather gifted minds working together to create a new and horrifying mythology. They were pretty detailed in their work and companions that followed. They even gave a location to where the monster lies under the ocean. The coordinates for where Cthulhu sleeps in the city of R’lyeh were given as S 47° 9′, W 126° 43′ 47″. Now, this may simply be a coicidence, but it is certainly not a hoax. The recordings were made my deep underwater microphones used to direct Soviet submarines during the Cold War. Both coordinates are incredibly close. Interesting to think that a sunken city could really exist, but that’s all legend, right?

Most people will immediately assume Atlantis for a once proud city, but swallowed by the abyss. The lost city of Atlantis was made famous by Plato, and Plato only, a very long time ago in unfinished writings.  It is said that Atlantis was located in the Atlantic ocean and sank to a watery grave. The exact location is never given, only that it was an absolute powerhouse. To think that a continent could sink deep into the ocean overnight sounds as realistic to me as California breaking off from the United States during a major earthquake. Though, what if Plato had a solid lead on a civilization with advanced, ancient beings? It is written that humans existed around the time of the Old Ones.

While many authors and others tried to build up Atlantis more and more over the last few centuries, I believe it to be a legend based on the truth. In every instance, the lie becomes the legend and then the legend becomes the truth. Atlantis was supposedly a highly advanced city, but so was R’lyeh. The epic scope of the unknown architecture was enough evidence to allow justification of worship by the first humans as they were led to the temples. If sights such as these were left in oral history passed onto generations, it might have ended up like a very long game of telephone with many liberties taken to the literal interpretation of what was originally said.

What if Cthulhu does exist in his watery tomb under the South Pacific Ocean? Could this mysterious noise called The Bloop be Cthulhu snoring violently? I for one am glad that it did not appear to awaken the Great Old One. Although, what if the science behind this giant creature is different than what we can imagine? Human beings wake themselves by snoring all of the time, but a creature of his sheer mass and unbelievable power may take a great amount of time to fully awaken from a few million year slumber.

Enough theories and thought. What still prevails in all of this is the unknown noise that was dubbed Bloop. It was given this name after what the noise resembled after the recording was sped up substantially. This noise was traced back somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The location given shows R’lyeh in the Pacific Ocean as well. The two locations are only 1,230 miles from each other. The Bloop location is only relative, of course, and could be closer than estimated.

This could have been a warning in an alien language spoken under tons of water that we can barely attempt to decipher. It may have been an extremely large man made vessel, but that doesn’t quite explain the pattern of the noise. Resembling a whale’s song, perhaps it really could be a great deep monster slumbering uncomfortably in a cold, water tomb.