Real Life Sea Serpent - The Oarfish

Believed to be the backing behind many 'sea serpent' theories and stories, the Oarfish is an extremely large and long fish found in the Pelagic zone of seas or lakes. They are very rarely seen, despite being found in all temperate and tropical oceans. Just to stress, these things are freaking scary, look at this thing:

Source: National Geographic

Most of the Oarfish every seen have been found washed ashore, or floating on the seas surface dying. In fact there has only every been one sighting of the Oarfish in its natural habitat, which was discovered by scientists in 2008. The fish observed was estimated to be between 5-10m in length, and if you thought a dead Oarfish was unsettling, look at this footage of a live one:

In other news, recently 2 of these beasts have been found washed up on the shore in California, an extremely rare occurrence. Some locals even believe the Oarfish sightings could be an indication of an earthquake, but there's no telling for sure, and Geologists don't agree with this theory. The fishes found on Santa Catalina Island were 4.3m and 5.5m in length, which is nothing compared to their maximum size of up to 15m! There's no denying that these strange elongated fish are something to be marvelled at.