A 4.5-metre long shovelfish was found dead Monday (7) off the coast of Chile’s Talcán Island. The detail is that such ghosts are actually seen as harbingers of an earthquake that happened the next day, according to local beliefs.

According to the news of the Argentine broadcaster C5N, the images of the fish found dead on the beach, shared on social networks, worried the residents of the region, especially after a 5.3 degree earthquake on the Richter scale was recorded in the central region on Tuesday (8). ) is 79 kilometers deep in the country.

According to legends born in Japan, when fish of this species are called Ryugu also tsukai (“messenger from the palace of the sea god”), located on the coast, means there will be some natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis even hurricanes.

Legend has it that the oarfish lives in the depths of the oceans, and when seen on the surface, it carries the message that unusual movement of tectonic plates may occur at any moment.

Some of these fish were found in Japan’s Fukushima and other nearby cities before the earthquake devastated the area in 2011 and subsequently triggered a tsunami.

A 5.8-meter-long specimen of this species was also caught in July of this year. On this occasion, the Chilean Geoscience Network stressed that “there is no scientific evidence of the relationship between this fish and earthquakes, which corresponds only to a myth.”

The shovelfish is considered the longest bony fish in the world, which can grow up to 17 meters. Entities of this species can live at depths of 200 to 1000 meters, so it is rare to find them on the Earth’s surface.