S. Latitude 47°9', W. Longitude 123°43'

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has got to be one of the most solid and worthy organizations in the world. From charting the ocean's currents to warning towns of dangerous weather, they have done the foremost research on the relationship between the sea and the land. Hell, they even predict events before they happen. These blokes always know what's going on around them. Chances are, if it's happening in the sea, they know about it.

Except once.

Back in the spring of 1997AD, the autonomous hydrophone array on the Equatorial Pacific ocean picked up a somewhat strange noise. The spectrogram that recorded the noise didn't match any of the normal causes for such a noise (i.e man-made, whale, etc) The involved scientists didn't take much notice of the sound and merely dubbed it "Train" due to the fact that it sounded like a locomotive whistle.

Later in the summer something happened. The same array in the same area mentioned earlier picked up a sound. A huge sound. According to the NOAA it "Rises rapidly in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors and microphones, at a range of over 5,000 km." This time, the NOAA took notice, this sound was so loud that it couldn't be ignored. When one of the scientists sped up the sound of the recording sixteen times, he was shocked to hear a sound not unlike a human dropping a stone in a pond. "Bloop" was the name of this recording. However, this sound wasn't an isolated incident. Over the next four months, the same sound was heard many times, and it's "Bloop" was audible every single instance.

Then the sounds stopped. Somebody had to have an explanation; the sound was far too big to happen without a cause. Such sounds typical of this magnitude are usually explained by underwater earthquakes or volcanoes. Not this time. Many 'experts', when questioned said that the audio profile on the spectrogram very closely resembled that of a living creature. But for such an animal to make the sound it would have to be the biggest on this planet.

What's more is the general location of the noise at 50^oS; 100^oW. Which is eerily close to the location of a fictional creature, penciled by a penniless short story creator.