Lusca of Bermuda?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 4th, 2009
CY writes in saying he’s off to Bermuda on Sunday, and wondering what he should keep an eye out for there.
One of the strangest cryptozoological mysteries of the Caribbean is the Lusca, a giant octopus-like cephalopod said to live in the “blue holes” (narrow pits that plunge as much as 200 feet straight down through rock) of Andros and the Grand Bahama islands in the Bahamas, the Caicos Islands, and off Cuba.
I have always wondered if the blue holes of Bermuda could hide a Lusca or two. Or even the cenotes of the Yucatan?
While Bahamas’ blue holes get most of the attention, there are blue holes in Bermuda too. Indeed, one of Bermuda’s major tourist attraction is the Devil’s Hole, a blue hole.
An interesting footnote to be conscious of for CY leaving for Bermuda on Sunday, July 5th, is that he may be there for the Full Moon of July 7. The Lusca reportedly surfaces at night when the moon is full. It is said to drag boats and fisherman into the water with its tentacles. Watch out.
I wonder what pops up on the waters of the Caribbean near Bermuda when the moon is full. (Play “Twilight Zone” music now.)
Maybe CY and friends will tell us when they return.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Huh… In tropical Bermuda, kalamari eat you! 😀
Interesting… I’ll have to go poking in one of those “blue holes” with a stick sometime. The stick’s for comic effect, and, if I poke something and make it mad, it eats the stick, not me.
Hey Loren, hope no one gets Lusca mad; they’re in for a surprise!
Hi Loren,
I lived in Bermuda from 2005 to 2007. My house was on Harrington Sound Road about a mile from Devil’s Hole. No sign of any Lusca but Giant Squid did wash up on the coast while I was there!
You seem to forget sometimes when you look for something you find it. Worse yet sometimes it finds you….
Yeah, but you have to be seriously looking for something – just sorta peek into the water and say “Nope, nothing there”, and you’re probably not going to find it.
Like I said, dive into the hole with a big stick, and poke the bloody thing.
I’m all for someone checking out those holes in depth:)
That would be a great place for a giant cephalopod to hide…especially since octopi like to hide amongst rocks in the smaller sizes…that’s a cool idea…thanks for the article!
There are blue holes in the Keys, one in particular near my place in Big Pine Key is called Blue Hole. In the past is was home to alligators but they have recently been removed.
There is a fresh water lens often over a salt water base in blue holes.
I’ve seen the Japanese cartoons. I don’t mess with anything that’s got tentacles!
I heard about the lusca after our trip some 15 years ago, wonder why no one has used a sub or ROV to search the blue holes? Seems like a interesting thing to do, maybe someone has already though?
Ooh, a sea monster I haven’t heard of. I’ve always wanted to go to Devil’s Hole but had no idea of the possible monster lurking below.
That there are more undiscovered big cephalopods is likely, but living in these holes? They could hide there until they got hungry, but they’d have to come out to eat. Maybe they only come out at night, but I’m wondering why they don’t turn up in fishermen’s nets — they and the fishermen would probably be competing for the same food.
I have been intrested in these blue holes, if Lusca is there, then i say good luck to anyone who wants to go into them,