Mythical Japanese Ningen Believed to be Caught on Camera
Cassandra Yorgey
Mysterious footage claiming to be of a legendary Japanese cryptid known as a “ningen” is circulating social media, showing a large creature on the seabed with a round head and huge bulbous eyes and two flippers that it seems to be using to shuffle itself along the ocean bed. Very little information is presented regarding the video, although presumably it was taken somewhere near Japan.


Commenters immediately notice the date in the corner from the camera seems to indicate the video was filmed several months in the future, causing some to speculate that the timeline is shifting. This is actually further indication the recording was made in Japan as the date format there is year / month / day. Unfortunately, this also means the video is likely from 2010 rather than new footage.

Despite the age of the video, the creature still appears to remain unidentified to this day, furthering rumors that it may indeed be the strange creature from urban legend. The Ningen is described by witnesses as being humanoid but about twenty meters long and uniformly white in coloration. Reports vary on if it has arms or fins or a mermaid-esque tail, but eyewitnesses agree on one distinctively creepy feature - it lacks any facial features despite having eyes and a mouth the face is weirdly blank.