In some places in India, people throw burnt corpses into the river after funeral ceremonies. Never do they know that, due to this particular cultural practice of theirs, a mutant breed of fish has changed their diet from scavenging to human-hunting as they developed a special fondness of human flesh after consuming the dead bodies. And it was said that this mutant fish is responsible for the deaths of many people swimming in the Great Kali, a river that flows along the India-Nepal border.
This mutant breed of human-hunting fish is a type of catfish, called goonch, it is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world.
"The locals have told me a theory that this monster has grown extra large on a diet of partially burnt corpses. It has perhaps got this taste for flesh by feasting on remains of funeral pyres." Jeremy Wade, a biologist investigating the creature.
During Jeremy's investigation, he caught one goonch that weighed 161lb (73kg) and was nearly 6ft (about 183cm) long!
"If that got hold of you, there'd be no getting away." He said.
The first victim of this extraordinary creature was a 17-year-old Nepalese boy in April 1988. According to eyewitnessess, he was cooling himself in the river when something suddenly pulled him below the water surface. He was killed.
Three months after the first case, another young boy was dragged underwater right infront of his horrified father who could do nothing to save his son.
In year 2007, an 18-year-old Nepali disappeared in the river after being dragged by something described as "elongated pig".
There are still a lot of "monsters' of these kinds lurking in the river, deep seas or whatever, I think that the appearances of these 'monsters' are not by chance. More or less, human should take the responsibilities for destroying the natural habitats of animals and deprive them from their natural diets. *sigh.
