Posted on 04/12/2016 4:14:56 PM PDT by Morgana
Shizuo Kakutani sees no great mystery in the things that wash ashore in Monzen, his quiet fishing village on the Sea of Japan — the fishing boats ravaged by fierce winter storms, the Chinese garbage carried to land by the strong winds, the occasional body that drifts in from Yaseno, the nearby cliffs notorious for suicides.
The ghost ships, however, are harder to explain.
On an early morning in November, the 71-year-old retired fisherman received a call from his colleagues at the town's civilian coast guard. A black mass bobbling in the water — most likely a boat — had been spotted hooked to a distant buoy.
"When I saw the boat, I immediately knew that it was from North Korea," Kakutani said. He had seen similar vessels before — no more than 30 feet long, made of wood, its flat-bottomed hull covered in black tar.
"Then, as we were pulling the boat to this port, we noticed a pair of legs sticking out from underneath, bobbing up and down with the waves," Kakutani said. Later that day, they discovered two more boats and a grisly cargo of 10 bodies, all badly decomposed.
In small towns along Japan's sleepy west coast, dozens of North Korean boats drift ashore each year — and while most arrive empty or reduced to kindling, some float eerily out of the haze with a crew of bodies, adding to the mystery of a country that cloaks itself in secrecy.
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The most likely explanation that I’ve read is that they are military personnel, with no fishing skills, ordered to go fishing and not allowed to return until they catch something.
Good fodder for a future horror movie.
Plenty of Nazi zombie movies out there.
Dawn Snow was a good one. Most suck
Watch out when the Fog starts drifting in.
People trying to escape North Korea?
Sad.
I read that too. This would be sad if it were not so horrific
Don’t send the bodies back.
They will be tortured, then executed.
Poor, dumb troopers, with absolutely no knowledge either of the sea or of fishing, or, indeed, of small craft handling, sent out to catch fish.
There’s no food in North Korea, but the Madman-in-Charge spends everything on nukes and his personal creature comforts.
But for the grace of God ...
ROFL A classic
“Dawn Snow”
Cool! It’s on Netflix!
Did you mean Dead Snow?
yes, DEAD Snow. Dawn is the wife :)
I thought it was pretty cool!
I love a decent B horror movie.
maybe one out of every 3 or 4 is a surprise treat.
bttt
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