NO SURVIVOR
did you ever wachet that tv show, the deadliest catch? a show about tough guys fishing crabs on bering strait?if you did you know what the bering is, a dark deadly ocean, where is very easy to die, or simply disapear to never be seen again. dozens disapear there, eery year, at least those we can count. sometimes the weather play tricks on the radar screens, and ships come and go from nowhere, like ghosts, but it's just the weather. the coast guard ger SOS calls all the time, and they have a brave and respectable history of sucessfull rescues to tell to anyone who asks. But sometimes they didn't get there on time. the cold water can kill a man in few minutes, and a hole of the size on a needle in a survival suit WILL get you killed, there, the stormy ocean can split big ships in half, if they don't know how to break the waves right. small boats can get swallowed by the ocean in a second, so some times, when the rescue get there, all they see are flooting debris,not even a corpse is left to be found.
but sometimes, ships appear out of nowhere, and those are real ships, not the weather again. mostly fishing ships, with 5 or 6 men, who suddenly stop answering to the radio. when a ship dont reply to calls, rescue is called, nothing is left to the chance, not on those waters. once there, rescuers climb on the ship to see what is wrong, but they dont find nothing.
tanks full of crabs or fishs, TVs on, something smelling good on the kitchen, with food on the tables. all systems working perfectly, and all life boats on their places, ready to go, if anyone need them. but the crew isn't there. simple as that. six men, sometimes more, simply disapear. no signs of fight, no sign of danger, not a single possible explanation for where those men went. it's like they just vanished in thin air, suddenly.
some people say it was a wave, who caught everyone on the deck by surprise, and dragged then to a death in the cold waters, and most people accept that, but anyone on the job know that the odds of such thing happening with every single man on the ship at the same time is close to one in one million. others spoke about more dark possibilities. some times people get insane, they just pop and brake, and then is just wait and see the bodies hitting the water.
but such possibilitie is also very hard to belive, after all one man losing his mind is common, but six, it's simple not possible.
with all new tech, ou can have a cam everywhere, and sometimes those cams are found recording.
the footage is, in lack of a better word, disturbing
its a roaring sound, not loud, but very very low, like metal against ice, or waves, huge waves, breaking at the beach the beach, but you may say “nothing extraordinary”, but that is not the disturbing part. Every time some of those “waves”break, you can hear an almost inaudible sound of voices, female voices.
It’s not a beatifull singing, it’s not something you can hear on radio. It’s an eerie sound full of hatred, the sound of women growling like animals and cursing on a strange dialect that no one can recognise. He talk fast, and for ten to twelve minutes all you can see is darkness.
At the end, you hear something different. Most people recognise the voices as the voices of the crew members. They scream for help for few seconds then everything turn in silence.
A couple years ago, the coast guard found one of those ships, but this was different, it had a survivor. The man was inside one of the tanks, in his fishing suit, with only his head exposed. At first they thought He was already dead, but once they touched him, He started to scream.
He didn’t called for help, nor threatened the rescuers, He Just screamed until He fainted. He was taken to the hospital more dead than alive, and spoke to no one.
The man was wounded, but nothing serious. Police conclude He got a beating, but no one could explain why. In his face, deep cuts resembling claw marks. Soon his body was healed, but not his mind. He didint spoke a single Word for several years, mosto f the time He would spent in silence in a dark corner, like a small child hiding. The most interesting part was his fear of two thngs: water and women.
The man wound freeze IF touched or even spoken to by any women, old or Young, and He always obeyed any command of them with great fear, several times urineting himself in fear. At first the nurses found it amusing, but soon they got worried and scared with his extreme reactions.
The water was other issue. The man wont drink water unless He was forced or commanded by a female, and oftenly would vomit it soon afterwards. To save him the hospital had to feed water to him though a tube down his throath.
Some Day, a man stormed in the hospital and demanded to speak with the survivor. The man was the father of one of the missing fishermen. The father was about to be taken away by force, when a soft, sound came from the room where the survivor was. His doctors rushed to the room in time to see the survivor pulling the tube from his throat and trying to talk.
He refused to speak to the doctors, and pointed at the desperated father,. The medics, now curious, let the old man approached the bed, and when He got close enough, the survivor pulled him close to his mouth with surprisingly speed and strenght. For almost two minutes He whispered in the old man’s ear, so no one else could hear it.
Then He let go of the man and felt in the bed. He was dead.
The medics tried to bring him back, but everything failed. The man was dead and cold, almost freezing, something no one could explain. In the confusion, the old man vanished. To never be seen again. He didnt returned to his house, He Just vanished.
At the hospital, na last disturbing event took place. Shocked by the man sudden death, the hospital conducted an autopsy. But what was found only brought more questions.
All his organs where rotten, after less than a Day since his expiration.
No one could explain it, and to be honest, no one wanted to try. It was like a silent agreement between the authorities, no one would ask questions and no one would try answering them. The man was cremated and the case buried under piles of paper.
But one Day, several years later, one of the medics found, by pure blind luck, the father Who disapeared since that tragic Day. His first impulse was to not contact him. He had turned into a homeless person, and was very sick, for what He could tell. But the medic simply need to know what the survivor told before He died.
Slowly He aproached the old man, and present himself as one of the medics Who took care of the survivor. The old man Just look at him and Said:”He told me that they all were dead. All of them”
That was not a total shock. The poor old man went after the survivor to know the fate of his son, and He found it. The medic put his hand on the shoulder of the old man and Said:
“so the survivor told you that all the other fishermen were dead?thats why you disapeared?”
The old man looked deep in the eyes of the medic, and spoke slowly:
“listen me carefully doctor. He told me they were all dead. Every single one of them. He is dead too, you know that.”
The doctor looked to the old man with pity.
“Yes, He died that same night, Just after talking to you.”
The old man turned his back to the doctor and walked away. But before dsapearing in the streets He spoke for the last time:
“stupid man. He was dead from the beginning, dead from the beginning. There was no such thing as a survivor.
The medic was shocked. He couldn’t see that one coming, it was for sure.
That night He went to his house and opened the files He keept with him in secret.dead from the begining?stupidity. He was alive and healthy, at least his body. It was what He thinked until He saw the first Picture: beside him was the survivor, but it was wrong, very wrong. The survivor, the patient in the Picture, was clearly a dead man, a corpse with initial signs of decomposition. But was indeed, the same man, He could see that.
He rushed to see the other pictures, the one from the rescue, and several others He took for years. At every single Picture He would see the survivor, or better say, the dead man, rotting and aging, turning in a hideous carcass.
That night He went to his house and opened the files He keept with him in secret.dead from the begining?stupidity. He was alive and healthy, at least his body. It was what He thinked until He saw the first Picture: beside him was the survivor, but it was wrong, very wrong. The survivor, the patient in the Picture, was clearly a dead man, a corpse with initial signs of decomposition. But was indeed, the same man, He could see that.
He rushed to see the other pictures, the one from the rescue, and several others He took for years. At every single Picture He would see the survivor, or better say, the dead man, rotting and aging, turning in a hideous carcass.
That was impossible, those pictures showed a healty patient in the past, how could they changed like that?
The doctor burned his files, with the pictures, and quit the job at the city hospital. Some say He moved to some place far away. But no one know to where. The old man was never seen again, and no one looked for him anyway.
But in that city, fisherman know one thing. There was no survivor left from that boat.
Fin
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