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In a shock sighting on the shore of Cabo San Lucas in Mexico, two extremely rare deep-sea creatures, also known as ‘doomsday fish’, have been spotted floundering outside the water, lying on the beach.

According to legend, the rarely-seen deep-sea oarfish is considered to be a harbinger of bad tidings, and two such creatures being spotted together could be pointing towards signs of some seriously terrible things to come.

The long, ribbon-like fish is an elusive deep-sea creature, often found at depths of 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) and seldom seen near the surface of the water — making two sightings of the rare oarfish a highly unusual and extraordinary event.

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Beachgoer Monica Pittenger, in collaboration with the account We Love Animals, first posted the shocking video clip she made of the incident to Instagram on March 4, 2026, in which the two deep-sea fish can be seen struggling on the beach.

In the video, the oarfish can be seen washed up on the Mexican beach, as one of the poor creatures helplessly flounders outside the water. The camera then pans to the other side, where a second oarfish can be seen, also seemingly marooned between the water and the shore.

A crowd slowly begins to gather around the first doomsday fish, and one of the women in the video (later identified by Monica as her sister Katie) can be seen bending down as she begins pushing the creature back into the water.

A short while later, she is joined by other onlookers and together they all manage to push the deep-sea oarfish back into the water.

Speaking in the video, Monica can be heard saying: “I didn’t believe my eyes. It was like something out of a fiction movie. I had never seen anything like it before. I just remember thinking, is this real?! And honestly, when I saw the second one, I got a little nervous."

Monica explained how she and others in her party “saw something in the distance” as she shared “It was flashing, and it was really bright.”

She added: “And when we saw them up close, it was like nothing we've seen before, so we were like, 'This can't be real.’”

Monica shared how her sister Katie “just cannot stand anything in pain” and reacted to the distressing situation “super fast” to help the animal get back into the water. Katie was immediately helped by a little girl and eventually others joined in the rescue mission.

Monica said: “Just watching all these men standing around, and she [Katie] throws me her phone and her drink and her bag, and she's like, ‘Hold this.’

“I think a lot of people were very hesitant because nobody really knew what it was. It's not every day that you see that. And I mean, I don't blame them.”

Once they were done pushing the first oarfish back into the sea, the impromptu rescue group reportedly walked towards the other fish, which was also helped back into the water by Katie and gang.

Concerns over the video being AI quickly spread like wildfire (as they do in today’s day and age), however, Monica confirmed the video was real in a comment under her original Instagram post, replying to people questioning the video’s legitimacy: “It’s not AI!! It’s my video.”

Oarfish can grow up to 30 feet in length and Japanese folklore suggests these deep-sea creatures are sent as messengers by the sea gods as a warning of impending doom in the form of natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes.

Although the mesopelagic-dwelling creatures have long been linked to tsunamis and earthquakes in myths, scientists have found no actual evidence their appearance, though rare, can predict natural disasters. As per Surfer, no seismic activity has followed the ‘doomsday fish’ sighting till now.

The gigantic fish’s reputation as a bad omen precedes its actual harmless nature, with it long being used as a symbol to predict real-world natural calamities and catastrophic disasters.

The internet has, rightly, lost its collective mind at the sighting, with one X user writing: “The ocean drops two literal harbingers of doom on the beach at Cabo, is it time to rethink that trip or just bring my doomsday kit and pretend everything is fine?”

Another social media user said: “Seeing the 'doomsday fish' on the surface is always a chilling sight. Whether it’s seismic activity or shifting ocean currents, something deep down is definitely changing. Nature is sending us a signal we shouldn’t ignore.”

While one X User added: “Two doomsday fish washing up in quick succession may be telling us something. Especially when only a few have ever washed up over several hundred years.”

Another user cheekily wrote: “Two 20–30 ft oarfish basically doing a surprise beach cameo in Cabo? That's not just rare , it's statistically absurd. Normally they chill at 3,000 ft deep where it's pitch black and zero drama. People pushing them back into the water like it's a group project is wholesome chaos.”