The blade glinted in the sunlight, and a thick, dark liquid poured out. Then everyone saw something unexpected and strange
— “What is that?” — someone whispered. The fisherman stepped back, while another bent down in disbelief and pulled something out.
It was a smartphone — covered in slime, but surprisingly intact, as if it had just fallen into the water. At first, everyone thought it was a joke, but when one of the men pressed the power button, the screen suddenly lit up. The camera icon blinked — and a video started playing.
On the recording, a man was seen in a boat. He was shouting something, holding the phone in front of him, the wind was howling, and the water around him was raging. For a brief moment, the same cliffs could be seen — the ones just behind the pier where people were now standing.
— “Help! Somebody!” — the man shouted on the video. The image shook, the camera went underwater — and the screen went black.
Silence fell over the pier. The fishermen stood pale and motionless. Someone turned the phone off, another tried to replay the video, but nothing appeared again.
Later, it turned out that the phone belonged to a man who had disappeared three weeks earlier during a storm in those very waters. His boat was never found. And according to experts, such a fish shouldn’t even exist in that region.
No one could explain where it had come from — or how a phone ended up inside it.
