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Real Life Crabs With Human Faces on Their Backs!!

7/24/2012

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I’ve been watching bits of the movie Kwaidan (It’s awesome. Especially the opening story... More in a review on that later). In it they talk about a deciding Japanese war at sea between Gengi and Heike clans that ends in the young (7 years old) Heike Emperor cast out to drown in the ocean upon his clan’s defeat. Pretty brutal. That’s war.

In any case, as the story goes, fallen Heike warrior souls resurfaced reincarnated, appearing on the backs of crabs and can be still found this present date and in real life. No Kidding. Embossed on the carapace of these ‘Heike” crabs is the scowl of a samurai. Take a look.
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Pretty interesting. But as usually happens, science comes to ruin the mysticism and outright creepiness by trying to explain away everything…
"The answer SEEMS to be" indeed. 

Ah, but wait, according to Wiki, "..This idea [Sagon's] has met with some skepticism, as noted by Joel W. Martin. As humans don't use heikegani for food, Martin posits that there is no artificial pressure favoring face-like shell patterns, contrary to Sagan's implication.[4] The pattern of ridges on the carapace serves a very functional purpose as sites of muscle attachment. Similar patterns are found on species in many parts of the world, including fossil remains.

WIKI HERE

Know any other strangeness like that? Share in the comments.

- Josh
1 Comment
Shivdas L. Naik
8/4/2012 03:08:53 am

It is true. It is also a wonder of nature which cannot be explained by human being.

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