Terrifying Sea Creatures To Fuel Your Nightmares

The ocean is full of sea creatures. But the deeper you go, the more horrifying they get. And some of these look like real-life monsters. All of them will make you reconsider even stepping foot in the ocean again.

So see if you can make it through all of these terrifying deep-sea creatures without running out of the room screaming.

Snaggletooth

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IMAGE BY: DeepSeaCreatures.org

The milky blue eyes, the needle-like teeth, the sleek body… and it lures its prey with a glowing body part.

Goblin Shark

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IMAGE BY: National Geographic Kids

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It could definitely use braces, but those teeth sit in a jaw that can expand wide enough to eat very large fish.

Amphipod

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IMAGE BY: Getty

It’s like a shrimp, but transparent and disgusting. They can live underwater, but the ones that live on the land are known as sand fleas.

Hence, “disgusting.”

Gulper Eel

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IMAGE BY: Mysterious Monsters

It looks like something straight out of a horror movie, but this long skinny creature with an enormous jaw is all real.