Marcel Winatschek

Dead Whale Explodes

I’m scrolling through the usual garbage—cat videos, broken YouTube links, whatever—when this appears. A dead whale washed up on the Faroe Islands, so decomposed it barely looked like a whale anymore, just this massive bloated thing. Some guy decides he’s going to cut it open, see what’s inside. Probably thought he’d find some organs worth looking at. The whale had been sitting there for months, building pressure from its own decay, and the second his knife goes through the skin, the whole thing goes. Explodes. Everything comes out. There’s a video. I watched it. I shouldn’t have.

Not eating for a while.