The Panama Organism
Have you ever seen a potato painted silver? I was certain I had, but now I’m not so sure.
Along with millions of others around the world, I have become the victim of an odd, illogical and honestly quite well executed hoax. Even though I know its fake, I can’t get enough.
If you haven’t seen what I mean on your recent trawls of the internet, I’m referring to what the starry-eyed, Sci-fi loving inner child in me secretly hopes we will look back on in 50 years and fearfully refer to as –
“The Panama Organism.”
If you aren’t up to speed, then, oh my, do I have a rabbit-hole for you…
A few weeks ago, a young man from Panama, username Kinpanama, uploaded a Tik-Tok of a meteor that had allegedly crashed to Earth near his home.
My scepticism was immediately on alert, going to the comments section, I felt vindicated.
Other people thought it looked like a painted potato to, they talked about how you could see matchsticks in the hole, how there were mounds of dirt piled up around the supposed ‘crater’ that looked as though they had been dug with a shovel.
I thought I had stumbled across an unremarkable, garden variety hoax, but I was wrong.
Curiosity, of course, dragged me to his page to see more of this silliness, but instead I was blown away.
Since the first video of the alleged spacerock, Kinpanama has been documenting the weird, slimy organisms’ growth, and dear god, it has grown.
I have found myself enthralled, even though, sadly, it must be a hoax…
Over the last few weeks there have been numerous videos of Kinpanama’s unlikely adventure with this seemingly sentient moon-goo, and it has been a pretty wild ride.
According to Kin, the creature grows rapidly in light, and by the looks of it, that was true.
Viewers could see for themselves that the spiny, oily blob was getting bigger, getting weirder.
It went from being a pea-sized blob on a rock on a plate, to an ominous, spiky and jarring nightmare swimming in a full-sized tropical fishtank. Though the road there wasn’t so smooth, according to Kin.
After a few days with the creature, Kin claimed an undisclosed group had tried to take the organism from him, forcing him to lock it in a safe, and go on the run. He continued making videos of his new friend, claiming he wanted the world to know, everyone to see.
From there, Kin travelled to another secret location, where he allowed the creature to continue growing in the bottom of an old chest-freezer.
When it became too big to contain, Kin claimed he was going to kill the organism.
Though in the end, Kin could not, and for whatever reason, decided to release the creature into the water of an abandoned and flooded military bunker in a nature reserve, only to come and retrieve it a few days later, in fear of what may happen to it.
I urge you, if you haven’t witnessed this, take a stroll down that road.
What you won’t see, is proof of extraterrestrial life, what you will see, is one of the most bizarre, ingenious, and well performed pieces of indie ‘found footage’ sci-fi media anyone has cobbled together in their backyards for a long time. There are so many holes, so many inconsistencies, so many questions, so many ways to brush this off as fake. But it is gripping. Its clever, it’s old-fashioned B-movie special effects packaged for a modern audience, done so cheaply and convincingly it seems too on-the-nose to be fake.
For a start, there really were matches in the ‘crater.’
There really were mounds of dirt, like someone had dug a hole.
I think, it really was a silver, spray-painted potato.
But my god, what a potato it turned out to be.
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