Captivating Sea, (Paperback)

In 1927, a sixty-four year old man went fishing on the south side of the island. The man was missing for two days before he washed ashore, but a victim of drowning, he was not. Portions of his skin had been mercilessly torn from his body, not from the teeth of a shark, but skillfully done by the hand of a monster.

Later, in 1936, two young men went swimming on the west corner of the island. One of the men watched as his companion was dragged into the water by his ankles, never to be seen again. The witness could only describe the monster as being just a shadow in the waves.

In 1942, a woman drowned in front of her newly wedded husband.

In 1954, a local man was pulled out of his boat only to wash up on shore without any arms. 1963 had two swimmers dead within six months. The number of attacks kept rising, and the island's inhabitants began to decline.

By the 1990s, San Mahina was nearly abandoned, the only residents being the locals and the occasional renter. No longer were the days of happy vacations and sunny retreats. The once crystalline blue water would forever be red in the haunted minds of those who witnessed the island's horrors.

And so the palm trees continued to sway in false security, the island forever haunted by its cerulean depths. There were never any survivors of the attacks, but there were witnesses.

And they all described the monster as the same.

A shadow in the sea.