Huge blob of goo floating near Alaska

Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow.

It’s not oil but no one knows just what it is and no one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before.

Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters.

The stuff is "gooey" and looks dark against the bright white ice floating in the Arctic Ocean.

The gunk reminds one of a novelty song from 1950 called The Thing. Phil Harris recorded the most popular version of the song. The lyrics of the tune is at the second link below.

The funny thing about the tune is the object was never called the Thing in the song. The lyrics can be found at the second link below.

Could the Thing from that 60-year-old tune have morphed into the blob floating off Alaska? Well no, probably not.

More on the arctic glob here. Click here for the lyrics to The Thing.