One morning, immediately after a workman removed a large piece of wood from the mesh over a sewer outflow and put it on a walkway above the sewage water, the Flukeman pulled the man backwards, while remaining underwater itself, and dragged him towards the mesh, biting into his back soon thereafter. The Flukeman was subsequently believed to have entered the system via an old overflow system which dumped sewage into the harbor during heavy rainfall.
It was following this incident that the being first entered the New Jersey sewage system. This incident was later reported in the National Comet, in which the creature was referred to – in an article titled "Monster On Board?!" – as a "modern day sea monster, a bloodthirsty creature from beneath the waves." When the crew members flushed the tanks, the Flukeman was washed out to sea, along with Dmitri's body. The being then attacked a young engineer named Dmitri who had been sent to clear the blockage, dragging him down into murky water inside one of the freighter's sewage tanks despite the efforts of his crewmates to keep him grounded. In the Atlantic Ocean, two miles off the coast of New Jersey, the Flukeman caused a blockage in the freighter's boiler system. The creature was thus born in a primordial soup of radioactive sewage. The Flukeman originated on a decommissioned Russian freighter, used in the disposal of salvage material from the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl. The being was also strong enough to haul its victims underwater with it. The Flukeman's typical environment was underwater, although it could also survive on land, in Earth's normal atmospheric levels. Like other fluke or flatworms, the Flukeman had no sex organs and was genderless but was, even though technically human, capable of spontaneous regeneration. It is therefore unknown whether the Flukeman or the sewage was to blame for the unfavorable taste. In the one recorded case of a Flukeman bite-victim experiencing such an unpleasant taste, the victim had also swallowed a mouthful of sewage, at the time of the attack. There is evidence to suggest a bite by the Flukeman might result in a survivor subsequently experiencing a peculiar, unfavorable taste in their mouth that would be difficult to remove, although not be accompanied by a difficulty with swallowing. The wound pattern from the Flukeman's bite looks similar to scolex attachment but is much larger. Typically, a survivor of a bite by the Flukeman would be infected with a flatworm which the victim would cough up, at a later point. The being searched for hosts, in order to multiply, and attacked because its victims' bodies provided generative nourishment.Ī photograph of a wound from an encounter with the Flukeman. The Flukeman transmitted its larvae, a form of flatworm, through its bite. Its vestigial features seemed parasitic but it also had primate physiology.
The Flukeman – a form of quasi-vertebrate human – was an example of reproductive and physiological cross-traiting due to radiation, abnormal cell fusion, and/or the suppression of natural genetic processes essentially, the creature was a result of human science rather than nature.