The internet nearly exploded after a user by the name of Daisuke Shibamoto posted a photo from a Japanese farm area.
There were hundreds of strange objects on the ground that looked like ominous xenomorph eggs, as though something toothy and slimy would burst out of them.
Unlike the sensitive social media users, however, the farmer was not even startled. He carried on fixing his tractor or drinking tea with his neighbors as though nothing had happened. “Oh,” he said, “nonsense.”
Nonetheless, fans of movies like “Prometheus” and “Alien” found the images to be very captivating. Aren’t these “insignificant objects” always the first indications of the end of the world?
The pictures are very unnerving: behind an icy shell, an alien spaceship appears as a lumpy, oddly shaped mass. Something provides the impression that “it” is alive when viewed from a particular angle.
Unfortunately, it turned out that the mysterious formations were nothing more than rotting cabbage. The farmer simply had not been able to harvest the complete crop from the previous year, so some of the cabbage heads stayed in the ground to overwinter.
They did not freeze entirely, but merely softened and warped because of the mild winter. When the sudden spring frosts hit, the water in the cabbage’s upper layers turned to ice, giving the produce a gloomy, unearthly look.
Everything inside is now breaking down due to a natural composting process. But as long as the odd cabbage phenomenon persists, tourists and curious locals will be swarming to the field to take photos near the “xenomorph eggs.”
