Rare 5-foot-long 'Twilight Zone' fish washes up on Oregon shore

A haunting surprise surfaced from the shadowy depths of the Pacific Ocean on the coast earlier this week - a fang-toothed predator nearly five feet long, fresh from the so-called 'Twilight Zone' of the sea.

The beastly creature, identified as a longnose lancetfish, stunned locals when it washed up on Seaside Beach, with its sail-like dorsal fin arching menacingly above its eel-like body.

For most beachgoers, the rare sighting of the prehistoric-looking fish is the stuff of nightmares but for self-described 'fish nerds' at the Seaside Aquarium, it was a dream come true.

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