The deep sea might as well be an entirely different planet. Located far below the oceanic twilight zone, the deep sea exists in the midnight zone—a place that’s too far removed for sunlight to reach. Down here, it’s eerily quiet and still, because it’s too deep to be affected by storms or ocean currents. It’s also another world because of the jaw-droppingly strange and downright monstrous-looking creatures that lurk in these dark, cold depths. Keep reading, if you dare, to see some of the horrors that are living thousands of feet below the water’s surface.