In 1984, a team of scientists were studying a group of dolphins and whales at the National Marine Mammal Foundation (NMMF). During their research, staff had started to notice weird, human-like noises coming from inside the enclosure. They described it as sounding like two people speaking. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Things got even weirder when a diver pulled themselves out of the water asking, “Who asked me to get out?” None of the humans had, but the incident led them to one of their non-human residents: NOC, the beluga whale.

NOC was one of three belugas that had been delivered to the NMMF in 1977 having been caught in Manitoba, Canada. The team started recording him and even trained him to “speak” on command

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