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At the end of the Thriller Bark Chapter 490 in manga and episode 381 in anime.
I noticed strange giant shadows with glowing red eyes at the background. What
could it be?  

_Check this image in manga:_

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iSuDO.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iSuDO.png)  
_In Anime:_ [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RczqJ.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RczqJ.jpg)


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What was that giant shadow with the glowing red eyes at the end of the Thriller Bark arc?


As stated in the comments, it's an entity related to the [Florian
Triangle](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Florian_Triangle).

>   * According to Kokoro, many pirate and commercial ships mysteriously go
> missing every year and, sometimes, a ship will be found sailing without any
> people aboard. It has also been said that there are many haunted ships with
> dead bodies sailing across the sea (though, it is revealed that all this is
> attributed to Brook).
>
>   * Though, some of the disappearances that have happened in the Triangle
> can be attributed to Moriah's scheme. Ships have been disappearing
> mysteriously in it for a long time before he came on his ship, Thriller
> Bark, ten years before the series. **This mystery is confirmed by an unknown
> ominous entity larger than Thriller Bark that was barely seen by Captain
> Lola through the fog. It is so large that it completely dwarfs Thriller
> Bark, the world's largest pirate ship, in sheer size, possibly making it the
> world's biggest creature to appear in the series thus far.**
>
>

* * *

It **may** also be possible that it's the trope "[Real After
All](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealAfterAll)":

> If an episode revolves around a haunting (or alien visitation) (or lake
> monster sighting) (or whatever) that turns out to be a hoax, the episode
> will end with a shot of a real ghost/alien visitor/lake monster/whatever.

However, knowing Oda, that is highly unlikely. I just stated it as **it is
possible** that we may never get to know what those entities were.


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I think that these shadows are other elephants like Zunisha
<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zunisha>


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I think that the triangle is related to Enel. My theory goes like this:

Birka is exactly over the triangle and because of the deepflying Sky Island,
there is always that mist. The shadows in the background are people of that
Sky Island who survived Enel's genocide. Enel came to Skypiea 8 years ago (10
after time skip) — maybe he left Birka around the time when Moria arrived.
Before that, Enel killed with his Devil Fruit all travelers either to train
his power or by mistake (with attacks like Raigo's). That covers the 3
problems:

  1. the mist
  2. the shadows at the end, and 
  3. the missing people before Gecko's arrival.


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