A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker in Chile into its mouth in an incident straight out of the biblical book of Jonah.

After this, he is promptly swallowed by the whale. Jonah spends three days in the whale's stomach praying to God for forgiveness. When he's finally released by a fishy burp, he goes straight to ...

In a video, a man captured the jaws of a humpback whale poke out of the water around his son's kayak, close around him, and disappear into the ocean.

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (TNND) — A frightening moment was caught on camera when a humpback whale in Chile swallowed a kayaker as his father watched in horror -- before the animal decided to spit him ...

On the video recording, Dell Simancas can be heard yelling to his son to stay calm after the whale let go of him. This story directly reflects one of the Bible’s most famous narratives of Jonah being ...

Technically, the young man wasn’t “swallowed”, because that word implies a trip down someone’s throat. The throat opening of ...

The humpback whale breached the water while engulfing Adrian Simancas before spitting him out just moments later. A male kayaker was swallowed by a humpback whale off Chilean Patagonia before being ...

A father and son paddling off the coast of Chile last weekend had a terrifying scare when a humpback whale suddenly emerged ... hypothermia than turning into a Jonah story, it’s not unheard ...