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Who hasn't done a boatload of LSD and thought to themself "We can communicate with dolphins".
No judgement here.
There's probably a non-zero chance that a CIA researcher who happens to be a Lovecraft fan read the 1969 James Wade short story titled The deep ones and decided to make it a reality.
Holy hell that image on the wiki is somethin else..
Didn't one of them also basically become the Dolphin's sex toy?
She gave him handies on request. IIRC the dolphin went into a depression and wouldn't eat after they fired the researcher.
"They fired my girlfriend! How did you expect me to feel‽"
-The Dolphin
If I recall correctly that one, in a number of ways, ended up getting even more out of hand and insane than it started. Something about taking the LSD themselves, fucking the dolphins, and drama related to that.
Typical hippie drama ofc.
For the uninitiated: dollop episode