Cadborosaurus
Location of Cadborosaurus Sightings
The waters of Vancouver Island, Northern Olympic Peninsula and in the nearby waters between Oregon and Alaska.
Earliest - Latest Reported Cadborosaurus Sighting
1734 To Present
Description of the Cadborosaurus
This creature has a large snake-like body. Its head appears to resemble that of a horse, sheep, or camel with slightly elongated features. It is said to have a pair of both anterior and posterior flippers which are nearly fused to its body. It's color is described as dark green to a grayish brown. Its eyes are as big as a third of the whole cranium.
Odors described during or right after
encounters with the Cadborosaurus
None Reported
Sounds - Speech of the Cadborosaurus
None Reported
Interesting Sighting Details of the Cadborosaurus
Biologist Edward L. Bousfield and Oceanography Professor Paul H. Leblond describe the Cadborosaurus as a large snake like creature that inhibits the waters of Vancouver Island and the northern Olympic Peninsula. The creature was also sighted in the nearby waters between Oregon and Alaska.
The Cadborosaurus are described by the local people and the witnesses as a "sea serpent" that is more or less fifteen meters in length. It is akin to the popular Loch Ness Monster of Scotland based on its snake-like body. Its head appears to resemble that of a horse, sheep, or camel with slightly elongated features.
Almost a third of its body is regarded as the Cadborosaurus' neck. It is said to have a pair of both anterior and posterior flippers which are nearly fused to its body. Accentuated with body loops that are arranged in tandem series, the Cadborosaurus is blessed with extra ordinary swimming speed and flexibility. Its tail is often described as spiky.
Called by many locals as "Caddy", its name came from the spot where it is commonly sighted - the Cadboro Bay in Victoria, British Columbia. According to witnesses, the color of the Cadborosaurus ranged from dark green to a grayish brown. Its eyes that nestled on its head were observed to be as big as a third of the whole cranium.
The tale of the Cadborosaurus cannot be displaced as just a legend as more than a hundred sightings of the creature has been reported over the last two hundred years. Its first official sighting was reported to have occurred in 1734.
On his way to Greenland in July 6 of the year 1734, Norwegian missionary Hans Egede reported that he saw "a very terrible sea-animal which raised itself above the water." He described the creature as a snake-like creature with an elongated sharp snout. It had broad flappers and its body was covered with much wrinkled hard skin. When it went underwater, it raised its tail above the water and Egede estimated it to be as long as a ship's length from the body.
From then on, sightings of the creature have continued. In 1937, Captain Hagelund and his staff rescued a carcass from the belly of a huge sperm whale. The carcass as reported to have resembled a Cadborosaurus body. The captain and his men took thirty-eight photographs of it and the carcass was immediately sent to a museum.
At the museum, the samples were identified as the remains of a Ballen Whale Fetus. However, before actual laboratory tests could be done on the carcass, the samples were reported to be lost. Some had doubts - did the museum really lose the carcass or was it sent somewhere for an undisclosed assessment of the Caddy theory?
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