Nessie, Bessie, Chessie and Norman, lake “monsters,” have another mysterious water cryptid, have an Unknown Mysterious Animal, UMA, to join them. This one lives in salt water, not in lakes like they, allegedly, do. The name is Caddy, short for Cadborosaurus willsi, where it was sighted in Cadboro Bay, British Columbia. In addition to a controversial film about the cryptid, many people reported sighting it.
Caddy Captured – On Film
There was footage of a mysterious twenty to thirty feet long creature caught on tape by fishermen that suggests there is an Alaskan cryptid, a UMA, lives off of Alaska’s seacoast. The black and white 2009 film of the creature has been criticized because it was taken on a rainy day by a shaky cameraman. According to a report on MSNBC, it had a long neck, a horse-like head, huge eyes and humps on its back that stuck out of the water.
Caddy: History
People have reported seeing the cryptid the North Pacific Ocean for two hundred years. In 1937, scientists thought they may have found physical evidence when what was thought to be a sea serpent was discovered inside of a whale’s stomach.
Andy Hillstrand, who has been featured on the US TV show Deadliest Catch, tracked the creature in his new show, Hillstranded. He reported that he saw "a big, long white thing moving in the water” He added that he and his crew chased it for about twenty minutes. Spray emitted from its head. He said he never anything like it.
Caddy: What the Experts Said
Former head of the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia Paul LeBlond, stated that the 2009 video is evidence of the creature’s existence. He was impressed that the video, although blurred, pointed to Caddy’s existence.
Jim Covel, senior manager of California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium is suspicious of Caddy’s existence. He said that people “work off” of sketchy laypeople’s observations. He admitted that scientists still find new species in oceans. According to him, it could allow some people to fill in gaps in science with their imaginations. What Covel said next was that said more scientific exploration was needed about mysterious sea creatures.
Caddy: News
The last official sighting was in 1973 and was said to be a baleen whale. A worker at the whale station, James Wukueln, said that it wasn’t true. Hillstrand claimed he wasn’t the only fisherman to have sighted the UMA. He believes that whales in search of food might be what is causing Caddy to come close to shore. Hillstrand didn’t expand on his theory.
LeBlond said there wasn’t going to be an official hunt for Caddy. He added that people can’t look into the ocean looking for cryptids; however he admitted that he and others are always looking for “new accounts” of cryptids.
Caddy and Kin
The late Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans is considered to be the father of modern cryptozoology. He earned a PhD in zoological sciences and decided to pursue the study of UMAs, after he read "There Could be Dinosaurs" in the January 3, 1948 Saturday Evening Post article in which biologist Ivan T. Sanderson discussed the evidence for surviving dinosaurs. Heuvelmans classified Cryptid Sea Serpents or Monsters.
In addition to this, there have been many reports of water cryptids, referred to as monsters. Some, like the Kraken – Cryptid of the Sea a Colossal Squid or Octopus Reported Since Ancient Times may have scientific reality, according to some scientists. Giant squids have been found and documented.
There is Scientific Evidence for the Speculative Science of Cryptozoology. The coelacanth, a fish, was declared to have become extinct 65,000,000 years ago. One was caught near Cape Town, South Africa in 1938. A population of coelacanths, possibly, a different species, was discovered near North Sulawesi, Indonesia in 1997.
Perhaps, some day, Caddy and kin will join the ranks of known animals....
Sources:
Claudine Zap, “The Loch Ness Monster of Alaska?,” The Upshot, news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/loch-ness-monster-alasaka-204906638.html. Accessed on October 23, 2011.
Rebecka Schumann, “Loch Ness Monster in Alaska?,” www.longislandpress.com/2011/07/20/loch-ness-monster-in-alaska/. Accessed on October 23, 2011.
Jill Stefko - I'd rather deal with the paranormal than human abnormal - having dealt extensively with both.
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