The Cadborosaurus - A Creature of Cryptozoology
Posted: Monday, March 08, 2010
by Robert Benjamin
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.
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?
There is a website that describes the Cadborosaurus and numerous other creatures of Cryptozoology in detail, this website is called: Unknown Creatures and it may be found at this url: http://www.unknown-creatures.com
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Robert W. Benjamin has been in the software business since the 1970's on the C64, AMIGA, and WINDOWS Computer Systems. He has won magazine awards for the 'Game of the Month', and more, in several European computer magazines.
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