Sea Monster in Alaska?

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**Monster Rain**

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/loch-ness-monster-alasaka-204906638.html

There's video footage, here. Judge for yourself!

Move over, Montauk Monster. Step aside, Nessie. There's a new sea creature in town--maybe. Footage of a 20- to 30-foot long creature caught on tape by fishermen suggest we have an Alaska bonafide marine-creature mystery.

The black and white footage from 2009 is by no means definitive. It is taken on a rainy day with a shaky camera, which make it all the more confounding. But you can check out the testimony of people who say they witnessed the creature's appearance in the video above.

The Alaska-dwelling creature has been labeled a "Cadborosaurus willsi," which means "reptile" or "lizard" from Cadboro Bay, British Columbia, where it was originally spotted centuries ago. Called "Caddy" for short, it has a "long neck, a horse-like head, large eyes, and back bumps that stick out of the water," according to a report on MSNBC.

Though the tape captures the most recent sighting, tales of beholding the creature in the North Pacific have circulated for 200 years. In 1937, scientists thought they might have uncovered physical evidence when what was thought to be a sea serpent was found inside the stomach of a whale. Still, the creature is classified as part of Cryptozoology, i.e., a creature not formally recognized by the scientific community.

One true believer today is Andy Hillstrand, a veteran of the reality-TV show "Deadliest Catch," who tracks the creature in his new show, "Hillstranded." The seaman reports that he saw "a big, long white thing moving in the water. We chased it for about 20 minutes. Spray came out of its head. It was definitely not a shark…I've never seen anything like it before."

Me? I think it was swamp gas reflected off of a weather balloon.

**Corpsesarefun**

It's a whale, it even made a noise exactly like a whales blow hole when it surfaced.

**Coolyo294**

A big sturgeon methinks.

**dogma**

North Korean submarine.

**Soladrin**

Whale...

**SilverMK2**

I was trying to have a nice relaxing swim and all these gits kept on pointing their bloody cameras at me :(

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Spray came out of its head.

How do they know it wasn't swimming backwards?

**Slarg232**

I suppose we have to beleive, because as Strongbad has decreed, we only will beleive if there is blurry photographic evidence. YOU HEAR ME! BLURRY PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE!

**kenshin620**

I knew it, the russians are still up to something!

**iproxtaco**

They're fishermen and they can't see that it's a whale? Fantastic.

**purplefood**

dogma wrote:North Korean submarine.

Totally this...

**Melissia**

It's Nurgle.

**Ribon Fox**

Its Dagon really

**Karon**

Aren't those the guys who fish for crab?

**Asherian Command**

Its a Raptor!

**ChiliPowderKeg**

My future In-law

**assultmarine**

its me.

end of thread

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Karon wrote:Aren't those the guys who fish for crab?

Surely you fish for fish
so you must mean,
Aren't those the guys that crab for crab?

Is that a female monster?
I dunno, but alaksa

who said the old uns are good uns

**Slarg232**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:
Karon wrote:Aren't those the guys who fish for crab?

Surely you fish for fish
so you must mean,
Aren't those the guys that crab for crab?

How do you know her name is Surely?

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

I asked her

**Monster Rain**

They fish for crab.

Their own words.

**remilia_scarlet**

Hoo boy, one of these threads. Proof atlantis existed? I say a resounding "I dunno"

**Ahtman**

An article about this near the time of a show being released about the same topic? What are the odds?

**lord commissar klimino**

oh feth,i told that mudkip to stay in its ball!

but im not a believer.i believe some are true,but nowadays most are made up just to get publicity.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Hmm Andy Hillstrand, I'm a doubter, had Sig Hansen seen it I'd be a true believer.. but those Time Bandit boys like to play too many jokes.

**Slarg232**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:I asked her

Fair enough, then.

**Kilkrazy**

People fish for fish, and fish for crab.

They also go crabbing and shrimping, but not prawning or lobstering.

Hardly anyone goes whaling anymore, it's infra dig.

When rowing, to catch a crab is a bad thing.

One may also fish for compliments.

**Little lord Fauntleroy**

Ribon Fox wrote:Its Dagon really

Congratulations, you just won my first 'Exalt'.

**Trondheim**

Clearly its a recording for Frazzeld swimming

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Do Frazzleds swim that far north?
I thought they preferred the warmer southern waters