Is this Alaska’s Loch Ness Monster?
- Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:21pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Lake monsters, sea serpents — for generations, locals have passed down legends of mythical beasts that haunt their waterways. Evidence is usually based on a grainy photograph or a thirdhand retelling of a deceased relative’s firsthand account. But this time, we have video footage — or so the Discovery Channel claims.
The 2009 video, which premiered Tuesday night during the Discovery Channel’s “Alaskan Monster Hunt,” appears to show a long creature undulating up and down along the surface of the water in Alaska’s Bristol Bay.
“These are large animals, there’s a whole family of them, it’s swimming up and down, it’s probably propelling itself by the flap of its tail,” scientist Paul Leblond said while viewing the footage shot by fishermen. “That looks like Cadborosaurus, the sea monster that people see on the coast of B.C., Washington State, all the way up in Alaska.”
Cadborosaurus sightings have been reported for years, according to Discovery News. “Caddy” is purported to be a giant sea serpent with a long neck, although many have speculated the creature could be a large eel or some kind of fish.
So, what do you think? Is this the Last Frontier’s very own Nessie? Let us know in the comments.
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Comments (117)
welovetheUSA
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:33amIts a Russian sub…………taking Polosi’s family on a tour of Alaska at tax payers expense.
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:32pmNo, It looks to me like a group of DNC researchers who devolved just a little bit (not far to go) and didn’t make it back after spying on Sarah Palin. They followed her out in a boat, it took on water and they devolved instantly to their native slimy eel shape with a blow hole on the top of the head. You’ll never see them again because they are bottom feeders…
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:42amDid you guys see their “monster catching rig”? I love those to redneck boys! Deadliest catch is such a rock‘n show that now those two are doing Alaska’s version of river monsters hehehe
Report Post »KingDork
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 1:02amRosie ODonald going tubing in Alaska?
Report Post »Maine932
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 5:29amLook at the film again…It’s not THAT large!
Report Post »DonaldH
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 4:01pmEverything looks larger on film,,, at least that’s what I tell my wife
Live_Free_orDie
Posted on July 23, 2011 at 10:06amCan you dumasses come over and clean my monitor….I just spit my coffee all over the place. Thanks for the laugh.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:53amIt is possible for the monster to exist; the legend of the giant squid was considered just that, a legend until they have found the carcasses and caught a few on cameras deep in the water at least twice I am aware of (via the Discovery Channel.)
THEN they have found in the waters of the Antarctic regions, the Colossal Squid, even bigger than the giant squid…so why not another one up in the Alaskan waters?
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:35pmIf it is a squid, then it is acting very oddly — squid dwell in the deeper parts of the ocean
Report Post »ohbrutha
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 7:30pmSquid don’t usually surface until nightfall. It’s obviously exhaling through a blowhole. Probably a known, but rarely seen in these waters, species of porpoise. Either way, thanks to the Hillstrand Bros. for always bringing the entertainment.
Report Post »EgoBrain
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:39amYup. It’s the Alaskan Nessie. And it’s not far~fetched.
Report Post »TomBombadil
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 11:15amAgreed. Far less far-fetched than the actual Loch Ness Monster, since it would be an ocean animal, and as they’ve said, there’s a LOT of unexplored ocean. And ocean animals tend to be highly mobile.
Report Post »clingingtogodandguns
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:37amI think i saw this in Sara Palin’s new movie.She said even the lock Ness is following her,no it turned out to be a big lib hunting her down.Slimy as they are.
Report Post »DeannaRae
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:35amHas it eaten someone’s kid? If not, I don’t care….
Report Post »christianUSA
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:27amPoor picture quality, lack of dimensions; with hard time maybe they trying to drum up more tourist?
Report Post »But surely Countryside and area unique and picturest.
peteasdf
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:22amLuv how all these videos of monsters, aliens, bigfoot, (insert freak here), are all such high quality, stationary, and appropriately zoomed.
Report Post »Olorin
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:27amIf you had watched the show on discovery, you would have seen a lot more of the video, as well as the part where the Hilstrandt brothers hunted it down and actually hooked one. It outran their boat and broke their line, but there was some video of whatever they latched on to in the water, and it was VERY large and white. You should be able to watch it, or at least part of it, at http://www.discovery.com, in the Deadliest Catch section under the title “Alaskan Monster Hunt”.
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:16amI for one find the video interesting and remain open minded about the subject , new species are discovered every year. Over 100 hundred new primates have been discovered in the last 10 years, and numerous species of fish and birds. We have a society of impatient people probably because of the advance of technology. Still we need to realize that just because you can see rare species of animals and birds on Mutual of Omaha’s wild Kingdom, or Marty Stoufers wild America all taken from game reserves by the way dosen’t mean you can get clear video of some prehistoric fish or of Bigfoot anytime because the technology is available or because you think someone would have saw it already or the Government would have fixed it for you. If these animals, fish or primates exist there are very few of them and are leaving in area’s that are mostly uninhabited or uninhabitable by humans. Alaska is huge and only a fraction of it has humans living in it, most of it’s waterways are frozen most of the year. Some of you are just having fun but a few of you are way to cynical , it’s still a big world with lots of possiblities .
Report Post »mwilson85
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:14amThe Hillstrand guys need to stick to catching Crab lol
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:38amHa ha ha!!!
Report Post »NILAP
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:07amYetis, Loch Ness Monsters, Bigfoot just show that people will believe anything. Just like people saying that Jesus (who is the Lord) rose from the dead. No he didn’t but he is still the Lord who taught that socialist ways are how we should treat each other.
Report Post »Huguenot Descendant
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:13amNessy got sick of the sinking European economy. So using it’s survival instincts it went to one of the few places that could survive the crash. Texas was to dry.
Report Post »ConservDadASD
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:26amNILAP says: “Yetis, Loch Ness Monsters, Bigfoot just show that people will believe anything. Just like people saying that Jesus (who is the Lord) rose from the dead. No he didn’t but he is still the Lord who taught that socialist ways are how we should treat each other”
I’m kinda guessing your speaking in gest… but in case you aren’t, Jesus (Yeshua), who did rise from the dead and it hasn’t been effectively disproved, also did not teach socialism. Nowhere did he tell the people that they must surrender a significant part of their income to the gov’t to be distributed to others. About that part about “rendering unto Caesar”…. the Roman tax burden of the time was much less, and they did not distribute to the poor. If anything, they sent it to Rome to be spent on things that benefitted the Caesar, the Senate, or other Romans.
And when Jesus spoke to the rich man about selling all he had and give to the poor, He didn‘t include any middleman gov’t agency to divey out the funds. And besides, Jesus was speaking to the man’s heart and what he truly valued…. following Jesus or keeping his rich and comfortable lifestyle. Marx and Engles were nowhere in this context. And even if Jesus was 100% gung ho about the poor, why didn’t he direct Mary (who was anointing His head with very expensive oil) to sell the rest and give it to the poor…. why didn’t he acknowledge Judas in this matter? You would do good to look back to Jesus’ focus… the heart of the m
Report Post »propel7
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:24amSome people are stupid enough to believe Barach Hussein Obama. (Alias-Crock-O) CHANGE your diaper won’t you! It’s full of ….well, you get the picture. Nah…I doubt it.
Report Post »ecurbyy
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 7:37amHey! I’m sorry. I wasn’t paying attention. I was busy watching ghost hunters reruns.
Report Post »brokenwolf
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:04amthey discove new species all the time,usally they are well known to local peoples but were over looked by main stream science and the oceans a very big place
Report Post »teresa2010
Posted on July 23, 2011 at 7:58amyeah ….the mainstream scientist missed this species, they were to busy adjusting the global warming hoax charts
Report Post »Banjo Bulldog
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:59pmActually its not okay
Report Post »SIXFRIGATES
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:54pm“a family of animals…”
Exactly. It is a group of either elk, moose or caribou. They are well known to travel across bays and lakes in this fashion.
People are so stupid. Apparently since the tabloids are actually becoming more credible than ‘journalists’ the Blaze is filling the conspiracy theory/bat boy vacuum.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:47pmit’s a porpoise riding a boat wake.
Report Post »ghostsouls
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:40pmIt might be some msnbc photographers trying to get pictures of Palin……
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:45pmI can’t see the video. Could it be an Oarfish? The super long fish quite often mistaken for sea monsters?
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:51pmOk, the bottom image looks more like an oarfish.
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:40amBS… Thats a sea monster and everybody knows it.. Bigfoot even mentioned it in an interview..
Report Post »conservative_teacher
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:39pmIt could just be a dinosaur. I mean, ask any blaze bible-thumper–the world is only 6000 years old, just ask Alaska’s own Sarah Palin. Surely “god” could have allowed a few dinosaurs to survive the 6000 years of earth’s history, right? LOL!
Report Post »PAPAROACH
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:47pmconservative-teacher— surely GOD could have allowed a few dinosaurs to survive probably some other odd things, such as yourself.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:49pmturtles exist man. they have existed for as long as dinosaurs…
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:50pmDinosaurs still exist, we call them birds. We eat them. Chickens taste good, and unless you are one of those silly vegans!
Report Post »dscon
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:57pmoxymoron;
maybe a pod of pilot(small) whales?
Report Post »aside from conteach’s suggestion.
brokenwolf
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:02amhope to get to see you tell god he dosnt exist on judgment day
Report Post »ConservDadASD
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:11amThis may possibly be a hoax, just like other hoaxes. But would you go into shock if it turned out to be real? There are, after all, other so called extinct creatures that were later found to be far from extinct, such as that type of fish they found in the waters off Madegascar.
Also there are also reports of sightings by native Americans of what they called Thunderbirds, and they described what looked similar to pterodactyls. Add to this the legends of dragons that look kinda close to dinosaurs.
I guess it will have to take a full close up video of the cadborosaurus with a person running for dear life from one of them before there existance will be believed.
Signed…
Report Post »A Bible Thumper AND Scientific Creationist
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PAPAROACH
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:37pmI think the Hillstrand boys need to lay off of the smoked crab, or whatever they’re smoking. Damn I think I just saw Bigfoot!!!! Nope guess not, it was just Michelle Obama heading for Popeye’s. MMMMM good shiken.
Report Post »myfathersparty
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 4:09amRacist much?
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:36pm“These are large animals, there’s a whole family of them, it’s swimming up and down, it’s probably propelling itself by the flap of its tail,” scientist Paul Leblond said while viewing the footage shot by fishermen. “That looks like Cadborosaurus,
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WHAT A SMALL WORLD ..THAT WAS MY FIRST GUESS TOO
jb.kibs
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:35pmooo too cool
Report Post »Skip63
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:34pmLooks like a dolphin caught in a net and dragging it through the water.
Report Post »I’ve seen this before.
Uncle Awesome
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:34pmLooks like a Cardboardosaurus
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:13amI totally agree. It is definately some “sortofsaurus.”
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:36amIt is “The Rich” hiding from the Lib tax junkies
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:32pmThey just had a show with the 2 brothers from Deadliest Catch, these Hillstrand guys who frankly are the only 2 on the show I can’t tolerate too much of (which I think is the same thing and is on again tonight) chasing this thing in some Bering Sea offshoot waterway, and supposedly they got right on it and lost it with a ‘glimpse of it’ being caught on camera at the end of the show..
If that WAS it it’s nothing but a big long 15 foot fish and nothing more.
Report Post »Ducky 1
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:31pmIs this the best they have on this creature???? With today technology we should be able to learn more.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:37pmwe know nothing. our technology can’t fix ignorant.
Report Post »sun_hawk61
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:31pmMore like “cardboardsoraus”.
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