Horse-headed Sea Serpent Seen
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 14th, 2007
Published in a California newspaper:
Sea Serpents Visits the Indians Up North
Victoria [British Columbia], April 14. — Officials of the cabin station at Bamfield are speaking of the story that a sea serpent from forty to sixty feet long and with a head like a horse has been seen off the station. The cabin operators say, in letters to the local newspapers, that Indians had been telling of the existence of a sea serpent, but the stories were not credited. David Osborne, one of the officials, says that a week ago the animal was seen from the cable station to raise its big horse-like head and swim out of the mouth of the Bamfield Creek into Barclay Sound.
Mr. Godson of the cable staff says that when he first saw the animal it looked like a massive sea weed, but presently he saw the head elevated and the big serpent moved off toward the sea. Mr. Godson says it moved off with the speed of a torpedo-boat. On April 10 an Indian saw the thing and was so frightened that he ran his canoe into the breakers, left it and fled along the beach to the cable station.
The Indian said the thing had a head shaped like a horse and its body, ten feet of which was lifted, was the size of a barrel. The Indians in the neighborhood are terrified.San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California. April 15, 1903
Thanks to Jerome Clark for this news item.
For more information on this subject, please see The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep (NY: Tarcher/Penguin, 2003).
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Perhaps a cadborosaurus?
Certainly sounds like a classic “caddie” sighting.
I was getting all excited that this was a new round of sightings and then I saw the date of 1903 at the bottom. Anything recent going on, I wonder?
Ditto, mystery_man,
Thought it was something new also.
Very interesting though…
Oarfish?