Alaska's Loch Ness Monster Is Latest Alleged Sea Serpent Sighting (VIDEO)

It has a horse-like head at the end of a long neck, with big eyes and humps on its back. It undulates above the surface for just a moment before diving back underwater -- leaving even the most seasoned sailors scratching their heads.

It sounds like any of the thousands of sea serpent stories, from Scotland's Loch Ness Monster to Lake Champlain's Champ. But this time there's video.

A remarkable piece of footage purportedly shot by a fisherman in Bristol Bay shows what many people believe is Alaska's version of the Loch Ness Monster, reports Discovery News.

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"These are large animals, swimming up and down and probably propelling itself by the flap of its tail. It's clearly not a whale and not a seal," said scientist Paul Leblond after viewing the video which premiered on this week's edition of the Discovery Channel's "Alaskan Monster Hunt."

"That looks a lot like Cadborosaurus," said Leblond, former head of the department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of British Columbia.

In the last 200 years, numerous sightings of a Cadborosaurus -- named from Cadboro Bay in British Columbia and the Greek word "saurus" (or lizard) -- have come to light as people claim to see a serpent-like animal, reportedly up to 30 feet long and sometimes showing front and rear flippers. "Caddy," as the animal is nicknamed, is the subject of a book, Cadborosaurus: Survivor From the Deep, co-written by Leblond.

The Cadborosaurus, like most sea serpents reported around the world, is categorized by scientists under the heading of cryptozoology, the study of animals not yet recognized by mainstream science, like the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot.

While Caddy has been written off by some as a shark, eel or whale, Leblond disagrees.

"It must be a mammal or a reptile, since it oscillates up and down in a vertical plain, which eliminates sideways-oscillating fish," he said.

Whether Caddy or its Scottish cousin, Nessie, are relatives or even real, remains to be seen -- at least until more compelling visual evidence is presented. Or one of these beasts is actually captured.

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Nessie and Alaska's Illie May Be Sleeper Sharks

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This 2000 image shows biologist Bruce Wright in salt waters in southeast Alaska with a small Pacific sleeper shark that was caught on a research cruise. He believes much bigger versions of this shark group could be the true identity of Scotland's Loch Ness Monster and Alaska's Lake Iliamna creature known as Illie.

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This 2000 image shows biologist Bruce Wright in salt waters in southeast Alaska with a small Pacific sleeper shark that was caught on a research cruise. He believes much bigger versions of this shark group could be the true identity of Scotland's Loch Ness Monster and Alaska's Lake Iliamna creature known as Illie.

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[bradhshickoh]

02:32 PM on 09/16/2011

THIS SO CALLED MONSTER EXPERT IS ALSO VERY GOOD WITH A CAMERA. WHO KNOWS WHERE THESE PICTURES WERE MADE? COULD BE IN THEIR OWN BACK YARD

[8xInfinity]

08:41 AM on 09/14/2011

Reading again, I guess these dudes didn't shoot the video... but still, it looks like every piece of video since the 1960s- awful.

Report this stuff when there's something in color and in focus.

[8xInfinity]

08:39 AM on 09/14/2011

Really, guys? After decades of horrible video "evidence" for all kinds of monsters and UFOs, people are still taking $50 handheld cameras with them? These guys have a freakin' television crew, yet we still just get a blurry, shaky mess.

You can hardly see a thing in that clip. I can't see why anyone can be so sure it's not just seals or other perfectly normal and known animals.

[Sarah H M Ajz]

05:57 AM on 09/11/2011

And this is supposed to be news?

[papalue]

01:04 PM on 09/10/2011

What...no one has blamed GWB for this yet?

[Erik Howell]

04:15 PM on 09/12/2011

That gets exponentially funnier with each ten thousandth keying.

[bradhshickoh]

02:34 PM on 09/16/2011

OK,OK. I BLAME GEORGE W. I WISH WE HAD HIM BACK

[papalue]

04:17 PM on 09/16/2011

Me too...even with his faults he certainly was a heck of a lot better than what we have in the White House right now!

[th12448]

08:23 PM on 09/03/2011

IF BULL$HIT WAS MUSIC THIS ARTICLE WOULD BE A BRASS BAND!!!!

[Irvin Spencer]

06:33 AM on 09/10/2011

Lmao

[spongeworthy06]

03:31 PM on 08/31/2011

With the technology of today, youd think there would be better quality pictures of these things.

[blrengin]

05:46 PM on 08/30/2011

great , something else to hunt!

[dlhlvsarh2006]

02:18 PM on 08/24/2011

I have no reason to believe that there are creatures on this earth that we have not found does that make them monsters no just creatures we havent seen...It isnt bothering anyone or hurting anyone ..why cant we the so called smarter creatures just leave some things alone ..There are many things many of us have never seen in person , but that doesnt mean they arent real...for example Ive seen pictures of Mars ,but Im pretty sure 99.9 % of us on here havent been there doesnt make it any less real....jmo

[dsdsspeck]

06:09 PM on 08/22/2011

I believe in the Sea Monster and Locky. I believe in UFO's, Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny , Ghosts, the Big Bad Wolf, Obama is an intelligent Economist, the world will survive even without us, Jane Fonda is a conservative and we all love each other. I believe everything people tell me There is way to much serious professionalism on this board. Don't ruin my simple undoubting belief system.

[dsdsspeck]

02:55 PM on 08/22/2011

I totally believe it and I believe 12/21/12 will be the end of the world. I believe in UFO's, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. The anti- christ is already here and I hide every night from the Big Bad Wolf.
You people are just too serious. Why not have fun imagining what could be, rather than getting all professional on me and ruining my dreams.
By the way, every night as I fall asleep, I have an out of body experience traveling to other Planets ,far, far away.

[henery]

09:32 AM on 09/18/2011

And you voted for Obama and you will vote for him again.

[Michael luo]

02:18 PM on 08/22/2011

Funny, it kinda resembles logs floating in the currents. But, of course, that's too rational. Let's go with sea monster.

[TripAffleck]

08:19 AM on 08/21/2011

it's a wave. have these guys ever spent any time on the water?

[Chie Asakura]

09:11 PM on 09/12/2011

Two of the guys in the video are Johnathan and Andy HiIlstrand, Co-Captains of F/V Time Bandit. Both of them have spent decades on the Bering Sea fishing crab. They would easily be able to tell if that was just 'a wave'.

[proshot22]

03:20 PM on 08/19/2011

I love how all in these sighting, their all using a camera that's like from the 1800's.

[Fred Beggs]

05:46 PM on 08/26/2011

Exactly what I was thinking. Black and white. Grainy. You know this is bull. Funny to watch them attempt to make it out as a great find. LOL

[tccat4]

06:03 AM on 08/18/2011

I hope when they get the opportunity to get really close to it, no one kills it. If these oddities exist, leave them alone. After 100's of years of humans killing everything, now is the time to let then be.