"Sarah the Sea Hag" - Cousin of Caddy?

The remains of this "sea monster" were fond on Kitsilano Beach, Vancouver, Canada, in 1941. The press dubbed it "Sarah the Sea Hag" and said that it was a Cadborosaurus, the legendary sea serpent seen on the west coast of Canada and the USA.

"She had a large horse-like head with flaring nostrils and eye sockets; a tapering snake-like body 12 feet long; and traces of long coarse hair on the skin."

Dr. W.A. Clemons and Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan went to examine the remains and Clemons stated that "We're not sure if it's a basking shark, but there is no doubt that it is of the shark family."

G.V. Boorman, a whaler who had taken photographs of a supposed Caddy carcass before was then a private in the army, and was stationed nearby. He had seen close to 4,000 whales in 10 years, and was familiar with sharks in various degrees of decomposition. "If that's a shark," he said, "I'll eat my uniform. I've seen the skeletons of scores of varieties of sharks and they had no resemblance to these remains."

Boorman said that the "marine monster discovered in the stomach of a sperm whale in 1937 [the Naden Harbor carcass] was the twin sister of odoriferous Sarah."

Just like the remains of the Naden Harbor carcass of 1937, "Sarah's" remains were not preserved either, so what "she" really was remains unknown.


This post is excerpted from my future book Global Globsters, which examines reports of "sea monster" carcasses from around the globe...

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  1. What "she" really was is a shark, as both zoologists Dr Clemens and Dr McTaggert-Cowan of the department of zoology of the University of B.C. stated. I've seen a bad newspaper-pic of the remains and at least can acknowledge the shark from the vertebral column.

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