Case file · Cryptid
Cadborosaurus ('Caddy')
In August 1933 Major W. H. Langley, a clerk of the B.C. legislature, and his wife reported a huge serpentine animal near Chatham Islands off Victoria, and more reports followed that autumn.
1933 CE · 48.46, -123.28 · status: account
The account
Victoria Daily Times editor Archie Wills coined the name Cadborosaurus after Cadboro Bay. Biologists Paul LeBlond and Edward Bousfield later argued in a 1995 paper that it was a real unknown animal.
The sceptical view
Proposed explanations include sea lions swimming in a line, large eels, oarfish, logs and floating kelp.
Connections in the atlas
- Naden Harbour carcass
- Nushagak Bay 'Caddy' video
- 'Colossal Claude' of the Columbia Bar
- Sisiutl, the double-headed serpent (Kwakwaka'wakw)
- Wasgo, the sea-wolf (Haida)
- Ogopogo