Fortune Bay is a natural bay located in the Gulf of Newfoundland, Canada . The bay extends in a
northeast direction for 105 kilometres ending at Terrenceville.
Over the years there
have been lots of sea serpent sightings in the area dating from 1500s to the present day.
As recently as May
4th1997, a sea serpent sighting was reported
by two men in a fishing boat in Fortune
Bay off Newfoundland. They saw
what they thought were garbage bags floating on the ocean's surface and went to
investigate. Here is the newspaper article of the time.
5/6/1997 The
Evening Telegram
LITTLE
BAY EAST-FORTUNE BAY (Correspondent) Charles Bungay has no doubt about what he
saw rear up out of the water after him on Sunday. The creature was long with
gray, scaly skin and dark eyes that looked right at him, the Fortune Bay
fisherman said. It was frightening.I shook for about five or six hours
afterwards, he said. I’ve never witnessed anything like it in my life.
Jon
Lien, a Memorial University marine biologist, was reluctant Monday to speculate
on exactly what Bungay and a companion might have seen but he ruled out a
humpback whale, large basking shark or a giant squid.Lien, a whale researcher,
said after receiving a full description he’s more inclined to think along the
lines of a similar creature called Cadborosaurus reportedly sighted on numerous
occasions off the coast of British Columbia.
There
have been hundreds of sightings of this, whatever it is, on the west coast, but
no one has ever found a carcass, said Lien.Maybe we have just discovered the
east coast version of that so-called sea monster, I don’t know.
Bungay
said it was about noon on Sunday when he and a companion spotted what they
thought were floating garbage bags.They decided to haul them on board but when
they got within 50 or 60 feet, something else reared its head.It eyeballed us
right away. It turned its head and looked right at us, said Bungay.All we could
see was a neck about six feet long, a head like a horse, but his dark eyes were
on the front of its face like a human.The overall length he estimated at about
30 to 40 feet. He said it had ears or horns six or eight inches long. He knows
what its mouth looked like but he couldn’t remember it being open, it all
happened so fast.He just looked at us and slid under the water and disappeared.
Another
Bay L’Argent fishermen says he had a similar experience four or five years ago.It
was the year the ice floes came further south then we’ve ever witnessed and
flowed up into Fortune Bay, said John Hardiman, 66.It was exactly the same as
them fellows described it.But I never seen its head that was beneath the water.
I did see its big long tail, more like those dinosaurs you see on TV. That’s
what it looked like to me.
Such incidents may be more common than most people
may think. One U.S. report of 600 sightings concluded over half weren’t obvious
hoaxes or mistaken identity. Some say what the men saw was a giant squid .Giant
squid rarely come to the surface and don’t look horselike.So what do think the
men saw? It certainly shook up two seasoned fishermen.
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