Does Alaska have a Loch Ness monster? Video of a possible beast was aired Tuesday night on the Discovery Channel on ″Alaskan Monster Hunt: Hillstranded″ shot in 2009 by Andy Hillstrand of the Rality-TV series, 
eadliest Catch.″ The video shows what appears to be several humps moving along the surface. Towards the end of the video, what looks like a head pops up.
Andy Hillstrand says it was ″a big, long white thing moving in the water. We chased it for about 20 minutes. Spray came out of its head. It was definitely not a shark. I′ve never seen anything like it before.″ The creature is being called a Cadborosaurus, as it appears to be very similar to another North Pacific sea monster that has been sighted many times since the 1930s in Cadboro Bay in British Columbia.
Naturally, scientists disagree about what the creature may be. Possible candidates are the rare Frill shark, a very large eel or some other fish that may be more common in the deep waters and rarely seen on the surface. But Paul LeBlond, a cryptozoologist and former head of the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of British Columbia is more optimistic. ″It must be a mammal or reptile, since it oscillates up and down in a vertical plain, which eliminates sideways-oscillating fish.″
The Alaska Loch Ness Monster video caused quite a stir since aired Tuesday night on the Discovery Channel. Andy Hillstrand, formerly of the hit Reality-TV series ″Deadliest Catch″, has his own series now, ″Hillstranded.″ Tuesday night′s premier episode featuring the video was called ″Alaskan Monster Hunt: Hillstranded.″ The video was filmed in 2009 by an Alaskan fisherman. So it is real? Or is it just a giant shrimp searching for a treadmill?
July 21st, 2011 at 8:24 pm
I find this to be very intriguing as a fishing guide and owner of an Alaska Fishing Lodge up here in Soldotna, Alaska, this is definitely worth watching out for, with video in hand. Excellent Video
July 22nd, 2011 at 2:58 am
It’s ….. LEVI !!!!
Bristol’s Bo
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:26 am
I watched the repeat last night. I don’t know what the video showed, but it was pretty obvious that what the Hildebrand brothers were chasing in the lake was a big ole sturgeon.
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:27 am
I guess the tourism commission couldn’t sell whale watching anymore ?
Here in the islands people actually swim in the water so we try to keep shark and monsters stories out of the news.
Wouldnt that be something if it were two whales conjoined at birth by the tails ?
Dr. Dolittle had a Lama like that
July 22nd, 2011 at 5:46 am
I was holding off before responding to #1’s “Excellent Video” comment.
If he saw a sea monster in that murky video then I saw a Sasquatch behind every tree and a Yeti in the distance holding a sign that said “My Kingdom for an Arctic Cat”.