Bay Area Beasts: Pterodactyls, Mystery Cats, and Sea Serpents

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• About 55 years ago along the beach off La Push, Washington my family of three watched a bunch of "sea serpents" frolicking in the breakers on the sandy shore. They were much like Kyle M. described. They appeared much like old drawings of sea serpents. They were 30 to 50 feet long and from head to tail they were about 2 to 3 feet in diameter, like a fat snake. They had a snub nosed face with a short mouth, much like the drawing above. (That's the only way they looked like the drawing.) I don't recall seeing any fins, buth they may have been far back like a fin whale. They held their heads a couple of feet above the water and every ten feet or so they held their bodies above the water, straight behind them, like pictures of "Nessie". They had a few barnicles. Even though it was a beautiful, clear day, we were the only ones on the two mile long 100 foot wide beach. We watched them for an hour. The Indian village is just above the water line behind a sparse line of trees, but they didn't come to watch. We guessed they must be whales, but I have never seen any pictures of whales that looked like them.

• Here's another. I've got a few more around, but I don't want to spam the forum. "During October and November 1983, several sightings of a dark, eel-like creature came from the California coast. (Stinson Beach, north of San Francisco, and Costa Mesa). Three humps (just like in the classic sea serpents on old maps) followed a small head, which rose above the surface to look around. Many individuals saw the serpent, some with binoculars. At Stinson Beach, the animals was followed by about 100 birds and two dozen sea lions." Source: Anonymous; "'Sea Serpents' Seen off California Coast," International Society of Cryptozoology Newsletter , 2:9, Winter 1983.) Several years ago, I actually ran into someone on a fishing message board that said: "Well, I'm one of those people that saw this thing off Stinson (just South) in the late eighties. I've been an amateur naturalist all my life and part of my career has been studying animals of every variety. What I saw wasn't any of them. I'm not saying what the heck it was, because I have no idea. I do know it wasn't an oarfish, which I am familiar with. I watched it for at least ten minutes swimming on the surface. At first I thought it might just be a large piece of kelp I wasn't familiar with, but when it began moving against the current and wind, I realized it was an animal. I didn't see the "horse's head", but I saw it definitely take a dive out of sight. Never told anyone, could never make any sense out of it myself. Never forgotten."

• Here's another. A woman emailed this to me in 1996. Said it had happened in '76. My X-husband and I were in Livermore on the back roads I do not remember the street but the sighting is very clear. We used to do a lot of snake hunting looking for snakes and selling them. So it was late in the night.. it was dark.. in fact we were getting ready to head home. The road was straight nothing blocking our view. We have traveled this area a lot and knew it. Tall trees were on both sides of the straight road.. Those trees that they use to break high winds. We were not talking much mostly keeping a good look out for any snakes that might be on the road or roadside. It was in the summer the roads are warm then and the snakes often cross or lay on the warm roads for heat. We keep our eyes 'ahead' on the road, Then in the corner of my right eye I saw something come out of the trees (actually not "out" of the trees but from between the trees BUT from where I saw it looked like it came from the trees) I quickly turned my head to the right and...there it was. He was covered in hair, hair all over! From his head to his feet. He started out across the road, funny cuz he looked at us first and then crossed like he wasn�t worried about the car hitting him. As quick as he looked at us he had crossed. His look at us was only a glance then he looked straight ahead and crossed the street like he had no care in the world. He stood very tall.. I am no good at height but only a guess would be 7' or more my x-husband would have a better guess. He seems to think more like 8' whatever he was very tall. Solid build. When he glanced at me (the car) for only a split of a second it and I made eye contact. That was very scary VERY! He looked in my eyes to say wait a min. while I cross the road. He took VERY big steps he did NOT run! He didn1t have to! Within several moves he was across the road. His shoulders were very relaxed. He stood/walked tall (not leaned over at all!) His arms were longer than a humans. Just as he came out between the trees on the right side of the road he went into the trees on the left side and was gone. My X-husband and I just looked at each other.. the only words that passed was "Did you see that?" We didn't talk at all the rest of the way home. We lived in San Jose, Calif. In fact as I have said before we never talked about that night again at all! Neither of us had heard about anything called a bigfoot.. all we knew was it was not human and nothing else that we ever saw/knew or heard of at the time. At the time I didn't know what a bigfoot was.. until years later when I then heard of a 'bigfoot' I began to take note that what I saw that night fit the profile of the bigfoot that people talk about. Sometimes I think I was better off thinking it was only my imagination, putting a name on it makes what I saw more real.. and I am not sure if I like that!

• This appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle several decades back. I had copied the article from microfiche at SFSU, but don't know if I still have the hard copy laying around. I had removed the name of the woman mentioned in the article to possibly protect her from the local Bigfoot nut, who passed away a few years ago. Otherwise the article is complete. San Francisco Chronicle, April 23, 1980 Eerie Screams Marin Mystery--A Night Creature By Peter Stack There was talk in Mill Valley yesterday that an "animal-like" figure that screeched horribly during an encounter with two policemen was the legendary hairy Bigfoot of Mount Tamalpais. "It was a weird thing all right, but I never said anything about Bigfoot--somebody must have made that up," said Patrolman Dan Murphy. Murphy and his partner, Edward Johnson, were dispatched at 1:16am last Friday to investigate a report by a frightened woman that something was "screaming and screeching and growling" below her hillside home. The woman, [name removed] said she couldn't discern whether the sounds were human or animal. For years there have been rumors of periodic sightings of a large, hairy humanoid prowling hills and valleys of Marin's Mount Tam region. The existence of the omnivorous nomad, sometimes known as Sasquatch, has never been confirmed, but there have been frequent reports of him throughout the Pacific Northwest. Murphy said he and Johnson answered Morris' call like any routine assignment. "When we got there, we heard the sounds too. They were strange, high-pitched sounds like something was screaming or howling viciously," Murphy said yesterday. The two officers nervously hiked down the wooded slopes while training their flashlight beams through the underbrush. It was pitch dark and windy. "I heard this heavy breathing ahead of us," Murphy said, adding that there were, "crackling and rustling noises as if something was approaching through the brush." According to official reports, Officer Johnson warned Murphy that he heard something coming from off to one side of them as well as from dead ahead. The two policemen drew their service revolvers and slowly retreated uphill. But as they withdrew, Murphy caught a glimpse in the beam of his flashlight of a "large, dark-colored THING." "it was walking on its hind legs," Murphy said. "I saw it climb an eight-foot retaining wall and dissapear into the brush." Later that morning, the two officers returned to the woodsy setting under the first glimmer of dawn. Once there, they found a thick trail of blood, which they followed through the heavy brush. Suddenly looming before them was the disemboweled and badly mangled carcass of an adult deer. The animal's neck had been ripped open and its belly torn open. "There were no tracks or anything around," said Murphy. The deer's carcass was removed by the Marin Humane Society, but no autopsy was made, so only speculation remained as to what killed the animal. The humane society guessed the attack was probably by a mountain lion.

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