South Pender Monster

Two Canadian duck hunters, who were working on the rocky shore of South Pender Island off Vancouver, British Columbia, flushed unlikely game on the morning of February 4, 1934. Bringing down a duck that flopped, badly wounded, into the water, Cyril H. Andrews and Norman Georgeson hopped into their small boat to retrieve it. As they approached their bird, they saw "a head and two loops or segments" of something quite unfamiliar rising clear of the water.

Mesmerized, the hunters watched the monster- which was only 10 feet away-as it opened its large mouth, gulped down the duck, snapped at several seagulls, and then sank from view. They noted its sawlike teeth, its pointed tongue, its gray-brown coloration, and the horse-like shape of the head. 

Andrews leaped ashore and ran for a phone. Rushing to the loch, justice of the Peace G. F. Parkyn of Bed well Harbor and several others arrived in time to see the creature swimming about 20 yards from the shore, its body undulating rhythmically and its head apparently resting on the water. Andrews estimated it to be about 40 feet in length and 2 to 3 feet in diameter at the thickest part, with a head some 3 feet long, (Roy P. Mackal, Searching for Hidden Animals , pp.19-21)

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