Cape Sable Sea Serpent
The Cape Sable serpent is a sea monster spotted in Cape Sable, off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1976. It was described as an ugly creature, covered in lumps and barnacles. It's head is like that of a wart hog, with bumps protruding off it's cheeks, and prominent tusks in its mouth. The creature's eyes are bloodshot and set on top of stalks, like a snail. It has a long serpentine body, 10 to 15 feet long and two feet thick. There's a back fin running down the length of its body and a fish like tail at the end. Its color is greyish brown in color. It moves through the water by undulating its body up and down, creating rows of humps that protrude out of the water. A swimming method seen in many sea serpents reports.
The first sighting was on July 5, 1976. Eisner Penny was fishing off the coast of Cape Sable Island when he saw the sea serpent rising out of the water. He first thought the monster was a whale, but has he approached he realized it was unlike any animal he had seen before. He could see all the details of this hideous sea monster. He slowed his boat to a stop, but the creature continued to head his way. It had almost reached the stern when Mr Penny lost his nerve and drove the boat away at full speed. When he returned to land, within hours of the sighting, he told family and friends about the incident. However he was not believed and soon became the joke of the town.
The next sighting came a few days later, when two of the men who participated in ridiculing Mr Penny had their own sighting. Keith Ross and his 24 year old son, Rodney, were the next to see the monster. They were anchored near Pollock's Ledge on a foggy day. Rodney saw something in the water. He called his father out of the cabin to see it. At first Keith thought the thing in the water was a sunfish, yet this identification was quickly proven wrong when the creature started rising out of the water. They described seeing a monster near identical to Eisner Penny's encounter. The creature started rushing towards the boat. Both men ran for the cabin and sped the boat away. The sea serpent continued to chase them for some time, at one point coming within a few feet of the boat.
Eventually they were able to lose the sea serpent. On the way back to shore they encountered another boat, it was none other than Eisner Penny. The three men exchanged stories about seeing the monster before heading back to shore. Soon after Eisner Penny retired from fishing, although he never made it clear if these incidents with the monster were the reason for doing so.
A third sighting happened a few days later. Edgar Nickelson and his son 15 year old son Robert where pulling up nets when they heard the monster splashing out in the fog. At first they assumed it was a whale. It sounded like the creature was coming straight for them. Edgar turned on the sounding horn, which usually scares whales away. The creature kept coming towards them. It finally came close enough the men could see the serpentine loops rising out of the water. On seeing this they too sped away for shore. After this the monster wasn't seen off the coast of Cape Sable Island again.
Another more recent sighting happened in 1997 off the southern coast of Newfoundland. Two fishermen, Charles Bungay and Mr Clark saw what they thought were garbage bags floating in the water. They approached the bags with the intent of pulling them out, when the 'bags' were revealed to be the strange hog headed monster with protruding eyes. They sped their boat away from the scene, but didn't report if the creature chased them like the other previous incidents.
It's notable that the original sightings around Cape Sable Island are quite close to the sightings of another sea serpent, the Gloucester Serpent, reported from the waters around Massachusetts. Although the two monsters look nothing alike.
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