On a February morning in 1934, Cyril H. Andrews and Norman Georgeson were duck hunting on the shore of South Pender Island, which is not far from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. One of the men shot a duck from the sky, which fell into the water. They climbed into their small boat and paddled out to retrieve their game when something most unexpected happened.
As they later reported it, "a head and two loops or segments" emerged from the water. This monster -- whatever it was -- was only 10 feet away, and the hunters watched it in utter astonishment. The creature opened its large mouth, snatched the duck from the surface of the water and gulped it down. It then snapped at several sea birds before vanishing into the water.
Andrews and Georgeson were close enough to observe that the monster was grayish brown in color, had a horse-like head, sawlike teeth and a pointed tongue.
Andrews rushed ashore to find a telephone. A local Justice of the Peace and others hurried to the scene where they could still see the creature swimming about 20 yards off shore. They estimated it to be about 40 feet long and two to three feet in diameter at its thickest.
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