Creature record / 1936
June 1936. A carcass lay on the sand at Copalis Beach, on the Pacific shore of Washington State. Crowds came to look. What they found was hard to name. A long goat-like head. A body tapered like a buffalo's. A 4-foot tail like a muskrat's. The headline put its weight at 1,300 pounds. The story reached Juneau, Alaska, where The Daily Alaska Empire printed it on June 8, 1936. The paper wondered whether the beast might be a relative of Amy Cadborosaurus, the sea serpent of British Columbia. Then the trail goes cold. No names. No photograph. No identification. Only a small clipping and a question that was never answered.
In the early 1930s, the Pacific Northwest had a sea serpent of its own. October 1933. Reports from Cadboro Bay, on Vancouver Island, led Archie H. Wills, editor of the Victoria Daily Times, to give the creature a name. Cadborosaurus. Readers soon called it Caddy. For a time some tried to rename it "Amy" Cadborosaurus. But Caddy prevailed, and sightings were reported from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Willapa Bay.