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Sabine River Monster Photo

Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 25th, 2006

Coast to Coast AM’s website has posted the following image of an unknown creature swimming on its back, as seen in the Sabine River, near where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The Sabine River forms the border between Texas and Louisiana near the reported point of this picture/sighting. Most of the area around this location would be bayou country, but nevertheless freshwater. The Sabine River is known for its large freshwater catfish, but this animal does not appear to be even remotely similar to a catfish.

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clman1 responds: September 25th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
The man who took the photo also called in to Art Bell last night on C2C. He said he was out fishing at night at the mouth of the Sabine River and heard loud splashing noises. When it started to get light he was able to see what it was; he said it resembled a 45 ft long eel.
DARHOP responds: September 25th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Seal
One Eyed Cat responds: September 25th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Interesting, looking at the full size photo I get the impression — since it’s said to be on it’s back — of a dolphin’s front flippers. I do not know the technical term.
fredfacker responds: September 25th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
The only creature I can think of that swims on it’s back is an otter. However, I don’t know how you could tell anything from this photo except that there was some sort of object sticking out of the water.
swol responds: September 25th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Discounting personal accounts, my first thought is a log.

I would lean toward floating debris which kinda-sorta looked like something living.

Just my opinion.
planettom responds: September 25th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Basing my opinion on looking at this photo alone, my best guestimate would be the dorsal fin of a dolphin. Having fished in the Galveston Bay and off of the Texas coast for 20+ years, that’s what it looks like to me, strictly from the photo at least.
sasquatch responds: September 25th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
45′ eel. None of you were there, so if he says that’s what it looked like, then he’s the best witness we have, isn’t he? From the picture I can’t dispute the claim.
caddo21 responds: September 25th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
It would be very helpful if the photographer gave us some behavior observations on this object. Did he for instance observe it through binoculars?
TemplarKnight21c responds: September 25th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
First thing that came to mind was a seal. Possibly an otter, too.
serf77 responds: September 25th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
I’m sure the guy probably saw and heard something. We’ll never know what it is based upon the picture presented. Just another speculative mystery for the archives.
EastexQueenB responds: September 25th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
The only seals you see in this part of Gulf Coast are in zoos. Seals don’t live in the Gulf. I would believe an otter, dolphin, nutria or even the rare lost manatee before a seal.
RocketSeason responds: September 25th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
Its big for an otter or a seal. Possibly a manatee. Possibly a dolphin.
quill responds: September 25th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
Do capybaras live in that area? That’s what it looks like to me.
bigsassy responds: September 25th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
I’d say log or wounded/dying channel catfish. Have you ever seen a catfish? How does it hold the pole?
crypto_randz responds: September 25th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
I wish the photo was taken closer, much too far away but the object seems to be large. If the person says it’s a 45 ft eel, I will take his word. Also he was the one who took the photo and saw it up close.
jjames1 responds: September 25th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
I’m somewhat surprised that anyone is taking specific guesses at what this “thing” is. Even in the full-sized image, the “thing” is so indistinct that it’s impossible to give a legitimate analysis.
a_welch90 responds: September 25th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
The picture isn’t blurry, for a pleasant change, but the object is so far away that, like some other commenters, I agree that it just isn’t possible to make an accurate guess about what exactly it is. There’s no way.
CamperGuy responds: September 25th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
Don’t think anything can really be told from the photo except there is something in the water but can’t tell whether it is a log or an animal.

I think in the photo there is a fish that has jumped completely out of the water about an inch and a fourth to the right of the dark area of whatever is in the water. Possibly the source of the splashing sound heard by the observer?
VoiceOfReason responds: September 25th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
It looks like a speck. Why didn’t he zoom in or paddle closer? I have a million photos with that “creature” in the distant ocean.
CryptoGoji responds: September 25th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Being in the Mississippi river area, it very well could be a large Catfish. I have seen a buddy of mine at work show me his photo of a 75 lb catfish that was almost as big as he was, (a little over 5.5 ft) and had a head as big as his chest, he cought that in the Missouri around Jefferson City, Mo. It could be that, but at the surface? My best guess is that of a dolphin, maybe a big otter, but a 45 ft eel? Dont know of many that get that big, if any, but the sea holds many secrets. The photo is very vague, and at such a distance, it could be a log as well.
Sky King responds: September 25th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
“45′ eel. None of you were there, so if he says that’s what it looked like, then he’s the best witness we have, isn’t he? From the picture I can’t dispute the claim.”

If he said it looked like the Jolly Green Giant out for a swim, would that still make him the “best witness we have”? After all, none of us were there.
shovethenos responds: September 25th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
You can’t deduce much from the photo, but if it is authentic and not a known animal I have a hard time with it being an eel.

First, eels are not air-breathers so they generally do not spend much time at or above the surface. Second, the neck joint on eels is generally pretty rigid, allowing side to side motion but little or no up and down motion.

The animal pictured seems to have its head tilted upward at an angle compared to the more horizontal neck. This would be improbable for an eel to do, as it would basically have to tilt its whole body that way due to the limited range of motion in the neck joint in that direction.

Incidentally, this is why I have a problem with eels being the culprit in Loch Ness. Some of the sightings might be freakishly large eels but the long-necked and land sightings just don’t match up with an eel.
mrdark responds: September 26th, 2006 at 1:16 am
I’ll be brief: worthless photo, interesting story.
maceman444 responds: September 26th, 2006 at 1:56 am
I have to say this picture shows me nothing but some black blob floating in the water.
stillserchin responds: September 26th, 2006 at 3:20 am
Another dime-a-dozen photo of “something” cavorting about in the water too far away to be discernible. The man says it looks like a 45′ long eel. Who knows?
busterggi responds: September 26th, 2006 at 8:01 am
What the heck, I’ll vote for an otter too. But not a 45 foot long one, just a regular one.
shill responds: September 26th, 2006 at 8:12 am
We all must invent a term for these water versions of “blobsquatch”. That’s what this is - worthless. Any suggestions?
OKCurious responds: September 26th, 2006 at 8:41 am
There is just not enough detail in the picture to give any good data. I would say that just an eyeball glance at the distance from boat to object, I would bet if you did the math the object is nowhere close to 45′.
eireman responds: September 26th, 2006 at 8:46 am
The Blobness Monster! I coined it! It’s mine.
Porkchop responds: September 26th, 2006 at 9:53 am
How about Dotsquatch?
CryptoGoji responds: September 26th, 2006 at 9:53 am
Making any size comparsion from this photo is an impossibility. We just dont have anything other then the front of the boat and an endless horizon to judge from. We dont know how much is beneath the water and what is above it. Really neat photo and a great “sea monster” story, but nothing to prove or disprove his story.
Perhaps its a “Sheriking Eel” from “The Princess Bride”. Next thing well find in the jungles of Preu, “R.O.U.S.’s”.
LSU_Crypto responds: September 26th, 2006 at 9:59 am
I have fished the Sabine on many times. In all the time I spent around the river I never heard of anything unusual from any of the folks who fish it.
eireman responds: September 26th, 2006 at 10:38 am
I love Rodents of Unusual Size!!!
mystery_man responds: September 26th, 2006 at 11:06 am
I’d say speculating on what kind of animal it is is kind of jumping the gun a little. What is there here to lead us to believe it is an animal? Honestly, that could be a whole lot of inanimate things, nothing to make me assume it is an animal of any sort. Unless there had been a history of strange sightings in this area, it is highly possible that this is something more mundane, although even that is hard to tell from this speck in the distance. Frankly, the picture quality is not enough to give much to work on at all as far as I can see. We might as well speculate on what kind of floating debris it is as much as what kind of animal it might be. I’m not just going to blindly take his word for it and I think we have seen enough hoaxers here recently to know better than that. A blobsquatch.
BendyWVa responds: September 26th, 2006 at 11:15 am
The water looks a little bit muddy, drift maybe? Or just a big freshwater fish. My kids and I saw a large fish in an inland lake near here (Indiana) and we all pointed and said “Shark!” together. Of cource we knew it wasnt a shark, probably a big catfish or a carp.
brineblank responds: September 26th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Just curious as to the timing and such for the picture. If he was able to get this picture from a distance, and if he was able to see it resembled a 45 foot long eel, why was he not able to get a closeup picture? Even with reflections due to lighting it would have provided a good shadowy outline to judge the critter by.
One Eyed Cat responds: September 26th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
I never said it WAS a dolphin. That is what the rather distant shape made me think of.

Dunno, the photo is a bit distant to get very specific about seeing anything
Trapster responds: September 26th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
To me it appears to be a dolphin coming up for air, swimming from left to right. I tend not to put too much stock in the C2C AM photos or their stories lately. Some of them have been pretty blatantly misidentified.
Sky King responds: September 26th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
This is like a good 90% of all the “UFO” photos: WAY too distant to carry any meaning. If you can’t take a good picture, don’t take a picture AT ALL!
Al responds: September 27th, 2006 at 8:31 am
It does look vaguely like an Alligator Gar. They do swim at the surface and snap their heads out of the water, as well as roll. I suppose that could present a serpentine, or eel like appearance. I’m a little skeptical about the alleged length, though.
mystery_man responds: September 27th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Logs and driftwood have been known to float on the surface too. I don’t know a whole lot about photography, but is there any way for someone to enhance this pic somehow? Maybe move in closer and clean it up a little? Is that possible? I just don’t see anything here to warrant getting excited over the way it is now. I won’t discount that this is an animal, but it really is just a nondescipt speck. Not a whole lot of evidence for or against an animate object.
cosmic monster responds: September 27th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
My cousin caught a 55-pound alligator snapping turtle a couple years ago in a creek in Houston. They showed the picture to a state biologist who identified it and said he caught one twice that size in Louisiana. They get even bigger than that. I’d think it was a dinosaur if I saw it in the wild, and now I’m not surprised we get so many weird water sightings.

This is a cell phone shot of the picture on his refrigerator door:

http://www.cosmicmonster.net/turtle
BadState responds: September 27th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
The photo could be absolutely anything….
talthar responds: September 28th, 2006 at 5:00 am
Too much distance, too little detail to tell what this is. Though I am jazzed at the idea of a cryptid in my neck of the woods, I just can’t determine if this is worth getting excited over.
shill responds: September 28th, 2006 at 8:38 am
eireman Says:
September 26th, 2006 at 8:46 am
The Blobness Monster! I coined it! It’s mine.

Excellent! I like it! I’ll have to document that so you get credit.
scotto responds: October 5th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
jjames1 said it best. It’s too indisctinct. All speculation. I’m surprised it’s being discussed actually.
jesse responds: October 31st, 2006 at 5:13 pm
As the Photographer of the Sabine Sea Creature…

I have just learned of this web site, I would like to address some of your questions and reply to some of your comments.
First, the creature was like an eel only because I didn’t see any fins. I know eel’s stay on the bottom but this was no eel. It was not an otter playing in the water, this was a fish that had come to the top of the water and rolled over.

Jesse
pure_country_89 responds: March 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I know jesse and i think he’s full of bologna!!!

lol

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