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Cryptids, 1940s31 stories · page 1

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The Thorntown Gorilla and the Four-Posse Search
June 14, 1949 · Sugar Creek, Thorntown, Sugar Creek Township, Boone County, Indiana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
18Thinly documented
The Beast of 'Busco: Oscar, the Giant Turtle of Fulk Lake
July 1948 · Fulk Lake, near Churubusco, Indiana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 29 sources
23Thinly documented
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The St. Louis and Alton Giant Bird Flap (Thunderbird Sightings), 1948
April 1948 · Alton, Illinois, and greater St. Louis, Missouri, with a separate cluster around Caledonia and Freeport, northern Illinois
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
28Thinly documented
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The Clearwater Monster: Florida's Giant Penguin (Old Three-Toes)
February 1948 · Clearwater Beach, Pinellas County, Florida
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 27 sources
27Thinly documented
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The Chehalis Birdman: Bernice Zaikowski's flying man
January 6, 1948 · Chehalis, Lewis County, Washington
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
14Thinly documented
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The "Party of Nine" Morag Sighting on Loch Morar
1948 · Loch Morar, Lochaber, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
18Thinly documented
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Peter Byrne's First Yeti Footprint
1948 · Near the Zemu Glacier, northern Sikkim (disputed; other accounts place the find in Nepal)
India
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
26Thinly documented
The Santa Clara Sea Serpent: A Ship Strikes a Monster off North Carolina
December 30, 1947 · Atlantic Ocean, off Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
15Thinly documented
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The Lichtenmoor Strangler (Würger vom Lichtenmoor)
c. 1947 · Lichtenmoor and the Schotenheide near Ahlden (Aller), Lower Saxony
Germany
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
32Partially documented
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The Lariosauro of Lake Como: two hunters fire on a crested creature at Pian di Spagna
c. 1946 · Pian di Spagna, near Colico, northern tip of Lake Como, Lombardy
Italy
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
13Thinly documented
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The Anchor Point "lizard-like monster": a beached carcass hailed as a dinosaur and identified as a killer whale (1946)
October 1946 · Anchor Point, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (near Homer and Kachemak Bay)
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 7 sources · 1 photos
31Partially documented
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The Bête du Cézallier, the post-war beast of Auvergne
September 1946 · Cézallier and Sancy massifs, around Saint-Alyre-ès-Montagne, Auvergne
France
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
34Partially documented
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The Valais Monster and the Eischoll Wolf
April 26, 1946 · Central and Upper Valais, from Finges (Pfynwald) to Eischoll, Switzerland
Switzerland
Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources
38Partially documented
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Thomas L. Rogers's rowboat sighting and the "Slimy Slim" wave, Payette Lake
c. 1944 · Payette Lake, McCall, Idaho
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
26Thinly documented
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The Peninsula Python, Cuyahoga Valley, Ohio, 1944
June 8, 1944 · Peninsula, Cuyahoga Valley, Summit County, Ohio
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
28Thinly documented
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Cooke's Jungli Admi footprints below the Singalila Ridge
June 1944 · Track just below the Singalila Ridge, near the Nepal border (Darjeeling / West Sikkim)
India
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources · 4 photos
34Partially documented
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Don Eckelberry's Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Singer Tract, Louisiana (1944)
April 1944 · Singer Tract, Tensas River bottomland, Madison Parish, Louisiana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 41 sources
34Partially documented
Duane Hodgkinson's "Pterodactyl" Sighting near Finschhafen, New Guinea (1944)
1944 · Jungle trail west of Finschhafen, Huon Peninsula, Territory of New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
17Thinly documented
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Alexander Tewnion Fires Three Shots at the Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui
October 1943 · Summit cairn, Ben Macdui, Cairngorms, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources
18Thinly documented
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The Owens and Russell Sea Serpent: Sea Lions in the Strait of Georgia
c. 1943 · Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
20Thinly documented

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