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Cryptids, 1940s33 stories · page 2

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

Alexander Tewnion Fires Three Shots at the Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui

October 1943 · Summit cairn, Ben Macdui, Cairngorms, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

18Thinly documented

The Owens and Russell Sea Serpent: Sea Lions in the Strait of Georgia

c. 1943 · Strait of Georgia, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

20Thinly documented

The Alsworth and Hammersley Floatplane Sighting of the Iliamna Lake Monster, 1942

September 1942 · Near an unnamed island in the middle of Iliamna Lake, Alaska

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

20Thinly documented

The Gourock Sea Serpent: Charles Rankin's 27-Foot Carcass on the Clyde

June 1942 · Shore near McInroy's Point, Ashton, Gourock, Inverclyde, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

29Thinly documented

Sławomir Rawicz's Two Yetis in the Himalayas (The Long Walk)

c. 1942 · Himalayas, near the end of the crossing into north Sikkim (route inferred near the Kongra La)

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

19Thinly documented

The Deepdale Monster ("Scapasaurus"), Holm, Orkney

December 25, 1941 · Shore off Deepdale Farm, Holm, East Mainland, Orkney, on Scapa Flow

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources · 1 photos

38Partially documented

Dr. Vazgen Karapetyan and the Captured Wild Man of Dagestan

December 1941 · Near Buynaksk, Dagestan, North Caucasus

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

20Thinly documented

Jeannie Chapman and the Ruby Creek Sasquatch

c. 1941 · Ruby Creek, Fraser River, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 61 sources

36Partially documented

Sarah the Sea Hag: the Kitsilano Beach carcass

March 4, 1941 · Kitsilano Beach, near the foot of Larch Street, English Bay, Vancouver, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

28Thinly documented

The SS Britannia Raft Giant Squid Attack

March 1941 · Mid-Atlantic, about 750 miles west of Freetown, Sierra Leone

International waters

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

19Thinly documented

The Mount Vernon "Baboon" of Gum Creek

c. 1941 · Gum Creek bottom, near Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

26Thinly documented

Biologist Wang Zelin and the Shot Female Wildman (Yeren) on the Baoji to Tianshui Road, 1940

c. 1940 · Near Jiangluo, Hui County, Gansu, on the road from Baoji to Tianshui

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

22Thinly documented

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