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Cryptids, 1950s33 stories · page 1

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The Soay Beast: Tex Geddes and James Gavin's Sea Monster off Skye (1959)
September 13, 1959 · Sea about one mile from Soay, off the south coast of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
17Thinly documented
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Col. Remy Van Lierde's giant snake (the Congo snake or Katanga snake)
August 1959 · About 100 km north-north-west of Kamina Air Base, Katanga, Belgian Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources · 9 photos
33Partially documented
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The Charles Mill Lake Monster
March 28, 1959 · Charles Mill Lake, near Ruggles Road, Ashland and Richland counties, Ohio
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
25Thinly documented
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The Ohio River Monster, later called Octo-Man (Cincinnati area, 1959)
January 29, 1959 · Ohio River near Cincinnati: New Richmond and Kellogg Avenue, Ohio; Licking River bridge and Fort Thomas, Kentucky
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
17Thinly documented
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Charles Wetzel's "Riverside Monster"
November 8, 1958 · North Main Street crossing of the Santa Ana River, Riverside, California
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
23Thinly documented
Jerry Crew's Bluff Creek Footprints and the Birth of "Bigfoot"
August 27, 1958 · Bluff Creek Road, Six Rivers National Forest, Humboldt County, California
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources · 1 photos
28Thinly documented
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The Emmaville panther: Donald Clifford's sighting, 1958
June 20, 1958 · Rough country about 18 miles from Emmaville, New England, New South Wales
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources
18Thinly documented
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Ole Mikkelsen's Cassie sea serpent sighting off Cape Elizabeth
June 5, 1958 · About five miles off Cape Elizabeth, near the Portland Lightship, Casco Bay, Maine
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
13Thinly documented
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A. G. Pronin's Snowman on the Fedchenko Glacier, Pamirs (1957)
August 1957 · Balyandkiik River valley, Fedchenko Glacier, Pamir Mountains, Gorno-Badakhshan
Tajikistan
Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources
28Thinly documented
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Ponik: the 1957 sightings at Lac Pohénégamook and Father J.-Léopold Plante's "overturned canoe"
1957 · Lac Pohénégamook, Saint-Éleuthère (now Pohénégamook), Témiscouata, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources
21Thinly documented
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The Kongamato Attack at Fort Rosebery, Bangweulu Swamps, 1957
1957 · Bangweulu Swamps, near Fort Rosebery (now Mansa), Northern Rhodesia
Zambia
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
0Thinly documented
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J. P. F. Brown's kongamato sighting at Fort Rosebery
1956 · Fort Rosebery (now Mansa), Northern Rhodesia, just west of Lake Bangweulu
Zambia
Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources
10Thinly documented
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William Rhein's Film of the Imperial Woodpecker, Durango, 1956
1956 · Near Guacamayita, east of Los Laureles, Sierra Madre Occidental, southern Durango
Mexico
Cryptid · Creature · 34 sources · 2 photos
41Partially documented
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The Wonthaggi Monster, Inverloch Road, Wonthaggi, Victoria (1955)
c. 1955 · Inverloch Road, Wonthaggi, Bass Coast Shire, South Gippsland, Victoria
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
30Partially documented
William Roe's Mica Mountain Sasquatch, 1955
October 1955 · Mica Mountain, near Tête Jaune Cache, British Columbia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
12Thinly documented
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The Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins Siege
August 21, 1955 · Glennie Lankford's farmhouse, Old Madisonville Road, near Kelly, Christian County, Kentucky
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 56 sources
41Partially documented
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The Green Clawed Beast of the Ohio River, Dogtown, Indiana
August 14, 1955 · Ohio River off Dogtown (Cypress), west of Evansville, Indiana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
23Thinly documented
Peter MacNab's Loch Ness photograph at Urquhart Castle
July 29, 1955 · Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, Inverness-shire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources · 4 photos
22Thinly documented
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Robert Hunnicutt's frog-faced roadside figures, Branch Hill, Ohio (1955)
May 25, 1955 · Branch Hill, Madeira-Loveland Pike, near Loveland, Ohio
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
17Thinly documented
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Abbé Pierre Bordet's Yeti tracks at the Barun cols, Makalu region
May 11, 1955 · Barun cols, Barun valley, Makalu region
Nepal
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
39Partially documented

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