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Cryptids, 1980s41 stories · page 2

Gambo, the Beaked Beast of Bungalow Beach
June 12, 1983 · Bungalow Beach, below the Bungalow Beach Hotel, Kotu, The Gambia
Gambia
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
14Thinly documented
Marcellin Agnagna's Mokele-mbembe sighting at Lake Tele, 1983
May 1, 1983 · Lake Tele, Likouala Department
Republic of the Congo
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
26Thinly documented
The Beast of Exmoor: the 1983 South Molton sheep killings and the Royal Marines hunt
c. 1983 · Drewstone Farm, near South Molton, North Devon (Exmoor), England
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
32Partially documented
Pro early
The Kellas Cats: Tomas Christie's Kellas male and the snared Revack cat
January 1983 · Kellas, West Moray, and Revack Lodge near Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
42Partially documented
Pro early
The Barun Valley Yeti Tracks and the Tree Bear
1983 · Barun Valley, Makalu-Barun National Park, eastern Nepal
Nepal
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources
37Partially documented
Pro early
La Bête de Noth: the phantom big cat of the Creuse
November 4, 1982 · Noth, Creuse, France
France
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
31Partially documented
Pro early
Takitarō: four climbers see giant fish in Lake Ōtori, Yamagata (1982)
July 19, 1982 · Lake Ōtori (Ōtori-ike), below Mount Itō, former Asahi village, Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture
Japan
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
33Partially documented
Paul Freeman's Blue Mountains Bigfoot sighting and the dermal-ridge casts
June 10, 1982 · Mill Creek watershed (Mill Creek / Tiger Creek area), Umatilla National Forest, Blue Mountains, east of Walla Walla, Washington
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
30Partially documented
The Frew "Chessie" Videotape, Love Point, Kent Island
May 31, 1982 · Love Point, Kent Island, Queen Anne's County, Maryland (Chesapeake Bay)
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 40 sources
31Partially documented
Hans Naarding's thylacine sighting near Togari, Tasmania (1982)
March 1982 · Disused forest track near Togari, south of Smithton, far north-west Tasmania
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
21Thinly documented
Pro early
The Fen Tiger: the Cottenham big cat and William Rooker's film
1982 · Cottenham, Cambridgeshire Fens, England
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
12Thinly documented
Herman and Kia Regusters' Mokele-mbembe sighting at Lake Tele
November 28, 1981 · Lake Tele (Lac Télé), Likouala department
Republic of the Congo
Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources
27Thinly documented
Pro early
The Beast of Truro, the Pamet Puma of Cape Cod
September 1981 · Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
27Thinly documented
Pro early
The Rome Township "Night Siege": a farm family besieged by a red-eyed creature, Ashtabula County, Ohio (1981)
June 25, 1981 · Johnson Road, Rome Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
29Thinly documented
Pro early
Larry Gwin and Steve Wilson's Altamaha-ha sighting at Smith Lake
December 1980 · Smith Lake, an oxbow off the Altamaha River upstream of Darien, McIntosh County, Georgia
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources
15Thinly documented
Felicity, the Cannich Puma (Kerrow Farm, Glen Affric, 1980)
October 29, 1980 · Kerrow Farm, near Cannich, Glen Affric, Inverness-shire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources · 2 photos
32Partially documented
Pro early
Yamagon: the gorilla-like creature of Yamano-chō, Fukuyama
October 20, 1980 · Tahara, Yamano-chō, Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture
Japan
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
13Thinly documented
Pro early
The White Bigfoot of Mason and Fleming Counties, Kentucky
October 1980 · Slip Up near Mays Lick (Mason County), Ewing (Fleming County) and U.S. 68 near Maysville, Kentucky
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
29Thinly documented
Pro early
Chessie Seen by 25 or More People on a Fishing Trip off Smith Point, Virginia
October 1980 · Off Smith Point, Northumberland County, Virginia, at the mouth of the Potomac River
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
24Thinly documented
Pro early
Robert Gardiner's Bigfoot hunt in Wayne National Forest and Larry Cottrill's shooting, McArthur, Ohio, 1980
August 24, 1980 · Wayne National Forest, west of McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
22Thinly documented

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