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Cryptids, before 1930201 stories · page 1

Two sea serpents off Cayuga Lake's eastern shore (Old Greeny), 1929
c. 1929 · Eastern shore of Cayuga Lake, Finger Lakes region, New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
16Thinly documented
Muchalat Harry carried off by a Sasquatch (Conuma River, Vancouver Island, 1928)
1928 · Conuma River, head of Tlupana Inlet, Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 35 sources
15Thinly documented
Thirty carloads watch Naitaka off Okanagan Mission
September 1926 · Okanagan Mission district, Okanagan Lake, south of Kelowna, British Columbia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
21Thinly documented
The Moore's Beach Sea Monster Carcass, Santa Cruz (1925)
c. 1925 · Moore's Beach (now Natural Bridges State Beach), Santa Cruz, California
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources · 5 photos
49Partially documented
N. A. Tombazi's Yeti Sighting near the Zemu Glacier, Sikkim Himalaya (1925)
1925 · Southern glaciers of Kangchenjunga, below the Zemu Gap (reported as near the Zemu Glacier), Sikkim
India
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
30Partially documented
The ahool of Mount Salak (Ernst Bartels, 1925 and 1927)
1925 · Slopes of Mount Salak, West Java, Dutch East Indies
Indonesia
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
19Thinly documented
Topilsky's Pamir wild man
1925 · Vanch Mountains, Pamirs, Vanj District, Gorno-Badakhshan
Tajikistan
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
22Thinly documented
Trunko: The Margate Globster
c. 1924 · Margate beach, Natal South Coast (now KwaZulu-Natal)
South Africa
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources · 1 photos
23Thinly documented
Trunko, the white-furred sea monster of Margate
October 25, 1924 · Margate Beach (Tragedy Bay), Margate, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)
South Africa
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources · 7 photos
24Thinly documented
Trunko, the Margate "polar bear" sea monster and globster
October 25, 1924 · Main beach (Tragedy Bay), Margate, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)
South Africa
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources · 4 photos
24Thinly documented
The Battle of Ape Canyon
July 1924 · Ape Canyon, Mount St. Helens, Skamania County, Washington
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources
30Partially documented
Ape Canyon "Apemen" Attack, Mount St. Helens
July 1924 · Ape Canyon, Mount St. Helens, Skamania County, Washington
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources
28Thinly documented
Albert Ostman's claimed abduction by a Sasquatch family, Toba Inlet, British Columbia (1924)
1924 · Inland from the head of Toba Inlet, British Columbia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources
15Thinly documented
Trunko, the Margate "polar bear" sea monster
c. 1924 · Margate beach, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)
South Africa
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources · 6 photos
25Thinly documented
Van Herwaarden's Sedapa in the Tree, Poeloe Rimau, Sumatra (1923)
October 1923 · Poeloe Rimau (Pulau Rimau), Palembang residency, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies
Indonesia
Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources
19Thinly documented
Martin Sheffield's letter and Clemente Onelli's plesiosaur expedition, the origin of Nahuelito
c. 1922 · Laguna del Plesiosaurio (Laguna Negra), foot of Cerro Pirque, El Pedregoso, El Hoyo, Chubut
Argentina
Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources
30Partially documented
The Lindi mngwa killings, Tanganyika Territory, 1922
1922 · Market square, Lindi, Lindi District, Tanganyika Territory (now Lindi Region)
Tanzania
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
29Thinly documented
The Metoh-Kangmi Tracks at the Lhakpa La: Howard-Bury and the Birth of the Abominable Snowman
September 22, 1921 · Lhakpa La (Lhagba La), near Mount Everest, Tibet
China
Cryptid · Creature · 45 sources · 1 photos
35Partially documented
The Walgren Lake Monster: Alkali Lake, Hay Springs, Nebraska
September 16, 1921 · Alkali Lake (now Walgren Lake), near Hay Springs, Sheridan County, Nebraska
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
22Thinly documented
Capt. William Hichens and the two agogwe, Ussure and Simibit forests, Tanganyika
c. 1921 · Ussure and Simibit forests, western side of the Wembare plains, Tanganyika (near today's Singida/Tabora border)
Tanzania
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
19Thinly documented

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