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Cryptids592 stories · page 21

Thirty carloads watch Naitaka off Okanagan Mission

September 1926 · Okanagan Mission district, Okanagan Lake, south of Kelowna, British Columbia

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

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

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

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

19Thinly documented

Topilsky's Pamir wild man

1925 · Vanch Mountains, Pamirs, Vanj District, Gorno-Badakhshan

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

22Thinly documented

The Battle of Ape Canyon

July 1924 · Ape Canyon, Mount St. Helens, Skamania County, Washington

Cryptid · Creature · 52 sources

33Partially 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

Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources

15Thinly documented

Trunko, the Margate "polar bear" sea monster

c. 1924 · Margate beach, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)

Cryptid · Creature · 41 sources · 6 photos

27Thinly documented

Van Herwaarden's Sedapa in the Tree, Poeloe Rimau, Sumatra (1923)

October 1923 · Poeloe Rimau (Pulau Rimau), Palembang residency, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies

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

Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources

30Partially documented

The Lindi mngwa killings, Tanganyika Territory, 1922

1922 · Market square, Lindi, Lindi District, Tanganyika Territory (now Lindi Region)

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

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

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)

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

19Thinly documented

Ralph Bandini's Clemente Monster Sighting off San Clemente Island (1920)

September 1920 · Off Mosquito Harbor and White Rock, east side of San Clemente Island, California

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

15Thinly documented

Jock Forbes and His Father's Land Sighting at Inverfarigaig, Loch Ness

February 1919 · Inverfarigaig, east shore of Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

13Thinly documented

UB-85's sea monster, North Channel (1918)

c. 1918 · North Channel, off the Rhins of Galloway near Portpatrick and Stranraer, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources

23Thinly documented

The Port Stephens Giant White Shark off Broughton Island

January 1918 · Crayfish grounds near Broughton Island, off Port Stephens, New South Wales

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources

18Thinly documented

Nellie, the Monticello "African lion": a butler attacked on the Allerton estate and a big cat scare around Decatur, Illinois

July 13, 1917 · Robert Allerton's estate ("The Farms"), just west of Monticello, Piatt County, with later sightings around Decatur, Macon County, Illinois

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

32Partially documented

Oostingh's orang pendek encounter at Bukit Kaba, Sumatra, 1917

June 1917 · Eastern foot of Bukit Kaba, Residency of Benkoelen (now Rejang Lebong Regency, Bengkulu), Sumatra

Cryptid · Creature · 33 sources

19Thinly documented

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