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Cryptids613 stories · page 23

The U-28 'Undersea Crocodile' and the Sinking of the SS Iberian

July 30, 1915 · Celtic Sea, about 9 nautical miles southwest of Fastnet Rock, off County Cork, Ireland

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources

22Thinly documented

Percy Fawcett and the Maricoxi hairy men

1914 · Upper Mequéns, Colorado and Branco rivers, Guaporé basin, Rondônia

Cryptid · Creature · 27 sources

19Thinly documented

The Dimboola sea serpent in the Great Australian Bight

May 14, 1913 · Great Australian Bight, off South Australia, on the voyage from Adelaide to Fremantle (35°30′S 133°40′E)

Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources

20Thinly documented

Charles Harper's Hairy Man of the Currickbilly Range (1912)

c. 1912 · Currickbilly (Currockbilly) Range, Budawang National Park, New South Wales

Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources

14Thinly documented

George Garret's creature in Nahuel Huapi Lake

c. 1910 · Huemul Arm ("Pass Coytrue"), Nahuel Huapi Lake, Neuquén

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

16Thinly documented

Haines's "Didi" encounter on the Konawaruk River, British Guiana

1910 · Konawaruk River, near its junction with the Essequibo and Potaro, Potaro-Siparuni, British Guiana (now Guyana)

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

15Thinly documented

Valentine McKay's huge creature in Cedar Lake, Manitoba (1909)

September 1909 · Cedar Lake, near Graves Point, Manitoba

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

16Thinly documented

The Snallygaster of Middletown, Maryland (1909)

February 12, 1909 · Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland

Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources

15Thinly documented

The Jersey Devil's Phenomenal Week

January 16, 1909 · South Jersey and the Philadelphia area (Woodbury, Bristol, Burlington, Gloucester City, Camden, Trenton)

Cryptid · Creature · 50 sources

44Partially documented

Percy Fawcett's 62-foot anaconda on the Rio Abunã

c. 1907 · Rio Abunã, a little below the confluence of the Rio Negro (Pando), border between Bolivia and Brazil

Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources

23Thinly documented

The Kamarooka panther, 1907

January 1907 · Whipstick scrub, on the road to Kamarooka, about 18 miles north of Bendigo, Victoria

Cryptid · Creature · 9 sources

15Thinly documented

John Alfred Jordan and the Dingonek of the Maggori River

c. 1907 · Maggori River (now Migori River), Lumbwa country, near Lake Victoria, Migori County

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

25Thinly documented

The Partridge Creek Monster: a living dinosaur in the Yukon

c. 1907 · Partridge Creek, near the Stewart River and McQuesten, Yukon

Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources

17Thinly documented

Alf Smith fires a shotgun at a "hairy man", Eden district, NSW

August 1906 · Eden district, Far South Coast, New South Wales

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

13Thinly documented

Badzar Baradiin's Almas Sighting in the Alashan Desert

April 1906 · Badain Jaran Desert ("Badyn Jaran"), Alashan, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

20Thinly documented

The Valhalla Sea Serpent off Brazil (1905)

December 7, 1905 · Off Paraíba, northeast coast of Brazil (7° 14' S, 34° 25' W)

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

28Thinly documented

The Shapinsay Sea Serpent off the Douche, Orkney (1905)

November 1905 · Off the Douche (Dishan Tower), Balfour, Shapinsay, Orkney, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources

11Thinly documented

The Wildman of Valdez Island: the Pitcock (Pidcock) family's encounters at Quathiaski Cove, 1905

October 1905 · Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island (then Valdes or "Valdez" Island), British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

34Partially documented

James Kincaid's 'wild man' at the Little Qualicum schoolhouse

June 18, 1905 · Little Qualicum schoolhouse, near the mouth of the Little Qualicum River, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

17Thinly documented

Union Bay wild man shot at on a clam beach (1905)

c. 1905 · Beach near Union Bay, south of Comox, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

12Thinly documented

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