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Cryptids563 stories · page 26

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The Castilian Sea Serpent off St Helena
December 12, 1857 · About ten miles off the northeast end of St Helena, South Atlantic
Saint Helena
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
24Thinly documented
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The Loch Arkaig Lake-Horse: John Stuart's sightings recorded by Lord Malmesbury
c. 1857 · Loch Arkaig, near Achnacarry, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
11Thinly documented
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The Culmont Pterodactyl: A Creature Blasted Out of the Rock (Haute-Marne, 1856)
c. 1856 · Culmont, Haute-Marne, near Chalindrey
France
Cryptid · Creature · 7 sources
7Thinly documented
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Edwin Stocqueler's bunyip sightings on the Murray and Goulburn rivers (1856 to 1857)
c. 1856 · McGuire's punt on the Goulburn River (now Shepparton), Victoria, and the Murray and Goulburn rivers
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
15Thinly documented
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The Silver Lake Serpent
July 13, 1855 · Silver Lake, near Perry, Wyoming County, New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
17Thinly documented
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The Monongahela Sea Serpent
January 13, 1852 · East-central Pacific Ocean, just south of the equator (reported position 3°10′S, 131°50′W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources
14Thinly documented
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The Greene County Wild Man, Arkansas (1851)
March 1851 · Greene County, Arkansas
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
19Thinly documented
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Zana of Tkhina, the abnauayu wild woman of Abkhazia
c. 1850 · Tkhina, Ochamchira District, Abkhazia
Georgia
Cryptid · Creature · 36 sources
31Partially documented
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The HMS Plumper Sea Serpent
December 31, 1848 · Open Atlantic, nearly due west of Oporto (41°13′N, 12°31′W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
11Thinly documented
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The Brig Daphne Sea Serpent Hoax
September 20, 1848 · Gulf of Guinea, off Gabon and the Republic of Congo (lat. 4° 11′ S., long. 10° 15′ E.)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
2Thinly documented
HMS Daedalus sea serpent: Captain M'Quhae's report and the Richard Owen dispute, 1848
August 6, 1848 · South Atlantic, between the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena, about 300 miles off present-day Namibia (24°44′S, 9°22′E)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
28Thinly documented
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The Yarra Bunyip opposite the Custom House, Melbourne
1847 · Yarra River, opposite the Custom House (now the Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders Street), Melbourne, Port Phillip District
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
20Thinly documented
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The Lobo Girl of Devil's River
1845 · San Felipe Springs (Del Rio) and Devil's River, Val Verde County, Texas
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
21Thinly documented
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The Lake Manitou Monster (Meshekenabek), Fulton County, Indiana, 1838
c. 1838 · Lake Manitou, near Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
24Thinly documented
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Lucy Scales and Spring-heeled Jack, Green Dragon Alley, Limehouse
February 28, 1838 · Green Dragon Alley, off Narrow Street, Limehouse, East London
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
27Thinly documented
Jane Alsop and Spring-heeled Jack: the Bear-bind Lane attack
February 19, 1838 · Bear-bind Lane, between Bow and Old Ford, East London
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
20Thinly documented
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The Wild Woman of the Navidad
c. 1836 · Navidad River bottoms, near Sublime, Lavaca County, Texas
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources
22Thinly documented
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Six Shetland fishermen catch a "mermaid" on their lines off Yell
July 1833 · At sea off the Isle of Yell, North Isles, Shetland, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
16Thinly documented
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The British Officers' Sea Serpent of St. Margaret's Bay
May 15, 1833 · St. Margaret's Bay, between Halifax and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
27Thinly documented
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B. H. Hodgson's shooters and the "wild man" of the Kachár
c. 1832 · The Kachár (Tibetan frontier zone), Nepal
Nepal
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
20Thinly documented

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