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Cryptids592 stories · page 27

Giglioli's Whale: the Two-Finned Whale Seen from the Corvette Magenta
September 4, 1867 · South Pacific Ocean, about 1,200 miles (1,930 km) off the coast of Chile
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
22Thinly documented
The Lake Utopia Monster at the Ludgates' Sawmill
July 24, 1867 · Lake Utopia, St. George Parish, Charlotte County, New Brunswick
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
24Thinly documented
MacFarlane's Bear: the ancient unexpected bear of Rendezvous Lake (1864)
June 24, 1864 · Rendezvous Lake, northeast of Fort Anderson, Barren Grounds, Northwest Territories
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources
39Partially documented
The Alecton Giant Squid Encounter off Tenerife (the "Bouyer Kraken")
November 30, 1861 · Atlantic Ocean, about forty leagues from Tenerife, between Madeira and Tenerife (Canary Islands)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
41Partially documented
Waitoreke tracks and sighting, upper Ashburton River and Lake Heron, Canterbury (1861)
1861 · Lake Heron and the upper Ashburton River (Hakatere), Canterbury, South Island
New Zealand
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
37Partially documented
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
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
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
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
The Silver Lake Serpent
July 13, 1855 · Silver Lake, near Perry, Wyoming County, New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
17Thinly documented
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
The Greene County Wild Man, Arkansas (1851)
March 1851 · Greene County, Arkansas
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
19Thinly documented
Zana of Tkhina, the abnauayu wild woman of Abkhazia
c. 1850 · Tkhina, Ochamchira District, Abkhazia
Georgia
Cryptid · Creature · 36 sources
31Partially documented
The Bauman Goblin-Beast: Theodore Roosevelt's Tale from The Wilderness Hunter
1850 · Mountain pass between the forks of the Salmon and the head of the Wisdom (Big Hole) River, on the Idaho and Montana border
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 38 sources
21Thinly documented
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
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
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
The Murrumbidgee bunyip skull (Balranald, 1846)
January 1846 · Banks of the Murrumbidgee River near Balranald, New South Wales
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
29Thinly documented
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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