Michel Raynal

A French cryptozoologist with a habit of taking the strange cases seriously. In 1991 he co-wrote a paper in Aquatic Mammals with Jean-Pierre Sylvestre, arguing that Amphiptera, the two-finned whale behind Giglioli's sighting from the corvette Magenta, is a valid entity that may deserve its own family. In 2007 he revived the Tejera, Fiasson and Hooton evidence on De Loys's Ape from the Tarra River. 2003. A blob washed up on Pinuno Beach in Chile. Raynal backed the idea that it came from a giant octopus.

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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

Co-author of the 1991 Aquatic Mammals paper arguing Amphiptera is a valid entity

De Loys's Ape (Ameranthropoides loysi), Tarra River, Venezuela

c. 1917 · Tributary of the Tarra River, near Casigua, south-west of Lake Maracaibo, Zulia State

Venezuela

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources · 1 photos

27Thinly documented

Researcher who revived the Tejera, Fiasson and Hooton evidence in 2007

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The Chilean Blob: the "giant octopus" of Pinuno Beach, Los Muermos (2003)

c. 2003 · Pinuno Beach (Playa Pinuno), Los Muermos, Los Lagos Region

Chile

Cryptid · Creature · 29 sources · 2 photos

45Partially documented

French cryptozoologist; supported the giant octopus idea