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The Lansingburgh Wild Man of the Woods (Troy, New York, 1870)

December 1870 · Gorge east of Rensselaer Park and Oakwood Cemetery, Lansingburgh (now Troy), Rensselaer County, New York

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

25Thinly documented

The Wild Man of Crow Canyon and the Orestimba Creek Gorillas

1870 · Orestimba Creek mountains, Diablo Range, about 20 miles south of Grayson, Stanislaus County, California (with an earlier report from Crow Canyon, near Mount Diablo)

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

26Thinly documented

Kawekaweau killed by an Urewera chief in the Waimana Valley

1870 · Waimana Valley, Te Urewera, Bay of Plenty, North Island

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

14Thinly documented

Francisco de Amaral Varella's Minhocão on the Rio das Caveiras

c. 1870 · Bank of the Rio das Caveiras, about 10 km from Lages, Santa Catarina

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

26Thinly documented

Old Sheff, the Arcadia Valley "wild man or gorilla" of Crawford County, Kansas (1869)

c. 1869 · Arcadia valley, Crawford County, Kansas

Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources

21Thinly documented

The Wild Man of Woodhull: 200 Men Hunt a Shrieking Figure Through the Steuben County Woods

June 1869 · Woodhull and Troupsburg, Steuben County, New York

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

34Partially documented

The Bear Lake Monster: Joseph C. Rich's settler sightings

c. 1868 · Bear Lake, west shore road between Fish Haven and St. Charles, Idaho, and South Eden, Utah

Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources

19Thinly documented

The Wild Man on the Manitous, Lake Michigan (1868)

1868 · One of the Manitou Islands, Lake Michigan, Michigan

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

24Thinly documented

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

15Thinly documented

The Silver Lake Serpent

July 13, 1855 · Silver Lake, near Perry, Wyoming County, New York

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

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

19Thinly documented