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Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent
June 22, 1883 · Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
25Thinly documented
Sheriff Nathan H. Mooney's Lake Champlain Water Serpent (Champ), 1883
1883 · New York (west) shore of Lake Champlain, Clinton County, New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
17Thinly documented
The Rock Lake Serpent, the "Rock Lake Terror" of Lake Mills, Wisconsin
August 1882 · Rock Lake, Lake Mills, Jefferson County, Wisconsin
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources
17Thinly documented
The Crosswick Monster, Warren County, Ohio (1882)
May 1882 · Crosswick (Crosswicks), Wayne Township, Warren County, Ohio, about one mile north of Waynesville
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
21Thinly documented
"An Aerial Mystery": The Winged Man over Coney Island
c. 1880 · Coney Island, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
12Thinly documented
S. W. Hanna's "Young Sea-Serpent" in the Nets at New Harbor, Maine
August 1880 · Off New Harbor, Pemaquid peninsula, Bristol, Lincoln County, Maine
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
21Thinly documented
The Galisteo Junction "Aerial Monster" and the Collector of Curiosities, 1880
March 26, 1880 · Galisteo Junction (now Lamy), Santa Fe County, New Mexico Territory
United States
UAP · Cigar · 22 sources
30Partially documented
The Caney Fork Wonder: a Tennessee "wild man" put on show in Louisville (1878)
October 1878 · Cumberland Mountains near Caney Fork, White and Van Buren Counties, Tennessee; exhibited at the Metropolitan Theater, Louisville, Kentucky
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
29Thinly documented
John Martin's "Large Saucer" over North Texas, 1878
January 22, 1878 · Near Denison, Grayson County, Texas (possibly near Dallas)
United States
UAP · Other · 12 sources
11Thinly documented
The Face in the Courthouse Window (Ghost in the Garret), Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, Alabama
1878 · Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, Pickens County, Alabama
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 30 sources · 1 photos
31Partially documented
The Watseka Wonder: Lurancy Vennum and the Return of Mary Roff
July 11, 1877 · Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois (Roff house, 300 E. Sheridan Street; Vennum house, 135 S. Belmont Avenue)
United States
Paranormal · Other · 31 sources
35Partially documented
The Amphibious Lake Demon of Browns Lake
August 1876 · Browns Lake, near Burlington, Racine County, Wisconsin
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
18Thinly documented
The Eddy Brothers' Materialisation Séances at Spirit Vale, Chittenden
1874 · Eddy homestead (Green Tavern, 'Spirit Vale'), Chittenden, Rutland County, Vermont
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
32Partially documented
Champ, the 1873 railroad crew sighting and the W. B. Eddy collision, Lake Champlain
July 1873 · Lake Champlain shore near Dresden, Washington County, New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources
12Thinly documented
The Bonham Sky Serpent and the Fort Scott Serpent
June 1873 · Near Bonham, Fannin County, Texas
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
15Thinly documented
The Surrency poltergeist
October 1872 · Surrency house, beside the railroad depot, Surrency, Appling County, Georgia
United States
Paranormal · Other · 24 sources
18Thinly documented
Mary Todd Lincoln and the Ghost of Abraham Lincoln: William H. Mumler's Spirit Photograph
c. 1872 · William H. Mumler's studio, 170 West Springfield Street, South End, Boston, Massachusetts
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 39 sources · 3 photos
24Thinly documented
The Lake Pepin "marine monster": where the Pepie legend began (1871)
c. 1871 · Lake Pepin, Mississippi River, near Lake City, Minnesota
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
14Thinly documented
The Utah Lake "stove-pipe" serpent seen by Bishop William Price near Goshen, Utah (1871)
1871 · Road along the west shore of Utah Lake, near Goshen, Utah
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
24Thinly documented
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
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
25Thinly documented