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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)
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
26Thinly documented
Old Sheff, the Arcadia Valley "wild man or gorilla" of Crawford County, Kansas (1869)
c. 1869 · Arcadia valley, Crawford County, Kansas
United States
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
United States
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
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources
19Thinly documented
The Wild Man on the Manitous, Lake Michigan (1868)
1868 · One of the Manitou Islands, Lake Michigan, Michigan
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources
24Thinly documented
Giant bird carries off Jemmie Kenney, Tippah County, Mississippi
1868 · A school in Tippah County, Mississippi
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources
14Thinly documented
James Lumley's Cadotte Pass "meteor with hieroglyphics"
c. 1865 · Near Cadotte Pass, upstream of the Great Falls of the Upper Missouri, Montana Territory
United States
UAP · Other · 20 sources
16Thinly documented
Our Lady of Good Help: the apparitions to Adele Brise at Champion, Wisconsin (1859)
October 1859 · Robinsonville (now Champion), Town of Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 33 sources
21Thinly documented
The Silver Lake Serpent
July 13, 1855 · Silver Lake, near Perry, Wyoming County, New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
17Thinly documented
Jonathan Koons' Spirit Room, Mount Nebo, Athens County, Ohio
1852 · Mount Nebo, Athens County, Ohio
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
27Thinly documented
The Greene County Wild Man, Arkansas (1851)
March 1851 · Greene County, Arkansas
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
19Thinly documented
The Stratford Knockings: the Phelps poltergeist at Stratford, Connecticut
March 10, 1850 · Phelps Mansion, Elm Street, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
United States
Paranormal · Other · 33 sources
25Thinly 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 Hydesville Rappings ("Mr. Splitfoot")
March 31, 1848 · Fox cottage, Hydesville, Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York (now Hydesville Memorial Park, 1510 Hydesville Road, Newark NY)
United States
Paranormal · Other · 62 sources
39Partially 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
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
The Wild Woman of the Navidad
c. 1836 · Navidad River bottoms, near Sublime, Lavaca County, Texas
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources
22Thinly documented
The Nahant sea serpent: Marshal James Prince and Samuel Cabot at Long Beach, 1819
August 1819 · Long Beach, Nahant, Massachusetts
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
27Thinly documented
Captain Crum's Bulwagga Bay sighting, the earliest printed Champ report
July 22, 1819 · Bulwagga Bay, Port Henry, Town of Moriah, Essex County, New York, Lake Champlain
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
13Thinly documented
The Ellisburg Wild Man of the Woods
August 30, 1818 · Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
13Thinly documented