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The Charleston pebble showers
September 4, 1886 · News and Courier office, 19 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina
United States
Paranormal · Other · 17 sources
26Thinly documented
The Fiery Dragon of Elizabeth Lake: Peter R. Simpson's Midnight Encounter (1886)
July 15, 1886 · Elizabeth Lake, Sierra Pelona Mountains, Los Angeles County, California
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources
12Thinly documented
The Phantom War Canoe of Lake Tarawera
May 31, 1886 · Lake Tarawera, near Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, North Island
New Zealand
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources
23Thinly documented
The Prospector's Skiff: First Report of the Wallowa Lake Monster
c. 1885 · Wallowa Lake, near Joseph, Oregon
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
2Thinly documented
The Dundy County "Celestial Visitor" Hoax
June 6, 1884 · The ranges about 35 miles northwest of Benkelman, Dundy County, Nebraska (story location)
United States
UAP · Cylinder · 17 sources
17Thinly documented
Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent
June 22, 1883 · Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
25Thinly documented
The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83)
c. 1883 · Blackness Quarry, the Hilltown and north-east Dundee, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
17Thinly 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 Con Rít carcass of Hongay, Bay of Along, 1883
1883 · Hongay (Hòn Gai), Bay of Along (Hạ Long Bay), Tonkin
Vietnam
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
19Thinly 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 Cheltenham Ghost: the Woman in Black of Garden Reach (the Morton Case)
June 1882 · Garden Reach (Donore), Pittville Circus Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources
19Thinly 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 Coker Hill Knocking Ghost
June 1880 · Coker Hill, between East Chinnock and West Coker, near Yeovil, Somerset, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 15 sources
18Thinly documented
HMS Vulture's Revolving Wheels of Light, Persian Gulf, 1879
May 15, 1879 · Persian Gulf, Lat. 26°26′ N, Long. 53°11′ E, aboard HMS Vulture
International waters
UAP · Other · 16 sources
22Thinly documented
The Kiushiu Maru sea serpent gripping a whale off Cape Satano
April 5, 1879 · At sea about nine miles off Cape Satano (Cape Sata), Ōsumi Peninsula, Kagoshima, Kyushu
Japan
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
18Thinly documented
Major H. W. J. Senior's sea serpent from the SS City of Baltimore, Gulf of Aden, 1879
January 28, 1879 · Western Gulf of Aden, east-southeast of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait (lat. 12° 28′ N, long. 43° 52′ E)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
19Thinly documented
The Thimble Tickle giant squid: three fishermen moor a stranded "devil-fish" in Notre Dame Bay
November 2, 1878 · Thimble Tickle (now Glovers Harbour), Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
20Thinly documented
The Great Amherst Mystery: The Esther Cox Poltergeist
September 4, 1878 · Teed cottage, Princess Street, Amherst, Nova Scotia
Canada
Paranormal · Other · 23 sources
27Thinly documented
Our Lady of Gietrzwałd: the Dietrichswalde apparitions in Warmia
June 27, 1877 · Gietrzwałd (Dietrichswalde), Warmia
Poland
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 37 sources
28Thinly documented
The Royal Yacht Osborne Sea Monster off Sicily
June 2, 1877 · Off the north coast of Sicily, toward Cape Vito (Capo San Vito)
Italy
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
21Thinly documented
  • Central Intelligence Agency· 1992-02-24· 3 pages· 3 pages mention it
    • p. 2 …violations of Swedish waters ceased in September 1991. And although Bengt Gustafsson says that it is still early to come…
    • p. 3 ## UNCLASSIFIED # Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1992 ## Document 4 of 12 waters of friendly states'' for the purpose of studying underwater objects…
  • Central Intelligence Agency· 1993-02-03· 2 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 1 …of the situation concerning foreign submarines violating Swedish territorial waters," Swedish radio stated when commenting on the Swedish prime minister…
    • p. 2 …prove the appearance of Russian submarines in Swedish territorial waters. All the recordings of underwater noises which have been received…
  • Central Intelligence Agency· 1950-08-18· 2 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 1 …It was traveling on a reciprocal course to ours about 50 or 100 feet above the water at an estimated…
    • p. 2 …I clearly saw its shadow on the water. My impression of the object was that it was elliptical, not unlike…
  • Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration.· 2023· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 1 …bound at FL200, 40 NM ENE of PBI over water. The unknown phenomenon was smaller than their aircraft, described as…
  • U.S. Department of War· 2020-05-14· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 1 …The crew was able to follow the object as it appeared to make erratic moments above the water. During the…
  • Central Intelligence Agency· 1993-03-09· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 1 …An air cushion allows it to take off and land on any ground and even in water. (endall) 091200 09…

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