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The HMS Plumper Sea Serpent
December 31, 1848 · Open Atlantic, nearly due west of Oporto (41°13′N, 12°31′W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
11Thinly documented
The Brig Daphne Sea Serpent Hoax
September 20, 1848 · Gulf of Guinea, off Gabon and the Republic of Congo (lat. 4° 11′ S., long. 10° 15′ E.)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
2Thinly documented
HMS Daedalus sea serpent: Captain M'Quhae's report and the Richard Owen dispute, 1848
August 6, 1848 · South Atlantic, between the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena, about 300 miles off present-day Namibia (24°44′S, 9°22′E)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
28Thinly documented
The Yarra Bunyip opposite the Custom House, Melbourne
1847 · Yarra River, opposite the Custom House (now the Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders Street), Melbourne, Port Phillip District
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
20Thinly documented
The Murrumbidgee bunyip skull (Balranald, 1846)
January 1846 · Banks of the Murrumbidgee River near Balranald, New South Wales
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
29Thinly 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
Lucy Scales and Spring-heeled Jack, Green Dragon Alley, Limehouse
February 28, 1838 · Green Dragon Alley, off Narrow Street, Limehouse, East London
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
27Thinly documented
Jane Alsop and Spring-heeled Jack: the Bear-bind Lane attack
February 19, 1838 · Bear-bind Lane, between Bow and Old Ford, East London
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
20Thinly 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
Six Shetland fishermen catch a "mermaid" on their lines off Yell
July 1833 · At sea off the Isle of Yell, North Isles, Shetland, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
16Thinly documented
Captain Abijah Kellogg and the Lake Ontario sea serpent (1833)
June 15, 1833 · Near "the Ducks" islands, eastern Lake Ontario, on the route from Rochester to Kingston harbour
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
22Thinly documented
The British Officers' Sea Serpent of St. Margaret's Bay
May 15, 1833 · St. Margaret's Bay, between Halifax and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
27Thinly documented
B. H. Hodgson's shooters and the "wild man" of the Kachár
c. 1832 · The Kachár (Tibetan frontier zone), Nepal
Nepal
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
20Thinly documented
The Benbecula Mermaid: Stoned at Grimnis, Buried at Nunton (c. 1830)
c. 1830 · Grimnis and Cuile (Culla Bay), Nunton, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
25Thinly documented
The Wolf of Gysinge (Gysingevargen)
December 30, 1820 · Gysinge and surrounding parishes, Gästrikland, Uppland and Dalarna
Sweden
Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources
23Thinly 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
The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry
August 1817 · Gloucester Harbor, Cape Ann, Massachusetts
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
33Partially documented