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Stories162 · page 3

The First Chessie Sighting: "Nessie Jr." in the Lower Potomac

1978 · Westmoreland County, Northern Neck of Virginia (lower Potomac River)

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources

24Thinly documented

The Petrozavodsk Phenomenon: the Jellyfish over Karelia

September 20, 1977 · Petrozavodsk, Karelia, on the western shore of Lake Onega

UAP · Other · 69 sources · 1 photos

53Partially documented

Windermere police and multi-witness sighting, Cumbria, 1977

August 28, 1977 · Windermere and the central Lake District, Cumbria, England

UAP · Triangle · 15 sources

24Thinly documented

The Sandra Mansi "Champ" photograph, Lake Champlain

July 5, 1977 · Vermont shore of Lake Champlain, between St. Albans and the Canadian border, near Missisquoi Bay

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources · 2 photos

25Thinly documented

Doc Shiels's Loch Ness Monster Photographs (the "Loch Ness Muppet")

May 21, 1977 · Urquhart Castle, Strone Point, near Drumnadrochit, Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources · 1 photos

20Thinly documented

The Allagash Abductions

August 26, 1976 · Eagle Lake, near Smith Brook, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Piscataquis County, Maine

UAP · Sphere · 40 sources

20Thinly documented

Lake Sorell domed object with a cone-shaped light beam, Tasmania

February 26, 1975 · Fishing camp on the western shore of Lake Sorell, central highlands, Tasmania

UAP · Disc / saucer · 6 sources

10Thinly documented

Lake warden Dafydd Bowen's grey "crocodile" at Llyn Tegid (Bala Lake)

1975 · Llyn Tegid (Bala Lake), near Bala, Gwynedd, Wales

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

14Thinly documented

The Rainbow Lake Splashdown

October 2, 1973 · Rainbow Lake, beside Bypass 28, Derry, New Hampshire

UAP · Unknown · 14 sources

19Thinly documented

The Kussie mass sighting at Lake Kussharo

c. 1973 · Mount Mokoto, overlooking Lake Kussharo, Teshikaga, Hokkaido

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

20Thinly documented

The Thetis Lake Monster

August 19, 1972 · Thetis Lake, Thetis Lake Regional Park, near Victoria, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources

24Thinly documented

Fr Gregory Brusey and Roger Pugh: the Loch Ness sighting from Fort Augustus Abbey

October 1971 · Fort Augustus Abbey, Fort Augustus, Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

13Thinly documented

The Hexham Heads poltergeist and wolf-man apparitions

1971 · 3 Rede Avenue, Hexham, Northumberland, and Dr Anne Ross's home, Southampton

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 21 sources

23Thinly documented

Peter Mackenzie and Ian MacRae's Loch Ness sighting past Aldourie Castle

October 13, 1969 · Loch Ness, about 100 yards off Aldourie Castle, near Dores, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

18Thinly documented

The Lake Worth Monster: the Greer Island Goatman, Fort Worth, 1969

c. 1969 · Greer Island, Lake Worth, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

38Partially documented

The Tecolutla Monster Carcass, Veracruz (1969)

March 1969 · Palmar de Susana (La Vigueta beach), south of Tecolutla, Veracruz

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources · 4 photos

52Partially documented

The Buff Ledge Camp Abduction

August 7, 1968 · Buff Ledge Camp, off Clay Point Road, Colchester, Lake Champlain, Vermont

UAP · Disc / saucer · 23 sources

16Thinly documented

Art Folden's Ogopogo film, Okanagan Lake (1968)

c. 1968 · Highway 97 beside Okanagan Lake, south of Peachland, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources · 1 photos

25Thinly documented

Shag Harbour UFO Incident

October 4, 1967 · Shag Harbour, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

UAP · Other · 58 sources

49Partially documented

Dick Raynor's Dores Bay Film, Loch Ness

June 13, 1967 · Dores Bay, northern end of Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources

25Thinly documented

Names22 · see all

Loch Ness Place · 41 stories
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
basking shark Term · 15 stories
Cetorhinus maximus.
Lake Champlain Place · 9 stories
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
Champ Term · 6 stories
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
Lake Erie Place · 5 stories
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
Lake Michigan Place · 5 stories
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
Okanagan Lake Place · 5 stories
Long and narrow, Okanagan Lake runs through the interior of British Columbia.
Urquhart Castle Place · 5 stories
On the shore of Loch Ness stands Urquhart Castle.
Borlum Bay Place · 4 stories
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
Don Ledger Person · 4 stories
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
Fort Augustus Place · 4 stories
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
Foyers Place · 4 stories
On the shore of Loch Ness, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.

Documents103 · see all

(U) Sighting of UFO's Over Off-Shore Islands FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2002-02-25· 1 pages

<div align="center"> Approved For Release 2002/05/23 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100070020-3 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION </div>
Photo Analysis of UFO Photography FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1967-01-05· 6 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …He personally investigated the UFO exposure station on the shore of Lake St. Clair, Michigan, and tried to duplicate as…
Photo Analysis of UFO Photography FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1967-02-17· 6 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …He personally investigated the UFO exposure station on the shore of Lake St. Clair, Michigan, and tried to duplicate as…
Photo Analysis of UFO Photography FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2013-06-26· 3 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …He personally investigated the UFO exposure station on the shore of Lake St. Clair, Michigan, and tried to duplicate as…
Federal Aviation Administration: 237UAP00526 Official release

Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration.· 2023· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …DESCRIBED AT SET OF BRIGHT LIGHTS OFF SHORE. NO EVASIVE ACTION TAKEN. WOC 7-3333 JG/MO
(U) Investigation of UFO Sightings Over Off-Shore Islands and Taiwan Strait FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2002-03-26· 3 pages

<div align="center"> # BEST COPY </div> Available Approved For Release 2002/05/23 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100070028-3 FOs appeared…

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Videos6

Bizarre 'mermaid' creature washes ashore in Papua New Guinea, experts baffled

From The Ri of Elizabeth Bay: Roy Wagner and Richard Greenwell's Mermaid Sighting, New Ireland, 1983

Mysterious sea creature washes ashore on beach in the Philippines

From The Dinagat Globster: A Hairy Carcass on the Beach at Cagdianao (2017)

Mystery sea creature washed ashore during Hurricane Harvey identified

From The Fanged, Faceless Sea Creature of Texas City After Hurricane Harvey (2017)

Close Encounters S2E1: Casefile: Lake 'Eerie'

From The Lake Erie Coast Guard "Football" UFO, Eastlake, Ohio

Puerto Rico Objects

From Aguadilla Trans-Medium Video

Case 57090 – Kensington, Prince Edward Island, Canada – June 4, 2014

From The Kensington Lights over the Gulf of St. Lawrence