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Stories162 · page 6

The Hamilton Field Escort Discs: Two Milky-White Objects Pace a P-80, 1947

July 29, 1947 · Hamilton Army Airfield, Novato, Marin County, California

UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources

26Thinly documented

The Lariosauro of Lake Como: two hunters fire on a crested creature at Pian di Spagna

c. 1946 · Pian di Spagna, near Colico, northern tip of Lake Como, Lombardy

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

13Thinly documented

The Anchor Point "lizard-like monster": a beached carcass hailed as a dinosaur and identified as a killer whale (1946)

October 1946 · Anchor Point, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (near Homer and Kachemak Bay)

Cryptid · Creature · 7 sources · 1 photos

31Partially documented

The Ghost Rockets (Spökraketer), Scandinavia, 1946

July 19, 1946 · Lake Kölmjärv, Överkalix, Norrbotten, Sweden (wave across Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark)

UAP · Cigar · 54 sources · 2 photos

86Well documented

Thomas L. Rogers's rowboat sighting and the "Slimy Slim" wave, Payette Lake

c. 1944 · Payette Lake, McCall, Idaho

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

26Thinly documented

The Gourock Sea Serpent: Charles Rankin's 27-Foot Carcass on the Clyde

June 1942 · Shore near McInroy's Point, Ashton, Gourock, Inverclyde, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

29Thinly documented

The Deepdale Monster ("Scapasaurus"), Holm, Orkney

December 25, 1941 · Shore off Deepdale Farm, Holm, East Mainland, Orkney, on Scapa Flow

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources · 1 photos

38Partially documented

The Glencairn Beach Flying Dutchman: a phantom ship before a crowd of bathers (1939)

March 1939 · Glencairn Beach, False Bay, near Simon's Town, Cape Peninsula

Paranormal · Other · 18 sources

23Thinly documented

G. E. Taylor's 16 mm colour film, Loch Ness, 1938

May 29, 1938 · North shore of Loch Ness, opposite Foyers, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources · 2 photos

33Partially documented

Copalis Beach Sea Monster Carcass

June 1936 · Copalis Beach, Grays Harbor County, Washington

Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources

14Thinly documented

Margaret Munro's Loch Ness Monster on land, Borlum Bay (1934)

June 3, 1934 · Borlum Bay, Loch Ness, near Fort Augustus, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

20Thinly documented

Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

c. 1934 · North shore of Loch Ness along the A82, near the Altsaigh (Alltsigh) Burn, about 2-3 miles northeast of Invermoriston, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 43 sources · 3 photos

26Thinly documented

Arthur Grant's land sighting of the Loch Ness Monster on the Abriachan road, 1934

January 5, 1934 · Abriachan, Loch Ness, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

11Thinly documented

Marmaduke Wetherell's Loch Ness Monster Footprints

December 1933 · South shore of Loch Ness, near Foyers, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources · 1 photos

26Thinly documented

Hugh Gray's Photograph: The First Claimed Photo of the Loch Ness Monster

November 12, 1933 · Mouth of the River Foyers, Foyers, Loch Ness, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources · 4 photos

36Partially documented

The Spicer Land Sighting of the Loch Ness Monster

July 22, 1933 · Dores to Foyers road (today's B852), near Whitefield, south-east shore of Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

24Thinly documented

Aldie and John Mackay's Strange Spectacle in Loch Ness

c. 1933 · North shore road near Abriachan Pier, opposite Aldourie, Loch Ness, Highlands, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 45 sources

18Thinly documented

The Glacier Island "Monster in the Ice", Prince William Sound, Alaska

November 10, 1930 · Eagle Bay, Glacier Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska

Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources · 10 photos

48Partially documented

Two sea serpents off Cayuga Lake's eastern shore (Old Greeny), 1929

c. 1929 · Eastern shore of Cayuga Lake, Finger Lakes region, New York

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

16Thinly documented

Trunko, the Margate "polar bear" sea monster

c. 1924 · Margate beach, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)

Cryptid · Creature · 41 sources · 6 photos

27Thinly documented

Names22 · see all

Loch Ness Place · 44 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 · 10 stories
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
Champ Term · 7 stories
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
Foyers Place · 5 stories
On the shore of Loch Ness, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.
John Kirk Person · 5 stories
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
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.

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