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The Hulung Beach sea monster carcass, West Seram, Maluku
May 9, 2017 · Hulung Beach, Dusun Hulung, Desa Iha, Huamual, West Seram Regency (Seram Bagian Barat), Maluku
Indonesia
Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources · 9 photos
50Partially documented
The Caltrans Crew's Sea Serpent off Stinson Beach
October 31, 1983 · State Route 1 above Stinson Beach, mouth of Bolinas Bay, Marin County, California
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
20Thinly documented
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John Cock and George Vinnicombe's Long-Necked Sea Creature off Lizard Point
July 1976 · Off Lizard Point, Cornwall, England
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
14Thinly documented
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Edward Brian McCleary's Pensacola sea serpent and the USS Massachusetts wreck tragedy
March 24, 1962 · Wreck of USS Massachusetts (BB-2), off Pensacola Pass, Florida
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources
13Thinly documented
The Santa Clara Sea Serpent: A Ship Strikes a Monster off North Carolina
December 30, 1947 · Atlantic Ocean, off Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
15Thinly documented
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The SS Britannia Raft Giant Squid Attack
March 1941 · Mid-Atlantic, about 750 miles west of Freetown, Sierra Leone
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
19Thinly documented
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The tanker Brunswick rammed by giant squid between Hawaii and Samoa
c. 1930 · Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Samoa
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 9 sources
13Thinly documented
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The Dimboola sea serpent in the Great Australian Bight
May 14, 1913 · Great Australian Bight, off South Australia, on the voyage from Adelaide to Fremantle (35°30′S 133°40′E)
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources
20Thinly documented
The Valhalla Sea Serpent off Brazil (1905)
December 7, 1905 · Off Paraíba, northeast coast of Brazil (7° 14' S, 34° 25' W)
Brazil
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
28Thinly documented
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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
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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
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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
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The Schooner Pearl and the Giant Squid, Bay of Bengal 1874
May 10, 1874 · Bay of Bengal, about 170 miles east of Vandeloos Bay, off Trincomalee, Ceylon
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
14Thinly documented
The Portugal Cove Devil-Fish: A Giant Squid Attacks a Fishing Boat
October 26, 1873 · Off Portugal Cove, near Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources
30Partially documented
The Alecton Giant Squid Encounter off Tenerife (the "Bouyer Kraken")
November 30, 1861 · Atlantic Ocean, about forty leagues from Tenerife, between Madeira and Tenerife (Canary Islands)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
41Partially 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
Hans and Poul Egede's "most dreadful monster": the Davis Strait sea serpent of 1734
July 6, 1734 · Davis Strait, off the west coast of Greenland, near the 64th degree of latitude
Greenland
Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources
20Thinly documented
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The Dingle "wonderful fish or beast": a giant squid stranded in County Kerry, 1673
October 1673 · Harbour mouth, Dingle (Daingean Uí Chúis), County Kerry
Ireland
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
27Thinly documented
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The Sea Monk of the Øresund
c. 1546 · The Øresund strait, off Malmö (then Danish Skåne)
Sweden
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
16Thinly documented

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Here At The Smithsonian: The Smithsonian's Giant Squid
From The Alecton Giant Squid Encounter off Tenerife (the "Bouyer Kraken")
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Why did it take so long to find giant squids?
From The Schooner Pearl and the Giant Squid, Bay of Bengal 1874
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Sizable squid in Glovers Harbour, Nfld.
From The Thimble Tickle giant squid: three fishermen moor a stranded "devil-fish" in Notre Dame Bay