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Similar to Christopher Columbus's three mermaids off Hispaniola 24 records · embeddings

Henry Hudson's crew and the mermaid of the Barents Sea

June 15, 1608 · Barents Sea, at noon latitude 75° 7′ N, on the way from North Cape towards Novaya Zemlya

International waters

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

20Thinly documented

72% match

The Reay mermaid of Sandside Bay, Caithness, 1809

January 12, 1809 · Sandside Bay, Reay, Caithness, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

28Thinly documented

69% match

The Canna Mermaid Testimonies

c. 1803 · Canna and the sea between Canna and Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

17Thinly documented

69% match

The Simberi Island Mermaid Globster

September 19, 2023 · Simberi Island, Tabar Group, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Cryptid · Creature · 5 sources · 6 photos

17Thinly documented

68% match

Jock Forbes and His Father's Land Sighting at Inverfarigaig, Loch Ness

February 1919 · Inverfarigaig, east shore of Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

13Thinly documented

68% match

The Benbecula Mermaid: Stoned at Grimnis, Buried at Nunton (c. 1830)

c. 1830 · Grimnis and Cuile (Culla Bay), Nunton, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

25Thinly documented

68% match

The Sturgeon Lake monster chases the steamer Ogemah, with later sightings on Cameron Lake near Fenelon Falls

1872 · Sturgeon Lake, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario (later Cameron Lake, Fenelon Falls)

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

13Thinly documented

68% match

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

67% match

Memphré: the 1816 Georgeville sightings recorded by Ralph Merry IV

1816 · Lake Memphremagog, at and near Georgeville, Quebec

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

22Thinly documented

67% match

Igopogo: The Georgina Island Group Sighting, Lake Simcoe (1952)

1952 · Near Georgina Island, southern Lake Simcoe, Ontario

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

22Thinly documented

67% match

Champ, the 1873 railroad crew sighting and the W. B. Eddy collision, Lake Champlain

July 1873 · Lake Champlain shore near Dresden, Washington County, New York

Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources

12Thinly documented

67% match

Malcolm Irvine's Loch Ness Films: "Proof At Last" (1933 and 1936)

September 22, 1936 · Inverfarigaig, Loch Ness, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources · 2 photos

32Partially documented

66% match

The Lake Vorota Monster: Viktor Tverdokhlebov and the Labynkyr Devil (1953)

July 30, 1953 · Lake Vorota, Sordonnokh Plateau, Oymyakon district, Sakha (Yakutia)

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources

23Thinly documented

66% match

The Utah Lake "stove-pipe" serpent seen by Bishop William Price near Goshen, Utah (1871)

1871 · Road along the west shore of Utah Lake, near Goshen, Utah

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

24Thinly documented

66% match

Six Shetland fishermen catch a "mermaid" on their lines off Yell

July 1833 · At sea off the Isle of Yell, North Isles, Shetland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

16Thinly documented

66% match

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

66% match

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

66% match

Francisco de Amaral Varella's Minhocão on the Rio das Caveiras

c. 1870 · Bank of the Rio das Caveiras, about 10 km from Lages, Santa Catarina

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

26Thinly documented

66% match

The Lake Manitou Monster (Meshekenabek), Fulton County, Indiana, 1838

c. 1838 · Lake Manitou, near Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

24Thinly documented

66% match

Storsjöodjuret, the Great Lake Monster of Jämtland: the 1893 sighting and the 1894 capture company

October 13, 1893 · Storsjön (or Åssjön near Ås), near Östersund, Jämtland

Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources

19Thinly documented

66% match

Ponik: the 1957 sightings at Lac Pohénégamook and Father J.-Léopold Plante's "overturned canoe"

1957 · Lac Pohénégamook, Saint-Éleuthère (now Pohénégamook), Témiscouata, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec

Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources

21Thinly documented

66% match

Peter MacNab's Loch Ness photograph at Urquhart Castle

July 29, 1955 · Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources · 4 photos

22Thinly documented

66% match

George Garret's creature in Nahuel Huapi Lake

c. 1910 · Huemul Arm ("Pass Coytrue"), Nahuel Huapi Lake, Neuquén

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

16Thinly documented

65% match

Valentine McKay's huge creature in Cedar Lake, Manitoba (1909)

September 1909 · Cedar Lake, near Graves Point, Manitoba

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

16Thinly documented

65% match