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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)

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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
31% match
The Zuiyō Maru Carcass ("New Nessie")
April 25, 1977 · Pacific Ocean, east of Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
New Zealand
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources · 4 photos
42Partially documented
30% match
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
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
24Thinly documented
30% match
The Ruokolahti Lion ("Elvi")
June 23, 1992 · Between Kalpiiviita and Kotasalo, Ruokolahti, South Karelia
Finland
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
33Partially documented
30% match
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
29% match
The Royal Yacht Osborne Sea Monster off Sicily
June 2, 1877 · Off the north coast of Sicily, toward Cape Vito (Capo San Vito)
Italy
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
21Thinly documented
28% match
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
28% 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
28% match
HMS Hilary and the Sea Serpent Used for Gunnery Practice
c. 1917 · About seventy miles south-east of Iceland, North Atlantic
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
21Thinly documented
28% match
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
28% match
The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry
August 1817 · Gloucester Harbor, Cape Ann, Massachusetts
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
33Partially documented
28% match
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
28% match
Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent
June 22, 1883 · Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
25Thinly documented
28% match
The St. Augustine Monster (Octopus giganteus), Anastasia Island, 1896
November 30, 1896 · Anastasia Island, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources · 1 photos
44Partially documented
28% match
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
28% match
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
28% match
The Beast of Exmoor: the 1983 South Molton sheep killings and the Royal Marines hunt
c. 1983 · Drewstone Farm, near South Molton, North Devon (Exmoor), England
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
32Partially documented
28% match
The Stronsay Beast carcass and the Orkney sworn statements
September 25, 1808 · Rothiesholm Head, Stronsay, Orkney, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
34Partially documented
28% match
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
28% match
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
28% match
The Glacier Island "Monster in the Ice", Prince William Sound, Alaska
November 10, 1930 · Eagle Bay, Glacier Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources · 10 photos
48Partially documented
28% match
Margaret Munro's Loch Ness Monster on land, Borlum Bay (1934)
June 3, 1934 · Borlum Bay, Loch Ness, near Fort Augustus, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
20Thinly documented
28% match
The Illinois and Missouri Giant Bird Wave of 1948
April 1948 · Alton, Belvidere, Caledonia and Freeport, Illinois, and the St. Louis area, Missouri
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
33Partially documented
28% match
The Richmond Sasquatch Flap on Lulu Island
July 15, 1966 · Richmond, Lulu Island, Fraser River delta, British Columbia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
24Thinly documented
28% match