Aquabeasties - Monster Galleries: March 2011

Killarney Lake Monster

Upper Lake, Lakes of Killarney
Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2009/09/creature-of-muckross-lake.html

The term “Globster” was coined in 1962 by zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson to describe the 1960 carcass (shown above in the news clipping), which today is known as the “Tasmanian Globster.” It was a large unidentified carcass that washed ashore in western Tasmania, in August 1960. It measured 20 by 18 feet (6 m by 5.5 m) and was estimated to weigh between 5 and 10 tons. The mass lacked eyes and in place of a mouth, had “soft, tusk-like protuberances,” with a spine and six soft, fleshy “arms.” The remarkable stiff, white bristles covering its body were always mentioned as adding to the mystery of what this could be.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/globsters-gone/

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=83024

Cryptozoologist Markus Hemmler unearths widely unknown video footage http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/tasmanian-globster/

The Málaga Cable Globster

313

Spain

Mediterranean

The Tecoluta Globster

http://www.strangemag.com/seaserpgallery.html
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/07/tecolutla_monster_carcass.php

Edizgigantus

Washington

see Caddy

The Mauretania Serpent

Caribbean

The Azores Monster

Atlantic

The Hilary Sea Serpent

65-67

The North Sea

See Gloucester

The Koopman Sea Serpent

Brazil

Pacific

The Valhalla Sea Serpent

64-65

Brazil

Pacific
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/11/cfi_talk_slides.php

The Wood Island Sea Serpent

Maine

Atlantic

The Umfili Monster Fish

Africa

Atlantic
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/11/cfi_talk_slides.php

Norway Cave Serpent

Norway

The South Pacific Sea Serpent

Pacific

The Fly Sea Monster

Gulf of California

The Plumper Sea Serpent

Portugal, Atlantic

see Daedalus

The Cummings Sea Serpent

Gulf of Maine, Atlantic

The Cape Ann Sea Snake

Massachusetts, Atlantic

48-49

Halsydrus

Orkney Islands, Scotland, Atlantic

Stoor Worms

see giant squid

see kraken

Norway

The Benstrup Sea Snake

seen Captain von Ferry

see Capt. von Ferry

45-46

Captain von Ferry Sea Snake

seen Kraken

The Egede Sea Serpent

This monster is known from only one account, of an incident in 1734, but it may describe an unidentified single monster that has also been sighted elsewhere (see "Related"). Danish missionary Hans Egede described his sighting in his Det gamle Grønlands nye Perlustration, published in 1741. In Greenland attempting to convert the natives to Christianity, he and his group reported spotting a giant sea serpent:

As for other sea monsters . . . none of them have been seen by us, or any of our Time that ever I could hear, save that most dreadful Monster

page 44

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/3121/the_golden_age_of_sea_serpents.html

Sewergators / Phantom crocodilians

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2009/09/alligator-found-in-pond-in-trenton-new.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2009/09/another-out-of-place-gator.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2009/11/alligator-in-sewer-in-1935-confirmed.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2010/03/sewergators-are-back.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2010/03/alligator-wrestling-as-sport_13.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2010/09/alligators-in-sewer.html

http://aquabeasties.blogspot.com/2010/09/after-baby-crocodile-was-found-under.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2010/09/gator.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2010/12/man-named-pat-regan-has-claimed-to-have.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2011/02/sewergators-misunderstanding-says.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2009/11/giant-crocs.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2011/03/river-monsters-back-in-april.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4141092.stm

Red River Monster

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2009/11/random-monster-stories-non-monsters.html

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2010/03/if-you-think-legendary-sea-monsters-are.html

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Aggie

Lake Argyle, Western Australia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_lake_monsters

Kusshii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusshii

Kansas Lake Creatures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Kanas
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90872/6705330.html

Labynkyr Monster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmopoisk#Cryptozoology

Brosno Dragon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brosno_Dragon

Varberg Fortress Moat Monster

http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2010/01/varberg-fortress-moat-monster.html

Storsjöodjuret (Storsie)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storsj%C3%B6odjuret
http://www.thelocal.se/17282/20090131/
http://gralienreport.com/cryptozoology/new-footage-of-alleged-sea-monster/

http://www.strangemag.com/lakestorsjonmonster.html

http://www.isnare.com/?aid=227234&ca=Travel

Muckie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckie

Lagarfljóts Worm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagarflj%C3%B3ts_Worm

Muc-sheilch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muc-sheilch

Gorsey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addanc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangorse_Lake

Eachy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eachy

Ichitapa

Lake Kashiba, Zambia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Kashiba

Auli

Lake T'ana, Ethiopia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_lake_monsters

Mahamba

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamba

Auli

According to a listing of lake monsters on Wikipedia, there is a monster in Lake Chad. No details are given other than its name, Auli, which it shares with another lake monster in Ethiopia's Lake Tana.

Chipekwe / Emela-ntouka / Irizima

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irizima

Lake Edward DRC

Lago Dilolo, Angola

Dilolo Swamps, DRC

Lake Bangweulu, Kafue Flats, Lake Mweru, Lake Shiwa Ngandu, Zambia

Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania

Rocky

http://www.burlingtonnews.net/rocklake8.html

http://www.atthecreation.com/wis.monsters/deep.html

http://www.spokaneoutdoors.com/rocklake.htm

http://www.w-files.com/files/lmrocklake.html

North Shore Monster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Shore_Monster

Ooly

http://oologahlakemonster.blogspot.com/

Kipsy / Hudson River Monster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_Monster

Pepie

http://www.pepie.net/
http://seamonster.org/pepie.htm

Sharlie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharlie

Tarpie

http://www.laketarponmonster.com/

Larry

http://www.getlostmagazine.com/mcbee/1999/9911monster/monster.html

Manitou Monster

Scott

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitou

Elsie

Lake Elsinore
http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=164

Mugwump / Old Tessie

http://www.strangeark.com/bfr/articles/mugwump.html

Thetis Lake Monster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thetis_Lake_Monster

U-28 Creature

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/u28creature.php
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/11/cfi_talk_slides.php

The Kodiak Dinosaur

In 1969, the shrimping boat Mylark was fitted with a top-of-the-line electronic detector to map the ocean floor in Raspberry Straight, off Kodiak Island, Alaska. During the trip, an operator noticed a strange shape about 330 feet down--a 200-foot long object, shaped like some sort of dinosaur, that appeared to be swimming. The experienced fisherman who were operating the device swore it bore no resemblance to any kind of whale or any other sea creature known to inhabit the area. The operators captured an image of the reading, but it can no longer be found.

Source: Unknown Explorers

Con Rit

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/conrit.php
http://beastpedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/con-rit.html
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/07/dead_sea_monsters.php

Beast of UB-85

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/beastofub85.php

Australian Enigma

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/australianenigma.php

Waitoreke

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/waitoreke.php

Wallowa Lake Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/wallowalakemonster.php

Skrimsl

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/skrimsl.php

Shielagh

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/shielagh.php

Old Greeny

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/oldgreeny.php

Ol' Slavey

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/olslavey.php

Oggie

Onondaga Lake
Syracuse, New York, United States

Cub Scout Troop 400's patch.

Oggie is a giant salamander-like creature inhabiting Onondaga Lake, one of the polluted lakes in the country, near Syracuse, New York.

Origin

The Onondagas and Iroquois told of monsters in Onondaga Lake that would occasionally come on land to terrorize families, and they built fortifications to protect themselves from the creatures. However, several urban legends also attempt to explain the creature's origins.

One story goes that in the summer of 1972 a young boyscout returned from a camping trip in upstate New York's Camp Woodland with a salamander he had found while sitting on a log. Initially the boy's parents allowed him to keep the creature, but eventually he lost interest in it and his mother began insisting that it be released. One night the boy's father snuck into his room, took the creature out of its box, and flushed it down the toilet, feeling it would have no chance of survival in the harsh Syracuse winter.

The salamander survived the flush and ended up in Onondaga Lake, where the hazardous chemicals that filled the lake slowly mutated the creature until it had grown into a monster.

Others say that Oggie is some sort of descendant of algae blooms and bacteria colonies in the polluted lake, and still others say it's a phantom (out-of-place) alligator.

The Sightings

In 1977 people began noticing a bizarre creature in the lake, and members of the Syracuse branch of Cub Scout Troop 400 reported that they had seen a dragon swimming not far offshore. The monster is now the troop's mascot.

Due to its description as a giant salamander, Oggie bears some resemblance to the giant salamanders of California.

Fame

The creature is a local celebrity, and a 14 foot-long statue of it is included in the area's yearly Halloween celebrations.

Sources:
The Legend of Oggie
Monster Spotter's Guide to North America by Scott Francis
Unknown Explorers

Murray

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/murray.php

Muckross Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/muckrossmonster.php

Mjosa

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/mjosa.php

Lukwata

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/lukwata.php

Lough Ree Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/loughreemonster.php

http://www.bcscc.ca/ireland.htm

Lough Fadda Beast

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/lochquoichmonster.php

http://www.bcscc.ca/ireland.htm

Loch Quoich Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/lochquoichmonster.php

Loch Oich Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/lochoichmonster.php

Loch Awe Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/lochawemonster.php

Loch Arkaig Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/locharkaigmonster.php

Lizzie

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/lizzie.php

Loch Linnhe Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/linnhe.php

Lake Norman Monster (Normie)

Lake Norman
North Carolina, United States

long and serpentine with fins and flippers
15-30 feet long

Lake Norman was created in 1967 when the Cowans Ford Hydroelectric Station dammed up the Catawba River. Over one hundred feet deep in some areas, the lake is home to the McGuire Nuclear Plant and, some say, a strange creature known as the Lake Norman Monster, or "Normie."

Normie has been sighted by dozens of witnesses: swimmers, fishermen, campers, water-skiers and scuba divers.

Chases fast boats and often bumps up against water-skiers and swimmers.

A scuba diver reported narrowly escaping a creature with red eyes and a doglike head that chomped into one of his flippers.

A Jet skier

In June 2011, a record-setting blue catfish nearly five feet long was caught in John H. Kerr Reservoir, 150 miles northeast on the border with Virginia.
http://www.unknownexplorers.com/lakenormanmonster.php

Lake Kanasi Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/lakekanasimonster.php
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2005-11-07-china-monsters_x.htm

Labynkr Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/labynkrmonster.php

Lake Baikal Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/lakebaikalmonster.php

Koskolteras Rhombopetrix

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/koskolterasrhombopetrix.php

Kokkol

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/kokkol.php

Khaiyr Beast

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/khaiyrbeast.php

Heavenly Lake Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/heavenlylakemonster.php

Gryttie

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/gryttie.php

El Cuero

Devil's Lake Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/devilslakemonster.php

Clifden Water Horses

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/clifdenwaterhorses.php

Beast of Bynoe

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/beastofbynoe.php

Abaia

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/abaia.php

Eskie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough_Eske#The_.27Lough_Eske_Monster.27

Mussie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussie

http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/09/mussie-muskrat-lake-monster-seal-or.html

Cape Bonavista Monster

http://theshadowlands.net/serpent2.htm#capebonavista
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/search/?q=%22if+residents+of+bonavista+have+seen%22&searchField=keywords&searchQuery=*%3A*

Danau Poso Monster

http://indahnesia.com/indonesia/CENPOS/poso_and_tentena.php

Nyaminyami

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_legend_of_Nyaminyami

Brown Glob

Tripod.com says that

In the mid-1950s, a diver, while watching a shark, saw a big, brown shapeless thing head over towards the shark. The shark convulsed, and then didn't even try to escape as the thing came and grabbed the shark. Chances are that a large jellyfish would best fit the description.

The same webpage offers evidence that may explain the sighting as of a lion's mane jellyfish:

In 1973, the ship, Kuranda, collided with a gigantic jellyfish while sailing to the Fiji Islands. One seaman who was hit by the jellyfish's stinging tentacles came away with severely burned skin (he died from the injury). The jellyfish also started to push the ship down with it's [sic] weight. An SOS resulted in help from the Hercules. The crew of the Hercules managed to get the jellyfish off the ship with a high pressure hose. Later, when the slime from the jellyfish was analyzed it turned out to be from a species called lion's mane.

It is not clear where the diver saw the brown glob, however, and jellyfish are not known to prey on sharks. This could then be an entirely new genus, or an unknown type of jellyfish that is more predatory than its brainlessness would make one guess.

http://www.aquabeasties.com/2010/03/if-you-think-legendary-sea-monsters-are.html

Sources:
Tripod.com - kodos86

Dobhar-chú

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobhar-ch%C3%BA

http://blather.net/blather/1998/08/the_dobhar_chu_a_very_strange.html

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/dobharchu.php

Bessie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_%28lake_monster%29

http://www.mysterycasebook.com/bessie.html

Lake Leelanau Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/leelanau.php

Santa Clara Sea Monster

Monsters of the Sea

365

Zhangke River Monster

http://seamonster.org/zhang.htm

Paint River Monster

http://theshadowlands.net/serpent2.htm#paint

Vorota Beast

http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/cryptodominion/lakebeasts.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorota_beast

Giant Salamanders

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/giantsalamander.php
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1444042
http://www.californiaherps.com/info/possiblyoccuring.html
http://www.californiaherps.com/salamanders/salamanders.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_salamander
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_giant_salamander
http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Giant_Salamander
http://www.darksites.com/souls/goth/heartshowl/Salamander.html
http://www.edgeofexistence.org/edgeblog/?cat=18&paged=2
http://www.edgeofexistence.org/edgeblog/?p=882
http://books.google.com/books?id=4ZTgX7BZXqoC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=Frank+L.+Griffith+giant+salamander&source=bl&ots=K1QoLOU6iK&sig=4Om-1iWRLh4RF8nu8J0yFMjWhv4&hl=en&ei=dAqhTaPCCM610QGL9cWQBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Frank%20L.%20Griffith%20giant%20salamander&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=U5tnbtXzaYUC&pg=PT183&lpg=PT183&dq=Frank+L.+Griffith+giant+salamander&source=bl&ots=PBddQ0ku66&sig=rDcFcncFN8YLL7DHmsfOIcxyWx8&hl=en&ei=dAqhTaPCCM610QGL9cWQBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Frank%20L.%20Griffith%20giant%20salamander&f=false
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2011/01/raheel-mughal-trinity-alps-giant.html
http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/07/does-new-discovery-give-hope-to.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Alps_Giant_Salamander
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=35080
http://www.darksites.com/souls/goth/heartshowl/Salamander.html
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2011/01/raheel-mughal-trinity-alps-giant.html

Pal Rai Yuk / Tizheruk

http://www.mythbeasts.com/creature.php?beast=Pal-Rai-Yuk

Loch Volkhov Monster

http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/loch-volkhov-monster/

http://www.videoizle.cc/OUZdXZ-06OlET

http://seamonster.org/volk.htm

Morag

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morag_%28loch_monster%29

Igopogo

http://www.theastralworld.com/cryptozoology/igopogo.php

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/igopogo.php

http://www.livescience.com/410-investigators-search-canadian-lake-monster.html

San Francisco Bay Serpent

This is a sketch, according to Shadowlands, of the
serpents that have been spotted in the bay.

An unidentified serpent (and sometimes several at a time) has been spotted on and off in San Francisco Bay since -. The serpent has been sighted near Stinson Beach and Agate Beach.

The sightings

The New York Times reported an April 4, 1885 sighting. There had been talk of the sea serpent before this sighting, but the incident confirmed to the citizens of San Francisco that there was indeed a serpent in the water. Bank of California worker J.P. Allen and several other residents of Alameda were standing on the deck of the ferryboat Garden City at about 8:30 am. Positioned about halfway between Alameda and Goat Island--now called Yerba Buena Island, according to the Clark brothers (see below)--they looked on as

a huge black monster suddenly raised its head and neck from the water to a height of about 10 feet, opened its jaws, displaying a mouth two feet wide filled with rows of sharply pointed teeth, and after taking a curious glance at the passing steamer plunged again into the water, at the same time elevating a sixty-foot tail, with which it thrashed the water for some time, after which it made off in the direction of the Alameda baths, near which some fishing boats were anchored. Some incredulous persons to whom the story was told say that the ferryboat struck a floating spar, forcing one end downward in the water and elevating the other as the steamer passed over the submerged end, and that after the steamer had passed the elevated end fell back in the water with a splash. We may expect soon to hear of the destruction of the Alameda fishing fleet, or more probably the establishment of a hotel for Summer boarders in the vicinity of the Alameda wharf.

Strangely enough, the same article also reported an entirely separate sighting of an apparently different monster on the same day:

Besides the sea serpent, which gave a powerful impetus to the romancing powers of several reputable gentlemen crossing on a ferryboat, the bay yielded a sea monster of such strange appearance that the oldest tar on the seawall has not yet even given it a name.

Carl Sevening and John Peat were rowing close to the North Heads around 9 am when they came face-to-face with an animal sporting "a fiercely mustached head of a shape between that of a seal and a sea lion." The monster charged the rowboat, diving under it just before reaching it. The creature lifted the boat into the air but did not capsize it. It dove, appeared again four feet away on the opposite side of the boat, and received a blow to the head from Peat, who was armed with an oar. The beast was knocked out for a moment before receiving another blow "which knocked the beast silly." The men secured the monster to the boat with a painter and started towing it, whereupon it came to and started towing the boat speedily for a quarter mile. When it came to the surface to breathe, Sevening hit it again, drawing blood and knocking it out again. The monster turned belly-up and the men continued towing it to the foot of Larkin-street, where six men struggled to get it on land. Upon inspection, it was found to measure six feet in length and weigh about 300 pounds. It had green eyes and a long, white, bristling mustache. It had two strong flippers, each about one-and-a-half feet long. The article, run the next day, ended by saying "The capture will be kept at the foot of Larkin-street until noon to-day."

On August 30, 1976, artist and Methodist minister Tom D'Onofrio saw a sea serpent while riding his horse, White Cloud, along Agate Beach in Bolinas. He was taking a break from working on a commissioned piece for members of Jefferson Airplane: a wooden table of a dragon. D'Onofrio rode down to the beach where he chanced upon a friend, Dick Borgstrom. As they talked, Tom saw something out of the corner of his eye. "Suddenly, 150 feet from shore, gamboling in an incoming wave, was this huge dragon, possibly 60 feet long and 15 feet wide. . . . the serpent seemed to be playing in the waves, threshing its tail. We were so overpowered by the sight, we were rooted to the spot for about 10 minutes. I literally felt as if I was in the presence of God. My life has been changed since." As the creature played in the water, it exposed its underbelly, then disappeared. Having gotten a good look at the creature's face, D'Onofrio spent the next four days carving it into his table's dragon head.

During October and November of 1983, multiple people saw a dark, eel-like creature around the San Francisco area--particularly near Stinson Beach and Costa Mesa.

At 2:30 pm on October 31, 1983, a construction crew working on Route 1 just north of the Golden Gate Bridge sighted an enormous creature swimming just under the surface of the water. Mark Ratto and four other construction workers watched the creature for a while from a cliff above Stinson Beach. Later, they estimated the serpent to be 100 feet long and five feet in diameter. At various points in their observation, the creature swam toward the cliffs, thrashed its head around, or just swam very quickly. Ratto, who watched it through binoculars, reported that it had appeared to be followed by about 100 birds and two dozen sea lions. He saw a small head and neck rise from the water to look around, as well as three coils or body humps.

After this sighting was publicized, people started reporting older sightings. On February 5, 1985, around 7:45 am, twins Robert and William Clark were drinking coffee in their car at the seawall near Stone Tower Point noticed two seals swimming unusually quickly across the bay. They then saw a large, black, "snake-like" or tubular animal chasing the seals, moving by forming its body into humps and wiggling up and down. The brothers said the monster seemed to stabilize itself with small, translucent, fan-like fins. The pair saw the creature again several times in the following weeks, and in 2004 reported that they had captured it on film. Here is a detailed analysis of the video, which cannot be found at this time.

A still from the Clark brothers' 2004 video.

The New York Times

The Shadowlands

SF Weekly

Tetrapod Zoology

Monstropedia

The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and other Mystery Denizens of the Deep by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe (look at sources)

http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2010/04/san-francisco-bay-sea-serpent.html

View Best places to spot the San Francisco Bay Serpent in a larger map

Whitey (White River Monster)

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/lost-tapes/white-river-monster/

Lake Van Monster

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9706/12/fringe/turkey.monster/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC-F-GBZBDk&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xIb8FhWQwM&feature=player_embedded

Inkanyamba

http://lakedragons.livingdinos.com/monsterofhowickfalls.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkanyamba

http://seamonster.org/howick.htm

http://beastpedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/inkanyamba.html

South Africa

Mann Hill Globster

http://paranormal.about.com/od/othercreatures/ig/Gallery-of-Monsters/Mann-Hill-Globster.htm

Alkali Lake Monster

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/alkalilakemonster.php

Paddler

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/paddler-pic/

http://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Lake-Pend-Oreille-monster/dp/B000730IL6

Trunko

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/trunko.php
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/5536/youve_been_trunkoed.html
http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/Trunko/trunko.html
http://www.aquabeasties.com/2011/06/trunko-identified.html

Nahuelito

http://www.strangemag.com/nahuelito.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/11/myth-of-nahuelito-article.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/10/nahuelito-as-possible-radioactive.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/10/nahuelito-bubbles-and-gas-part-2.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/10/nahuelito-bubbles-and-gas.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/09/lake-vintter-update.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/05/vanishing-rivers-of-patagonia-part-2.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/05/vanishing-rivers-and-plesiosaurs.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/03/nahuelito-at-lake-gutierrez.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/02/cryptid-maths-statistical-probability.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/01/strange-blotch-in-nahuel-huapi.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/12/lake-nahuel-huapi-video-and-map.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/12/bears-at-nahuel-huapi.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/11/nahuelito-postage-stamp.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/10/googled-keywords-1960-and-nahuelito.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/10/lake-nahuel-huapi-nahuelitos-home.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/09/nahyuelito-hide.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-patagonian-monsters.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/12/back-from-patagonia.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/10/nahuelito-as-possible-radioactive.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/05/vanishing-rivers-and-plesiosaurs.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/12/lake-nahuel-huapi-video-and-map.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/11/nahuelito-postage-stamp.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/10/googled-keywords-1960-and-nahuelito.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/10/monster-at-bah-l.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/10/lake-nahuel-huapi-nahuelitos-home.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2011/10/100000-hits-and-nahuelito.html

Lusca

Lusca

From AmericanMonsters.com:

These vicious, half-shark, half-octopus man-eaters are said to have inspired terror amongst fishermen and scuba divers in and around the blue holes of the Bahamas for decades.

The island of Andros in the Bahamas is the home to a spectacular array of what the natives refer to as blue holes. Formed during the ice ages of the last million years or so, these blue holes are a vast network of underwater cave systems which link the Andros’s small freshwater lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

Ironically, the confirmation of this oceanic passage has lent some credence to the legend of a HYBRID-BEAST, which is said to dwell in these blue holes… a legend known to locals as the Lusca. These ferocious octo-sharks have been described as being 75 to 200-feet in length, with the razor sharp teeth of a shark and an array of octopi-like multi-suckered tentacles.

Although the few eyewitnesses who have survived Lusca attacks seem to agree that the above description is accurate, there are others who insist that this animal’s appearance incorporates more of a “squid-eel” combination. Either way, the result is a terrifyingly voracious predator, which one can only assume is equally horrifying in appearance.

Often believed to be an unknown species of cephalopod like the KRAKEN, the FRESHWATER OCTOPI or Octopus Giganteus (akin to the now infamous ST. AUGUSTINE PHENOMENON,) these large, sub-aquatic anomalies have inspired terror in the hearts of generations of Bahamian fishermen.

Legend has it that any encounter with this extraordinary beast almost always results in the death of whoever was unfortunate enough to wander too close to its watery lair. This extends not only to intrepid divers who have dared to brave the labyrinthine depths of the blue holes, but also to those unwary souls who stand too close to the shoreline, as the Lusca — much like the AHUIZOTL and EL CUERO — has been known to use its tentacles to drag even earthbound victims to their watery graves.

Onlookers have even described seeing fishermens’ boats suddenly being yanked below the surface of the blue holes, only to watch in horror as the indigestible flotsam of these broken vessels slowly raises to the surface, their captains and crew nowhere to be seen.

This description of a purported Lusca attack has led some oceanographers to suggest that what people are mistaking for this legendary creature’s voracious appetite may, in fact, be a natural oceanic phenomenon caused by swift tidal changes which suck the water back in through the blue holes, resulting in a spontaneous whirlpool.

These sudden whirlpools roll and boil, and almost certainly hold the potential to pull unwary swimmers, or even entire boats, into its churning depths. When the currents reverse, a frigid, mushroom cloud-like surge of water is gushed back into the small lake, which could force the wreckage to the surface.

While this theory may apply to some cases of mysterious blue hole disappearances it in no way accounts for the colossal tentacles and shark-like visage described by eyewitnesses.

Queensland Monster

http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/en/cryptozoo/aquarium07.htm
http://www.armbell.com/mysteriousaustr/viewtopic.php?t=907&sid=b9019768a7a887c659b9d1ae74dd7dc4&mforum=mysteriousaustr\
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/07/hook_island_monster_tadpole.php

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