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“sea serpents”

Stories7

The Frew "Chessie" Videotape, Love Point, Kent Island

May 31, 1982 · Love Point, Kent Island, Queen Anne's County, Maryland (Chesapeake Bay)

Cryptid · Creature · 40 sources

31Partially documented

The Zuiyō Maru Carcass ("New Nessie")

April 25, 1977 · Pacific Ocean, east of Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources · 4 photos

42Partially documented

The Owlman of Mawnan: The Melling Sisters' Sighting

April 17, 1976 · St Mawnan and St Stephen's Church, Mawnan, near Mawnan Smith, Cornwall

Cryptid · Creature · 29 sources

15Thinly documented

The Valhalla Sea Serpent off Brazil (1905)

December 7, 1905 · Off Paraíba, northeast coast of Brazil (7° 14' S, 34° 25' W)

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

28Thinly 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)

Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources

28Thinly documented

The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry

August 1817 · Gloucester Harbor, Cape Ann, Massachusetts

Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources

33Partially documented

The Stronsay Beast carcass and the Orkney sworn statements

September 25, 1808 · Rothiesholm Head, Stronsay, Orkney, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

34Partially documented

Documents9 · see all

Department of State AIRGRAM - Subject: Flying Saucers Are a Myth FOIA release

National Security Agency· 5 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 5 …Flying Saucers, the Sea Serpent (sometimes it is substituted by the Loch Ness Lake monster), and the Snow Man. It…
Nothing But the Facts on UFOs or Which Novosti Writer Do You Read? (with 2 Articles Attached) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1968-04-09· 8 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 6 …Flying Saucers, the Sea Serpent (sometimes it is substituted by the Loch Ness Lake monster), and the Snow Man. It…
Nothing But the Facts on UFOs or Which Novosti Writer Do You Read? (Wit H 2 Ar FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1968-03-02· 11 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 7 …Flying Saucers, the Sea Serpent (sometimes it is substituted by the Loch Ness Lake monster), and the Snow Man. It…
Bibliographies on Parapsychology (Psychoenergetics) and Related Subjects -Uss FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1972-02-02· 106 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 31 …Smilga, "The Question of Telepathy, Telepathists, Sea Serpents, Scientific Ethics, and Other Enigmatic Things."; Kogan, I. M., "A Practical Step…
Bibliographies on Parapsychology (Psychoenergetics) and Related Subjects USSR FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1972-03-28· 108 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 31 …Smilga, "The Question of Telepathy, Telepathists, Sea Serpents, Scientific Ethics, and Other Enigmatic Things."; Kogan, I. M., "A Practical Step…
FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 02 FOIA release

Federal Bureau of Investigation· 79 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 56 …being national hysteria." "Everytime someone comes up with a sea-serpent story," said Dr. Overholser, "others with vivid imaginations are…

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