Other Aquatic · 1965
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 1965to the month
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 2 documents2 independent
The account
Witness reports that Captain [name] and Captain [name] observed a large, plesiosaur-like creature with flippers and a long neck while diving in the Alvin submersible.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Other Aquatic reports with no place (53) - When
- Jul 1965
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources
- Added to map
- Oct 21, 2026
- Case id
- case-9a54f35af9
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- The Most Compelling Sea Monster Story I've Ever Heard: The Alvin Submersible Sighting
Reddit · 2018-09-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Obscure Deep Sea Cryptids
Reddit · 2022-08-09
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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