Other aquatic creature reports map
Reports of unidentified animals in water that are not filed as lake monsters, including oddities seen at sea or in rivers. A catch-all bucket, filed from the source's own description.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
By the numbers
473 cases on the map, 79 of them first-hand (the witness telling it). A case may stand on several documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations.
Best-documented cases
Ranked by independent sources first, then documents, then first-hand accounts. This says how well a claim is documented, not whether it is true.
Other Aquatic · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal · 1925
H. C. Bailance reports seeing a polar bear-sized sea monster fighting whales off the coast of Natal, which later washed up dead with snow-white hair and a pig-like snout.
Other Aquatic · Long Key, Florida · 1923
Witnesses report a 40,000-pound sea monster was harpooned and killed off Long Key, Florida, after a 12-hour fight.
Other Aquatic · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1988
[name] reported spotting an unexplained entity in Urquhart Bay at approximately 6:30 am in early May.
Other Aquatic · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1992
Mrs [name] reported spotting an unexplained creature in Urquhart Bay during mid-September of 1992.
Other Aquatic · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1996
Witnesses report two humps rising from the water and leaving a trail north of Fort Augustus.
Other Aquatic · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 2020
[name] reports catching a ten-minute sighting of an unexplained creature via webcam at 8:27 am.
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.