Other Aquatic reports from the 1940s
14 cases, best-documented first. Page 1 of 1.
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.
Other Aquatic · Lake Chelan, Washington · 1945
Recovery divers encountered a fish larger than any man in Lake Chelan following a school bus accident.
Other Aquatic · Smyrna, Delaware · 1940
Witness reports stepping onto what seemed to be solid ground in a river, only for it to collapse and cause them to fall into the water.
Other Aquatic · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1944
The Italian press announced a plane destroyed a huge serpent-like animal on the surface of Loch Ness.
Other Aquatic · Boston, Massachusetts · 1945
Donald Snow holds a 90-pound sea monster caught by his brother Edward Row Snow while fishing in Boston harbor.
Other Aquatic · Monroe County, Florida · 1946
Captain Ray Knopp reports catching a 15-foot, 1800-lb. mud shark in deep water off Key West that was described as looking like a huge sea cow.
Other Aquatic · Payette Lake, Idaho · 1944
Serious-minded people call attention to the Elasmosaurus as a possible survivor in deep mountain-rimmed lakes like Payette.
Other Aquatic · Punta Arenas, Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena · 1944
Guillermo Martinez and his crew of fishermen first reported the monster off Punta Arenas.
Other Aquatic · Havøysund - Ávanuorri, Finnmark · 1944
Witnesses report that three to five children saw a horned, fanged creature with steam coming from its mouth and scaly skin rise from a lake in Havøysund in July 1944.
Other Aquatic · Suwannee River, Florida · 1948
Ivan T. Sanderson studied tracks along the Suwannee and determined they were made by a giant penguin he called 'Florida Three-Toes'.
Other Aquatic · Churubusco, Indiana · 1949
Gamer Gale Harris sought a diver to help capture Oscar, a giant reptile claimed by many people including his family to be an overgrown snapping turtle weighing 400 to 500 pounds.
Other Aquatic · Clearwater, Florida · 1948
Four fliers from the Dunedin Flying School reported seeing a creature resembling a furry log with a hog's head near Clearwater Bridge.
Other Aquatic · Gundagai, New South Wales · 1947
Ern Elphick and a friend reported seeing a hairy creature with a swan-like neck in a lagoon near Gundagai.
Other Aquatic · United Kingdom · 1945
Witness reports a fur-covered sea monster washed up on a rocky shore in Scotland.
Other Aquatic · Nebraska · 1944
It is contended that sea serpents frequented Nebraska where a claw or paddle was unearthed.