Water Monster reports from the 1960s
21 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.
Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1966
Witness reports seeing a huge triangular lump pop up from the calm loch, move rapidly diagonally south, and then dive as a boat approached.
Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1960
Witness reports seeing a disturbance and hump near the shore, followed by a second black hump further east.
Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1966
Roy [name] reports observing a convex black object with two small vertical protrusions surfacing in Loch Ness in 1966, which he later speculated might be the head of an aquatic mammal.
Water Monster · Lexington, Mississippi · 1963
Witnesses on a fishing trip saw a huge hunk of frog eggs and one person claimed it was a lake monster.
Water Monster · Pacific Ocean · 1960
The author reports a tremendous tug on a fishing line while in the Peru-Chile trench, believing it to be a sea serpent.
Water Monster · Malibu, California · 1963
A 13-foot sea serpent or oar fish was discovered washed up on the beach at Malibu and preserved in formaldehyde.
Water Monster · Loch Lochy, Alba / Scotland · 1960
[name] and his family reported seeing a large aquatic creature with a fin or paddle near Glen Fintaig.
Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1969
[name] reports seeing a large, headless creature resembling an upturned boat moving across the loch before it disappeared.
Water Monster · Fort Augustus, Alba / Scotland · 1961
Mourners at a funeral reported the monster popping out of the water nearby and pushing off in the opposite direction at a spanking pace.
Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1969
[name] and his uncle [name] reported seeing a non-boat shape at the head of a wake that resurfaced in profile with the color and shape of an elephant before disappearing underwater.
Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1961
Witnesses report seeing a stationary object resembling an upturned boat or elephant's back with salmon jumping around it in Loch Ness.
Water Monster · County Galway, Connacht · 1968
[name] and his family observed a black, hairless creature with humps and a flat tail swimming in Lough Nahooin for an hour.
Water Monster · Monmouth County, New Jersey · 1963
A Marine authority advises not to confuse a salp with a sea serpent after the research ship Challenger reported sighting a 40-foot sea monster in the Atlantic.
Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1961
Witnesses report that more than 700 people have claimed to see the Loch Ness monster since 1933, with recent sightings including a funeral attendee seeing it pop out of the water.
Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1960
A police chief reports that the Loch Ness monster is accepted to exist and faces threats from adventurers attempting to capture it.
Water Monster · Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom · 1965
Mr and Mrs [name] and Mr [name] reported seeing a large object identified as the Loch Ness Monster surface near the shore opposite Urquhart Castle before speeding away.
Water Monster · Russia · 1962
Moscow radio reported that geologists spotted a large creature in a lake on a plateau in eastern Siberia.
Water Monster · Atlantic Ocean · 1963
Skin diver Robert Wicklund described a creature as 40 feet of slithering serpent.
Water Monster · Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom · 1961
The text mentions the famous Loch monster inhabiting the bottom of Scottish lakes and a recent protest in Scotland against dynamiting the lake.
Water Monster · Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands · 1963
The author notes that the Loch Ness monster has been reported early this year, suggesting competition for tourists is vigorous.
Water Monster · Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom · 1968
Mrs [name] and her family reported seeing a large humped creature swimming near the shore.