Other / Unknown reports from the 1980s
25 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 / Unknown · Hardin County, Texas · 1987
Witness reports that something large hit the back of their car while sitting on Bragg Road.
Other / Unknown · Salt Fork, Ohio · 1980s
Witness reports smelling a strong odor of something dead while camping near Salt Fork in Ohio.
Other / Unknown · Manaus, Região Norte · 1985
Salinas encountered a mapinguari while working on a roadside farm near Manaus, observing nighttime howling and shooting one individual.
Other / Unknown · Denton, Texas · 1983
Witness reports seeing a reddish-brown, hairless, cylinder-shaped creature about 2 ft long that moved end-over-end like a slinky while rabbit hunting with his father.
Other / Unknown · Newton County, Texas · 1983
Witness reports hearing a tree top break without a thud and finding two sets of footprints (one large, one small) on a mud flat.
Other / Unknown · King County, Washington · 1985
The narrator and his brother followed their father into the woods at night to see what was outside the campsite.
Other / Unknown · Monterey County, California · 1987
Witness reports a voice from the passenger side of their car instructed them to move lanes, saving them from a collision.
Other / Unknown · Newberry Springs, California · 1987
Witness reports seeing a humongous snake-like creature with five white eyes and whisker-like appendages emerge from a sand dune while following strange tracks in the Mojave Desert.
Other / Unknown · Mequon, Wisconsin · 1986
Witness reports seeing a three-foot-tall, jet-black, cat-like creature with rabbit ears and a tail sitting on a path near bridges in Mequon, Wisconsin.
Other / Unknown · 1986
The narrator and their friend [name] heard clicking sounds resembling hooves and felt something following them through dense fog while walking home at night.
Other / Unknown · 1981
Witness reports a strong premonition and bad feeling while driving to meet friends in Central Florida, which intensified as he approached the area.
Other / Unknown · 1980s
[name] reports that he, his cousin, and his grandmother saw three large creatures walking down a dry creek bed in the backyard of his aunt and uncle's house in West Virginia during the mid-1980s.
Other / Unknown · 1980s
The narrator reports seeing a small, grey, skinny crawling figure behind a road sign and into a field while looking at pylons in the UK.
Other / Unknown · 1983
Witness reports seeing a creature similar to the previous slinky-like sighting in 1983.
Other / Unknown · 東白川郡, 福島県 · 1988
Witness reports that Mr. [name] observed a Tsuchinoko for 15 minutes and threw a stone at it.
Other / Unknown · Greenwater, Washington · 1985
Witnesses report a massive, nine-foot-tall bear that spoke with a high-pitched voice and threw rocks to force them to leave their campsite.
Other / Unknown · Congo, Brazzaville (département) · 1983
Fresh tracks of an unidentified animal were found in the same location previously shown by an elephant hunter to the Mackal expedition.
Other / Unknown · Rio Iñapari, Tarija · 1985
[name] collected a 1985 sighting from Bolivia near Iñapari of the bipedal jucucu.
Other / Unknown · East Tiger Mountain, Washington · 1980s
Witnesses report three men in a truck struck an animal they identified as a bear, which was then dragged away by apes that attacked their vehicle.
Other / Unknown · Central Virginia, Montserrado County · 1984
Witness reports hearing a scream or howl unlike anything heard before, which caused dogs in the neighborhood to go crazy.
Other / Unknown · Tocantins, Região Norte · 1988
A terrified Indian prospector reports being attacked by a wheezing, stinking creature with monkey-like face, enormous claws, and reddish-black hair that rose to six-foot-six.
Other / Unknown · Tasmania, Australia · 1982
A park ranger observed what was believed to be a thylacine in northwestern Tasmania.
Other / Unknown · 1980s
A huaquero from Quito claimed to have seen a large quadruped with a horse's snout that reared up and browsed on vegetation.
Other / Unknown · Cuba · 1980s
The narrator's father reports seeing a headless, horse-like creature with inverted legs and hooves that emitted a foul stench and glowing belly while he was working in the fields.
Other / Unknown · Ecuador · 1980s
A colleague of cryptozoologist J. [name] claimed to have encountered a large animal resembling a ground sloth in Ecuador during the 1980s.