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Lake Worth Monster

Active · Rating C · Lake Worth, Texas · 10 July 1969

The Lake Worth Monster, also known as the Goatman of Lake Worth, is one of Texas's most famous cryptid legends. During the summer of 1969, multiple residents near Lake Worth, Texas…

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Honey Island Swamp Monster

Active · Rating C · Honey Island, Louisiana · 1963

The Honey Island Swamp Monster is one of the most famous cryptid legends of the American South. Associated with the vast wetlands of Honey Island Swamp in southeastern Louisiana, w…

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Voronezh UFO Incident

Historic · Rating B · Voronezh, Soviet Union · 27 September 1989

In late September 1989, during the height of Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost (openness) campaign, the industrial city of Voronezh, located approximately 300 miles south of Moscow, bec…

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Kaikoura Lights

Historic · Rating A · Kaikōura, New Zealand · 21 December 1978

In late December 1978, a series of extraordinary radar-visual encounters unfolded over the northeastern coast of New Zealand's South Island, specifically above the Kaikoura Ranges…

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Trans-en-Provence Case

Historic · Rating A · Trans-en-Provence, France · 8 January 1981

On the afternoon of January 8, 1981, 55-year-old farmer Renato Nicolaï was building a small concrete shelter on his property in rural Trans-en-Provence when he heard a faint whistl…

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Belgian UFO Wave

Historic · Rating A · Wallonia & Brussels Capital Region, Belgium · 29 November 1989

Beginning in late November 1989 and extending through the spring of 1990, the nation of Belgium experienced one of the most thoroughly documented and officially scrutinized Unident…

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Flathead Lake Monster

Active · Rating C · Flathead Lake, Montana · 1889

Spanning over 130 years of documented reports, the Flathead Lake Monster (colloquially nicknamed "Flessie") represents one of the American West's most enduring freshwater cryptid t…

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Beast of Whitehall

Active · Rating C · Whitehall, New York · 24 August 1976

On the night of August 24, 1976, three teenagers driving along isolated Abair Road near Whitehall, New York, encountered a massive, 7-to-8-foot-tall bipedal entity covered in coars…

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Skunk Ape

Active · Rating C · Everglades region, Florida

The Skunk Ape—often referred to as the "Swamp Ape" or "Florida Bigfoot"—is an alleged large, bipedal, ape-like cryptid purported to inhabit the dense, subtropical wetlands of the F…

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Fresno Nightcrawler

Historic · Rating B · Fresno, California · 2007

In late 2007, a homeowner in Fresno, California, known publicly as "Jose," reviewed surveillance camera footage from his front yard and captured two translucent, white, waist-down…

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Enfield Horror

Historic · Rating C · Enfield, Illinois · 25 April 1973

In the spring of 1973, the quiet agricultural town of Enfield, Illinois, became the focal point of an intense cryptozoological scare when residents reported encounters with a grote…

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Van Meter Visitor

Historic · Rating C · Van Meter, Iowa · 28 September 1903

The Van Meter Visitor is one of the most unusual cryptid and paranormal cases in Midwestern folklore. During several nights in September and October 1903, residents of Van Meter, I…