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Beyond the rolling hills and the towering mountaintops lies a place that, despite countless
hours of exploration, remains a vast mystery.
Hidden within the deepest, darkest corners of Earth’s largest bodies of water are alleged
monstrosities that continue to allude our prying eyes.
A lucky few claim to have captured some of these creatures on camera, albeit in grainy
and unreliable footage, but we’ve compiled the most memorable and some of the best in
this Top 10 Sea Monster Sightings Archive.
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10.
Hook Island Sea Monster The infamous Hook Island monster photograph
of 1964 depicts a long, tadpole-like creature snaking throughout Stonehaven Bay.
The photographer, Robert Le Serrec, claimed to have spotted the creature on vacation with
his family and snapped off a series of inconclusive pictures, even diving below the surface to
see the beast face-to-face.
Thinking it was dead, the curious diver approached the figure, which opened its mouth and purportedly
scurried off.
With Le Serrec’s alleged history as a con man, many are quick to debunk the image, with
the most popular theory being that it was created by using a black tarp held down by
sand.
Le Serrec never confirmed nor denied the truth behind the image, leaving the mystery of the
Hook Island sea monster to largely remain unsolved.
9.
The Ice Behemoth of Alaska When the mysterious footage of a potential
sea monster is filmed and released by a government agency, it lends credence to the alleged discovery.
In October of 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management released strange footage of what
looks to be an icy behemoth wading through Chena River, Alaska.
The BLM offered no suggestion, simply claiming it “was not sure” what was captured.
The man behind the discovery, Craig McCaa, may have launched “sea monster” fever
by stating “how strongly the mysteries of the natural world capture our imagination.”
While the footage went viral and the internet threw out a multitude of conspiracy theories,
an Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist believes the world went mad over a piece of
rope.
8.
Nessie Reemerges Good ‘ole Nessie has been the subject of
wonder since the 1930’s since she first emerged in The Surgeon’s Photograph, and
since, the pictures kept coming.
A recent and intriguing one comes not from a Scottish local, but from American paranormal
enthusiast Jim Winiski.
While observing the “Nessie on the Net” webcam from his Iowa home, Winiski believed
he captured an image of the elusive beast emerging from her waters for a few seconds
before disappearing again.
Just above the canopies of the coastal trees, an unidentifiable black shape can be seen
breaching the smooth surface and, based on its distance from the shore, the American
claimed that it was at least 8 feet or about 2.4 meters out of the water.
Winiski’s capture was deemed credible enough to be logged in the Official Loch Ness Monster
Sightings Register.
7.
Raystown Ray Known to locals as the Loch Ness of Pennsylvania,
Raystown Ray has been a staple of Huntington County since its emergence in 1962.
Inhabiting Raystown Lake, the serpentine monster is said to be a private creature with Managing
Director of Raystown Lake Dwight Beall claiming it comes out around April every year.
The first notable photograph of Ray was snapped in 2006 by a local fisherman, allegedly showing
the beast as it swims along the forested shore.
Ray caught the attention of SyFy’s Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, which nearly recreated
an alleged tourist photo of the lake monster with nothing but a log.
Ultimately, Ray keeps to himself – or doesn’t exist – but still proves to be a vital part
of the Raystown Lake region and community.
6.
Sanibel Island Serpent What’s more terrifying than coming across
an unidentifiable sea serpent while boating in the shallows off of a Florida island?
Probably seeing a wrinkled 80-year-old retired guy in a speed-o on the beach!
While enjoying a peaceful, sunny day on the calm waters off Sanibel Island in October
2013, a couple captured footage of a creature they said had been “speeding” through
the water like a bus.
They observed it further until the creature’s body rolled out of the water, seemingly wrapped
around potential prey.
The supposedly genuine reactions in the video offer credibility to their claim
but don’t quite mean they met an unknown giant serpent.
The video received plenty of traction but hasn’t quite warranted expert opinion, leaving
this an unsolved case backed by speculation and theories of giant oarfish and wayward
whales. 5.
Creature of Turgoyak Lake What lurks in the depths of Turgoyak Lake
in Chelyabinsk, Russia?
According to Mikhail Nenarokov and other locals of the region, it’s the Miasnessi Monster.
Nenarokov had been kayaking in Turgoyak Lake when he started to notice disruptions in the
otherwise calm waters about 65 feet or roughly 20 meters away.
Believing he was seeing the coils of a giant snake breaching the surface, the brave little
kayaker decided to keep his distance and not investigate further.
While Nenarokov admits it could have been divers scouring the lake, he remains adamant
that what he captured was a true-to-life sea monster.
Other viewers pose more colorful theories like how it’s part of a trick produced by
a nearby hotel looking to attract tourists.
4.
The Barmouth Monster Is that a pachyderm in your river or are you
just happy to see us?
Maybe it’s not an elephant that was photographed in River Aaren in Barmouth, Wales by Mohammad
Tahla in 2016, but we’re certainly hesitant to holler “Sea Monster!”
Decades prior to Tahla’s mysterious photograph, locals have been reporting sightings of a
beast swimming about the river.
It all started with an early 20th-century report of footprints found along the beach
that were the size of an elephant’s.
Then, in 1937, an eyewitness spotted a “crocodile-like” animal.
Then, a 1975 sighting of a long-necked creature emerging from the water seemed to substantiate
earlier belief of the monster.
Tahla’s photograph is believed to be the first photographic evidence of the Beast of
Barmouth, though skeptics think it may have been something substantially less exciting
like a floating log.
3.
The Beast of River Thames Headlines like “Experts Stumped by Sea Creature…”
are intriguing, but don’t let them get your hopes up.
Specifically, we’re talking about the 2016 footage of an alleged sea monster in the River
Thames.
While passing by on an Emirates Air Line cable car near the O2 arena in Greenwich, a shaky
camera captured a series of humps breaching the surface and submerging again.
London Wildlife Trust employee Ian Tokelove spoke up, claiming the animal had remained
unidentified despite reviewing the footage thoroughly.
There may be a more logical explanation behind the “unknown sea creature,” however, as
over 50 whales and 450 porpoises and dolphins have found their way into the Thames since
1913.
2.
Alaskan Sea Dragon Slap the word “dragon” onto something
and everybody gets excited, especially when it's referencing footage of an alleged sea
monster sighting.
In November of 2016, while filming glaciers in Alaska, tourists captured footage that
some say depict the front and tail of an ancient sea monster awoken by recent glacial collapse.
The Blake cousins of the ThirdPhaseofthemoon YouTube channel were enthusiastic of the footage,
saying it looks like some never-before-seen sea creature or a dragon.
Other commentators weren’t as enthusiastic, blatantly calling the video a fake.
If there’s one thing that’s for sure – besides that it’s not some mystical ice dragon – it’s
that it’s quite different from the aforementioned white Ice Behemoth of Alaska.
The footage is intriguing, but intriguing doesn't equal real.
1.
The Legendary Morgawr?
Not all sea monster sightings are of living specimen as this February 2017 discovery of
an unusual 8-foot or roughly 2.4-meter carcass has shown.
The find was stumbled upon by Chris Crane and his wife, Amanda, along Charlestown beach
near St. Austell.
Unsure of what he had discovered, though initially thinking it to be a pilot whale, Crane photographed
the carcass and turned to the internet, only to find the general consensus landed on one
name – Morgawr.
The legend of Morgawr tells of a sea serpent said to live near Falmouth Bay in Cornwall,
an elusive cryptid dating back to 1975.
For a definitive answer, Crane submitted his find to the National Sea Watch Foundation,
but they have yet to respond.