15 Modern Sea Monsters, Photos And Video

2.  Raystown Ray

For decades there have been many sightings of a creature in Pennsylvania Huntingdon County’s Raystown Lake. Old photos show large shadowy figures just below the surface, boaters describing sudden water turbulence and strange appearances of a large water creature, Raystown Ray.

 

“We’ve known it’s been in there a while now,” admitted Managing Director of Raystown Lake Dwight Beall when he was asked his thoughts on this astonishing discovery. “It’s a private creature, but it comes out around this time of year (April). Call it Raystown’s own Punxatawny Phil.”

 

In 2006, when asked his professional opinion, Jeff Krause, Wildlife Biologist at Raystown Lake submitted the following statement in writing: “I believe it must be a vegetarian. We have not seen any evidence of this animal taking fish, geese, otters, or ducks. So I would suggest that our swimmers and boaters are very safe. It appears this animal’s habits are similar to Manatees, which are completely herbivorous and gentle. The increase of weed beds around the lake is probably providing more food in the shallows for herbivores and that would increase sightings.” Krause concluded

 

Sources: Huntingdon County Visitors Bureau, Cryptomundo

3. Scottish Sea Monster

Credit: The Sun 

 

4. Thames Sea Serpent

On August 7th 1999, London police received more than 36 reports of a gigantic sea serpent in the Thames. It was “at least 200 ft long and 5 yards across,” said one panicky witness. Despite all the sightings, no one managed to get a picture—or so it was thought. That day photographer John Collins was taking aerial photos of London from a private plane. He didn’t notice the object at the lower right until he examined the photo later.

Credit: Covert Science

 

5. Spanish Sea Monster

Strange Creature Startles Swimmers in Villaricos (Spain)

Credit: EPA

 

6. Montauk Monster

The Montauk Monster was a creature that washed ashore on one of the beaches in Montauk, New York. The creature was discovered in July of 2008, and no one has been able to identify what this creature was. The East Hampton Natural Resources director viewed the creature simply as a raccoon with its upper jaw missing. This was first released to the public in an article on July 23rd in the local newspaper The Independent.

Credit:  The Independent

 

7. Japanese Sea Giant

In the spring of 1977, off the coast of New Zealand, a Japanese fishing trawler accidentally netted a decaying carcass of a gigantic creature 30 feet long, with spines down its neck and back weighing 4,000 pounds. As it was hauled up on to the boat, the fishermen photographed the creature which resembled a type of an aquatic dinosaur known as a pleisosaur, a dinosaur species that supposedly went extinct 65 million years ago.

 

8. Windemere Worm

In England,  kayaker Tom Pickles took this photo on Lake Windemere, near Bowness in Cumbria. “At a distance, I thought it was some sort of large dog,” said  Pickles. “Then I realized just how long it was.” Ever since the first reports of Bow-Nessie emerged in 2006 from Lake Windermere, a legend has taken root with people wondering if this could be a not-too-distant relative of the legendary Loch Ness Monster of Scotland.

Credit: Tom Pickles/

 

9. Iceland Worm Monster

The Lagarfljótsormur, Lagarfljotsormurinn, Lagarfljót worm or simply Iceland Worm Monster ( or Iceland’s Loch Ness Monster ) is an Icelandic lake cryptid. The worm is purportedly located in Lagarfljót Lake, a freshwater, below-sea-level, glacial-fed body of water in Egilsstaðir.

10.  China Lake Monster

Kanas Lake is China’s deepest freshwater lake with a depth of over 600 feet and 15 miles long. It is located in the Kanas Nature Reserve in the Aletai mountain area of northern Xinjiang and has been the source of numerous lake monster sightings, particularly since the 1980s when tourism brought many visitors to the lake.  According to CCTV, about 15 of the unknown creatures were seen in Kanas Lake in China’s XinJiang Provnce on July 5th 2007.  

Credit: CCTV

Lake Tianchi in northeast China’s Jilin Province has had reports going back to 1903, with an impressive sighting involving over 100 tourists, who saw two black-colored, unidentified creatures in China’s deepest mountain lake on August 19, 2007.

 

This initial flipper picture was computer enhanced by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena, and apparently the computer-enhanced image was further artistically enhanced by the Academy of Applied Science team (i.e. it was retouched), thereby producing the final flipper photo. Modern image-enhancement software has not been able to conjure anything resembling a flipper from the original image, according to the Museum of Hoaxes. 

 The first sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was in the River Ness in 565 AD the Irish monk Saint Columba was staying in the land of the Picts with his companions when he came across the locals burying a man by the River Ness. They explained that the man had been swimming the river when he was attacked by a “water beast” that had mauled him and dragged him under. They tried to rescue him in a boat, but were able only to drag up his corpse. 

Credit: mysterious-sightings.com, cryptomundo

Credit: http://www.pawnation.com/2013/05/07/monster-washes-up-on-new-zealand-shore/

 

13. Unknown Snake Head Creature

Little is known about the origins of this image or what this unidentified sea monster could be.  Many believe this monster to be digital artwork.  

After searching the web, we believe that it has similarities to that of an oarfish, an ocean species that is often mistaken for sea monsters when they are found dead every year.

An photo of an unknown sea monster floating around the internet has been making headlines. This is a strange beast and doesn’t look like anything from Earth. So what is it exactly? A well made photo shop or some strange new species of sea animal that was just discovered. Look at those teeth, whatever this is, this creature is surely a vicious predator at the top of its food chain.

Credit:http://www.whatishowto.net/2013/10/11/unidentified-sea-creature-discovered/#sthash.9EloulSO.dpuf

 

14. Prehistoric Shark

This rare shark was seen in 2008 and is believed to be a living fossil, unfortunately they tried to take it out of the ocean into a confined space, but it died soon after.

Credit: ITN

Credit; ITN 

 

15. Florida Sea Monster

 

Buzz Wertner was accused of fraud by The Syracuse Star when he sent in the picture he had taken at his farm near Syracuse, Nebraska in 1997.  Wertner offered the paper 500 dollars if they would ‘just come look.’ They sent a reporter and when he returned, apparently convinced, the Star suggested, in print, that he was in cahoots with Wertner, who sued. He won, after 9 witnesses, including 2 Syracuse policemen, swore they also saw it.

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