Captain M’Quhae and Lieutenant Drummond both described the 1848 Daedalus sea serpent, but their records disagree on fins, distance and what stayed above water.

Edward Elgar’s 1897 coded note to Dora Penny survives as a memoir facsimile. Here is what the page shows and why consulted specialists report no accepted reading.

For generations visitors near Marfa, Texas, have watched lights drift and split on the desert horizon. A 2004 student study traced them to car headlights, yet some researchers say not every light fits.

Newspapers said Orson Welles’s 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast set off a nationwide panic. Ratings, hospital checks and the coverage itself suggest the fear was far smaller than the legend.

In March 1972 two Loveland police officers reported a strange animal by the Little Miami River. One later said it was a tailless iguana he shot, yet the Frogman legend gained a musical and a festival.

On October 4, 1967, witnesses including an RCMP corporal saw lights descend toward the sea off Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. Police, the Coast Guard and navy divers searched and found nothing they could explain.

Between 1912 and 1914 settlers, officials and a railway engineer in British East Africa described a shaggy, bear-like animal the Nandi called the Chemosit. Their own journal could not agree whether it was one creature or several known ones.

From late 1948 bright green lights streaked low over New Mexico near Los Alamos and Sandia Base. A meteor expert said they were not meteors, a 1949 conference said they were natural, and the camera project meant to settle it photographed nothing.