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'''Teggie''' is the name given to a lake monster reported to live in Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid) in Gwynedd, north Wales, United Kingdom. Sightings began aroun
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'''Cressie''' is a lake monster that is supposedly living in Crescent Lake, Canada with sightings going back to the 1900s.
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...onsters that allegedly live in Heaven Lake (known as Cheonji in Korean) or Lake Tianchi, within the Changbai Mountains of Jilin Province, China, not far fr
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Amemasu lives in Lake Mashu in Hokkaidō and capsizes boats, creates earthquakes and causes other
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...ptid purported to lurk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, around the Lake Likouala swamp region.
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'''Memphre''' is a lake monster that is believed by some to lurk in the murky Lake Memphremagog in Canada.
...a sauropterygian-like animal, a cliché commonly brought up for other lake monsters.
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...oránach''' was a monster which was banished by St Patrick to Lough Derg (a lake 6 by 4 miles, 4 miles NW of Pettigoe in south Co. Donegal), turning its wat
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...rted as "a strange creature with the head of a dragon and eyes of fire" in Lake Ontario near Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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'''Bessie''' is a name given to a lake monster in Lake Erie.
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...avari) is a lake monster reportedly dwelling in Lake Van, a large alkaline lake in Eastern Turkey.
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The '''Hudson River Monster''' or '''Kipsy''' is the name given to a lake monster that allegedly lives in the Hudson River (a 315-mile (507 km) river
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...akitaro''' is a type of giant fish which is found in Yamagata prefecture’s Lake Otoriike.
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The '''Rabisha Lake Monster''' or '''Water Bull''' is a legendary hybrid in the folkore of Bulg
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...'''Lake Elsinore''' monster is a sea serpent sighted at the small town of Lake Elsinore, California
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'''Lariosauro''' is a cryptid reported to live in Lake Como in Italy, about 30 miles north of Milan.
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...ii''' (クッシー) is the name of a lake monster said to be living in Hokkaidō's Lake Kussharo.
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'''Lukwata''' is the name of a water-dwelling cryptid said to be found in Lake Victoria in Africa along with several other Ugandan lakes.
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...recorded, which has lead to the theory that the lake is inhabited by some lake monster, similar to the famed [[Nessie]] of Loch Ness. Tourism interests ha
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'''The Monster of Lake Fagua''' is a legendary creature resembling a [[harpy]].
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...ipogo''' is the name given to the reputed [[lake monster]] which dwells in Lake Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. Sightings of this serpent like sea monster have
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...aid to be living in Kagoshima Prefecture's Lake Ikeda, the largest caldera lake in Kyushu..
...dnapped by a samurai, and Issie was unable to find it, she jumped into the lake, and her despair transformed her into a giant, saurian beast, which since t
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...r''' (also dubbed '''Messie''') is a Nessie-like creature that haunts the Lake Murray in California, USA.
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...ster that is believed by some to hide in the deep alpine waters of Payette Lake near McCall, Idaho, USA
...um, Editor of The Star News held a contest to name the serpent of Payette Lake. The winning name, “Sharlie”, was submitted by Le Isle Hennefer Tury of
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'''Mussie''' is a sea monster reported to be living in Muskrat Lake, 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Ottawa, capital of Canada.
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[[Image:hoga.jpg|thumb|The hoga - illustration from ''On Monsters and Marvels'' by Ambroise Pare]]
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[[Image:Flathead Lake.jpeg|thumb|310px|Flathead Lake, Montana (photo by Matthew MacManes)]]
...t Monatana, the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi river. The lake is 27.3 miles long, 15.5 miles wide and has a maximum depth of 370.7 feet.
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...r to various popularly named lake monsters such as [[Ogopogo]] of Okanagan Lake of British Columbia and to the [[Loch Ness monster]] of Scotland.
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The '''Buratsche-al-Ilgs''' is an amorphous lake monster from Swiss folklore.
...creature was said to have escaped from a gateway to hell in the Luschersee lake in Switzerland.
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...Brosnya''' is the name given to a lake monster which is said to be inhabit Lake Brosno, near Andreapol in West Russia.
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...a Centipede) to describe these animals in his book The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and other Mystery Denizens of the Deep. In Vietnam, such cre
* Coleman, Loren and Huyghe, Patrick (2003). The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and other Mystery Denizens of the Deep. NY: Tarcher-Penguin
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In his first appearance, Varan is a monster that lives in a saltwater lake within the Kunishiroshima valley, where he is known to the natives as Barad
...u including Godzilla. Varan is seen in the climax, joining the other Earth monsters to fight against the King Ghidorah, though he does not actually participate
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...is a lake monster reported to live in the lake Storsjön (Great Lake or Big Lake in English) in Sweden.
...rly to Nessie, though the names Storsjö Monster or Storsjöormen "The Great Lake Serpent" are also used.
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The name "Morag" is a pun on the name of the lake in which the creatures lives, and of the Scottish female name, "Morag".
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...gopogo''' is the name given to the reputed [[lake monster]] that dwells in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada.
...uch as [[Basilosaurus|Zeuglodon]]. Other sightings have suggested that the Lake Okanagan beast is of the 'many hump' variety rather than the 'long neck' ty
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...of kelpies evolved into the present day legends of lake-monsters where the monsters "changed the appearance" to a more "realistic" and "modern" version since t
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...were often described as [[sea monster]]s, and myths and legends about such monsters may often have started with the appearance of a globster.
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..., '''addane''', '''addanc''', '''avanc''', '''abhac''', '''abac''') is a [[lake monster]] from [[Welsh mythology]] that also appears in Celtic folklore and
...in Llyn Llion, Llyn Barfog, near Brynberian Bridge or in Llyn yr Afanc, a lake in Betws-y-Coed that was named after the creature.
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'''Selma''' is a sea serpent said to live in the lake Seljordsvatnet in Seljord, Norway.
...rainy amateur video taken in 1988 and 1993 show humps in the middle of the lake, but they could easily have been waves.
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Reports of "black, shaggy monsters" seen in the forest region of Nkata Bay, Lake Nyasa, and of more than 30 mysterious tree-top structures (speculated to be
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...rmur, Lagarfljót worm''', (or simply Iceland Worm Monster) is an Icelandic lake monster which is purported to live in Lagarfljót in Egilsstaðir.
...up or slithering into the trees. Sometimes it is said to be as long as the lake itself, 30 kilometres (19 mi).
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Marine [[monsters]] can take many forms, including sea [[European dragon|dragon]]s, [[sea ser
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...uelito''' is a lake monster reported to live in the waters of Nahuel Huapi Lake, at the foot of the Patagonian Mountains in Argentina.
...like other more remote aquatic habitats, such as Lake Van, Lake Labynkr or Lake Khaiyr, which purportedly harbor large, sub-aquatic animals, Nahuel Huapi i
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...a sea serpent similar to [[Nessie]] that allegedly lives in the waters of Lake Windermere in England. Eight sightings have been recorded since 2006.
Windermere is England's largest natural lake at 10 and a half miles long, 1 mile wide and approximately 220 feet deep. T
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...rgo was driven ashore on the Lesser Syrtes, the crew carried the vessel to Lake Tritonis, whence Triton, the local deity, guided them across to the Mediter
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...ing, even a calf in one instance; all the disappearances occurred near the lake on his property. One day, he reportedly saw a colossal snapping turtle, est
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...tand. In the Enlightenment, the cabinet of curiosities would often include monsters in amongst the scientific instruments and toys. Similarly, the monstrous wa
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Two of the most notorious torture murderers were [[Leonard Lake]] and [[Charles Ng]] who, during the 1980s in California, killed over 18 me
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'''Champ''' is a large lake monster cryptid supposedly living in Lake Champlain, north-eastern North America.
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...a or captured the attention of as many people as did the story of the Bear Lake Monster. It spewed forth from the fertile mind of Joseph C. Rich in the lat
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The creature is supposed to live in a waterfall lake area in the northern forests of the Kwala Zulu, South Africa.
...nayamba's mastery of the lake, that a white S.African who once visited the lake recalls witnessing the astonishing sight of a group of women that had assem
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*Frawley, David (1991) ''Gods, Sages and Kings'' Passage Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, ISBN 1878423088 ;
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Travellers who wished to cross safely across the surface of a lake or river located within the domain of this being were required to make a sm
...at if invoked by a shaman, Mishipeshu would emerge from the surface of the lake and allow the shamans to remove fragments of his horns which were believed
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...are transported to the Lake of the Dead. The koko occasionally leave their lake village and visit humans in the form of clouds.
...in the underworld, but their children's spirits are transformed into water monsters, or uwanammi, who have the power to bring rain.
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...he boundary fortresses of Kazan, Alabuga and Cükätaw, legends about flying monsters flourished. One particular fortress on the Shishma River was known as Yilan
...s transformed into Diü, a spirit who founded the underwater kingdom of the lake.
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...e Republic of the Congo, and possibly Cameroon. It is also said to inhabit Lake Bangweulu in Zambia. They are thought not to live in herds or groups, but t
...n, along the shores of the Luapula River, which connects Lake Bangweulu to Lake Mweru.
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...their ancestors had trapped the Buru in five deep pools in the bottom of a lake, and that the creatures were stoned to death and the pools filled in. By th
...River monster. More importantly, Charles Gould in Appendix VII to Mythical Monsters describes what is supposedly a Chinese dragon going under the name of Kiao-
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...Hall saw a Dog-faced Bunyip with jet-black hair in the marsh running into Lake Bathurst South, New South Wales.
...with a head like a bulldog and black shaggy fur. While rowing across Great Lake, Tasmania, Charles Headlam and a friend almost bumped into a Dog-faced Buny
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Bakunawa appears as a giant sea serpent with a mouth the size of a lake, a red tongue, whiskers, gills, small wires at its sides, and two sets of w
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...ember of 1980, Larry Gwin spotted what he thought was Altamaha-ha in Smith Lake, located up the Altamaha River, while eel fishing. He described the creatur
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The older brother had other monsters to slay, and he left Mokwayo to seek his own way. Left to his own devices,
...he went far away and built his wigwam on the northeastern shore of a large lake, where he took up his abode.
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...ve just crossed Lake Akheron and encounter an Empousa amongst the guardian-monsters of Haides:]
...d best be moving on. This is the spot where Herakles declared those savage monsters dwell ... :Hallo! I hear a noise.
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...en to destroy evildoers. One of Houyi's victims was a monstrous serpent in Lake Dongting, the xiushe 修蛇 "adorned/long snake" (or changshe 長蛇, cf. a
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...This brings to mind the bodies of water - usually rivers, but sometimes a lake or sea - that are invariably supposed to surround the Indo-European underwo
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*[[Jeff Weise]], school shooting, Red Lake [[Ojibwa|Chippewa]] Reservation, [[Minnesota]] (2005)
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Shortly the water of the lake began to churn, and the head and finned for elegs of the Sea-Wolf, which so
...reature very much like the Sea-Wolf. He goes on to speculate that the lake monsters are actually a surviving populations of a type of primitive whale called a
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*Movie Youkai Daisensou/Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare - Kappa plays a crucial part in this movie, part of the youk
...the town in which the game is set. If you throw three cucumbers into the lake, he will emerge and bestow upon you the gift of a magical berry which grant
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...ay the 13th Part III'' (1982), Jason (Richard Brooker) escapes to a nearby lake resort, Higgins Haven, to rest from his wounds. At the same time, Chris Hig
...ake that supposedly caused his death as a boy. Chained to a boulder on the lake floor, Jason is left to die.
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...ess monster]] or the [[dinosaur]]-like reptile "[[Champ]]" said to inhabit Lake Champlain, then animals that in their own way may be even stranger."[http:/
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...proceeded to smash its way through the laboratory wall, making its way to Lake Ashino, where it rooted itself and took up residence there.
* Biollante appeared in ''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!'', (1993 - Game Boy), ''Super Godzilla'' (1993 - Super Nintendo), ''Godzil
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...e fact that they said they could not identify any other of the prehistoric monsters which I showed them...The natives do not consider it to be an unnatural thi
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...eature. Known by native people as the Nsanga, which is said to inhabit the Lake Bangweulu region. Gratz, describes the creature as resembling a sauropod. T
...native guides informed him of a large hippo-killing creature that lived in Lake Bangweulu; however, as noted below, Schomburgk thought that native testimon
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...magical healing lore after spending two years with the Snake People by the Lake of Emergence in the underworld. Healing and snakes were also associated in
...e as in Ahi/Vritra in early Indian myth and Jormungand in Nordic myth. Sea monsters lived in every ocean from the seven-headed crocodile-serpent Leviathan of H
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*In My Lord Bag of Rice, the Ryūō "dragon king" of Lake Biwa asks the hero Tawara Tōda 田原藤太 to kill a giant centipede.
...he temple founding and allegedly provides good fortune and prosperity. The Lake Saiko Dragon Shrine at Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi has an annual festival and fi
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...ons, they were playmates of young [[Persephone]] and were changed into the monsters of lore by Demeter for failing to intervene when Persephone was abducted ([
...evil monsters, as she as shown near Warlock in the first issue. The evil monsters are generally shown in crowds and indistinguishable in most panels, however
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...ioned in Rashi's commentary on Genesis 1:21: "God created the '''great sea monsters''' - '''''Taninim'''''." Jastrow translates the word "Taninim" as a "sea mo
...ingdom of Israel. Others liken the mention to [[Tiamat]] and other similar monsters who represented the sea as a foe to the gods in [[mythology|myth]]s of near
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...mortal shepherd and in the process killed him. Ashamed, she jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine nat
...ns with a small number of people. The rest either die, or become horrible monsters
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*In Swedish ecclesiastic and writer Olaus Magnus's Carta marina, many marine monsters of varied form, including an immense sea serpent, appear. Moreover, in his
*In October 2004, the giant squid, long associated with sea monsters and perhaps the source of many mistaken sightings, was for the first time c
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...he name ''kraken'' never appears in the Norse sagas, there are similar sea monsters, the ''hafgufa'' and ''lyngbakr'', both described in ''Örvar-Odds saga'' a
In ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', there are Duel Monsters that use the name Kraken in their title like Fiend Kraken and Fire Kraken.
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...e scales in Jason's favor. The film ends with Jason walking out of Crystal Lake holding Freddy's decapitated head, which winks to the audience, followed by
...sion. Jason is too strong to enter the vortex but is pinned underneath the lake when Ash's car crashes into him from being sucked in to the vortex.
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...ght be. It is a temptation to suppose they might be the fabulous Loch Ness monsters, now observed for the first time in their underwater activities!"</blockquo
...ke monsters on land, during which the creature supposedly waddled into the lake upon being startled, in the manner of seals.[58] Against this, it has been
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The Zodiac murdered five known victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. Four m
...ay, 17, and Betty Lou Jensen, 16: Shot and killed on December 20, 1968, on Lake Herman Road just within the city limits of Benicia.
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...th the abduction, in broad daylight, of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund from Lake Sammamish State Park near Seattle. Bundy had a remarkable advantage as his
That autumn, Bundy moved to Utah to attend law school in Salt Lake City, where he resumed killing in October with the murder of Melissa Smith,
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...imes indistinguishable with its own body. Some storytellers merged the two monsters so that rider and horse become one - a vile hybrid of man and beast.
[[Category:Sea and lake monsters]]
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...y also derive from giant squid sightings. Eyewitness accounts of other sea monsters like the sea serpent are also thought to be mistaken interpretations of gia
* National Geographic Video: "Sea Monsters"
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..., because it will create a permanent junction with the Dreamlands allowing monsters to move freely into the waking world.
...ened. Each year thereafter, strange ripples disturbed the otherwise placid lake. On the one-thousandth anniversary of Ib's destruction, Bokrug rose up and
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...t the center of the world, Dante finds Satan himself trapped in the frozen lake of [[Cocytus]]. A small tunnel leads past Satan and out to the other side o
...lo II]]'', which features Hell as a bleak landscape populated by grotesque monsters and souls in active torment.
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...Any other area named after the Wendigo, such as Windigo River and Windigo Lake in Ontario, is bound to be inhabited by this monster as well.
...must be hidden in some remote, inaccessible location (i.e. the bottom of a lake, a chasm, the sea floor, or a well). Failure to follow these procedures ex
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Its lair was the lake of Lerna formed by the Amymone spring in the Argolid, though archaeology ha
...puter game Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, an immortal Hydra is one of the monsters that the Hero must face during the Rites of Passage. The Hero can either w
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*[[Leonard Lake]] and [[Charles Ng]] - ex-marines and survivalists who collected female sla
[[Category:Human Monsters]]
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*In the Disney/Pixar movie, Monsters, Inc., it is revealed that the Abominable Snowman is a monster banished fro
* [[Lake Worth monster]]
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...elieved that in "old times" the thunderbirds destroyed dangerous reptilian monsters called the Unktehila.
...foot roll of color film of two birds taking off from a tree in an inlet of Lake Shelbyville. The film concentrates on one of the birds only. Highly controv
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...he game. It does not have rebirthing abilities (though it can revive other monsters) but does have some powerful fire attacks.
* In Lost Magic, the Phoenix is a fiery bird in Blaze Lake which attacks with its feathers.
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...and-to-be Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The weather was consistently too cold and dreary tha
[[Categories:Frankenstein monsters]]
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...the city; people reportedly ate lizards, grass, insects, and mud from the lake, but there are no reports on cannibalism of the dead bodies.
...rily to investigate reports of unusual marine life in the as yet uncharted Lake Pahoe." Later in the skit, Sir John has to block our view of a naval rating
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