Humped Creature

Location: Achmore, Isle of Lewis - Loch Urabhal
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 27 July 1961
Further Comments: While fishing, two teachers watched a small headed creature with a single hump swim past their boat at a distance of around thirty-five metres.

Blobster

Location: Benbecula - Shores
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1996
Further Comments: A dead four metre long creature was washed up on the beach, with diamond shaped fins sitting along its back - the creature could not be identified.

Mysterious Stones

Location: Callanish, Isle of Lewis - Callanish standing stones
Type: Other
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: It is still argued to what extent this stone circle represents the heavenly bodies above, and what its ultimate purpose was. One legend says that the thirteen stones were giants who refused to become Christians - they were petrified for the sin.

Vanishing Keepers

Location: Eilean Mor - Lighthouse
Type: Other
Date / Time: December 1900
Further Comments: The three keepers who vanished from the lighthouse left their log behind, which reported they had been rocked by storms over a five day period. However, the surrounding towns and villages reported that the weather had been calm.

Long Necked Creature

Location: Isle of Canna - Off the coast, and around surrounding islands
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: June 1808 or 1809
Further Comments: This creature, mistaken for a rock when first observed, was seen at various times by up to thirteen fishing boat crews. It was described as being 70 - 80 foot in length (21 - 24 metres), and possessing a long neck which it kept underwater whilst swimming.

Glowing Balls

Location: Isle of Lewis - Area around Sandwick
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The lights that float around the area normally announce approaching death for a local. Some say the light belongs to an Irish merchant who was robbed and murdered on the island.

Searrach Uisge

Location: Isle of Lewis - Loch Suainbhal
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1856 onwards
Further Comments: Resembling a capsized boat, this creature has been reported swimming around for one and a half centuries. Locals say lambs were once offered annually to the creature.

Bumpy Beast

Location: Isle of Lewis - Sea off the north of the island
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: May 1882
Further Comments: A German ship 15 kilometres off the coast reported a sea serpent around 40 metres in length, several bumps protruding from the water, along the creatures back. Sea serpents have also been reported at the southern side of the island.

Water Kelpie

Location: Leurbost - Inland lake
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: March 1856
Further Comments: This creature was described as being similar to a thirteen metre long eel, with huge fins that could be seen as it pushed itself from the water. Witnesses watched the beast eat a blanket that had accidentally been left on the beach.

Screaming Monster

Location: Loch Duvat, Eriskay - North side of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1893
Further Comments: While out looking for a horse that escaped his farm in the mist, a farmer saw what he thought was his missing beast in the loch. As he approached, he realised he was looking at a water monster; the creature gave an unearthly yell, sending the farmer running home, and also disturbing all the wildlife around the water.

Werewolves

Location: Loch Langavat, Isle of Lewis - Exact area unknown
Type: Other
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The island was once home to a colony of wolfmen - even though they are extinct, disturbing their graves is reported to release their spirits.

Monster Killer

Location: Loch na Mna - Shore of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Pre 1770s
Further Comments: A local man lost his daughter to the water horse that resided in this lake. In revenge, he roasted a pig by the loch, waited for the beast to take the bait, and killed it.

Dog Killer

Location: Loch Tuath - Area between Loch Tuath and Loch Cuan
Type: Other
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A misty female form was once seen here, with long blonde hair. The entity picked up the witness's dog, and ran off with it behind a nearby rock formation; the owner gave chase and, turning the rocky corner, found the dog with its windpipe crushed and large pieces of fur torn away. The strange woman had vanished.

Faery Dog

Location: Luskentyre - Area of beach
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This hound has been known to leave oversized paw prints on the damp sand which vanish suddenly half way across the beach.

Mermaid's Grave

Location: Nunton, Benbecula - Exact location not known
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: The area reportedly contains the grave of a mermaid killed in the early nineteenth century. The mer-creature had been seen for a couple of days, before a teenage boy threw a rock at it, killing the entity. Accounts stated that the upper part of the creature was the size of an infant, while the bottom was like a salmon.

Apports

Location: Shiant Islands - General area
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The island is renown for its mischievous fairies, who take objects or mysteriously place other objects in strange places.

Fairy Fort

Location: South Harris - Dun Borbe
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This old hill fort once belonged to the fairies.

Cusith

Location: South Uist - Road alongside Lochnan Eilean
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: September 1949
Further Comments: A woman walking with two friends in the pitch dark watched as a self-illuminating dog, the size of a collie but with a small head and no eyes, ran towards her. The creature vanished as it bounded past, but the two men with her saw nothing at all. Once she reached home and described what had happened to her aunt, the older woman told her it was a Cusith, a fairy dog.

Executed Man

Location: Stornoway - A858 between town and Leurbost
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Local tradition tells says that this man was executed in Stornoway for murdering a student who had accompanied him on a bird hunting trip. The ghost is said to haunt the spot of the killing.

Storm Kelpies

Location: The Minch - Waters of the sea
Type: Other
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: These blue entities patrol the waters between Lewis and mainland Scotland, looking for sailors to drown and stricken boats to sink.