The Paranormal Database

Horse

Location: Loch Meiklie (Highland) - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This loch has been named as another traditional haunt of water horses.

Morag

Location: Loch Morar (Highland) - Water of Loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1960s onwards
Further Comments: Home of yet another Scotland lake monster, a close eyewitness described the creature to be 10 meters in length, with brown skin. Three humps broke the water, as did a snake-like head. Two fishermen reportedly had a fight with it in 1969 - one hit it with an oar, while the other let off a couple of rounds with a rifle.

Monster Killer

Location: Loch na Mna, Isle of Raasay (Highland) - 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.

A Vain Search

Location: Loch nan Dubhrachan, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1870
Further Comments: Laird MacDonald of Sleat is said to have dragged the loch in 1870, failing to locate the kelpie which he believed lived here.

Loch Ness, Scotland.

World Famous Monster

Location: Loch Ness (Highland) - Water and surrounding banks
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Varies
Further Comments: A creature that needs no introduction, Nessie varies in size and shape, and with countless books and websites dedicated to proving and disproving its existence, I can offer little more information on the (possible) creature. One nineteenth century account says that the loch was the home of a demonic horse. The saddled creature would wait by the roadside, and if mounted by an unsuspecting passerby, would drag the rider into the water and drown them. According to an 1898 feature in the Llangollen Advertiser and North Wales Journal, a slightly less fantastic creature, the roe deer, would occasionally take to the waters of the Loch to escape man. While it cannot explain all Nessie sightings, perhaps a bobbing deer isolated in the dark waters could freak out the occasional tourist to the area.

Child Killer

Location: Loch Oich (Highland) - The Children's Pool, and general area
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A local legend states that an apparently peaceful creature here once let a child climb upon its back - having done so, the monster dived to the bottom of the water, and the child was never seen again. A serpent like beast was seen in the waters during the twentieth century.

Dark Water Horse

Location: Loch Pityoulish (Highland) - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This creature would wait until a bather submerged their head, before moving in to drown them. It was particularly fond of children, and in one attack managed to drown nine simultaneously.

Water Horse

Location: Loch Poit na h-I (aka Loch Pottie), Isle of Mull (Argyll and Bute) - General area
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This saltwater beastie is said to swim these waters.

Water Beast

Location: Loch Scavaig, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: Seen as it moved towards a small boat, the crew reported that the tail of this creature thrashed about above the water, while the rest of the body remained submerged.

Three Humped Monster

Location: Loch Shiel (Highland) - Waters and land around the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1880s onwards
Further Comments: With a sail running along its back, this serpentine 'Seileag' has even once been seen on land. A sailor, while transporting two old ladies across the water on an old boat, paused to take a pot-shot at it with a rifle he had at hand. In 1926 the creature was seen emerging from the water at Sandy Point.

Water Horse

Location: Loch Shin (Highland) - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This creature was friendlier than many of the other Scottish water horses and assisted in the construction of a local church. It may have been yellow in colour.

Lamb Eater

Location: Loch Suainaval, Isle of Lewis (Outer Hebrides) - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Circa 1856
Further Comments: It has been reported that lambs were thrown into this loch to feed the creature which lived within.

Kelpies

Location: Loch Treig (Highland) - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1933
Further Comments: During the construction of the Laggan dam, some divers requested transfers after encountering something under the water. One legend says that the water horses at Treig were the fiercest in the world and would tear anyone who strayed too close into a thousand pieces.

Buarach-Bhaoi

Location: Loch Tummel (Perth and Kinross) - General area
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This eel-like creature would wait for horses to trot through the water before looping itself around their legs, drowning the horse before drinking its blood.

Wattie

Location: Loch Watten (Highland) - General area
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 21 April 1923
Further Comments: Peter Haining wrote that Colonel Arthur Trimble had spotted a creature with a long neck and large head was seen in this loch. Karl Shuker has written a rather detailed article on his website which dismisses the encounter as highly likely to be fiction.

Killer of Dogs

Location: Loch Watton (Highland) - Waters of the loch
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1923
Further Comments: Witness Colonel Trimble claimed to have watched his dog be eaten by a creature with a long neck.

Stretching Horse

Location: Lochaber (Argyll and Bute) - Lochan na Dunaich
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Ten children caught a horse and, one by one, mounted the creature. The horse's back stretched to accommodate the children. The last child to try to climb on the horse had a bible in his pocket; the horse bolted as the child touched it, running into the loch. The nine children were never seen again.

Big Slug

Location: Longdendale Valley (Derbyshire) - Road from Glossop
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1950
Further Comments: Mr John Davies reported having to stop his motorbike to let a giant slug like creature cross the road - he compared the monster to a whale.

Two Saurians

Location: Looe (Cornwall) - Off coast
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 5 July 1949
Further Comments: A pair of green sea monsters were observed chasing fish off the coast. They were said to resemble Chinese dragons.

Monster

Location: Lough Abisdealy (County Cork) - Waters
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: January 1914
Further Comments: Three witnesses observed the giant black snake as it crossed the lough. The creature was estimated to be some ten and a half metres in length with its head held clear of the water. Its body formed two large loops breaking the surface of the lake as it moved. The creature was said to have developed a taste for the local sheep.

Peist

Location: Lough Allen (Aillionn) (County Leitrim) - Waters of the lough
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The lough is said to be home to a water monster, although no further information is available. One local folktale says the lough was created when a mortal left the cover off a fairy well, submerging a village.

Large Swimming Creature

Location: Lough Auna (County Galway) - Waters of the lough
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1960s
Further Comments: A local farmer spotted a grey creature in the lough during the sixties, while in 1969 Royal Netherlands Air Force Commodore Kort claimed to have witnessed a life form with a pointed back swimming through the water.

Long Creature

Location: Lough Bran (or Brin) (County Leitrim) - Waters of the Lough
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1940
Further Comments: Stories of this creature date back many years, thought the description varies considerably. The more recent sightings imply the monster to be a giant eel, greater than four metres in length.

Pig-like Creature

Location: Lough Brin (County Kerry) - Water near Moll's Gap
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 1954 and 1979
Further Comments: This area was visited in 2004 by a Japanese TV crew looking for the monster said to live here. The entity has a similar appearance to a black pig but blowed water from its back like a whale. It was spotted in 1954 by a farmer taking his cattle for milking, while in 1979 two more farmers spotted a black three metre long creature swimming in the waters.

Hump

Location: Lough Cullaun (County Clare) - Waters of the lough
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 24 June 1996
Further Comments: Tony 'Doc' Shiels watched a hump glide through the water, the sighting lasting several seconds.