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Con Rit is one of Asia’s strangest marine cryptids: a segmented, armored sea creature from Vietnamese waters said to resemble a colossal centipede or millipede, yet to swim with lateral fins like a giant marine arthropod or sea-serpent.
Manipogo is Manitoba’s best-known lake monster: a long, dark, hump-backed serpent of Lake Manitoba whose legend lives at the meeting point of Indigenous water-creature traditions, shallow-lake ambiguity, Canadian cryptozoology, and Métis festival culture.
Memphre is the lake monster of Lake Memphremagog: a long, dark, serpentine or hump-backed creature remembered through early nineteenth-century reports, local historical tradition, and a powerful modern afterlife as one of the most distinctive border-lake cryptids in northeastern North America.
Cadborosaurus, often called Caddy, is one of the most famous sea-serpent traditions of the Pacific Northwest: a long-bodied marine cryptid whose story merges coastal folklore, Indigenous-linked monster comparisons, 1930s media sensationalism, disputed carcass evidence, and a lasting local afterlife in British Columbia.
The ikuchi is one of Japan’s strangest maritime yōkai: not a beast that tears ships apart in rage, but an impossibly long sea creature whose slow passage across a vessel leaves behind such a flood of oily slime that the crew must labor desperately to survive.