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Selma of Seljord is Norway’s most famous lake serpent: a long-lived Telemark legend rooted in sea-serpent and lindorm folklore, old topographic writings, repeated summer sightings, and a modern local identity built around mystery rather than proof.
Storsjöodjuret is Sweden’s best-known lake monster: a great serpent or lake beast tied to Storsjön, the Frösö Runestone, centuries of sightings, folklore about trolls Jata and Kata, and a modern cultural afterlife in museums, tourism, and Jämtland identity.
Taniwha are powerful supernatural beings in Māori tradition associated with seas, rivers, lakes, springs, caves, and dangerous places. Some are destructive and predatory, others are protective kaitiaki. They are not one single monster but a wide and living class of culturally specific beings.
Tizheruk is one of Alaska’s most striking water-creature traditions: a long-necked sea predator in later cryptid retellings, but part of a broader and more complicated Bering Sea Indigenous monster world that also includes the related Palraiyuk.
The kraken is one of the great monsters of the sea: a shape-shifting Scandinavian leviathan remembered as island, whirlpool-maker, giant crab, tentacled horror, and finally as one of the strongest mythic ancestors of the giant squid.