Somebody sent me this photo (see blog) -- not sure if it's a fish, reptile or what, but I've never seen anything like it. I'll post more details when I get them.

Woods near Faro, Yukon Territory, Canada, ca. mid-1960s. Submitted by CanuckChik, whose late grandfather took the pic on a hunting trip.

Patterson-Gimlin Film, Oct. 20, 1967: the granddaddy of all Bigfoot evidence (or grandmammy, as many contend.)

Patterson Bigfoot Closeup

Patterson Bigfoot Back

Newspaper Serpent Image

Sea Serpent - Illustrated London News

Scientific American - Serpent Image

The famous "Surgeon's Photo" taken by British doctor Robert Kenneth Wilson in 1934.

Sixty years later, it was revealed that the Surgeon's Photo was of a toy submarine with a head attached, not the Loch Ness Monster.

Another famous Nessie photo hoax, taken by bank manager Peter MacNab in 1955. A discrepancy between the negative and the photo given to the press revealed that the photo had been doctored.

Gas bubbles or a fin? The controversially "enhanced" Flipper Photo, taken by an underwater camera on a Loch Ness expedition led by Dr. Robert Rines in 1972. Sir Peter Scott, also on the expedition, used the photo to come up with a scientific name for Nessie, Nessiteras Rhombopteryx ("the Ness wonder with a diamond fin.") Skeptics noted this was an anagram for "Monster hoax by Sir Peter S." Dr. Rines' anagrammatic retort: "Yes, both pix are monsters, R."

Frank Searle knew how to work it, and even though this photo ended up being probably just a floating log, it made him legendary in the field of Loch Ness Monster Hunters. I think he was sincerely looking at first, but just got tired of not getting the goods. He was a real character, a man after my own heart, at one point staking out a Nessie-watching spot behind Jimmy Page's place. Rock on!

Bloated, stinky and washed-up -- no, it's not my high school marching band teacher, and those aren't "tusks" (although that song was the highlight of our halftime show, hmm...) This cryptid wannabe found in Ataka, Egypt, in 1956, turned out to be a decomposing baleen whale with visible jawbones.

A legend in Newport, Arkansas, since 1915, this "monster" is believed to be a documented species in an out-of-place habitat—in this case, an elephant seal that wandered up the Mississippi River from the ocean (guess he’d never seen Deliverance.)

The elusive MHC President Derek C. Young, often spotted in the area of Washington Square Park. He may look tame, but if you see him before noon without a cup of coffee in his hand, do not approach!