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Rannamaari. The Rannamari was a sea monster from Maldivian folklore that was believed to have raped and murdered thousands of young women. It is said to be taller than palm trees, with a pitch-black colour and arms that reach its toes. According to popular versions of the story, when a Somali merchant called Al-Barbari performed a ritual after ...
Leviathan the sea-monster, with Behemoth the land-monster and Ziz the air-monster. "And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Duidain."
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where, according to an urban legend, [citation needed] a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The idea of the area as uniquely prone to disappearances arose in ...
The kraken (/ ˈkrɑːkən /) [ 8 ] is a legendary sea monster of enormous size, per its etymology something akin to a cephalopod, said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland. It is believed that the legend of the Kraken may have originated from sightings of giant squid, which may grow to 12–15 m (40–50 feet) in length.
Charybdis (/ kəˈrɪbdɪs /; Ancient Greek: Χάρυβδις, romanized:Khárybdis, Attic Greek: [kʰárybdis]; Latin: Charybdis, Classical Latin: [kʰäˈrʏbd̪ɪs̠]) is a sea monster in Greek mythology. Charybdis, along with the sea monster Scylla, appears as a challenge to epic characters such as Odysseus, Jason, and Aeneas.
Atlantis (Ancient Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, romanized: Atlantìs nêsos, lit. 'island of Atlas ') is a fictional island mentioned in Plato 's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations. In the story, Atlantis is described as a naval empire that ruled all Western parts of the known world, [1][2] making ...
The Terrible Dogfish (Italian: il Terribile Pesce-cane) is a dogfish -like sea-monster, which appears in Carlo Collodi 's 1883 book The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio) as the final antagonist. It is described as being larger than a five-story building, a kilometer long (not including its tail) and sporting three rows of ...
Many skeptics believe that the "Ningen" was actually an iceberg that coincidentally looked like the sea monster. [2] In 2010, the Japanese Enoshima Aquarium published a YouTube video showing the ocean life that they observed. Near the end of the video, a large creature with small eyes and a large, smiling slit-like mouth can be spotted lying on ...