Kaiju Timeline Mark 2
Posted: 2008-06-09 04:07pm
Thanks to the input from everyone, and the discovery of some very informative french websties, I have been able to almost completely overhaul the Kaiju Timeline I had posted earlier.
As before, for the purposes of this timeline a Kaiju is:
1) A creature of unusual dimensions (either size or form) that has not evolved naturally on earth.
2) A creature of tremendous size and mysterious origin.
This will take several posts, because it's F'n HUGE. And figuring out the text limiter is never fun.
Several entries are not given a date due to the exact nature of the dates provided. These are from: The Marc Ceracini Godzilla Novels, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Zombie Survival Guide, Cryptozoological History, Myth and Legend and a few from 'reality'. Some others are part of the histories of listed films and you just didn't notice it.
If you do not recognize the name of a monster, google it or check the links at the end of the Timeline.
1.8 Million Years Ago – Start of the Pleistocene Epoch.
400,000 BCE – Sinking of Lemuria, fall of the second kingdom of the Serpent Men and their dinosaur-monster wards.
300,000 BCE – Gargoyles first appear. Some time afterwards, an extremely large member of the Genera is imprisoned in stone for his cruelty. It is later dubbed Garuda.
250,000 BCE – Modern Man and Neanderthal man evolve. The world is filled not only with prehistoric giants, but demonic horrors and monsters as well.
53,000 BCE – The Agricultural Revolution occurs thanks to multiple interventions of other beings called ‘gods’ and ‘demons’ in later literature. There are now human settlements to ravage. Called the ‘Age of Lamps’ in the oldest chronologies.
48,000 BCE – Balrogs, Wyvern Dragons, Vampires and Kumo (Giant spiders of mystical origin) are thought to have appeared around this time. This time until 10,000 years later is known as the “Age of Darkness” under which Europe and much of the world had its mortal populations living in fear of demons, monster and Old Ones.
38,000 BCE – The stars change further, sending many remaining Old Ones into their not-death slumber. Still, monsters and demons roam the world. Elves diverge as their own species from other Fae. Many are consumed in the harsh environments of the time. Vampire Slayers appear. This marks the beginning of the “Age of Stars,” ending the “Age of Darkness.”
21,800 BCE – First “Age of the Sun,” where so called “higher” races (Fae) and men intermingle.
22,000 BCE – True Dragons appear.
21,900–21,200 BCE – The Silmarilion – The last of the Great Demon Wars are fought. It seems for a hundred years that all hope is lost, until the appearance of the Powers that Be in the form of Ultramen. Regrouped, the mortal races, with the aided of mages, Loranites and other beings, mortal beings are given sway. The last hundred years of the war are dubbed “The War of Wrath”; the first 600 are called “The War of Jewels”. This ends the First Age of the Sun in old reckoning.
Location: Across England and Ireland (or all of Europe).
Monster: True Dragons, Balrogs, Giants, Kumo, Empera-Seijin (Morgoth), Ungoliant and innumerable other forms of demonic entity.
Destruction: A large land mass (Belerland) sinks into what is now the North Sea. Massive destruction.
21,100 – The Muan/Atlantean/Numenorian Empire is founded, it spreads across the globe, establishing colonies in Africa, South America, Europe, Japan and many places in between. Peace settles for a time.
18,000 BCE – The Muan/Atlantean Empire constructs the RahXephon. Gyaos, a biological weapon are created from the genetic material of surviving pterosaurs on earth and Mahars, run rampant. While originally created to fight the demon armies, they turn on their creators instead—due to the manipulations of the entity dubbed Sauron. Gamera is then created to stem the growth of the Gyaos. RahXephon is constructed for a more desperate act, escaping into another dimension for several thousand years. RahXephon remains buried after their main city is removed from this dimension. End of the Second Age of the Sun.
17,800 BCE – The demon army that sent Atlantis/Mu beyond this world moves on the remaining forces of the world. The demon army is eventually driven back when its leader is defeated. The events are mythologized as The Last Alliance of Men and Elves.
14,950 BCE – The Hobbit – The dragon Smaug is slain.
14,880-14,870s BCE – The Lord of the Rings – one of the last demon armies lead by a demonic overpower or minor stellar being engages mortal forces in battle. Dragons are used in a demon army on earth for the last time in centuries. Orcs, Trolls and other things fall back until the Hyperborean age. Elves leave for either higher dimensions, or shunting themselves into deep corners of Pellucidar. This event ends of the Third Age of the Sun, and begins the Fourth Age of the Sun.
Location: Europe/England (?)
Monsters: Wyverns, Kumo, Kraken.
Destruction: Many villages, towns and cities destroyed/lost/damaged.
13,000 BCE – A great cataclysm (Old Ones awakening, if for but a time) tears continents apart into England and Ireland, removing most traces of what came before and bringing civilization back hundreds of years. The monsters slowly return as Mordor sinks into the black sea. Formorians swarm over England and Ireland. The world loses the last grasps it had on higher technologies, to pre-bronze-age technology. The Ages of the Sun end.
12,000 BCE – The Hyperborean Age begins, monsters and demons lay amongst men.
11,000 BCE – Approximate end of the Last Ice Age. Megafauna of North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia generally become extinct. This generally marks the end of the Pliestocene Epoch.
10,000 BCE – The time of Conan of Cimmeria, Red Sonja, Hadon of Opar (one of the few surviving outposts of Atlantis/Mu/Numenor) among other Barbarians. The Holocene Epoch begins.
9,000 BCE – A second Cataclysm strikes, destroying Hyperborea and the last major remnants of Atlantis and the Third/Fourth Age of the Sun are lost, as well as the technology involved (including metallurgy). Farming techniques, however, are not.
8,000 BCE – The Doom that Came to Sarnath – Bokrug brings Doom to Sarnath.
Location: Sarnath
Monster: Bokrug
Destruction: Entire city destroyed.
8,000 BCE – Neolithic Age or the “New Stone Age” begins.
5,300 BCE – “Sumerian Civilization” begins. It is the oldest civilization for which more than vague histories and allusions exist.
3,500 BCE – First Bronze Age culture appears.
3,000 BCE – In Egypt, the earliest known case of Solanum (Zombie) infection known due to an infected being locked in a tomb to prevent its spread.
2,900 BCE – The Great Pyramids built by human hands. Claims that aliens/gods were involved in their construction begin 100 years later. Though many alien entities use Egypt as a tuning point, the monuments remain sewn by human hands. Indus Valley civilization begins in India.
2,700 BCE – Minoan civilization begins.
2,205 BCE – Has Dynasty begins in China.
1,900-1,000 BCE – The Heroic Age of Greece: Hercules (or those later amalgamated to become the Hercules of myth) and other ancient Greek demigods roam the land slaying monsters such as Hydra, Cyclops, giants and other things.
1,400 - 1,000 BCE - The Trojan War/The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Argonautica occur around this time.
1,300 BCE – This marks the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Middle East. The technology spreads and drives many Fae away.
1100 BCE – The Formorians of Ireland are subdued. Later, the Tutha De Dana (Elves, returning from Pellucidar for a time) slay them outright. The Tutha De Dana retreat when Queen Mab asserts her power.
960-950 BCE – King Solomon binds demons to help him build the Temple in Jerusalem.
800 BCE-300 BCE – The expansion of Ancient Greece, Etruscan civilization thrives.
753 BCE – Rome founded.
660 BCE – First Emperor of Japan crowned.
609 BCE – Roman Republic established.
510 BCE – 323 BCE – Classical Greece reaches prominence due to Alexander the great. He is said to encounter many monsters in his journey, but none can withstand the might of his armies. Of these are Sea Serpents, Manticores and giant ants that stumbled across a gold mine.
355 BCE – Plato writes about Atlantis.
250 BCE – Marcus Atilius Regulus, Roman general, leads his army for the glory of Rome until he encounters a giant serpent. When his men fall before it, he orders that his legion employ siege tactics against its thick hide, slaying the creature. The creature is measured to be 100ft in length.
Location: Carthage
Monster: Giant Serpent.
Destruction: Many legionnaires slain.
80 BCE – A Roman Legion encounters Chaugnar Faugn. The legion is destroyed completely, but Chaugnar Faugn retreats to Asia nonetheless.
31 BCE – Roman Empire established.
10 AD – The Gaelic hero Cu Chullian battles the Banshee/Crom-Cruach the Death Worm.
79 AD – A Kraken is disturbed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Terrorizing the waters of the Mediterranean fishing ways, where they dub the creature “Scylla”. Its reign of terror lasts 30 years.
Location: Mediterranean
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Terrorized fishing lanes and shipping
121 CE – An outbreak of Solanum occurs among the northernmost Roman territories. Initial contact with the group was a dismal failure, resulting in an army of infected thousands strong (sources rate it as up to 9,000). When a Roman commander learns of the proper way to slay the monsters, he and his garrison managed to use tactics and training to end the infection, and methods for dealing with the Zombies are soon accepted. It is considered the largest outbreak on record, followed closely by the Raccoon City incident.
Location: Northern England
Monster: Solanum Zombies
Destruction: Minor property damage, over 10,000 people killed.
122 CE – Work begins on Hadrian’s Wall. May or may not be related to the Solanum outbreak.
140-121 CE – Six small outbreaks of Solanum occur in what is modern day Algeria. All are crushed by the Romans.
Location: Algeria, Africa
Monster: Solanum Zombie
Destruction: 140 some people slain, one family driven insane by the Zombies incessant moaning.
156 CE – A cleric is infected with Solanum in southern Germany, when the centurions move in to deal with the infected, there is an uprising, causing more damage than the outbreak would have under ideal circumstances.
177 CE – Last recorded Solanum outbreak in Rome. A very minor outbreak, recorded in southwestern France.
204-220 CE – The Han Dynasty creates records on the Dragons of China.
293 CE – Roman Empire is divided into the Eastern and Western Roman Empire.
300 CE – Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (CHUD) are first described in Byzantium’s sewers.
330 CE – Byzantium becomes Constantinople, and the new center of the New Roman Empire.
~400 CE - Two-Faced, Four Armed True Demon Ryoumen Sukunanokami is sealed away under a lake in Kyoto, Japan.
Oberon rebels against Queen Mab, overthrowing her. The Children of Mab become the Children of Oberon.
468 CE – The monsters of old begin to re-assert themselves as Rome collapses.
476 CE – The fall of the Western Roman Empire occurs.
490-~530 CE – The epic Beowulf occurs.
Location: Nordic Lands
Monsters: Dragon, Grendel, Grendel’s Mother, Sea Serpents
Destruction: Several dozen lives lost, several structures destroyed.
500-530 CE – Nibelungenlied/Der Reing Des Nibelungen occurs.
500 – 1200 CE – The age of Medieval and Arthurian Legend. Giants, Dragons, Sea Monsters and other creatures repopulate, but are again defeated. Sinbad has his voyages, encountering Cyclops, Roc (Rodan?), Giant Fish and Giant Snakes among others.
~580 CE – Saint Columbia ‘tames’ the Loch Ness Monster, who had been attacking the countryside. The creature would later return to its more hostile habits when threatened, removed from the loch, or given the proper impetus, but otherwise remains peaceful.
586 CE – Ragnarok Occurs. The Norse Gods mostly battle their enemies within their dimension, but segments of it bleed onto earth.
800 CE –The Holy Roman Empire is established.
850 – Somewhere in northern Germany, a large outbreak of Solanum Zombies around a lord’s castle. The infection quickly spread inside the walls as well until surrounding provinces burned the area around the castle, slaying both Zombie and human alike with ‘cleansing fire’. 200 Zombies remained trapped in the castle walls, however, sealed in before the infection took hold, and preventing them from being burnt. Over the next decade the moans of the undead could be heard by passing villagers. It is suspected a Slayer was sent in to deal with the remaining undead.
Location: Northern Germany
Monster: Solanum Zombies
Destruction: several villages and a castle destroyed. 1,700 people killed or infected.
994 – A group of Scottish Gargoyles are frozen in stone through arcane rights. Through the next few hundred years, many Gargoyles throughout the world are systematically exterminated or encased in stone.
1000 – Ogra first appears and defeats a Viking armada with ease, defending Nara Island and becoming ingrained in its mythology as a mighty Sea Spirit.
Location: Nara Island
Monster: Ogra
Destruction: One “Viking Fleet”, assumed all hands lost.
Formation of the Kaiju-worshiping cult “Repose of the Earth” (according to their doctrine), specifically worshiping the creature later dubbed “Clover.”
1100 – In ancient China, 8 demon sorcerers are sealed away into other dimensions, their leader, Shendu, is trapped in a stone form with 12 magical talisman carved from his hide. This talisman are scattered all across the world, and the portals to free the other demon sorcerers similarly scattered.
1200 – A Kraken is disturbed by volcanic activity and terrorizes the coasts of Denmark and Holland. It terrorizes the land for 30 years.
Location: Southernmost North Sea
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Terrorized Fishing Lanes, shipping, whaling and whales
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Graduation Day Part 1” – In the above episode, the demon Lohesh is mentioned to have become embodied through an Ascension ritual on this date.
Location: Koskov Valley, the Urals
Monster: Lohesh
Destruction: Entire village destroyed.
1253 – A zombie outbreak slays the inhabitants of a Greenland Viking colony. The town is burned, as are the remaining undead.
Location: Fiskurhofn, Greenland
Monster: Solanum Zombie
Destruction: 154 people killed, village burned to the ground.
1281 - The Colossus of Ylourgne – The necromancer Nathaire creates a 100 foot giant out of human body parts which ravages the countryside.
Location: Avergne, France
Monster: Colossus of Ylourgne
Destruction: Countryside ravaged, many killed
1300 – The “Little Ice Age” era begins, causing warm summers to become a rarity in Europe and the Americas. Monster activity in general decreases.
1340-1350 –The Black Death depopulates Europe.
1400s – A young girl raises a Wyvern in a nearby cave. When its appetite for flesh becomes too great, the villagers have a knight slay the creature, to the girl’s dismay.
Location: Mordiford, England
Monster: Dragon (Wyvern type)
Destruction: Sheep and Cattle, minor structural, a few humans.
A Dragonet takes up residence on Mount Pilatus, Switzerland. A swordsman is sent to dispatch the beast, but after decapitating the beast, its venomous blood slays the swordsman.
Location: Sweden
Monster: Dragonet (small Dragon)
Destruction: ~12 people slain
The Renaissance begins around this time.
1420-1430 – A giant serpent rises out of a North England lake. It terrorizes the countryside for many years until a knight returning from the crusades slays the creature. The events are mythologized as the story of the Lambton Worm.
Location: Washington, North England
Monster: Giant Serpent
Destruction: Several dozen slain.
1554 – A conquistador, Don Rafael Cordoza, leads his men into a ‘forbidden’ part of the jungle, only to see his men devoured by Solanum infected men. Upon his return to Spain, he is proclaimed a heretic and stripped of his rank and title.
Location: South America
Monster: Solanum Zombie
Destruction: A good portion of the expedition.
1579 – Sir Frances Drake learns of an island in the central Pacific where Solanum Zombies dominate, and where nearby islanders bring their dead to ‘rise again’.
1587 – Disappearance of the Roanoke Colony in South Carolina. Explanations for the event range from an Ascension, a Solanum outbreak, alien abduction or a Baragon awakening. The truth is not known.
1600s – Daimajin Trilogy– Across Japan at different points in time, various warlords meet their ends at the hands of a stone demon-god warrior the villagers they oppress invoke to avenge them. The Demons invariably turn on their invokers until they are bid to leave.
Location: Across Japan
Monster: Majin
Destruction: 3 villages destroyed, as well as various warlord armies.
King Kong Appears in Edo – Japanese sailors stumble across Skull Island (quite an amazing feat), and bring back a young Megaprimatus kong to Edo. By the time it gets there, it’s near fully grown, escapes and goes on a short rampage. This report has yet to be falsified.
Location: Edo (Tokyo), Japan
Monster: Megaprimatus Kong
Destruction: Unknown
Faust - The demon Mephistopheles is invoked for the first time in recorded history.
Location: Germany
Monster: Mephistopheles
Destruction: Widespread minor destruction.
Ultraman “Charge Fourth, Science Patrol” – A Baragon appears in Japan, but is slain by a crafty Samurai warrior who exploits its weakness to electricity.
Location: Japan
Monster: Baragon
Destruction: Village eaten and leveled.
1616 – The Fairy realms detach themselves from the British Isles after years of purges.
1650 – The era known as “The Little Ice Age” has its first Peak Cold Period.
May 27-28, 1669 – a winged serpent, an Amphipteres about 3m (9ft) long, appears and is driven off in Henham, England.
1690 – A Portuguese slave ship is brought to ruin by a Solanum infected slave brought aboard. The ship, upon discovery, is sunk into the depths of the southern Atlantic.
1702-1706 – Gulliver’s Travels “Part II: A Voyage to Brodbingnag” – Gulliver is swept to a world approximately 12 times the size of his home world. It is assumed to be an extra-dimensional locality.
Location: Portal located near the east coast of North America
Monster: Giants
Destruction: None
May 26, 1723 – Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Enemies” – An Ascension occurs in Sharpsville, US. No one hears of the town or its inhabitants. The demon ascended is unknown.
1740-1789 – Baron Munchausen travels the world, encountering many strange things including giant fish and monsters. It is theorized that he may in fact be an Archfae or insane given the nature of his recounting.
1740 – Leumel Gulliver is joined by extraordinary persons of the age including Orlando, Dr. Syn, the Blakeneys, Fanny Hill and Nathaniel “Natty” Bumpoo as they participate in events later dubbed “The Borbdingnag’s Giant Wars”.
1762 – A Solanum outbreak occurs on St. Lucia. Only a small group of land owners survives, holing up in a castle. The slaves survive through a foreknowledge of the enemy and managed to quell the outbreak. The British authorities label the event a ‘slave uprising’ and respond accordingly.
Location: St. Lucia, Caribbean
Monster: Solanum Zombie
Destruction: Most of the island is depopulated of white settlers.
1770 – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – A Kraken plagues the Caribbean.
Location: Caribbean
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Terrorizes shipping, sinking ships.
Climatic Cold Peak of “The Little Ice Age” occurs.
1776 – The first sighting of Mokele Mbembe by the Western World.
1811 – First footprints of the creature later dubbed “Bigfoot” or “Sasquach” as seen by white men in Alberta.
1816 – “The Year Without A Summer,” Also known as “Eighteen Hundred and Froze-To-Death” or “The Poverty Year.”
1830 – Alfred Tennison publishes the poem “The Kraken” after witnessing an attack.
1830-1850 – The first experiments in telegraph networks that rely on electricity, arguably, leading to the creation of the dimension known as The Wired.
1840s-1850s – The reign of terror of the white whale called Moby Dick. It is theorized that it is a Slasher-Whale created by overhunting. It is slain, but sinks the ship chasing it, taking all hands save one.
1850 – End of the era known as “The Little Ice Age”.
1860 – First modern recorded sighting of the creature called now called Ogopogo.
1860s - The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao – A mysterious being known as Dr. Lao brings his magical circus to the town of Abalone. One night, after using his soul-mirror like circus to expose a plot for one man to ‘own’ the town, his hired thugs tear through Lao’s circus, releasing his ‘pet’ Loch Ness Monster. Lao manages to recapture the beast before it reaches town.
Location: Abalone, American West
Monster: Loch Ness Monster, N.O. Fairy
Destruction: 2 men disappear without a trace.
1861 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – A Kraken sighting is mentioned by Peirre Aronnax.
Location: Canary Islands
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Lost munitions.
1864 – Journey to the Center of the Earth – Explorers enter a massive cave system and find many oversized prehistoric monsters.
Location: Cave System/Pellucidar?
Monster: Prehistoric Monsters
Destruction: None.
1867 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Captain Nemo’s ship Nautilus is besieged by juvenile Kraken.
Location: Caribbean Sea
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Several Lives Lost.
A Solanum outbreak occurs among the crew and prisoners of the RMS Roma bound for the Australian penal colony. The ship is sunk by a storm soon after it arrives.
1882 – A Solanum outbreak wipes out the mining town of Piedmont, Oregon, though no Zombies were found—and neither were any survivors.
1884 – The first sighting of a Bigfoot in North America.
1889 – Tremors 4: The Legend Begins – Graboids/Cthonians first appear in Perfection Valley, Nevada. They are quickly slain.
Location: Perfection Valley, Nevada
Monster: Graboids/Cthonians
Destruction: ~6 people eaten
1890s – Doctor Who “The Talons of Weng-Chiang” – The mysterious time traveler known as the Doctor matches wits with Fu Manchu, at one point, encountering giant rats in London’s sewers. The story is highly corrupted in order to Conceal Fu Manchu’s involvement.
Location: London, England
Monster: Giant rats
Destruction: Several people attacked.
1893-1896 – A group of Solanum Zombies lays siege to Fort Louis Philippe for 3 full years before they trap the zombies in the fort and make for the nearest oasis. The fort is abandoned.
June, 1899 – The War of the Worlds/League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2/War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches – Britain; Cuba (minor); South Africa (minor); Paris, France; China; Texas; Italy; India; New York, New York; Russia; St. Louis, Missouri; New Orleans, Louisiana; and other locations. Sarmaks from Mars invade several locations across the world.
1900-1910? – Pete’s Dragon – First viable record of a dragon-like N.O. Fairy. It is credited for the rescueof a fishing vessel off the coast of Maine, and appears to aid orphaned children in trouble, by all accounts.
Location: Passamaquoddy, Maine
Monster: N.O. Fairy
Destruction: Minimal, mostly storm damage.
1900 – Lair of the White Worm – A man is tempted to shoot a tremendous snake on a tiger-hunt. He reports the creature between 80 and 100ft long.
Location: Upper India
Monster: Giant Serpent
Destruction: None
The Valley of Gwangi/The Beast of Hollow Mountain – An Allosaurus is brought to civilization from a “Hidden Valley”. The creature inevitably escapes and goes on the rampage before meeting its end in a burning church. Rumor has it that it escaped and headed into the hills where it terrorized the Texas cattle industry for several months before being trapped in a riverside sink hole.
Location: New Mexico/Texas
Monster: Allosaurus
Destruction: ~10 people killed directly by the creature, one elephant killed, one Cathedral burnt to the ground. 23 Cattle deaths blamed on the creature.
Warlords of Atlantis – A diving bell discovers a sunken Atlantean colony that has greatly degenerated, and has some horrific, monstrous life forms of its own. The expedition crew tries to escape the cruel rulers of the main society and the monsters. They manage to escape, but a Kraken sinks their ship, leaving only a few survivors on a lifeboat.
Location: Atlantic Ocean
Monsters: Giant Eel, Kraken, Baragon (called “Zarg” by Atlanteans), Giant Serpent
Destruction: Ship sunk with most of the hands lost aboard.
1903 –1913 – At the Earth’s Core - David Innes’s first travels to Pellucidar, eventually escaping to bring more aid to the strange land’s natives against their hated enemies: The Mahars.
1904 – The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth – Giant vermin (insects, rats and spiders) appear in the European countryside.
Location: English Country Side
Monster: Giant Rats, insects and Spiders
Destruction: Un-exact attacks, some deaths.
Kwaidan: the Stories of Strange Things is written, including the original folktale about the Yuki-Onna.
July 27, “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” – Sherlock Holmes encounter a case where a schoolmaster was slain by a monstrous lions mane jellyfish.
1909 – Une Invasion de Macrobes – Giant microbes are seen in France at the bidding of a mad scientist.
Location: Paris, France
Monster: Oversized Micro-organisms
Destruction: Unknown.
1911 – Lair of the White Worm - a giant serpent is involved in a cult dedicated to Yig. The creature is slain by explosives.
Location: England
Monster: Albino Giant Snake
Destruction: Several lives lost. Cult disbanded.
A group of teenagers enter a ‘dare’ to stay the night in the bayou where it was claimed a group of Hillbilly Zombies were said to roam. The rumors turned out to be true, and the teenagers disappeared into the swamp. A search party is later attacked by 30 of the monsters and the entire town is besieged. Various efforts made by the townsfolk lead to the entire town burning down. Of the 114 people, only 58 manage to escape.
Location: Vitrie, Louisiana
Monster: Solanum Zombies
Destruction; entire town burnt down, 56 people killed.
1913 – Birth of Wilbur Whatley and his Half-Brother, the Dunwich Horror.
Solanum, the virus identified as the cause of certain Zombies, is identified.
The Mahar Innes brought with him as evidence of his adventures escapes.
1914 – Atlantis: The Lost Empire – An expedition goes to a sunken portion of the Muan/Atlantean Empire that had embedded itself in the earth. It is guarded by a mechanical monster dubbed Leviathan. The explorers discover a regressed civilization living peacefully, but in fear of some of their technology. When some of the explorers seek to steal the Zero Point Modulator (in the form of a massive Crystal), others band with the Atlanteans/Muans to save their home from being crushed under the surrounding pressure by returning the crystal.
Location: Atlantean City, South Pacific
Monster: Leviathan Dolem
Destruction: Several dozen slain, a lot of unique equipment lost.
July 1-12, 1916 – The first major recorded outbreak of shark attacks occur along the New Jersey shore and up the Matawan River.
Location: New Jersey Shore and Matawn River, New Jersey.
Monster: Shark (Slasher?)
Destruction: 5 people killed.
1916-1918 - As the Great War was beginning to close; Germany and her allies began using more and more unusual weapons, Kaiju among them. G-8 and his Battle Aces become the first anti-Kaiju force.
Location: Across Europe
Monster: Giant Skeleton, Kumo (with webs capable of catching planes), giant apes (Megaprimatus?), mechanical monsters, giant birds (roc?), giant bats, Fire Demon/Balrog, and Dragons with poison breath
1918 - The Land that Time Forgot – As the war closes, the lost land of Caspak is first discovered in its full horrific glory.
1922 – The Lurking Fear –A Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller (CHUD) is discovered in a cave system in the Tempest Mountains, New England.
May 17 – The Horror at Martin’s Beach – a strange, cyclopean fish-creature with 6 fingered fore-limbs, fifty feet long and ten feet in diameter is slain and captured by Captain James P. Orne after a 40 hour battle with it. The creature is pronounced a juvenile, only months from hatching by the scientific community. They are nonetheless startled by it.
June – The Horror at Martin’s Beach – Captain James P. Orne rigs a ship to display the monster and travels across the east coast with the curiosity.
June 17 – Out of the Ages – Ponapean fishermen report an encounter with tremendous “Sea Slugs”.
Location: Pohnpie Island, South Pacific
Monster: Unknown Sea Slug creature?
Destruction: None
July 20 – The Horror at Martin’s Beach – The ship containing Captain Orne’s curiosity is sunk in a storm. Search efforts begin.
August 7 - The Horror at Martin’s Beach – Search efforts for Captain Orne’s curiosity end.
August 8 - The Horror at Martin’s Beach – That night, a centipede-like, aquatic humanoid rises from the depths and drags Captain Orne and his crew to their doom. The creature is reported to conjure a storm as it does so.
Location: Martin’s Beach, Massachusetts
Monster: Captain Orne’s Curiosity (Mother)
Destruction: ~12 men killed.
1925 – Who Goes There – Doc Savage joins an Antarctic research expedition as a Meteorologist and second-in-command. Savage and the other members encounter a shape-shifting alien organism that attempts to assimilate the genetic material of the crew. The creature is incinerated before it can rebuild a method of escape, but rumors of samples of it being saved persist, some claiming the surviving material is responsible for various ‘stretching heroes’ such as the “Elongated Man”, “Plastic Man” and “Mr. Fantastic”.
February 25, 1925 – Call of Cthulhu – R’lyeh rises from the ocean, creating a wellspring of madness among the people of earth.
March 23, 1925 – Call of Cthulhu – A sailing ship has the misfortune of encountering Cthulhu himself.
April 2, 1925 – Call of Cthulhu – R’lyeh sinks beneath the waves. Some mark this as the beginning of the Age of Monsters.
1927 – Guns of the Dragons – World War One veteran Hans Von Hammer and notorious Gambler Bartholomew A. Lash stumble onto Skull Island in the South Pacific. He finds Yakuza and Triads trying to mine the island for drug resources—but the animals prove too much for either. An immortal, dubbed “Vandal Savage”, was manipulating the gangs for his own purposes.
Tarzan at the Earth’s Core – Tarzan travels to Pellucidar for the first time. He returns multiple times, eventually living there for many years at a time.
1928 – La Revolt des Monstres – Giant insects appear in France, possibly spill out from the previous event.
Location: France
Monster: giant insects, unknown proportions.
Destruction: Unknown
The Mahagga – Tarzan confronts Innes' escaped Mahar.
February - The United States military raids the town of Innsmouth. (Shadow over Innsmouth, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth)
Location: Innsmouth, Massachusetts
Monsters: Shoggoth, Dagon/Hydra, Deep Ones, Flying Polyp (?)
Destruction: Reef bombed, town depopulated, unknown number of agents lost to injury or madness.
September 9-15, The Dunwich Horror is loosed on the world until it is slain by Henry Armitage and his allies using incantation from the Necronomicon.
Location: Dunwich, Massachusetts
Monster: The Dunwich Horror
Destruction: Several buildings demolished, ~24 people consumed by the Horror.
February 25, 1930 – The Thing That Walked on the Wind – Ithaqua slays the entire populace of Stillwater, Manitoba. Only one body is found.
Location: Stillwater, Manitoba
Monster: Ithaqua
Destruction: Entire town slain.
Atlantis: Milo’s Return – The remnant survivors of the Atlantis Expedition (which ended in general failure/secrecy) is forced to return to the surface in search of a second Zero Point Modulator to power the city. The journey causes them to cross several locations in search of the ZPM, encountering a few monsters along the way.
Location: Nordic Mountains, American Southwest
Monster: Kraken, Sea Serpent
Destruction: Equipment
Atlantis: the Series “The Last” (Unproduced) – Demona, the immortal Gargoyle, uses Atlantean Dolem technology to awaken Notre Dame’s Gargoyles into Dolem Gargoyles to slay humanity. She is thwarted by the current Hunter and the Atlantis Expedition.
Location: Notre Dame, France
Monster: Gargoyles, Dolem Gargoyles
Destruction: Unknown.
A scientific survey team goes to the Black Lagoon. There are no survivors.
Location: Black Lagoon, Brazil
Monster: Gillman
Destruction: A dozen people slain.
1931 – King Kong - Discovery of King Kong and Skull Island.
Location: New York
Monster: Megaprimatus Kong, Skull Island Dinosaurs.
Destruction: 12 men killed on Skull Island, 1 train de-railed and other minor property damage across the city. 4-6 people killed
Triffids are engineered through crossbreeding by Soviet scientists.
January/February – At the Mountains of Madness – The Mountains of Madness are discovered by the Pabodie expedition. The survivors of the Pabodie expedition flee the arctic after several nasty discoveries at the site. First recorded encounter with a Shoggoth in modern times.
The Land of Terror – Doc Savage and his assistants travel to Caspak, but the expedition is forced to leave due to volcanic activity.
1933 - Cement Surroundings – Sir Amery Wendy Smith, his compatriots and his family are slowly hunted across continents by Graboids/Cthonians.
Location: England, the Antarctic
Monster: Graboid/Cthonian
Destruction: One family line decimated, one expedition consumed.
1937 - Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus – Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (CHUDs) begin appearing in New York. Reports state that they are common in all large cities (Rome, Paris, London, etc). The vigilante known as the Lobster becomes entangled in a plot revolving around the first, primitive Nekketsu engine, called a “Vril Engine” or Anum’s Fork, battling against the mysterious “David” Lo Pan.
The Monsters – Doc Savage combats chemically altered Giants. Rumors of the Batman and Superman combating these giants along with him are common.
Location: (?)
Monster: Human Giants
Destruction: Basic property damage.
Sh! The Octopus – Two detectives track a criminal/murderer named “The Octopus” to a lighthouse where they and a small group of people are trapped by a storm. The Octopus becings to murder the people trapped inside with the detectives in a race against time to find the killer—then a young Kraken is washed up on the island and sees the trapped humans as food…
Location: New England
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Several people slain.
1937-1945 – The War that Time Forgot – The Second World War is waged, resultant spills and research leads to the creation of many oversized mutants—some used in the war effort on both sides. Several attempts are made to make use of Caspak as a landing position by the Japanese and American forces. They are repulsed by the native life forms that developed more aggressive mannerisms and other things in response to the invasion. This is the first recorded instance of Caspak doing so, but not the last. There are approximately 50 known missions.
1939-1942 – The first Computer, the ABC, is brought online, laying further foundations of the Wired.
1940 – Gargoyles “M.I.A.” – The gargoyle named Goliath travels back to this period to explain the mystery of a missing Gargoyle from that time, and finds that he must bring that Gargoyle to the future to keep the time stream intact. While there, he and the other Gargoyle aid the RAF defend against the Nazis bombings of London. This, however, gives the Germans ideas.
1942 – Jongor of the Lost Land – The Lost Land in northern Australia is discovered. It is home to many prehistoric animals, and surviving Mu.
1944 – The Japanese manage to make a port on Skull Island. American invaders are slaughtered by a previously undocumented species of Skull Island Therapod dubbed “Godzillasaurus”. The monster is wounded by the Americans. The Japanese believe that the animal was protecting them and give it honors before they leave it to die.
Location: Skull Island
Monster: Godzillasaurus.
Destruction: An American platoon wiped out.
Reign of the Gargoyles – The Nazi’s employ Germany’s few remaining Gargoyles to fight against their enemies’ aircraft. The Gargoyles are exterminated by the Allied forces after several attacks.
Location: Germany
Monster: Gargoyles
Destruction: Several dozen aircraft downed, hundreds killed.
Unknown Island/Island of Untamed Women – John Fairbanks and his flight crew are forced to bail out over Skull Island. The islands various horrors prove too much for the crew, and he is the only one to escape with his life.
Location: Skull Island
Monster: Dinosaurs (Skull Island)
Destruction: ~6 people slain.
The Hellboy is brought to earth by Nazi scientists.
1945 – A still-living heart of one of the Frankenstein’s Monster is brought to Hiroshima by the Nazi’s in the waning days of World War II. It is caught in the Hiroshima Blast and irradiated.
Tagurato Corporation, a deep sea exploration and drilling company, is founded.
Warbirds – The environemental destruction wrought by the war awakened several dozen Gyaos that attacked all in sight. A group of WASPS (Women Air Service Body) aid in the destruction of the Gyaos before Gamera awakened.
Location: South Pacific
Monster: Gyaos
Destruction: Several Dozen plains downed, pilots lost.
1947 – A Solanum outbreak occurs in the small hamlet of Jarvis, British Columbia. 30 people are slain in the end, only 14 survive the event.
1948 – Unknown Island – The Osborne expedition to Skull Island is launched, with John Fairbanks as the guide. The expedition brings back photographic proof of the survival of prehistoric monsters. Skull Island is also found to be host to a colony of Deep Ones, so the United States Government discredits the photographic evidence as best it can, and ends any further exploration attempts.
Location: Skull Island
Monster: Dinosaurs (Skull Island)
Destruction: ~12 people killed
Mighty Joe Young/Terror on the Midway – An abnormally large Mangani is brought to Hollywood, California to work at a night club. After being harassed (and intoxicated) by a group of drunks, Joe goes on a rampage, releasing many other animals (including lions) into the nightclub. Joe’s handler and childhood friend manages to calm him and return him to his cage as the police (and some reports say, Superman) arrive to deal with the other animals (the police in a very lethal fashion). A court rules that Joe is to be put down, but the nightclub owner and Joe’s handler plot Joe’s escape. Though unsuccessful in their attempt, Joe’s rescue of several orphans from a burning building they stumble across along the way (and an article by Clark Kent on the injustices facing this animal) sway public opinion and get Joe returned to Africa. An unpublished adventure with Tarzan soon follows.
Location: Hollywood
Monster: Giant Gorilla
Destruction: Nightclub trashed, orphanage burned down (unrelated)
SIGNET (Signal Intelligence) is created to intercept electronic communications.
1949 – The colony of Deep Ones at Skull Island is destroyed in an atomic explosion. The island is irradiated heavily.
1951 – Lost Continent – An experimental rocket crash-lands in Caspak, forcing an expedition to retrieve it.
Location: Caspak
Monsters: Prehistoric Monsters
Destruction: 4 people killed.
1952 – The Quatermass Experiment – The first rocket into space returns with two of the crewmen missing. Bernard Quatermass investigates only to find that one of the crewmen has been infected with alien spoors from a cactus-like alien organism dubbed Sabotendar later on. The creature grows and prepares to release spoors across the globe. Quatermass determines that the other astronauts have been absorbed by the creature. Appealing to the consciousnesses of those trapped inside the monster buys the military time to destroy it.
Location: Westminster Abbey
Monster: Sabotendar
Destruction: Several people slain, some property damage.
1953 – Doctor Who “The Idiots Lantern” – A Data Life Form attempts to draw energy from humans viewing the Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation, but is stopped by the Doctor, who traps it in a jury-rigged VCR.
Location: London
Monster: Data Life Form
Destruction: One person slain outright
Mesa of Lost Women – A mad scientist creates dwarf humans and giant spiders (in order to create a race of Slayer-like spider-women) in a hidden valley in Mexico. The formula escapes into the surrounding hills, and creates a large, contaminated area. It takes only 5 years for the entire valley to be contaminated with the substance, and the valley overrun with giants.
Location: Mexico
Monster: Giant Spider
Destruction: Unknown
1954 – The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms/The Arctic Giant – A prehistoric monster is awakened by nuclear testing in the arctic and proceeds to swim down to New York, sinking ships along the way. Superman confronts the beast as it lands, driving it off for a moment before the military arrives to deal with the creature. When they manage to injure the creature with an anti-tank weapon, they release a deadly bacterial agent among the populous. It is eventually discovered that radiation treatments can eliminate the bacteria, and they introduce some to the monster’s system. The creature dies from its wounds in the midst of a rollercoaster fire at Coney Island.
Location: Greenland to New York along the arctic current.
Monster: Rhedosaurus
Destruction: 2 Ships Sunk, One Lighthouse toppled, Several buildings destroyed along the coast of Massachusetts, ~200 people slain, 2000 injured in the panic and by the sickness, One railway car crushed, One rollercoaster burned, two cars crushed, one New York building demolished, subway entrance damaged,
Gojira/Godzilla: King of the Monsters – Godzilla first appears, attacking shipping before moving to “Odo Island” (one of the Bomin/Ogasawara Islands) for two days of destruction, and then two night visits to Tokyo. The creature is thought destroyed by the Oxygen Destroyer.
Location: Bomin Islands, Tokyo Japan.
Monster: Godzilla
Destruction: 3-4 ships destroyed, all hands lost. Village flattened (minimal loss of life) a line through Tokyo is burnt.
The Deadly Mantis – A prehistoric praying mantis over 150ft long unthaws from the arctic and begins to head south. It is slain by conventional weapons in Washington.
Location: Arctic, Eastern Seaboard, New York, Washington D.C., Holland Tunnel
Monster: ‘Deadly Mantis’
Destruction: several dozen people are consumed and several planes destroyed.
Them! – Giant ants created by atomic testing 9 years ago first appear. They consume several people before spreading; those adjacent colonies are soon destroyed as well.
Location: South Western United States and Mexico
Monster: Giant Ants
Destruction: several dozen deaths, one cargo ship sunk with all hands lost, several walls torn out
The Nature of the Beast – Hellboy is hired by the Osiris Club to slay a dragon that has re-appeared in England.
Location: England
Monster: Lindworm Dragon
Destruction: One statue destroyed, several people slain.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon – The first scientific expedition to the Black Lagoon that returns with a tale of a prehistoric Gillman living there, claiming that it slew several crewmen. They believe it to be dead.
Location: Black Lagoon
Monster: Gillman
Destruction: Minor boat damage, 3 people slain, 2 badly injured.
The Monster from the Ocean Floor – A young Kraken is irradiated and forced to feed on other life forms it can find. The creature is slain when a minisub rams its.
Location: Pacific Coast of Mexico.
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Several slain.
1955 – It Came from Beneath the Sea – A Kraken rises due to nuclear testing irradiating it, alerting its natural prey of its presence. It moves across the pacific, from Japan to San Francisco in search of food. The animal is destroyed by a torpedo to the brain.
Location: Mariana Trench, Pacific Coast of the United States, San Francisco and Hawaii.
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Causes disappearances of Japanese Fishing fleet ships and bad Siberian Seal hunting (the former likely Godzilla), destroys several buildings, it also damages the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Tarantula – A mutated tarantula is let loose accidently by a scientist, it grows to tremendous proportions and appetites. It is destroyed by Napalm.
Location: Arizona
Monster: Mutant Tarantula
Destruction: One home demolished, one car smashed, power lines knocked down, many livestock consumed along with 6 people.
Revenge of the Creature – A second expedition to the Black Lagoon manages to capture the Creature and bring it to an aquarium in Florida. The creature eventually escapes and goes on the rampage and escapes into the Everglades, even though it is believed dead in a barrage of bullets.
Location: Florida
Monster: Gillman
Destruction: One car overturned, several people slain and badly injured.
1956 – The Creature Walks Among Us – The Gillman is recaptured and caged, coaxed into a more land-oriented environment, and raised as though it were a chimpanzee—exhibiting remarkable intelligence for an amphibian. However, a jealous researcher murders a crewman who he believed to be having an affair with his wife, and attempted to frame it on the Gillman. The Gillman snapped back to his violent ways, slew the researcher, and escaped into the ocean.
Location: Florida
Monster: Gillman
Destruction: Minor Property damage, some injured, 2 slain.
The Monster of Peidras Blankas – The Gillman slays several people as it moves down the gulfstream. The Gillman crosses the Panama Canal.
Location: Gulfstream shoreline
Monster: Gillman
Destruction: ~12 slain.
The Mole People – A group of explorers finds a new entryway to Pellucidar, and encounters a Sumerian society using Gorbuses as slave labor. They call the Gorbuses “The Mole People” or “The Dark Ones.” They get caught up in a slave revolt, but escape.
Location: Pellucidar
Monster: The Mole People/Gorbuses
Destruction: several dozen slain.
Bride of the Monster – a mad scientist alters a Kraken to live in fresh water to guard his swamp mansion/laboratory from interlopers as he attempts to create a “race of atomic supermen.” After his deadly rays are turned on him, and a half-human CHUD-like creature, he and his creation are slain by a random lightning bolt.
Location: Florida(?)
Monster: Kraken, CHUD (?)
Destruction: several people slain (mostly by the mad scientist).
1957 – The Black Scorpion – A fissure opens in the earth due to volcanic eruption to underground cave system of gigantic invertebrates. Black Scorpions, the top predators, escape the fissure and attack. They are slain by conventional weaponry.
Location: San Lorenzo and Mexico City, Mexico.
Monster: Black Scorpion, Giant Inch Worm, Giant Trapdoor Spider, Giant Cave Bat
Destruction: Unknown total extent, many lives lost in combination of the two events. One attacked Mexico City and one group derailed a train to consume its occupants.
Tahiti-Nui – A researcher experimenting in ancient travel methods encounters the Gillman in the Pacific Ocean.
X-The Unknown – A protoplasmic, radiovore (radiation-eating) organism escapes the earth’s crust and seeks out food. Eventually returned to the earth’s crust and trapped.
Location: England
Monster: Blob Organism(?)
Destruction: several person’s slain, several Locations irradiated.
The Monolith Monsters – An inorganic, extraterrestrial, crystalline plant-creature spreads rapidly after a rainstorm. They are slain by salt water.
Location: California
Monster: The Monoliths
Destruction: Some buildings and people crushed.
The Monster that Challenged the World – Semi-Aquatic velvet worm-like animals (likely related to the mythos entities called Yuggs or the same as) awaken after testing in a salt lake. The military moves quickly to make sure they do not spread, but the creature’s still manage to enter some freshwater habitats before they are supposedly irradiated.
Location: Salton Sea, California and surrounding area.
Monster: Yugg-like organisms
Destruction: Lab demolished, ~14 people grasped and drained of liquids.
Kong: King of Skull Island – Carl Denham’s son travels to Skull Island, he believes that the Kong Apes are extinct, but is glad to see the island has recovered. A Sumatran Rat-Monkey is brought to New Zealand for study.
Night of the Demon – A sorcerer, Julian Karswell invokes a Balrog/Fire Demon to destroy his enemies, until a skeptical psychologist, John Holden, tricks him, letting the Balrog/Fire Demon take Julian instead.
Location: England
Monster: Balrog/Fire Demon
Destruction: Downed Power Lines, two people slain.
The Amazing Colossal Man - After radioactive exposure, Glenn Manning becomes a 60ft giant, but slowly goes insane as well from his condition. He has a minor rampage in Las Vegas before being shot off the Hoover Dam and falling into the Colorado River.
Location: Nevada
Monster: Human Giant
Destruction: ~5 people slain, various property damage
Attack of the Crab Monsters – Scientists investigating the effects of high-level radiation exposure discover giant crab monsters have eaten (and absorbed the minds) of the previous expedition. The monsters prove all but impervious to conventional weaponry due to their mercury-like biology, but they are eventually slain.
Location: Isolated South-Pacific Island
Monster: Crab Monsters (2), Giant Worm
Destruction: 1 Plane, 1 boat, ~18 people consumed.
The Cyclops – A valley in Mexico with rich uranium deposits mutate the local life forms. A woman hires two men to search for her husband who had been searching for such deposits in the area, only to discover that he had become a horrific, cyclopean monster. All of the monsters of this land appear to be enlarged 8 to 20 times their natural size.
Location: Mexico
Monsters: Giant Human (Cyclops), Giant Rodent, Giant Hawk (Rodan?), Giant Serpent, Giant Cricket, Giant Tarantula (Small), Giant Iguana, Giant Monitor Lizard
Destruction: 2 people killed. The area remains uninhabited.
The New Frontier – A pterosaur-like organism (most likely a Gyaos) is spotted over New
York. It is soon destroyed.
Location: New York
Monster: Gyaos(?)
Destruction: One person slain whilst destroying the beast.
The Land Unknown – An expedition is sent to Caspak, but is not fully prepared for the monsters encountered.
Location: Caspak
Monster: Prehistoric monsters
Destruction: 1 person slain, lots of equipment destroyed or lost.
Fiend Without a Face – an experiment with mental augmentation and telekinesis combined with radiation from a nearby airbase creates very simple and primitive ID monsters that wreak havoc across the countryside.
Location: Rural Manitoba, Canada
Monster: Id Monster
Destruction: Minor Property Damage, Nuclear Reactor destroyed, A dozen people slain by the Id Monsters.
The Beginning of the End – A swarm of mutant locusts ranging in size from 10ft to 20ft in length arise in Ludlow, Illinois. They swarm en mass and head towards Chicago. The army attacks them, but the sheer numbers of them break through the defensive line and descend upon Chicago. The creatures are routed when their call is replicated electronically and used to guide the swarm into Lake Michigan.
Location: Illinois
Monster: Giant Locusts
Destruction: Deforestation, hundreds consumed, widespread property damage as the Locusts searched for food.
1958 – The Blob – A protoplasmic organism lands on earth and begins to feed. Consumes several dozen people before it is frozen and dumped in the Antarctic, where it starves to death.
Location: Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Monster: Blob Organism
Destruction: Dozens of death, some buildings partly crushed.
The Monsters from Green Hell – A rocket crash lands in the African bush, releasing wasps mutated by cosmic radiation into creatures of elephantine proportions. They are all destroyed in a volcanic eruption.
Location: Equatorial Africa
Monster: Giant Mutant Wasps, Giant Serpent
Destruction: Unknown dozens killed. Monsters destroyed and incident covered up by volcanic eruption.
Earth vs. the Spider – A mutated spider is found in a cave in the Midwest. It is slain by downed power lines.
Location: Unknown US.
Monster: Giant Spider
Destruction: several cars wrecked, 2 walls smashed down, several people eaten.
War of the Colossal Beast – A horribly scarred Glen Manning is discovered in Mexico, attacking grocery trucks. He is slain when he, upon realizing the monster he had become, electrocutes himself.
Location: Mexico, Los Angeles
Monster: Human Giant
Destruction: Property damage, many wrecked cars, ~6 people eaten.
Attack of the 50ft Woman – The Cyclops, half-dead, stumbles across the New Mexico Desert before encountering a woman, but dies shortly thereafter. She is exposed to enough Radiation and other elements to begin an accelerated growth spurt of her own. Compounding her fragile emotional situation, and cheating husband. She is eventually electrocuted after being shot at by the sheriff.
Location: New Mexico?
Monster: Human Giant
Destruction: Minor Property damage, ~2 people killed.
Dr. No – Agent James Bond is attacked by a young Kraken while on a mission.
Quatermass and the Pit – An uncovered alien ship (thought to be of Martian origin) is investigated. Quatermass and other scientists investigate and discover it was part of a failed plot 5 million years old to alter the human race into the host organisms for an alien form of life—complete with powers to exterminate those that did not fit the program. When the machinery inside is activated, the First Evil, creator of the plot, is driven into the sensitive people of London, who become its hive-minded servants. Quatermass short-circuits the massive apparition of the First Evil, destroying the machinery and freeing the people.
Location: Knightsbridge, London
Monster: The First Evil
Destruction: Dozens of people killed and widespread, riot-like damage.
The Cosmic Monsters/The Strange World of Planet X – a burst of cosmic radiation alters the genetic makeup of the animals in the English countryside. Giant Insects up to four feet in length arise from the radioactive burst and attack several people. A passing alien sterilizes the area (while taking time to chastise mankind for its violent tendencies).
Location: England, remote countryside.
Monster: Giant Insects
Destruction: Several people eaten.
Space Master X-7 – A probe returning to Earth carries a small Blob organism with it. The creature manages to escape the containment lab by hitching a ride inside a handbag and consumes three people before it is cornered and incinerated.
Location: New Mexico, Los Angeles.
Monster: Blob creature
Destruction: 3 people eaten, a plane crash injures several others
The New Frontier – A massive organism launches itself from Caspak. A Gyaos is spotted over Cape Canaveral, Florida, and is shot down. The main organism is several miles in diameter and begins to spew prehistoric monstrosities at all who come near it—as does the abnormally colored Gyaos. The creature is eventually destroyed thanks to a full military assault and the strange sciences of the various Mystery Men who began re-asserting their presence at the time.
Location: Pacific Ocean, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Monster: Caspak Horror “The Centre”, Gyaos, Prehistoric Monsters
Destruction: Hundreds of men slain, loss of a lot of military equipment.
The Creature from the Haunted Sea – Escapees from now communist Cuba (composed mostly of gangsters) by boat. One of them wishes to increase his share of the take, so he begins to kill the others and blame it on a “sea monster” attack. He fakes things very well, but the next night a person he didn’t kill also vanishes. A juvenile Zzazhan attacks the crew and the strongbox sinks into the ocean. The remaining gangsters try to retrieve it, but are also slain, leaving only two survivors—a native girl and an undercover US agent.
Location: Straight of Florida, Bahamas.
Monster: Zzazhan
Destruction: Two boats sunk, almost a dozen people killed.
The Woman Eater – A scientist finds that the proteins produced by the Triffids increase in potency when they are fed human women. His experiments are soon halted in a police raid regarding the missing girls. The Triffid is destroyed, but it managed to release several seed pods before it expired.
Location: New York
Monster: Triffid
Destruction: ~3 women fed to Triffid. Several others slain.
1959 – Public knowledge of the Triffids is revealed when several appear in London. They are treated as an oddity at first until the deadly stingers grow in.
Location: London, England
Monster: Triffids
Destruction: half a dozen persons slain by Triffid stings.
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster - A blob organism is found inside an Aztec temple, released, but soon burned up by flamethrowers.
Location: Mexico
Monster: Blob Organism
Destruction: Dozens of deaths by consummation and radiation poisoning.
The Giant Gila Monster – A giant Gila Monster created by radioactive runoff searches for food in Arizona before being destroyed by a hotrod full of nitroglycerin.
Location: Arizona
Monster: Giant Gila Monster
Destruction: 3 car wrecks, one train wreck, several people eaten, one exploded Hotrod.
Attack of the Giant Leeches – Flukemen first appear, created by radioactive run-off. They are slain with conventional weapons and poisons.
Location: Florida
Monster: Flukemen
Destruction: 6 people drained of blood/infected with parasites.
The Giant Behemoth/Behemoth, the Sea Monster – A highly radioactive Rhedosaurus appears off the coast of England, eventually arriving in London and being torpedoed in the Thames River.
Location: England
Monster: Rhedosaurus
Destruction: ~100 people killed, several buildings and vehicles destroyed.
The Beast from the Haunted Cave – A group of criminals unfortunately stumble across a Kumo.
Location: California
Monster: Kumo
Destruction: ~6 people killed.
The Corpse – Hellboy rescues a child from the Fae and confronts a giant pig-like fae-monstrosity.
Location: Ireland
Monster: Grom
Destruction: 1 bridge destroyed.
The Killer Shrews – A scientist uses the earthen ooze responsible for the “Food of the Gods” incident to breed giant shrew-like organisms, and uses them on a life-size overpopulation experiment. He soon finds himself surrounded by the hungry beasts and only a few make it off the island.
Location: Island off California
Monster: Giant Shrews
Destruction: Several people slain. Island rendered devoid of living things.
1961 – Gorgo – Gorgo first appears off Nara island, is captured, but then its mother, Ogra arises, carves a straight line through London and rescues its offspring.
Location: Nara Island, London
Monster: Ogra, Gorgo
Destruction: Nara Island leveled; a line of destruction is carved out of London.
Day of the Triffids is published, creating a wave of paranoia about the species and their possible threats. The Soviet’s shelve further Triffid research beyond nutrient harvesting. The UN proposes a ban on such animal manipulations, though both the Soviets and US government continue to experiment and grow them.
1962 – The first Inter-connected Computers are hooked up in the United States.
Day of the Triffids – A group of Triffids escape and establish themselves in Spain. The military of Spain works to eradicate the creatures as best it can before casualties mount.
Location: Spain
Monster: Triffids
Destruction: Minor property damage, several dozen slain.
1964 – Horror of Party Beach – Atomic dumping offshore leads to the creation of aquatic CHUD like creatures dubbed Cannibalistic, Humanoid Water-Dwelling Organisms, or, as the military abbreviated them “Chowder”. The creatures wreak havoc along a popular shoreline until they are exterminated. Rumors of resurgences in 1980 and 1996 may have been misidentified Deep Ones (both under the title of Humanoids from the Deep).
Location: New Jersey Shore
Monsters: CHUD variant
Destruction: ~40 people slain.
As before, for the purposes of this timeline a Kaiju is:
1) A creature of unusual dimensions (either size or form) that has not evolved naturally on earth.
2) A creature of tremendous size and mysterious origin.
This will take several posts, because it's F'n HUGE. And figuring out the text limiter is never fun.
Several entries are not given a date due to the exact nature of the dates provided. These are from: The Marc Ceracini Godzilla Novels, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Zombie Survival Guide, Cryptozoological History, Myth and Legend and a few from 'reality'. Some others are part of the histories of listed films and you just didn't notice it.
If you do not recognize the name of a monster, google it or check the links at the end of the Timeline.
1.8 Million Years Ago – Start of the Pleistocene Epoch.
400,000 BCE – Sinking of Lemuria, fall of the second kingdom of the Serpent Men and their dinosaur-monster wards.
300,000 BCE – Gargoyles first appear. Some time afterwards, an extremely large member of the Genera is imprisoned in stone for his cruelty. It is later dubbed Garuda.
250,000 BCE – Modern Man and Neanderthal man evolve. The world is filled not only with prehistoric giants, but demonic horrors and monsters as well.
53,000 BCE – The Agricultural Revolution occurs thanks to multiple interventions of other beings called ‘gods’ and ‘demons’ in later literature. There are now human settlements to ravage. Called the ‘Age of Lamps’ in the oldest chronologies.
48,000 BCE – Balrogs, Wyvern Dragons, Vampires and Kumo (Giant spiders of mystical origin) are thought to have appeared around this time. This time until 10,000 years later is known as the “Age of Darkness” under which Europe and much of the world had its mortal populations living in fear of demons, monster and Old Ones.
38,000 BCE – The stars change further, sending many remaining Old Ones into their not-death slumber. Still, monsters and demons roam the world. Elves diverge as their own species from other Fae. Many are consumed in the harsh environments of the time. Vampire Slayers appear. This marks the beginning of the “Age of Stars,” ending the “Age of Darkness.”
21,800 BCE – First “Age of the Sun,” where so called “higher” races (Fae) and men intermingle.
22,000 BCE – True Dragons appear.
21,900–21,200 BCE – The Silmarilion – The last of the Great Demon Wars are fought. It seems for a hundred years that all hope is lost, until the appearance of the Powers that Be in the form of Ultramen. Regrouped, the mortal races, with the aided of mages, Loranites and other beings, mortal beings are given sway. The last hundred years of the war are dubbed “The War of Wrath”; the first 600 are called “The War of Jewels”. This ends the First Age of the Sun in old reckoning.
Location: Across England and Ireland (or all of Europe).
Monster: True Dragons, Balrogs, Giants, Kumo, Empera-Seijin (Morgoth), Ungoliant and innumerable other forms of demonic entity.
Destruction: A large land mass (Belerland) sinks into what is now the North Sea. Massive destruction.
21,100 – The Muan/Atlantean/Numenorian Empire is founded, it spreads across the globe, establishing colonies in Africa, South America, Europe, Japan and many places in between. Peace settles for a time.
18,000 BCE – The Muan/Atlantean Empire constructs the RahXephon. Gyaos, a biological weapon are created from the genetic material of surviving pterosaurs on earth and Mahars, run rampant. While originally created to fight the demon armies, they turn on their creators instead—due to the manipulations of the entity dubbed Sauron. Gamera is then created to stem the growth of the Gyaos. RahXephon is constructed for a more desperate act, escaping into another dimension for several thousand years. RahXephon remains buried after their main city is removed from this dimension. End of the Second Age of the Sun.
17,800 BCE – The demon army that sent Atlantis/Mu beyond this world moves on the remaining forces of the world. The demon army is eventually driven back when its leader is defeated. The events are mythologized as The Last Alliance of Men and Elves.
14,950 BCE – The Hobbit – The dragon Smaug is slain.
14,880-14,870s BCE – The Lord of the Rings – one of the last demon armies lead by a demonic overpower or minor stellar being engages mortal forces in battle. Dragons are used in a demon army on earth for the last time in centuries. Orcs, Trolls and other things fall back until the Hyperborean age. Elves leave for either higher dimensions, or shunting themselves into deep corners of Pellucidar. This event ends of the Third Age of the Sun, and begins the Fourth Age of the Sun.
Location: Europe/England (?)
Monsters: Wyverns, Kumo, Kraken.
Destruction: Many villages, towns and cities destroyed/lost/damaged.
13,000 BCE – A great cataclysm (Old Ones awakening, if for but a time) tears continents apart into England and Ireland, removing most traces of what came before and bringing civilization back hundreds of years. The monsters slowly return as Mordor sinks into the black sea. Formorians swarm over England and Ireland. The world loses the last grasps it had on higher technologies, to pre-bronze-age technology. The Ages of the Sun end.
12,000 BCE – The Hyperborean Age begins, monsters and demons lay amongst men.
11,000 BCE – Approximate end of the Last Ice Age. Megafauna of North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia generally become extinct. This generally marks the end of the Pliestocene Epoch.
10,000 BCE – The time of Conan of Cimmeria, Red Sonja, Hadon of Opar (one of the few surviving outposts of Atlantis/Mu/Numenor) among other Barbarians. The Holocene Epoch begins.
9,000 BCE – A second Cataclysm strikes, destroying Hyperborea and the last major remnants of Atlantis and the Third/Fourth Age of the Sun are lost, as well as the technology involved (including metallurgy). Farming techniques, however, are not.
8,000 BCE – The Doom that Came to Sarnath – Bokrug brings Doom to Sarnath.
Location: Sarnath
Monster: Bokrug
Destruction: Entire city destroyed.
8,000 BCE – Neolithic Age or the “New Stone Age” begins.
5,300 BCE – “Sumerian Civilization” begins. It is the oldest civilization for which more than vague histories and allusions exist.
3,500 BCE – First Bronze Age culture appears.
3,000 BCE – In Egypt, the earliest known case of Solanum (Zombie) infection known due to an infected being locked in a tomb to prevent its spread.
2,900 BCE – The Great Pyramids built by human hands. Claims that aliens/gods were involved in their construction begin 100 years later. Though many alien entities use Egypt as a tuning point, the monuments remain sewn by human hands. Indus Valley civilization begins in India.
2,700 BCE – Minoan civilization begins.
2,205 BCE – Has Dynasty begins in China.
1,900-1,000 BCE – The Heroic Age of Greece: Hercules (or those later amalgamated to become the Hercules of myth) and other ancient Greek demigods roam the land slaying monsters such as Hydra, Cyclops, giants and other things.
1,400 - 1,000 BCE - The Trojan War/The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Argonautica occur around this time.
1,300 BCE – This marks the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Middle East. The technology spreads and drives many Fae away.
1100 BCE – The Formorians of Ireland are subdued. Later, the Tutha De Dana (Elves, returning from Pellucidar for a time) slay them outright. The Tutha De Dana retreat when Queen Mab asserts her power.
960-950 BCE – King Solomon binds demons to help him build the Temple in Jerusalem.
800 BCE-300 BCE – The expansion of Ancient Greece, Etruscan civilization thrives.
753 BCE – Rome founded.
660 BCE – First Emperor of Japan crowned.
609 BCE – Roman Republic established.
510 BCE – 323 BCE – Classical Greece reaches prominence due to Alexander the great. He is said to encounter many monsters in his journey, but none can withstand the might of his armies. Of these are Sea Serpents, Manticores and giant ants that stumbled across a gold mine.
355 BCE – Plato writes about Atlantis.
250 BCE – Marcus Atilius Regulus, Roman general, leads his army for the glory of Rome until he encounters a giant serpent. When his men fall before it, he orders that his legion employ siege tactics against its thick hide, slaying the creature. The creature is measured to be 100ft in length.
Location: Carthage
Monster: Giant Serpent.
Destruction: Many legionnaires slain.
80 BCE – A Roman Legion encounters Chaugnar Faugn. The legion is destroyed completely, but Chaugnar Faugn retreats to Asia nonetheless.
31 BCE – Roman Empire established.
10 AD – The Gaelic hero Cu Chullian battles the Banshee/Crom-Cruach the Death Worm.
79 AD – A Kraken is disturbed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Terrorizing the waters of the Mediterranean fishing ways, where they dub the creature “Scylla”. Its reign of terror lasts 30 years.
Location: Mediterranean
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Terrorized fishing lanes and shipping
121 CE – An outbreak of Solanum occurs among the northernmost Roman territories. Initial contact with the group was a dismal failure, resulting in an army of infected thousands strong (sources rate it as up to 9,000). When a Roman commander learns of the proper way to slay the monsters, he and his garrison managed to use tactics and training to end the infection, and methods for dealing with the Zombies are soon accepted. It is considered the largest outbreak on record, followed closely by the Raccoon City incident.
Location: Northern England
Monster: Solanum Zombies
Destruction: Minor property damage, over 10,000 people killed.
122 CE – Work begins on Hadrian’s Wall. May or may not be related to the Solanum outbreak.
140-121 CE – Six small outbreaks of Solanum occur in what is modern day Algeria. All are crushed by the Romans.
Location: Algeria, Africa
Monster: Solanum Zombie
Destruction: 140 some people slain, one family driven insane by the Zombies incessant moaning.
156 CE – A cleric is infected with Solanum in southern Germany, when the centurions move in to deal with the infected, there is an uprising, causing more damage than the outbreak would have under ideal circumstances.
177 CE – Last recorded Solanum outbreak in Rome. A very minor outbreak, recorded in southwestern France.
204-220 CE – The Han Dynasty creates records on the Dragons of China.
293 CE – Roman Empire is divided into the Eastern and Western Roman Empire.
300 CE – Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (CHUD) are first described in Byzantium’s sewers.
330 CE – Byzantium becomes Constantinople, and the new center of the New Roman Empire.
~400 CE - Two-Faced, Four Armed True Demon Ryoumen Sukunanokami is sealed away under a lake in Kyoto, Japan.
Oberon rebels against Queen Mab, overthrowing her. The Children of Mab become the Children of Oberon.
468 CE – The monsters of old begin to re-assert themselves as Rome collapses.
476 CE – The fall of the Western Roman Empire occurs.
490-~530 CE – The epic Beowulf occurs.
Location: Nordic Lands
Monsters: Dragon, Grendel, Grendel’s Mother, Sea Serpents
Destruction: Several dozen lives lost, several structures destroyed.
500-530 CE – Nibelungenlied/Der Reing Des Nibelungen occurs.
500 – 1200 CE – The age of Medieval and Arthurian Legend. Giants, Dragons, Sea Monsters and other creatures repopulate, but are again defeated. Sinbad has his voyages, encountering Cyclops, Roc (Rodan?), Giant Fish and Giant Snakes among others.
~580 CE – Saint Columbia ‘tames’ the Loch Ness Monster, who had been attacking the countryside. The creature would later return to its more hostile habits when threatened, removed from the loch, or given the proper impetus, but otherwise remains peaceful.
586 CE – Ragnarok Occurs. The Norse Gods mostly battle their enemies within their dimension, but segments of it bleed onto earth.
800 CE –The Holy Roman Empire is established.
850 – Somewhere in northern Germany, a large outbreak of Solanum Zombies around a lord’s castle. The infection quickly spread inside the walls as well until surrounding provinces burned the area around the castle, slaying both Zombie and human alike with ‘cleansing fire’. 200 Zombies remained trapped in the castle walls, however, sealed in before the infection took hold, and preventing them from being burnt. Over the next decade the moans of the undead could be heard by passing villagers. It is suspected a Slayer was sent in to deal with the remaining undead.
Location: Northern Germany
Monster: Solanum Zombies
Destruction: several villages and a castle destroyed. 1,700 people killed or infected.
994 – A group of Scottish Gargoyles are frozen in stone through arcane rights. Through the next few hundred years, many Gargoyles throughout the world are systematically exterminated or encased in stone.
1000 – Ogra first appears and defeats a Viking armada with ease, defending Nara Island and becoming ingrained in its mythology as a mighty Sea Spirit.
Location: Nara Island
Monster: Ogra
Destruction: One “Viking Fleet”, assumed all hands lost.
Formation of the Kaiju-worshiping cult “Repose of the Earth” (according to their doctrine), specifically worshiping the creature later dubbed “Clover.”
1100 – In ancient China, 8 demon sorcerers are sealed away into other dimensions, their leader, Shendu, is trapped in a stone form with 12 magical talisman carved from his hide. This talisman are scattered all across the world, and the portals to free the other demon sorcerers similarly scattered.
1200 – A Kraken is disturbed by volcanic activity and terrorizes the coasts of Denmark and Holland. It terrorizes the land for 30 years.
Location: Southernmost North Sea
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Terrorized Fishing Lanes, shipping, whaling and whales
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Graduation Day Part 1” – In the above episode, the demon Lohesh is mentioned to have become embodied through an Ascension ritual on this date.
Location: Koskov Valley, the Urals
Monster: Lohesh
Destruction: Entire village destroyed.
1253 – A zombie outbreak slays the inhabitants of a Greenland Viking colony. The town is burned, as are the remaining undead.
Location: Fiskurhofn, Greenland
Monster: Solanum Zombie
Destruction: 154 people killed, village burned to the ground.
1281 - The Colossus of Ylourgne – The necromancer Nathaire creates a 100 foot giant out of human body parts which ravages the countryside.
Location: Avergne, France
Monster: Colossus of Ylourgne
Destruction: Countryside ravaged, many killed
1300 – The “Little Ice Age” era begins, causing warm summers to become a rarity in Europe and the Americas. Monster activity in general decreases.
1340-1350 –The Black Death depopulates Europe.
1400s – A young girl raises a Wyvern in a nearby cave. When its appetite for flesh becomes too great, the villagers have a knight slay the creature, to the girl’s dismay.
Location: Mordiford, England
Monster: Dragon (Wyvern type)
Destruction: Sheep and Cattle, minor structural, a few humans.
A Dragonet takes up residence on Mount Pilatus, Switzerland. A swordsman is sent to dispatch the beast, but after decapitating the beast, its venomous blood slays the swordsman.
Location: Sweden
Monster: Dragonet (small Dragon)
Destruction: ~12 people slain
The Renaissance begins around this time.
1420-1430 – A giant serpent rises out of a North England lake. It terrorizes the countryside for many years until a knight returning from the crusades slays the creature. The events are mythologized as the story of the Lambton Worm.
Location: Washington, North England
Monster: Giant Serpent
Destruction: Several dozen slain.
1554 – A conquistador, Don Rafael Cordoza, leads his men into a ‘forbidden’ part of the jungle, only to see his men devoured by Solanum infected men. Upon his return to Spain, he is proclaimed a heretic and stripped of his rank and title.
Location: South America
Monster: Solanum Zombie
Destruction: A good portion of the expedition.
1579 – Sir Frances Drake learns of an island in the central Pacific where Solanum Zombies dominate, and where nearby islanders bring their dead to ‘rise again’.
1587 – Disappearance of the Roanoke Colony in South Carolina. Explanations for the event range from an Ascension, a Solanum outbreak, alien abduction or a Baragon awakening. The truth is not known.
1600s – Daimajin Trilogy– Across Japan at different points in time, various warlords meet their ends at the hands of a stone demon-god warrior the villagers they oppress invoke to avenge them. The Demons invariably turn on their invokers until they are bid to leave.
Location: Across Japan
Monster: Majin
Destruction: 3 villages destroyed, as well as various warlord armies.
King Kong Appears in Edo – Japanese sailors stumble across Skull Island (quite an amazing feat), and bring back a young Megaprimatus kong to Edo. By the time it gets there, it’s near fully grown, escapes and goes on a short rampage. This report has yet to be falsified.
Location: Edo (Tokyo), Japan
Monster: Megaprimatus Kong
Destruction: Unknown
Faust - The demon Mephistopheles is invoked for the first time in recorded history.
Location: Germany
Monster: Mephistopheles
Destruction: Widespread minor destruction.
Ultraman “Charge Fourth, Science Patrol” – A Baragon appears in Japan, but is slain by a crafty Samurai warrior who exploits its weakness to electricity.
Location: Japan
Monster: Baragon
Destruction: Village eaten and leveled.
1616 – The Fairy realms detach themselves from the British Isles after years of purges.
1650 – The era known as “The Little Ice Age” has its first Peak Cold Period.
May 27-28, 1669 – a winged serpent, an Amphipteres about 3m (9ft) long, appears and is driven off in Henham, England.
1690 – A Portuguese slave ship is brought to ruin by a Solanum infected slave brought aboard. The ship, upon discovery, is sunk into the depths of the southern Atlantic.
1702-1706 – Gulliver’s Travels “Part II: A Voyage to Brodbingnag” – Gulliver is swept to a world approximately 12 times the size of his home world. It is assumed to be an extra-dimensional locality.
Location: Portal located near the east coast of North America
Monster: Giants
Destruction: None
May 26, 1723 – Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Enemies” – An Ascension occurs in Sharpsville, US. No one hears of the town or its inhabitants. The demon ascended is unknown.
1740-1789 – Baron Munchausen travels the world, encountering many strange things including giant fish and monsters. It is theorized that he may in fact be an Archfae or insane given the nature of his recounting.
1740 – Leumel Gulliver is joined by extraordinary persons of the age including Orlando, Dr. Syn, the Blakeneys, Fanny Hill and Nathaniel “Natty” Bumpoo as they participate in events later dubbed “The Borbdingnag’s Giant Wars”.
1762 – A Solanum outbreak occurs on St. Lucia. Only a small group of land owners survives, holing up in a castle. The slaves survive through a foreknowledge of the enemy and managed to quell the outbreak. The British authorities label the event a ‘slave uprising’ and respond accordingly.
Location: St. Lucia, Caribbean
Monster: Solanum Zombie
Destruction: Most of the island is depopulated of white settlers.
1770 – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – A Kraken plagues the Caribbean.
Location: Caribbean
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Terrorizes shipping, sinking ships.
Climatic Cold Peak of “The Little Ice Age” occurs.
1776 – The first sighting of Mokele Mbembe by the Western World.
1811 – First footprints of the creature later dubbed “Bigfoot” or “Sasquach” as seen by white men in Alberta.
1816 – “The Year Without A Summer,” Also known as “Eighteen Hundred and Froze-To-Death” or “The Poverty Year.”
1830 – Alfred Tennison publishes the poem “The Kraken” after witnessing an attack.
1830-1850 – The first experiments in telegraph networks that rely on electricity, arguably, leading to the creation of the dimension known as The Wired.
1840s-1850s – The reign of terror of the white whale called Moby Dick. It is theorized that it is a Slasher-Whale created by overhunting. It is slain, but sinks the ship chasing it, taking all hands save one.
1850 – End of the era known as “The Little Ice Age”.
1860 – First modern recorded sighting of the creature called now called Ogopogo.
1860s - The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao – A mysterious being known as Dr. Lao brings his magical circus to the town of Abalone. One night, after using his soul-mirror like circus to expose a plot for one man to ‘own’ the town, his hired thugs tear through Lao’s circus, releasing his ‘pet’ Loch Ness Monster. Lao manages to recapture the beast before it reaches town.
Location: Abalone, American West
Monster: Loch Ness Monster, N.O. Fairy
Destruction: 2 men disappear without a trace.
1861 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – A Kraken sighting is mentioned by Peirre Aronnax.
Location: Canary Islands
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Lost munitions.
1864 – Journey to the Center of the Earth – Explorers enter a massive cave system and find many oversized prehistoric monsters.
Location: Cave System/Pellucidar?
Monster: Prehistoric Monsters
Destruction: None.
1867 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Captain Nemo’s ship Nautilus is besieged by juvenile Kraken.
Location: Caribbean Sea
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Several Lives Lost.
A Solanum outbreak occurs among the crew and prisoners of the RMS Roma bound for the Australian penal colony. The ship is sunk by a storm soon after it arrives.
1882 – A Solanum outbreak wipes out the mining town of Piedmont, Oregon, though no Zombies were found—and neither were any survivors.
1884 – The first sighting of a Bigfoot in North America.
1889 – Tremors 4: The Legend Begins – Graboids/Cthonians first appear in Perfection Valley, Nevada. They are quickly slain.
Location: Perfection Valley, Nevada
Monster: Graboids/Cthonians
Destruction: ~6 people eaten
1890s – Doctor Who “The Talons of Weng-Chiang” – The mysterious time traveler known as the Doctor matches wits with Fu Manchu, at one point, encountering giant rats in London’s sewers. The story is highly corrupted in order to Conceal Fu Manchu’s involvement.
Location: London, England
Monster: Giant rats
Destruction: Several people attacked.
1893-1896 – A group of Solanum Zombies lays siege to Fort Louis Philippe for 3 full years before they trap the zombies in the fort and make for the nearest oasis. The fort is abandoned.
June, 1899 – The War of the Worlds/League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2/War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches – Britain; Cuba (minor); South Africa (minor); Paris, France; China; Texas; Italy; India; New York, New York; Russia; St. Louis, Missouri; New Orleans, Louisiana; and other locations. Sarmaks from Mars invade several locations across the world.
1900-1910? – Pete’s Dragon – First viable record of a dragon-like N.O. Fairy. It is credited for the rescueof a fishing vessel off the coast of Maine, and appears to aid orphaned children in trouble, by all accounts.
Location: Passamaquoddy, Maine
Monster: N.O. Fairy
Destruction: Minimal, mostly storm damage.
1900 – Lair of the White Worm – A man is tempted to shoot a tremendous snake on a tiger-hunt. He reports the creature between 80 and 100ft long.
Location: Upper India
Monster: Giant Serpent
Destruction: None
The Valley of Gwangi/The Beast of Hollow Mountain – An Allosaurus is brought to civilization from a “Hidden Valley”. The creature inevitably escapes and goes on the rampage before meeting its end in a burning church. Rumor has it that it escaped and headed into the hills where it terrorized the Texas cattle industry for several months before being trapped in a riverside sink hole.
Location: New Mexico/Texas
Monster: Allosaurus
Destruction: ~10 people killed directly by the creature, one elephant killed, one Cathedral burnt to the ground. 23 Cattle deaths blamed on the creature.
Warlords of Atlantis – A diving bell discovers a sunken Atlantean colony that has greatly degenerated, and has some horrific, monstrous life forms of its own. The expedition crew tries to escape the cruel rulers of the main society and the monsters. They manage to escape, but a Kraken sinks their ship, leaving only a few survivors on a lifeboat.
Location: Atlantic Ocean
Monsters: Giant Eel, Kraken, Baragon (called “Zarg” by Atlanteans), Giant Serpent
Destruction: Ship sunk with most of the hands lost aboard.
1903 –1913 – At the Earth’s Core - David Innes’s first travels to Pellucidar, eventually escaping to bring more aid to the strange land’s natives against their hated enemies: The Mahars.
1904 – The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth – Giant vermin (insects, rats and spiders) appear in the European countryside.
Location: English Country Side
Monster: Giant Rats, insects and Spiders
Destruction: Un-exact attacks, some deaths.
Kwaidan: the Stories of Strange Things is written, including the original folktale about the Yuki-Onna.
July 27, “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” – Sherlock Holmes encounter a case where a schoolmaster was slain by a monstrous lions mane jellyfish.
1909 – Une Invasion de Macrobes – Giant microbes are seen in France at the bidding of a mad scientist.
Location: Paris, France
Monster: Oversized Micro-organisms
Destruction: Unknown.
1911 – Lair of the White Worm - a giant serpent is involved in a cult dedicated to Yig. The creature is slain by explosives.
Location: England
Monster: Albino Giant Snake
Destruction: Several lives lost. Cult disbanded.
A group of teenagers enter a ‘dare’ to stay the night in the bayou where it was claimed a group of Hillbilly Zombies were said to roam. The rumors turned out to be true, and the teenagers disappeared into the swamp. A search party is later attacked by 30 of the monsters and the entire town is besieged. Various efforts made by the townsfolk lead to the entire town burning down. Of the 114 people, only 58 manage to escape.
Location: Vitrie, Louisiana
Monster: Solanum Zombies
Destruction; entire town burnt down, 56 people killed.
1913 – Birth of Wilbur Whatley and his Half-Brother, the Dunwich Horror.
Solanum, the virus identified as the cause of certain Zombies, is identified.
The Mahar Innes brought with him as evidence of his adventures escapes.
1914 – Atlantis: The Lost Empire – An expedition goes to a sunken portion of the Muan/Atlantean Empire that had embedded itself in the earth. It is guarded by a mechanical monster dubbed Leviathan. The explorers discover a regressed civilization living peacefully, but in fear of some of their technology. When some of the explorers seek to steal the Zero Point Modulator (in the form of a massive Crystal), others band with the Atlanteans/Muans to save their home from being crushed under the surrounding pressure by returning the crystal.
Location: Atlantean City, South Pacific
Monster: Leviathan Dolem
Destruction: Several dozen slain, a lot of unique equipment lost.
July 1-12, 1916 – The first major recorded outbreak of shark attacks occur along the New Jersey shore and up the Matawan River.
Location: New Jersey Shore and Matawn River, New Jersey.
Monster: Shark (Slasher?)
Destruction: 5 people killed.
1916-1918 - As the Great War was beginning to close; Germany and her allies began using more and more unusual weapons, Kaiju among them. G-8 and his Battle Aces become the first anti-Kaiju force.
Location: Across Europe
Monster: Giant Skeleton, Kumo (with webs capable of catching planes), giant apes (Megaprimatus?), mechanical monsters, giant birds (roc?), giant bats, Fire Demon/Balrog, and Dragons with poison breath
1918 - The Land that Time Forgot – As the war closes, the lost land of Caspak is first discovered in its full horrific glory.
1922 – The Lurking Fear –A Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller (CHUD) is discovered in a cave system in the Tempest Mountains, New England.
May 17 – The Horror at Martin’s Beach – a strange, cyclopean fish-creature with 6 fingered fore-limbs, fifty feet long and ten feet in diameter is slain and captured by Captain James P. Orne after a 40 hour battle with it. The creature is pronounced a juvenile, only months from hatching by the scientific community. They are nonetheless startled by it.
June – The Horror at Martin’s Beach – Captain James P. Orne rigs a ship to display the monster and travels across the east coast with the curiosity.
June 17 – Out of the Ages – Ponapean fishermen report an encounter with tremendous “Sea Slugs”.
Location: Pohnpie Island, South Pacific
Monster: Unknown Sea Slug creature?
Destruction: None
July 20 – The Horror at Martin’s Beach – The ship containing Captain Orne’s curiosity is sunk in a storm. Search efforts begin.
August 7 - The Horror at Martin’s Beach – Search efforts for Captain Orne’s curiosity end.
August 8 - The Horror at Martin’s Beach – That night, a centipede-like, aquatic humanoid rises from the depths and drags Captain Orne and his crew to their doom. The creature is reported to conjure a storm as it does so.
Location: Martin’s Beach, Massachusetts
Monster: Captain Orne’s Curiosity (Mother)
Destruction: ~12 men killed.
1925 – Who Goes There – Doc Savage joins an Antarctic research expedition as a Meteorologist and second-in-command. Savage and the other members encounter a shape-shifting alien organism that attempts to assimilate the genetic material of the crew. The creature is incinerated before it can rebuild a method of escape, but rumors of samples of it being saved persist, some claiming the surviving material is responsible for various ‘stretching heroes’ such as the “Elongated Man”, “Plastic Man” and “Mr. Fantastic”.
February 25, 1925 – Call of Cthulhu – R’lyeh rises from the ocean, creating a wellspring of madness among the people of earth.
March 23, 1925 – Call of Cthulhu – A sailing ship has the misfortune of encountering Cthulhu himself.
April 2, 1925 – Call of Cthulhu – R’lyeh sinks beneath the waves. Some mark this as the beginning of the Age of Monsters.
1927 – Guns of the Dragons – World War One veteran Hans Von Hammer and notorious Gambler Bartholomew A. Lash stumble onto Skull Island in the South Pacific. He finds Yakuza and Triads trying to mine the island for drug resources—but the animals prove too much for either. An immortal, dubbed “Vandal Savage”, was manipulating the gangs for his own purposes.
Tarzan at the Earth’s Core – Tarzan travels to Pellucidar for the first time. He returns multiple times, eventually living there for many years at a time.
1928 – La Revolt des Monstres – Giant insects appear in France, possibly spill out from the previous event.
Location: France
Monster: giant insects, unknown proportions.
Destruction: Unknown
The Mahagga – Tarzan confronts Innes' escaped Mahar.
February - The United States military raids the town of Innsmouth. (Shadow over Innsmouth, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth)
Location: Innsmouth, Massachusetts
Monsters: Shoggoth, Dagon/Hydra, Deep Ones, Flying Polyp (?)
Destruction: Reef bombed, town depopulated, unknown number of agents lost to injury or madness.
September 9-15, The Dunwich Horror is loosed on the world until it is slain by Henry Armitage and his allies using incantation from the Necronomicon.
Location: Dunwich, Massachusetts
Monster: The Dunwich Horror
Destruction: Several buildings demolished, ~24 people consumed by the Horror.
February 25, 1930 – The Thing That Walked on the Wind – Ithaqua slays the entire populace of Stillwater, Manitoba. Only one body is found.
Location: Stillwater, Manitoba
Monster: Ithaqua
Destruction: Entire town slain.
Atlantis: Milo’s Return – The remnant survivors of the Atlantis Expedition (which ended in general failure/secrecy) is forced to return to the surface in search of a second Zero Point Modulator to power the city. The journey causes them to cross several locations in search of the ZPM, encountering a few monsters along the way.
Location: Nordic Mountains, American Southwest
Monster: Kraken, Sea Serpent
Destruction: Equipment
Atlantis: the Series “The Last” (Unproduced) – Demona, the immortal Gargoyle, uses Atlantean Dolem technology to awaken Notre Dame’s Gargoyles into Dolem Gargoyles to slay humanity. She is thwarted by the current Hunter and the Atlantis Expedition.
Location: Notre Dame, France
Monster: Gargoyles, Dolem Gargoyles
Destruction: Unknown.
A scientific survey team goes to the Black Lagoon. There are no survivors.
Location: Black Lagoon, Brazil
Monster: Gillman
Destruction: A dozen people slain.
1931 – King Kong - Discovery of King Kong and Skull Island.
Location: New York
Monster: Megaprimatus Kong, Skull Island Dinosaurs.
Destruction: 12 men killed on Skull Island, 1 train de-railed and other minor property damage across the city. 4-6 people killed
Triffids are engineered through crossbreeding by Soviet scientists.
January/February – At the Mountains of Madness – The Mountains of Madness are discovered by the Pabodie expedition. The survivors of the Pabodie expedition flee the arctic after several nasty discoveries at the site. First recorded encounter with a Shoggoth in modern times.
The Land of Terror – Doc Savage and his assistants travel to Caspak, but the expedition is forced to leave due to volcanic activity.
1933 - Cement Surroundings – Sir Amery Wendy Smith, his compatriots and his family are slowly hunted across continents by Graboids/Cthonians.
Location: England, the Antarctic
Monster: Graboid/Cthonian
Destruction: One family line decimated, one expedition consumed.
1937 - Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus – Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (CHUDs) begin appearing in New York. Reports state that they are common in all large cities (Rome, Paris, London, etc). The vigilante known as the Lobster becomes entangled in a plot revolving around the first, primitive Nekketsu engine, called a “Vril Engine” or Anum’s Fork, battling against the mysterious “David” Lo Pan.
The Monsters – Doc Savage combats chemically altered Giants. Rumors of the Batman and Superman combating these giants along with him are common.
Location: (?)
Monster: Human Giants
Destruction: Basic property damage.
Sh! The Octopus – Two detectives track a criminal/murderer named “The Octopus” to a lighthouse where they and a small group of people are trapped by a storm. The Octopus becings to murder the people trapped inside with the detectives in a race against time to find the killer—then a young Kraken is washed up on the island and sees the trapped humans as food…
Location: New England
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Several people slain.
1937-1945 – The War that Time Forgot – The Second World War is waged, resultant spills and research leads to the creation of many oversized mutants—some used in the war effort on both sides. Several attempts are made to make use of Caspak as a landing position by the Japanese and American forces. They are repulsed by the native life forms that developed more aggressive mannerisms and other things in response to the invasion. This is the first recorded instance of Caspak doing so, but not the last. There are approximately 50 known missions.
1939-1942 – The first Computer, the ABC, is brought online, laying further foundations of the Wired.
1940 – Gargoyles “M.I.A.” – The gargoyle named Goliath travels back to this period to explain the mystery of a missing Gargoyle from that time, and finds that he must bring that Gargoyle to the future to keep the time stream intact. While there, he and the other Gargoyle aid the RAF defend against the Nazis bombings of London. This, however, gives the Germans ideas.
1942 – Jongor of the Lost Land – The Lost Land in northern Australia is discovered. It is home to many prehistoric animals, and surviving Mu.
1944 – The Japanese manage to make a port on Skull Island. American invaders are slaughtered by a previously undocumented species of Skull Island Therapod dubbed “Godzillasaurus”. The monster is wounded by the Americans. The Japanese believe that the animal was protecting them and give it honors before they leave it to die.
Location: Skull Island
Monster: Godzillasaurus.
Destruction: An American platoon wiped out.
Reign of the Gargoyles – The Nazi’s employ Germany’s few remaining Gargoyles to fight against their enemies’ aircraft. The Gargoyles are exterminated by the Allied forces after several attacks.
Location: Germany
Monster: Gargoyles
Destruction: Several dozen aircraft downed, hundreds killed.
Unknown Island/Island of Untamed Women – John Fairbanks and his flight crew are forced to bail out over Skull Island. The islands various horrors prove too much for the crew, and he is the only one to escape with his life.
Location: Skull Island
Monster: Dinosaurs (Skull Island)
Destruction: ~6 people slain.
The Hellboy is brought to earth by Nazi scientists.
1945 – A still-living heart of one of the Frankenstein’s Monster is brought to Hiroshima by the Nazi’s in the waning days of World War II. It is caught in the Hiroshima Blast and irradiated.
Tagurato Corporation, a deep sea exploration and drilling company, is founded.
Warbirds – The environemental destruction wrought by the war awakened several dozen Gyaos that attacked all in sight. A group of WASPS (Women Air Service Body) aid in the destruction of the Gyaos before Gamera awakened.
Location: South Pacific
Monster: Gyaos
Destruction: Several Dozen plains downed, pilots lost.
1947 – A Solanum outbreak occurs in the small hamlet of Jarvis, British Columbia. 30 people are slain in the end, only 14 survive the event.
1948 – Unknown Island – The Osborne expedition to Skull Island is launched, with John Fairbanks as the guide. The expedition brings back photographic proof of the survival of prehistoric monsters. Skull Island is also found to be host to a colony of Deep Ones, so the United States Government discredits the photographic evidence as best it can, and ends any further exploration attempts.
Location: Skull Island
Monster: Dinosaurs (Skull Island)
Destruction: ~12 people killed
Mighty Joe Young/Terror on the Midway – An abnormally large Mangani is brought to Hollywood, California to work at a night club. After being harassed (and intoxicated) by a group of drunks, Joe goes on a rampage, releasing many other animals (including lions) into the nightclub. Joe’s handler and childhood friend manages to calm him and return him to his cage as the police (and some reports say, Superman) arrive to deal with the other animals (the police in a very lethal fashion). A court rules that Joe is to be put down, but the nightclub owner and Joe’s handler plot Joe’s escape. Though unsuccessful in their attempt, Joe’s rescue of several orphans from a burning building they stumble across along the way (and an article by Clark Kent on the injustices facing this animal) sway public opinion and get Joe returned to Africa. An unpublished adventure with Tarzan soon follows.
Location: Hollywood
Monster: Giant Gorilla
Destruction: Nightclub trashed, orphanage burned down (unrelated)
SIGNET (Signal Intelligence) is created to intercept electronic communications.
1949 – The colony of Deep Ones at Skull Island is destroyed in an atomic explosion. The island is irradiated heavily.
1951 – Lost Continent – An experimental rocket crash-lands in Caspak, forcing an expedition to retrieve it.
Location: Caspak
Monsters: Prehistoric Monsters
Destruction: 4 people killed.
1952 – The Quatermass Experiment – The first rocket into space returns with two of the crewmen missing. Bernard Quatermass investigates only to find that one of the crewmen has been infected with alien spoors from a cactus-like alien organism dubbed Sabotendar later on. The creature grows and prepares to release spoors across the globe. Quatermass determines that the other astronauts have been absorbed by the creature. Appealing to the consciousnesses of those trapped inside the monster buys the military time to destroy it.
Location: Westminster Abbey
Monster: Sabotendar
Destruction: Several people slain, some property damage.
1953 – Doctor Who “The Idiots Lantern” – A Data Life Form attempts to draw energy from humans viewing the Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation, but is stopped by the Doctor, who traps it in a jury-rigged VCR.
Location: London
Monster: Data Life Form
Destruction: One person slain outright
Mesa of Lost Women – A mad scientist creates dwarf humans and giant spiders (in order to create a race of Slayer-like spider-women) in a hidden valley in Mexico. The formula escapes into the surrounding hills, and creates a large, contaminated area. It takes only 5 years for the entire valley to be contaminated with the substance, and the valley overrun with giants.
Location: Mexico
Monster: Giant Spider
Destruction: Unknown
1954 – The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms/The Arctic Giant – A prehistoric monster is awakened by nuclear testing in the arctic and proceeds to swim down to New York, sinking ships along the way. Superman confronts the beast as it lands, driving it off for a moment before the military arrives to deal with the creature. When they manage to injure the creature with an anti-tank weapon, they release a deadly bacterial agent among the populous. It is eventually discovered that radiation treatments can eliminate the bacteria, and they introduce some to the monster’s system. The creature dies from its wounds in the midst of a rollercoaster fire at Coney Island.
Location: Greenland to New York along the arctic current.
Monster: Rhedosaurus
Destruction: 2 Ships Sunk, One Lighthouse toppled, Several buildings destroyed along the coast of Massachusetts, ~200 people slain, 2000 injured in the panic and by the sickness, One railway car crushed, One rollercoaster burned, two cars crushed, one New York building demolished, subway entrance damaged,
Gojira/Godzilla: King of the Monsters – Godzilla first appears, attacking shipping before moving to “Odo Island” (one of the Bomin/Ogasawara Islands) for two days of destruction, and then two night visits to Tokyo. The creature is thought destroyed by the Oxygen Destroyer.
Location: Bomin Islands, Tokyo Japan.
Monster: Godzilla
Destruction: 3-4 ships destroyed, all hands lost. Village flattened (minimal loss of life) a line through Tokyo is burnt.
The Deadly Mantis – A prehistoric praying mantis over 150ft long unthaws from the arctic and begins to head south. It is slain by conventional weapons in Washington.
Location: Arctic, Eastern Seaboard, New York, Washington D.C., Holland Tunnel
Monster: ‘Deadly Mantis’
Destruction: several dozen people are consumed and several planes destroyed.
Them! – Giant ants created by atomic testing 9 years ago first appear. They consume several people before spreading; those adjacent colonies are soon destroyed as well.
Location: South Western United States and Mexico
Monster: Giant Ants
Destruction: several dozen deaths, one cargo ship sunk with all hands lost, several walls torn out
The Nature of the Beast – Hellboy is hired by the Osiris Club to slay a dragon that has re-appeared in England.
Location: England
Monster: Lindworm Dragon
Destruction: One statue destroyed, several people slain.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon – The first scientific expedition to the Black Lagoon that returns with a tale of a prehistoric Gillman living there, claiming that it slew several crewmen. They believe it to be dead.
Location: Black Lagoon
Monster: Gillman
Destruction: Minor boat damage, 3 people slain, 2 badly injured.
The Monster from the Ocean Floor – A young Kraken is irradiated and forced to feed on other life forms it can find. The creature is slain when a minisub rams its.
Location: Pacific Coast of Mexico.
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Several slain.
1955 – It Came from Beneath the Sea – A Kraken rises due to nuclear testing irradiating it, alerting its natural prey of its presence. It moves across the pacific, from Japan to San Francisco in search of food. The animal is destroyed by a torpedo to the brain.
Location: Mariana Trench, Pacific Coast of the United States, San Francisco and Hawaii.
Monster: Kraken
Destruction: Causes disappearances of Japanese Fishing fleet ships and bad Siberian Seal hunting (the former likely Godzilla), destroys several buildings, it also damages the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Tarantula – A mutated tarantula is let loose accidently by a scientist, it grows to tremendous proportions and appetites. It is destroyed by Napalm.
Location: Arizona
Monster: Mutant Tarantula
Destruction: One home demolished, one car smashed, power lines knocked down, many livestock consumed along with 6 people.
Revenge of the Creature – A second expedition to the Black Lagoon manages to capture the Creature and bring it to an aquarium in Florida. The creature eventually escapes and goes on the rampage and escapes into the Everglades, even though it is believed dead in a barrage of bullets.
Location: Florida
Monster: Gillman
Destruction: One car overturned, several people slain and badly injured.
1956 – The Creature Walks Among Us – The Gillman is recaptured and caged, coaxed into a more land-oriented environment, and raised as though it were a chimpanzee—exhibiting remarkable intelligence for an amphibian. However, a jealous researcher murders a crewman who he believed to be having an affair with his wife, and attempted to frame it on the Gillman. The Gillman snapped back to his violent ways, slew the researcher, and escaped into the ocean.
Location: Florida
Monster: Gillman
Destruction: Minor Property damage, some injured, 2 slain.
The Monster of Peidras Blankas – The Gillman slays several people as it moves down the gulfstream. The Gillman crosses the Panama Canal.
Location: Gulfstream shoreline
Monster: Gillman
Destruction: ~12 slain.
The Mole People – A group of explorers finds a new entryway to Pellucidar, and encounters a Sumerian society using Gorbuses as slave labor. They call the Gorbuses “The Mole People” or “The Dark Ones.” They get caught up in a slave revolt, but escape.
Location: Pellucidar
Monster: The Mole People/Gorbuses
Destruction: several dozen slain.
Bride of the Monster – a mad scientist alters a Kraken to live in fresh water to guard his swamp mansion/laboratory from interlopers as he attempts to create a “race of atomic supermen.” After his deadly rays are turned on him, and a half-human CHUD-like creature, he and his creation are slain by a random lightning bolt.
Location: Florida(?)
Monster: Kraken, CHUD (?)
Destruction: several people slain (mostly by the mad scientist).
1957 – The Black Scorpion – A fissure opens in the earth due to volcanic eruption to underground cave system of gigantic invertebrates. Black Scorpions, the top predators, escape the fissure and attack. They are slain by conventional weaponry.
Location: San Lorenzo and Mexico City, Mexico.
Monster: Black Scorpion, Giant Inch Worm, Giant Trapdoor Spider, Giant Cave Bat
Destruction: Unknown total extent, many lives lost in combination of the two events. One attacked Mexico City and one group derailed a train to consume its occupants.
Tahiti-Nui – A researcher experimenting in ancient travel methods encounters the Gillman in the Pacific Ocean.
X-The Unknown – A protoplasmic, radiovore (radiation-eating) organism escapes the earth’s crust and seeks out food. Eventually returned to the earth’s crust and trapped.
Location: England
Monster: Blob Organism(?)
Destruction: several person’s slain, several Locations irradiated.
The Monolith Monsters – An inorganic, extraterrestrial, crystalline plant-creature spreads rapidly after a rainstorm. They are slain by salt water.
Location: California
Monster: The Monoliths
Destruction: Some buildings and people crushed.
The Monster that Challenged the World – Semi-Aquatic velvet worm-like animals (likely related to the mythos entities called Yuggs or the same as) awaken after testing in a salt lake. The military moves quickly to make sure they do not spread, but the creature’s still manage to enter some freshwater habitats before they are supposedly irradiated.
Location: Salton Sea, California and surrounding area.
Monster: Yugg-like organisms
Destruction: Lab demolished, ~14 people grasped and drained of liquids.
Kong: King of Skull Island – Carl Denham’s son travels to Skull Island, he believes that the Kong Apes are extinct, but is glad to see the island has recovered. A Sumatran Rat-Monkey is brought to New Zealand for study.
Night of the Demon – A sorcerer, Julian Karswell invokes a Balrog/Fire Demon to destroy his enemies, until a skeptical psychologist, John Holden, tricks him, letting the Balrog/Fire Demon take Julian instead.
Location: England
Monster: Balrog/Fire Demon
Destruction: Downed Power Lines, two people slain.
The Amazing Colossal Man - After radioactive exposure, Glenn Manning becomes a 60ft giant, but slowly goes insane as well from his condition. He has a minor rampage in Las Vegas before being shot off the Hoover Dam and falling into the Colorado River.
Location: Nevada
Monster: Human Giant
Destruction: ~5 people slain, various property damage
Attack of the Crab Monsters – Scientists investigating the effects of high-level radiation exposure discover giant crab monsters have eaten (and absorbed the minds) of the previous expedition. The monsters prove all but impervious to conventional weaponry due to their mercury-like biology, but they are eventually slain.
Location: Isolated South-Pacific Island
Monster: Crab Monsters (2), Giant Worm
Destruction: 1 Plane, 1 boat, ~18 people consumed.
The Cyclops – A valley in Mexico with rich uranium deposits mutate the local life forms. A woman hires two men to search for her husband who had been searching for such deposits in the area, only to discover that he had become a horrific, cyclopean monster. All of the monsters of this land appear to be enlarged 8 to 20 times their natural size.
Location: Mexico
Monsters: Giant Human (Cyclops), Giant Rodent, Giant Hawk (Rodan?), Giant Serpent, Giant Cricket, Giant Tarantula (Small), Giant Iguana, Giant Monitor Lizard
Destruction: 2 people killed. The area remains uninhabited.
The New Frontier – A pterosaur-like organism (most likely a Gyaos) is spotted over New
York. It is soon destroyed.
Location: New York
Monster: Gyaos(?)
Destruction: One person slain whilst destroying the beast.
The Land Unknown – An expedition is sent to Caspak, but is not fully prepared for the monsters encountered.
Location: Caspak
Monster: Prehistoric monsters
Destruction: 1 person slain, lots of equipment destroyed or lost.
Fiend Without a Face – an experiment with mental augmentation and telekinesis combined with radiation from a nearby airbase creates very simple and primitive ID monsters that wreak havoc across the countryside.
Location: Rural Manitoba, Canada
Monster: Id Monster
Destruction: Minor Property Damage, Nuclear Reactor destroyed, A dozen people slain by the Id Monsters.
The Beginning of the End – A swarm of mutant locusts ranging in size from 10ft to 20ft in length arise in Ludlow, Illinois. They swarm en mass and head towards Chicago. The army attacks them, but the sheer numbers of them break through the defensive line and descend upon Chicago. The creatures are routed when their call is replicated electronically and used to guide the swarm into Lake Michigan.
Location: Illinois
Monster: Giant Locusts
Destruction: Deforestation, hundreds consumed, widespread property damage as the Locusts searched for food.
1958 – The Blob – A protoplasmic organism lands on earth and begins to feed. Consumes several dozen people before it is frozen and dumped in the Antarctic, where it starves to death.
Location: Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Monster: Blob Organism
Destruction: Dozens of death, some buildings partly crushed.
The Monsters from Green Hell – A rocket crash lands in the African bush, releasing wasps mutated by cosmic radiation into creatures of elephantine proportions. They are all destroyed in a volcanic eruption.
Location: Equatorial Africa
Monster: Giant Mutant Wasps, Giant Serpent
Destruction: Unknown dozens killed. Monsters destroyed and incident covered up by volcanic eruption.
Earth vs. the Spider – A mutated spider is found in a cave in the Midwest. It is slain by downed power lines.
Location: Unknown US.
Monster: Giant Spider
Destruction: several cars wrecked, 2 walls smashed down, several people eaten.
War of the Colossal Beast – A horribly scarred Glen Manning is discovered in Mexico, attacking grocery trucks. He is slain when he, upon realizing the monster he had become, electrocutes himself.
Location: Mexico, Los Angeles
Monster: Human Giant
Destruction: Property damage, many wrecked cars, ~6 people eaten.
Attack of the 50ft Woman – The Cyclops, half-dead, stumbles across the New Mexico Desert before encountering a woman, but dies shortly thereafter. She is exposed to enough Radiation and other elements to begin an accelerated growth spurt of her own. Compounding her fragile emotional situation, and cheating husband. She is eventually electrocuted after being shot at by the sheriff.
Location: New Mexico?
Monster: Human Giant
Destruction: Minor Property damage, ~2 people killed.
Dr. No – Agent James Bond is attacked by a young Kraken while on a mission.
Quatermass and the Pit – An uncovered alien ship (thought to be of Martian origin) is investigated. Quatermass and other scientists investigate and discover it was part of a failed plot 5 million years old to alter the human race into the host organisms for an alien form of life—complete with powers to exterminate those that did not fit the program. When the machinery inside is activated, the First Evil, creator of the plot, is driven into the sensitive people of London, who become its hive-minded servants. Quatermass short-circuits the massive apparition of the First Evil, destroying the machinery and freeing the people.
Location: Knightsbridge, London
Monster: The First Evil
Destruction: Dozens of people killed and widespread, riot-like damage.
The Cosmic Monsters/The Strange World of Planet X – a burst of cosmic radiation alters the genetic makeup of the animals in the English countryside. Giant Insects up to four feet in length arise from the radioactive burst and attack several people. A passing alien sterilizes the area (while taking time to chastise mankind for its violent tendencies).
Location: England, remote countryside.
Monster: Giant Insects
Destruction: Several people eaten.
Space Master X-7 – A probe returning to Earth carries a small Blob organism with it. The creature manages to escape the containment lab by hitching a ride inside a handbag and consumes three people before it is cornered and incinerated.
Location: New Mexico, Los Angeles.
Monster: Blob creature
Destruction: 3 people eaten, a plane crash injures several others
The New Frontier – A massive organism launches itself from Caspak. A Gyaos is spotted over Cape Canaveral, Florida, and is shot down. The main organism is several miles in diameter and begins to spew prehistoric monstrosities at all who come near it—as does the abnormally colored Gyaos. The creature is eventually destroyed thanks to a full military assault and the strange sciences of the various Mystery Men who began re-asserting their presence at the time.
Location: Pacific Ocean, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Monster: Caspak Horror “The Centre”, Gyaos, Prehistoric Monsters
Destruction: Hundreds of men slain, loss of a lot of military equipment.
The Creature from the Haunted Sea – Escapees from now communist Cuba (composed mostly of gangsters) by boat. One of them wishes to increase his share of the take, so he begins to kill the others and blame it on a “sea monster” attack. He fakes things very well, but the next night a person he didn’t kill also vanishes. A juvenile Zzazhan attacks the crew and the strongbox sinks into the ocean. The remaining gangsters try to retrieve it, but are also slain, leaving only two survivors—a native girl and an undercover US agent.
Location: Straight of Florida, Bahamas.
Monster: Zzazhan
Destruction: Two boats sunk, almost a dozen people killed.
The Woman Eater – A scientist finds that the proteins produced by the Triffids increase in potency when they are fed human women. His experiments are soon halted in a police raid regarding the missing girls. The Triffid is destroyed, but it managed to release several seed pods before it expired.
Location: New York
Monster: Triffid
Destruction: ~3 women fed to Triffid. Several others slain.
1959 – Public knowledge of the Triffids is revealed when several appear in London. They are treated as an oddity at first until the deadly stingers grow in.
Location: London, England
Monster: Triffids
Destruction: half a dozen persons slain by Triffid stings.
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster - A blob organism is found inside an Aztec temple, released, but soon burned up by flamethrowers.
Location: Mexico
Monster: Blob Organism
Destruction: Dozens of deaths by consummation and radiation poisoning.
The Giant Gila Monster – A giant Gila Monster created by radioactive runoff searches for food in Arizona before being destroyed by a hotrod full of nitroglycerin.
Location: Arizona
Monster: Giant Gila Monster
Destruction: 3 car wrecks, one train wreck, several people eaten, one exploded Hotrod.
Attack of the Giant Leeches – Flukemen first appear, created by radioactive run-off. They are slain with conventional weapons and poisons.
Location: Florida
Monster: Flukemen
Destruction: 6 people drained of blood/infected with parasites.
The Giant Behemoth/Behemoth, the Sea Monster – A highly radioactive Rhedosaurus appears off the coast of England, eventually arriving in London and being torpedoed in the Thames River.
Location: England
Monster: Rhedosaurus
Destruction: ~100 people killed, several buildings and vehicles destroyed.
The Beast from the Haunted Cave – A group of criminals unfortunately stumble across a Kumo.
Location: California
Monster: Kumo
Destruction: ~6 people killed.
The Corpse – Hellboy rescues a child from the Fae and confronts a giant pig-like fae-monstrosity.
Location: Ireland
Monster: Grom
Destruction: 1 bridge destroyed.
The Killer Shrews – A scientist uses the earthen ooze responsible for the “Food of the Gods” incident to breed giant shrew-like organisms, and uses them on a life-size overpopulation experiment. He soon finds himself surrounded by the hungry beasts and only a few make it off the island.
Location: Island off California
Monster: Giant Shrews
Destruction: Several people slain. Island rendered devoid of living things.
1961 – Gorgo – Gorgo first appears off Nara island, is captured, but then its mother, Ogra arises, carves a straight line through London and rescues its offspring.
Location: Nara Island, London
Monster: Ogra, Gorgo
Destruction: Nara Island leveled; a line of destruction is carved out of London.
Day of the Triffids is published, creating a wave of paranoia about the species and their possible threats. The Soviet’s shelve further Triffid research beyond nutrient harvesting. The UN proposes a ban on such animal manipulations, though both the Soviets and US government continue to experiment and grow them.
1962 – The first Inter-connected Computers are hooked up in the United States.
Day of the Triffids – A group of Triffids escape and establish themselves in Spain. The military of Spain works to eradicate the creatures as best it can before casualties mount.
Location: Spain
Monster: Triffids
Destruction: Minor property damage, several dozen slain.
1964 – Horror of Party Beach – Atomic dumping offshore leads to the creation of aquatic CHUD like creatures dubbed Cannibalistic, Humanoid Water-Dwelling Organisms, or, as the military abbreviated them “Chowder”. The creatures wreak havoc along a popular shoreline until they are exterminated. Rumors of resurgences in 1980 and 1996 may have been misidentified Deep Ones (both under the title of Humanoids from the Deep).
Location: New Jersey Shore
Monsters: CHUD variant
Destruction: ~40 people slain.