Case file · Cryptid
The U-28 'sea monster'
Baron Georg von Forstner, commander of the German submarine U-28, said that when the British steamer Iberian sank on 30 July 1915 an underwater blast threw up a 60-foot crocodile-like animal.
1915 CE · 51.30, -10.00 · status: claim
The account
Von Forstner told the story only in 1933, in a German newspaper. He said the officers on the conning tower all saw the creature writhing in the air for some seconds before it fell back. Position approximate, south-west of Ireland, where the Iberian was sunk.
The sceptical view
There is no mention of it in the war diary, the story appeared 18 years later, and no other crewman confirmed it.