Zeegangsa of Indonesia.

 

Zeegangsa

A Zeegangsa is a water dwelling  cryptid that is said to live  in the Kali Miring River in Java, Indonesia.

In  1907, some  British businessmen working  in Surabaya, Java, went on a trip  crocodile hunting on the Kali Miring River.

Sitting in a boat near the mouth of the river, they saw something like  a swan's head appeared out of the water on the east bank . The group thought it was a dead tree trunk, but when they looked closed   they discovered that the top of the object had a mouth that opened and closed with teeth. The helmsman saw a crescent-shaped object protruding from the water on the starboard side, which he thoughts  was the creature's tail. They estimated it be  about 9 metres ( 27 feet) long between its head and its  tail.

One of the group shot at  the monster with a crocodile  gun. The bullet appeared to hit the creature and it slowly disappeared into the water. They told their story to a local  fisherman, who told them that it was a creature called Zeegangsa, a mild and harmless river-dwelling creature.

It sounded like many aquatic cryptids ,a sort of plesiosaur shape but not aggressive. A creature worth studying  and perhaps in the future someone may do so.