Other Aquatic · Miami-Dade County, Florida · 1921
FL-1921ID case-09cdca0d82Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Mar 1921to the month
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, Floridato county level
- Reports
- 2 documents2 independent
The account
Witness reports a sea monster at least 50 feet long was found in shallow water north of Soldier’s Key by Elmer E. Garretson.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Mar 1921
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-09cdca0d82
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 7 of Roanoke Rapids herald (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.), March 11, 1921
Newspaper · 1921-03-11
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 8 of The Bolivar County Democrat (Rosedale, Miss.), March 19, 1921
Newspaper · 1921-03-19
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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