Other Aquatic · Monroe County, Florida · 1946
FL-1946ID case-278a686f88Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 1946to the month
- Where
- Monroe County, Floridato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Captain Ray Knopp reports catching a 15-foot, 1800-lb. mud shark in deep water off Key West that was described as looking like a huge sea cow.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Monroe County, Florida, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 1946
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-278a686f88
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Source trail (1)
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 1 of The Key West citizen (Key West, Fla.), July 31, 1946
Newspaper · 1946-07-31
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.