Other Aquatic · Tampa Bay, Florida · 1879
FL-1879ID case-bc89542f9eAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- May 2, 1879to the day
- Where
- Tampa Bay, Floridato approximate level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Captain Falcon and Fred Dawson harpooned and pursued a large devil-fish in Tampa Bay that snapped its line.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Tampa Bay, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- May 2, 1879
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-bc89542f9e
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 7 of The Cincinnati daily star ([Cincinnati, Ohio]), October 21, 1879, (Fourth Edition.)
Newspaper · 1879-10-21
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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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