Other / Unknown · Florida · 2024
FL-2024ID case-c7081aa89bFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 17, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Aug 2024to the month
- Where
- Floridafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing a skinless, gorilla-like creature with clawed forelegs and sharp canine teeth on the side of a road in central Florida.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Florida, United States
mapped to state level · from the state named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the state named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Aug 2024
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 17, 2026
- Case id
- case-c7081aa89b
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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.
- Central Florida Cryptid
Reddit · 2025-06-08
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.