Other Aquatic · Palm Beach, Florida · 1921
FL-1921ID case-cdb9fecfd5Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- May 1921to the month
- Where
- Palm Beach, Floridato town level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report a giant ray battled fishermen for eight hours and towed their boats before escaping.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida, 33480, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- May 1921
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-cdb9fecfd5
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 3 of The Pioche record (Pioche, Nev.), May 13, 1921
Newspaper · 1921-05-13
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)
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.