Other Aquatic · Monroe County, Florida · 1920
FL-1920ID case-d0b1a568d3Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Aug 1920to the month
- Where
- Monroe County, Floridato county level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Captain Thompson reports capturing a strange, huge fish-like creature with a massive mouth and cartilaginous spine in the waters off the Florida Keys.
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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
- Aug 1920
- 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 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-d0b1a568d3
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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 4 of The Rock Island Argus and daily union (Rock Island, Ill.), August 30, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-08-30
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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