I got lucky enough to see one in Tampa,Florida. Years ago. On the bridge coming off of davis island/Tampa General. That bridge is the exact spot where the Hillsborough River meets Tampa Bay. Ive seen 100s of manatees using the same path for years plus they make a circular wake on top of the water. The thing i seen did not take the normal mantee path. It took the middle of the bridge where boat traffic usually the heaviest. It swam 2 or 3 feet under the surface and made no wake. I had a perfect Aerial position to see it for literally a split second. It swam so fast it was unbelievable. Its main characteristics are the pitch fork tail but it also has leg fins plus arm fins so that’s probably why it swims so much better than a manatee. I think this thing is very endangered! And there’s probably a few handful that have been luckily breeding. Just my experience that i thought has to be shared. I would love to talk to the person who filmed this video
Those are manatees the reason that one step that forked looking tail is probably got hit by propeller or something it cut it like that I think that's what they discovered that these but I seen its face while ago when it barely come up and it's a manatee
It could be some sort of hybrid species of manatee…I remember seeing the snout moving up to surface (sowerwine footage) and it looked a brownish dog? 🤔 very interesting…I know Sowerwine had a website at one point but took it down…👀
I don’t think it’s a manatee my guess it is it’s own species that’s not a mammal had to stay submerged because it can’t breath that’s just my guess if it were a manatee no reason why it wouldn’t come up so this creature must not be capable of getting out the water unless it’s very afraid but if it was that scared it wouldn’t have come up at all so there has to be a reason it won’t show it self and It has to do with it’s breathing or it knows it just ugly and afraid people will talk and kill it’s self esteem
No matter what this is… I find it very intriguing. I love that we’re continuing to discover variations and new breeds unknown to man. In a day and age when technology removes so much mystery, there are still bread crumbs of the unknown in our midst. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing. And thank you for being protective of the location. ~Sheeara, Alaska
ClovenBog as I've said to other people I know Gene worked with him for years and why it's not shaky is because he filmed these in the late 90s with one of those huge camcorders from back then on a tripod.
A really badly injured manatee that is somehow still fine. Reminds me of the Amazon Sawback Monster, which Jeremy Wade photographed and identified as a river dolphin that survived a mutiliation with machetes.
And nobody calls you out about this thing being over 20ft long and having a reptilian tail, never before seen characteristics, and it had a skinny otter looking head in the beginning. Are you smoking crack?
this creature skull design is different from a manatee its more robust like a seal and their muzzle is elongated simular to a Leapard seal indicating it has teeth and is probably predatory. iv seen many videos of these things and i can tell you they are NOT like anything i know to live there. Iv seen damaged manatee tails and the one constant i see with this animals tail is the fork pattern is symmetrical meaning its very unlikely for a damaged tail to look so perfectly shaped on both sides making this animal truly special and unique. My guess is its a undiscovered cousin of the seal family just much more robust and aggressively built given that its in the same waters as crocs gators and sharks.
It's just amazing people that don't live near the water and don't really have a clue what a manatee looks like start screaming manatee not realizing that most of these people that live in Florida have seen a manatee oh umpteen times and would never be shook up over a known creature
these same idiots that always try to explain away strange creatures would never jump in the water to prove it lol. cowards always trying to find logic in something that defies all logic.
@@stephenbrand5661 no he is saying an uneducated opinion vs educated experienced ones people in Florida know what animals live their and I highly doubt a population of mangled deformed manitee live anywhere on earth but I think it's more likely an unknown species
Honestly if you are able to convince yourself that you're seeing a manatee that's amazing what the human brain can do. I was seeing a rather large bat the other day and I was convinced it was a bird until I said to myself, no, that IS a huge bat what am I thinking. Then I could see the pointed folds of it's wings. Your brain is doing a hell of a job here. That thing is over 20ft long. You look really, insanely out of it by your profile pic too. Doubt you'd be able to snap into reality and realize you're seeing something different.
I've been canoeing the suwannee river for forty years. There are some big things in that river. I will not swim in dark water there. There is an increase in large alligators in the last 20 years on the suwannee too.
I honestly think it's a manatee/dugong hybrid, manatees have that paddle like tail and a dugong has a tail like a whale. A combination of the two could create a tail in the shape of a trident.
4:12 doesn't look like a manatee back; 2:20 it's not a manatee flipper cause too far from the head; it's not a manatee tail either ; 0:35 serpent -like body + not manatee head (or mouth & nostrils)
@Gabriela Gomes its already been proven to be a manatee. They captured it and gave it the help it needed. Forked tail was due to boat propeller injury.
We can sit in arm chairs and I do too and iinsult people that see manatees on a daily basis by saying they were scared by an animal they know quite well and it's easy to say that it's something but the face is clearly not round and blubbery like a manatee it is definitely 100% not a manatee what it is I don't know but I know what it's not
@@danielwebster5748 100% definitely not a manatee? How can you be so sure yet so wrong lol it is a manatee actually , a mutated one involved in a freakish boating accident
Before you all decide that this is a manatee, watch the episode of MonsterQuest that goes into great detail about what this is and isn't! You have no idea what you are talking about. This is not a manatee.
Monster Quest is a hype show that never reaches a conclusion on anything. It's entertaining but not academic in any way. They find anyone they can to share alternative interpretations of videos and facts for entertainment. This isn't one creature, these are different animals in different places at different times. It's 90% ordinary manatee footage. Otters can make you think you're looking at a "monster" too, that happened to me personally when I was young and when I realized it was otters I was relieved lol. I found their den and gave them some fish. Only the second video clip is a bit puzzling with that perfectly squared off thing appearing to be a fin coming out of that still water. But I'd still assume it's a known creature or a known creature disturbing something under water before I assume it's something magical or legendary. I saw a great video of what appears to be a river serpent in Alaska that turned out to be a heavy mooring rope snagged on a sunken log, and it fooled a lot of experts for months until someone figured out what it was.
gosh the very first clip almost looks as though the sea monster knows it's a cryptid thats never seen and ducks its head down really quick when seeing the camera, whilst pretending its made up of CGI
I know exactly what it is a Florida resident was fishing near by he contacted Florida game fish & wildlife they came out to investigate and discovered a manatees that had been injured by a careless boater it's tail had been split in 3 pieces the injury had healed and it didn't seem to brother the animal too much and it was playing with another so fish & game let it be. Please power boat operators please put a prop shield on your motors propellers. Protect wild life. Manatees are slow swimmers. There are hundreds of injuries every year.
Yeah, I think there are probably two or more animals in these videos and at least one is a manatee. By the way, manatees are powerful, fast swimmers. They are not often seen swimming fast, but they can and they do, especially if they are spooked.
So Manatees are over 20ft long and have reptilian characteristics? When have you seen a manatee move it's tail side to side, EVER? This is amazing. is this fluoride? People are seeing something unique but are in straight denial. You're a joke!
Clearly it has a blowhole which would seem to be a whale but it's not a whale because Whales do not have Trident tails. Most sailors who sing true sea monsters said the real sea monsters have blowholes similar to a whale. But I really believe this is a monk seal which is supposed to be extinct perhaps two of them. It comes up briefly to show a very unmanatee look.
3R 6 Definitely a manatee. We have them all over in Florida. Wouldn’t hurt a fly. Gentle giants. It’s just sticking it’s head out of the water being curious.
Dalibor Jovanovic I know the guy that videotape these and he's been fishing his whole life. He knows what a manatee is and these are definitely not manatees. I seen these tapes about 7 years before MonsterQuest was even a thing. We used to work together and we would talk about fishing all the time and one day when he trusts me enough after a few years he said I'm going to bring something and it's going to blow your mind. He brought in a VHS tape and said besides my brother and one other person you're the only person that seen this. He says he hides them because things people wouldn't believe him. Mind you he showed me these back in 2003 and they were several years old to begin with. it was in one of his fishing spots and one year you would see these big things but they would stay far away from him and he said every year they were kind of venture a little bit closer so we brought out one of those big old camcorders from the 90s through it on a tripod and recorded these. He would sit out there for hours and hours day after day just to get what little footage he has of them.
phyzikal youth ent like I said they're definitely not manatees. I know the guy that shot this. I'm serious I actually know him and he has a ton of other footage that's even better.
It was a male version of a mermaid. He was swimming around all pissed off cuz I had his mer-woman on board tappin dat azz. If you think human poon-tang smells fishy you should try some mermaid
No, people say it's a manatee cuz it's a manatee. Even the damaged tail is nothing unusual because manatees get injured by boat propellers all the time.
3:31 I have never heard of a manatee with type of body part it's not a manatee that tail is too flat and too fast to bee one manatees have more round less flat tails
I am a professional diver in diving these Waters in the Tampa area for 15 years that is not a manatee I swim with them daily I brushed their bellies and remove Barnacles in mucus my first immediate thought was exactly what you said that's too fast that Tails moving too fast
+GoldVillage lol if you have seen the dam amount of boats going in and out of the rivers in south FL in the summer they look like a dam interstate in rush hour. Its not just a dam good chance it's a very very! likely one!...that tail fin was cut like that In just one pass by a large outboard propeller I'm only saying all this because I'm from the gulf coast of FL I've seen what boats do to manatees 1st hand and I've never seen one that wasn't cut to hell and back somewhere
According to the website of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce Manatees reach a top speed of 18-25 kph which is consistent with the footage shown here.
Here’s something that needs to be cleared up: Yes, manatees can swim _fast._ They are powerful animals with large tails that can propel them forward like a torpedo. Sure, we don’t usually _think_ of them that way. But just look up videos people have captured of manatees that are scared or chasing each other. Don’t let the stereotype fool you. They are capable of great bursts of speed and energy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eyf2FmeeIR0.html That said, I wish all cryptid footage was as good as this. Clearly, this is a zoological phenomenon, not a boat wake or floating log. Unfortunately, it’s probably footage of at least one or two known species. One is a manatee. The other could be a pinniped. I would love to see the _entire_ footage that Sowerwine recorded as it might have more clues. But I think some of this footage depicts a marine mammal and likely a manatee.
Everyone saying all sought of things, Sea cow , seal manatee dolphin lol everyone jus speculating even though it doesn't look like any of those to me, it's so hard for people to believe that it's not them alone that exists and you don't know everything that exists ok
Eet you a bow stand high up in a tree so you can get aerial photos or a drone youll never get a hood vev at ground level...im curious..it looks like manatee back the other looks like gator or croc tail but i remember seing a video on something like this a few years ago like a scaily salamander and it to was compelling...good hunting
The thing puts it's head up at the beginning and it's small as fuck and is ultra dexterous, looking like a giant otter thing, but somehow people are going to say it's A FUCKING MANATEE because of the shape of it's round body? It has ONE FUCKING QUALITY of a manatee, and about two dozen bizarro characteristics that rule that out, but your TV COUCH ASS is going to say it's A FUCKING MANATEE!!!!!
No, it is a West Indian Manatee, It behaves like one in every respect, including the speed, According to the website of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce Manatees reach a top speed of 18-25 kph which is consistent with the footage shown here. the odd looking bit of tail sticking out at 3:33 is clearly the tail of a manatee with boat scares, very common in manatees, it is similar to this one: ttellah2.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/manateetail.jpg
Angelita Orta , the reason we think it's a manatee is because those gentle creatures tend to swim close to the surface and when boats go passing by fast, they cut through them, thus giving them fucked up tails that makes it look like a sea monster tail, plus the texture of its skin is soooo manatee, if you live in Florida, you know!
I don't think it's real, the first clip where a head comes out of the water, the surface of the water isn't disturbed, the same for when the head goes down
Yea so this video is just an injured manatee I’ve seen it with my cousin wage choped looking fin is it’s flipper we think it was due to a boating accident but we didn’t wanna get too close incase we scarred it off, it seemed to be just as curious with us than we with it ❤️ good to know it’s still somewhat interesting even in 2020
that's a manatee. I saw the real deal in Old Tampa Bay, this is NOT it, maybe the first video with several humps are the thing I saw, but the head popped out and it looked like a Manatee. The thing I saw was like a massive snake, 4 to 6 feet in diameter, scaled and at the end a massive whale tail about 40 feet wide slowly popped out of the water in front of my wave runner , as to say I am here, now you know
Pues yo no creo 1ue la cola de tridente sea de un manati ni la del cuerpo que la saca fuera de él agua y lo sumerge de nuevo pero bueno solo decirte que busques más y subas contenido nuevo de todo lo mejor y lo que puedas registrar de esos animales y subirá e l canal un montón saludos y espero ver un video reciente de 2022 o 2023
Yea that's a manatee, Florida's coasts are full of them. It's a sad reality that manatees get shredded by boat propellers all the time, this poor guys tail fin got it bad.
Okay...an unknown animal playing around in the water...so? What is supposed to do...juggle? Impersonate Nixon? Whatever...It is better quality footage, than some...
I stand corrected whatever the creature is it is nearly as long as well it could be several seals monk seals thought to be extinct in my opinion you see several tails and it is absolutely absurd to think that every manatee in the area has a trident Tel cut by a boats it would also be absurd to think that people that live with manatees probably every day would be Shook Up by 1
no, it is a West Indian Manatee, It behaves like one in every respect, including the speed, According to the website of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce Manatees reach a top speed of 18-25 kph which is consistent with the footage shown here.
The first one was some bad CGI so it kind of makes the rest of this hard to believe but I’ve been in a similar situation where I actually saw some thing that people didn’t think existed over by Clearwater Beach I got footage of something very close to what I’m seeing on your video but mine is not CGI mines authentic
