Cape Cod Manatee Sightings

A Florida manatee, sighted recently at Sesuit Harbor in Dennis, Massachusetts, spent an hour in Rock Harbor on Monday, September 14, 2009, afternoon.

The male manatee was reported about 3 p.m. inside the harbor, checking out the charter fishing boat berths, according to Harbor Master Dawson Farber. “It looks like a giant floating cow,” Farber said.

From photos, the manatee has tentatively identified as a male named Ilysa, out of Miami, according to stranding coordinator Sarah Sharp of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Ilysa was first sighted about 1994, notes reporter Susan Milton of the Cape Cod Times.

As previously mentioned on Cryptomundo, out-of-place manatee sightings have become more commonplace in the last few years.

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Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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