Florida Teen Claims A ‘Sea Monster’ Killed Four Of His Friends

Florida Teen Claims A ‘Sea Monster’ Killed Four Of His Friends

In March of 1962 five Florida teens used a 7ft Air Force raft to skindive and explore the semi-submerged shipwreck of the USS Massachusetts, which sits on a sandbar about 2 miles from shore in the Gulf of Mexico. Only one boy returned. The survivor, Brian McCleary, was 16 at the time and his account of how four of his friends died that day is bizarre and disturbing. On the trip that day were Brian McCleary and his friends, who were all from the …

Here Be Sea Monsters

Column SFF Bestiary Here Be Sea Monsters We’ve mapped about a quarter of the sea floor, but we’ve barely begun to explore what’s down there… By Judith Tarr | Published on April 7, 2025 From Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia, c. 1570 Comment 4 Share New Share From Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia, c. 1570 Previous chapters of the Bestiary have been mostly linear. I’ve organized them by categories and species and locations. Now that we’re hea…