Case file · Cryptid
Giant penguin of Clearwater
In February 1948 huge three-toed tracks appeared on Clearwater Beach, Florida, and kept turning up along the Gulf coast; naturalist Ivan Sanderson concluded a giant penguin was responsible.
1948 CE · 27.97, -82.83 · status: hoax
The account
The tracks came and went for about ten years, and pilots and boaters reported strange animals.
The sceptical view
In 1988 Tony Signorini revealed he and his late friend Al Williams had made them with heavy cast-iron 'feet' weighing 30 pounds each.