Folklore / legend
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Sasquatch sighting in Florida (1884)
1884
Florida
Account
In 1884 a rural community living around Ocheesee Pond lost livestock and heard eerie nighttime calls from the water. After children were frightened by a hair-covered figure, residents formed a posse, captured it, and transported it chained to the governor in Tallahassee. The governor could not place it and sent it to the nearby Chattahoochee hospital, where it died and was buried under later construction.
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- Height src
- about six foot tall
- Build src
- emaciated
- Age / size src
- older one
- Other features src
- completely covered in hair from head to toe
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