Possible collision with vehicle outside Homestead
Account
Early one Saturday morning in 1971 or 1972 the witness was driving south on US 27 when he stopped at a fresh single-car wreck with law enforcement present. He saw a car with a crushed front fender and overheard officers remark that no one could have walked away from such an impact and about a bear moving unusually. He did not see any animal himself but later heard a radio news report saying the driver claimed to have hit a Florida Skunk Ape that officers chased into a thicket.
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Facts & provenance
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| Time of day |
about 5am in the predawn
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| Place |
Homestead, Dade County, Florida
Stated
BFRO report #1719
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
25.48, -80.52 (± 2 km)
BFRO map layer point for report 1719 with published boundary
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
3
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
driving to family trailer in Key Largo
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| Witness's word for it |
the Florida Skunk Ape
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| Source classification |
Class B
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Evidence & investigation
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mid-sized car with very crumpled left front quarter panel seen off road at wreck scene
For two or three days after news of a Skunk Ape vehicle strike, patrol cars and helicopters with spotlights searched woods and neighborhood.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #1719 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference
The report refers to
- “someone had hit " A Skunk Ape"”Not in the Anomadex yet