Second-hand Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) #1f8ff750-46df-47ab-9d7d-fec2c6137c69

Cryptid sighting near Lake Wales, Florida (1940)

1940–1949 night Lake Wales, Florida 2 witnesses

Account

An older woman wrote that she and her uncle set traps for disappearing oranges and caught a tiny hair-covered naked man speaking an unknown language. Police put him in an orange crate, then the house was pelted with sticks, stones and oranges by dozens of similar beings until he was released. A later police worker recalled the crate incident.

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What was reported

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Sightings

Full-body sighting

Interaction

Rock throwing Object throwing

Described appearance

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Height src: six inch tall
Hair colour src: covered in hair

Facts & provenance

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Date	1940–1949 Stated Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) report #1f8ff750-46df-47ab-9d7d-fec2c6137c69 · transcript:00:37:09-00:39:03 · read with 85% confidence
Time of day	night Stated Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) report #1f8ff750-46df-47ab-9d7d-fec2c6137c69 · transcript:00:39:03-00:42:00 · read with 85% confidence
Place	Lake Wales, Florida Stated Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) report #1f8ff750-46df-47ab-9d7d-fec2c6137c69 · transcript:00:37:09-00:39:03 · read with 85% confidence
Map point	27.9207, -81.5995 (± 15 km) Geocoded Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) report #1f8ff750-46df-47ab-9d7d-fec2c6137c69 · gazetteer:place · read with 50% confidence Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Lake Wales city (GEOID 1238950), matched from nearest town 'Lake Wales'
Account type	Second-hand Stated Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) report #1f8ff750-46df-47ab-9d7d-fec2c6137c69 · transcript:00:37:09-00:39:03 · read with 85% confidence
Witnesses	2 Derived Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) report #1f8ff750-46df-47ab-9d7d-fec2c6137c69 · transcript:00:37:09-00:39:03 · read with 80% confidence
Witness was	setting traps for missing fruit Stated Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) report #1f8ff750-46df-47ab-9d7d-fec2c6137c69 · transcript:00:39:03-00:42:00 · read with 85% confidence
Witness's word for it	six inch tall naked man covered in hair Stated Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) report #1f8ff750-46df-47ab-9d7d-fec2c6137c69 · transcript:00:39:03-00:42:00
Creature category	OTHER_CRYPTID Derived Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) report #1f8ff750-46df-47ab-9d7d-fec2c6137c69 · transcript:00:39:03-00:43:54 · read with 80% confidence

Source timeline

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