Claimed encounters in Lee County, Florida
15 entries reported in Lee County, Florida, each linked to the report or podcast segment it came from. Narrow them down with the filters, or see them on the map.
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Repeat night visits scare away roommates near Alva
The witness reports ongoing nighttime visits at a rental property since March 2012. He hears sounds, smells odor, and sees a shadowy figure run toward the woods. He believes it is a female with a child that steals fruit, garbage and fish, and says the figures watch people in the yard and peer through windows.
Fisherman comes face to face with tall ape-like creature in Ft. Myers
Late at night the witness was fishing from a pier in his backyard when he heard noises from a nearby canal. He approached and came face to face at about 15 feet with a large hairy ape-like figure standing behind a palm tree. The figure moved agitatedly and made grunting noises, then retreated toward nearby railroad tracks as the witness went inside.
Possible vocalization east of Ft.Myers
The witness and a teenage helper were hauling cut branches on a relative's wooded property in the late afternoon when they heard three loud, deep whoop-like sounds from a swampy area. The witness could not match the sound to known local wildlife and briefly considered Bigfoot before dismissing it. He later checked whooping crane recordings online and concluded that was not the sound heard.
Possible Nighttime Encounter by Girls on Horseback north of Ft. Myers
The witness and a companion were riding horses at night along a dirt road bordered by ditches, woods and pastures when the horses became nervous. The witness heard something moving parallel to them in the woods, keeping pace even as they urged the horses from a gallop to a full run across several fence lines. The parallel movement stopped where the woods ended at the edge of the witness's property. A later search by truck found where something had been, but the creature was never seen.
Large bipedal creature passes child's window near Ft.Myers
At around 10 p.m. in 1963, the witness was lying in bed trying to sleep when heavy footsteps passed the bedroom window. The witness saw a huge shadow moving bipedally with a human-like walk, described as taller than a man, then heard a loud low-pitched moan. Frightened, the witness ran to the parents' bedroom sobbing and shaking.
Sasquatch sighting near ALVA, Florida
The witness and two investigators watched two thermal figures with heads, shoulders and an arm peering from behind trees for about two minutes before they withdrew.
Property disturbance near ALVA, Florida
Something took a raccoon from a backyard snare, breaking 250-lb fishing wire attached to a fence post.
Sasquatch sighting near ALVA, Florida
A new companion who had not been told about the visitor saw it looking at him at night and moved out within days.
Sasquatch sighting near ALVA, Florida
The same companion saw a large hairy upright figure blocking a flood light with its arm to peer into a window a few nights later.
Sasquatch sighting near ALVA, Florida
A companion saw a figure peering through a bedroom window, then the witness heard heavy footfalls as it jumped a fence and crashed through swamp screaming.
Folklore near Fort Myers, Florida
Local children shared stories of a hairy man living in the woods around the trailer park.
5 children observe a very large hairy "man" for several minutes (N. Ft. Myers)
The witness, then a child, was with several other children at a playground at dusk after playing in nearby woods. After another child pointed out movement, the group climbed the slide ladder to look into the woods. They watched a large hair-covered upright figure look at them and then turn and walk slowly away through scrub palms toward a pond for a couple minutes before they ran home.
Sasquatch sighting near Ft. Myers, Florida
Two boys reportedly saw a Skunk Ape in the same location around the same time as the main event.
Scream Heard in a Cypress Swamp outside Ft. Myers
Around mid-summer 1982 or 1983, the witness and a companion were camping in a wet cypress swamp in Lee County after dark. After building a campfire, they heard a single deep, drawn-out scream from the swamp less than a mile away, after which insects went silent. They saw and smelled nothing, broke camp immediately and left on foot.
Sasquatch sighting near Ft.Myers, Florida
Another person was reported to have seen a Bigfoot on the same property but was not taken seriously.