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Door or window contact near Lake Helen, Florida
Two nights later the family heard the back door shaken and banged then the front door handle rattled while the protective dog stayed silent.
Vehicle contact near Lake Helen, Florida
The teenaged daughter sitting in a parked car had the car violently shaken and pushed down from the front without seeing the cause.
Vocalization near Ormond Beach, Florida
A few days later the witness returned with another person, placed a cantaloupe on the broken tree, heard a loud wheezing like a startled boar, and later found the cantaloupe hollowed out with intact shell.
Year long sightings by family
The witness describes repeated nighttime visits to a rural property over about a year by a family of large hairy creatures that ate fruit, looked in trailer windows, and once bit a penned hog. The witness reports seeing three individuals of varying heights, hearing frequent chattering, noticing odor, tracks and hair, and attempting to hunt them without driving them away. After about a year the visits stopped, believed to have ended when habitat regrew.
Door or window contact near Hudson, Florida
A couple of weeks later the witness and a relative heard a loud bang that shook the residence and later found a fist-like dent and large bare prints at the rear door.
Footsteps
The witness woke around 2 a.m. to crunching footsteps and heard the cabin screen door open and shut quickly while the dog stayed silent and alert, prompting the witness to remain in bed until daylight.
Footsteps near Pasco County
In the late 1980s the same group heard something walking through tall grass toward an abandoned house, heard something hit the house, fled, and the next day found a path through the grass and a damaged wall under a window.
Structure or nest near Kissimmee, Florida
The witness found a long bedding area near the bedroom window and grapefruit with large bite marks.
Kayaker experiences frightening incidents while traveling down Yellow River
While kayaking a long stretch of river in northwest Florida near dusk, the witness heard moaning to yelling sounds and smelled a strong musky odor. Rocks were thrown from the treeline toward the water and near the kayak, while sticks and trees were heard breaking. The witness also heard coyotes and loud unidentified sounds suggesting animals fighting, felt followed for much of the trip, and never saw the source.
Property disturbance near Everglade City, Florida
On the 8th night something entered the campsite and ransacked empty water bottles in the fire pit while the witness shone a light and saw nothing.
Growl
The witness stepped onto the back porch at night and heard the same low growl much louder, then rustling and a loud hit to the wooden shed, but found nothing with a spotlight.
Property disturbance near Brooksville, Florida
Roofs were removed from the witness's dog houses.
Property disturbance near Brooksville, Florida
One pony regularly had a hand-hold twisted and tied in its mane.
Property disturbance near Brooksville, Florida
Fence top barbed-wire lines were repeatedly pushed down and wrapped with moss and sticks, reappearing the next morning after removal.
Wood knock near Bunnell, Florida
The witness reports taking people to the area at night on multiple occasions and experiencing knocks, howls, tree breaks and thrown objects.
Scream near Bunnell, Florida
The witness states that everyone he took hunting in that section had encounters involving screams, knocks, tree breaks, stone throws or howls.
Possible collision with vehicle outside Homestead
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.
Object throwing near Hernando City, Florida
During a fall 1962 scout night walk on the island, the witness and others had sticks thrown at them from the swamp area.
Footsteps
Later that night at the campground, the witness heard heavy bipedal footsteps pacing beside her parked car and felt the car nudged, while teammates at a nearby site also heard heavy bipedal movement around tents.
Sasquatch sighting
While riding with a relative following a deputy's car, the witness saw the creature step into the road, strike the patrol car and a street sign, yell, then limp into the swamp.