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Tracks
The witness reported seeing trails in the woods before and after the incident that looked made by a similar animal.
Tracks
The witness group noticed a strange footprint in mud earlier the same day.
Growl
The next day near the area the witness heard a deep growl, wood knocks and large limbs or trees breaking, taken as a warning to leave.
Tracks
The witness found a bare footprint in sand by the swamp that was several inches longer and wider than the witness's own foot and appeared to have an arch.
Tracks
A few days before the vocal night the witness found a large bare-foot print near his home and measured it after bringing a relative to see it.
Structure or nest near Hosford, Florida
About five years later the witness and a relative found a rectangular ground cover of freshly snapped palmetto fronds inside a palmetto clump at midday.
Footsteps near Mulberry, Florida
The witness and her spouse heard something large running and knocking down trees approaching them and went inside.
Hunter has unexplained, late night encounter while in small boat on Saddle Creek
Late at night the witness paddled a small boat up a creek with two dogs and heard something following on the bank, then a loud blowing noise. The dogs refused to go ashore and later barked intensely. The witness shone a light and saw a large ape-like figure running away over a hill, then noticed a group of tracks while leaving. A skunk-like brassy odor was noted before the sighting.
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 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.
Tracks
As a youth the witness and two relatives found very large human-like tracks by a pond connected to a swamp and measured them with a tape measure.
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.
Tracks near Indiantown, Florida
The following hunting season the witness found a large human-looking bare footprint with five toes near the same area while dragging out a tree stand.
Footsteps
On the prior day the witness heard movement pacing him in dense brush and an unfamiliar screech/growl after noticing high tree scrapings.
Tracks near Brooksville, Florida
The witness found footprints in the field repeatedly over an 11-year period.
Tracks
The witness reports finding a large human-like footprint at a wildlife management area and photographing it next to a shoe for scale.
Movement only near Jacksonville, Florida
The reporter and a fellow officer heard movement of something large in underbrush and found a freshly broken pine limb nearby.
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.