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Vocalization near Naples, Ochopee, Florida
On many nights fishing at and near the same location, the witness heard deep primate-like calls described as similar to a howler monkey.
Man describes possible encounters off Route 41 near Ochopee
The witness and a companion were walking a dirt trail by a canal to find a bass spot while looking down to avoid snakes. They saw large brown legs cross the trail ahead and noticed branches rustling in a nearby group of trees, which the witness attributed to a sasquatch watching them. Scared, they backed away slowly and left the area.
Howl near Ochopee, Florida
About a month later at the same camp, the group heard a howl in reply to the witness's call and later heard crashing, footsteps and smelled skunk-like odor.
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.
Movement only near Floral City, Florida
The witness parked before daylight for a bow hunt, heard something large jump from bushes behind the vehicle, and smelled a strong feces-like odor that soon dissipated.
Odor near Davie, Florida
On another night the witness and his cousin smelled a strong skunk-like odor in the house that relatives attributed to the creature.
Odor near Community Near Charlotte Harbor, Florida
The witness reported a strong musty odor outside the front door on the next three mornings at about the same time.
Sasquatch sighting near Port Charlotte, Florida
The witness mentions a couple of other odd situations in the same area without providing details.
Property disturbance near Punta Gorda, Florida
The witness found a heavy fish-box lid shifted aside with the bungee still attached and about 20 lbs of mullet missing from a boat in the yard, with a feeling of being watched.
Fish stolen from a boat, possible knocks and vocalizations near Punta Gorda
The witness reports repeatedly hearing loud wood-on-wood smacking sounds from different directions after midnight while soaking in a hot tub outside a trailer and later while on the second-floor deck of a new house. The property borders heavily wooded swamp adjoining a wildlife preserve. The witness initially wondered why anyone would be working in the woods at night, later associating the sounds with stick-banging described on a television show. No visual encounter is claimed.
Tracks near New Smyrna Beach, Florida
The witness had previously seen large footprints in the same area and questioned why someone would fish from shore there.
Man recalls childhood encounter with sasquatch
As a boy camping with friends near a creek, the witness and a companion shone flashlights at a departing friend. They saw a large hair-covered bipedal form walk a few yards behind him in the opposite direction, taking a few long smooth strides before leaving the light. The two observers stayed by the fire overnight, and a next-day search found no tracks or other sign.
Tracks in Florida
The guest walked off trail with a group to an area thought to hold a family and found Bigfoot-like prints including small ones that ended abruptly. The prints did not match black bear tracks. Casts were made but a controlled burn was done before they could be retrieved.
Paranormal encounter in Florida
After agreeing to consider writing about a notorious murder case, the guest experienced escalating activity including power failures and fleeting dark shapes. He woke to see a solid dark human-like figure with visible shoulders and folded hands watching him at the foot of his bed. It moved down the hall into his infant daughter's room and vanished as she screamed.
Movement only in Florida
More recently while in woods about a hundred yards behind his house with his girlfriend, the guest experienced something rush toward them and stop about twenty yards away. Immediately afterward something unseen began snapping baseball-sized limbs high in the trees while he felt a threatening presence. He told his girlfriend not to run and eased out of the area.
Vocalization near Pinecrest, Florida
At about fourteen the guest was night-fishing with his father on phosphate-mine land when his father boated out to full traps and left him alone on the bank. He heard sticks breaking and louder thrashing, then saw movement in myrtle bushes and a tall tree shaking violently while a loud whoa-whoa vocalization sounded. He fled to the locked truck, and his father dismissed the sound as a cow.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida
On the same land a couple years earlier, the witness photographed a dark figure peeking behind a tree then running on two feet. He says the zoomed image shows brow, skin, hairline, eyes and nose. The sun was in their eyes and the phone camera was poor.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida
Two years before the bike-path sighting, the witness was driving in broad daylight and saw a huge black-gray hairy creature about 100 feet away. It paced and peeked around trees watching cattle. He stopped at the fence, called his partner, and tried to flag down others.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida
The witness was pushing a stroller with his daughter riding a bike on a swamp bike path in daytime. He heard breaking and felt something bipedal run past. About ten feet away something stood up and ran off, brown with light tips and taller than him. His daughter also saw it.
Footsteps in Florida
The investigator sat alone by ponds filming reptiles while testing a camera. A very heavy biped crashed through brush behind in large strides then stopped. Searching with optics revealed nothing despite expectation of visible disturbance.