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After telling his story upon arrival Bristol, Liberty County, Florida Related account #40618

Sasquatch sighting near Bristol, Florida

Shortly after the road crossing, the witness drove a relative back to the spot where headlights showed a large black figure standing inside the treeline before it walked away.

Full-body sighting
four weeks later Ocala National Forest (Fort McCoy) Fl, Marion County, Florida Related account #32332

Growl near Ocala National Forest (Fort McCoy) Fl, Florida

The witness says he returned heavily armed, heard distant growls at first dark, fired his weapon, then left as something moved through a clearing pushing pines apart.

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2 or 3 days before Palatka, Marion County, Florida Related account #35474

Sasquatch sighting near Palatka, Florida

A few days earlier in the same area the witness saw a black bear at close range and recorded video of it on a bow-mounted camera.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Greenville, Madison County, Florida Related account #32302

Sasquatch sighting near Greenville, Florida

The witness learned of other area encounters from two individuals he knows personally.

Date unknown Greenville, Madison County, Florida Related account #32302

Sasquatch sighting near Greenville, Florida

Other hunters reportedly had encounters in the same area.

before season started Greenville, Madison County, Florida Related account #32302

Growl near Greenville, Florida

The witness and a companion heard the same loud noise again while walking in a swamp bottom during a later scouting trip.

Growl
Date unknown Greenville, Madison County, Florida Related account #32302

Growl near Greenville, Florida

The witness alone heard a very loud deep growl/exhale twice from a thicket while hunting along a railroad.

Growl
BFRO YEAR: 1988-89? Greenville, Madison County, Florida Class B #32302

Memory told of a possible dusk sighting at a hunting camp near Greenville

A year after hearing loud growls in the same area, the witness and a companion were scouting without rifles. While driving and looking for wildlife, they stopped to watch an animal grazing at a distance that moved toward the companion on all fours. When the companion made noise, it stood upright on two legs, appearing tall with a light underside, before retreating into the woods.

Full-body sighting
The next morning Cassia, Lake County, Florida Related account #32249

Tracks near Cassia, Florida

The next morning the men returned and found smeared human-like footprints.

Tracks
at 11:00 pm ALVA, Lee County, Florida Related account #38165

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.

Partial sighting
Date unknown ALVA, Lee County, Florida Related account #38165

Property disturbance near ALVA, Florida

Something took a raccoon from a backyard snare, breaking 250-lb fishing wire attached to a fence post.

Property disturbance
within a few days ALVA, Lee County, Florida Related account #38165

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.

Partial sighting
a few night later ALVA, Lee County, Florida Related account #38165

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.

Partial sighting
Date unknown ALVA, Lee County, Florida Related account #38165

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.

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Date unknown Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida Related account #1030

Folklore near Fort Myers, Florida

Local children shared stories of a hairy man living in the woods around the trailer park.

Folklore
BFRO YEAR: 1973-74? Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida Class A #1030

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.

Partial sighting
around the same time Ft. Myers, Lee County, Florida Related account #38924

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.

Partial sighting
the week before Alexander Springs, Ocala Nat. Forest,Aster, Lake County, Florida Related account #1480

Sasquatch sighting near Alexander Springs, Ocala Nat. Forest,Aster, Florida

A coworker told the witness she had seen a bear while camping at the same campground the previous week.

Full-body sighting
BFRO YEAR: 1982/83 Lehigh Acres/Ft.Myers, Lee County, Florida Class B #13048

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.

Scream
Date unknown Ft.Myers, Lee County, Florida Related account #9885

Sasquatch sighting near Ft.Myers, Florida

Another person was reported to have seen a Bigfoot on the same property but was not taken seriously.

Full-body sighting