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Odor near Davie, Florida (1974)
A local friend who swam in the turnaround where alligators would not go searched underwater and found an opening. He swam about 100 feet into a cavern, surfaced under the area used for bikes and horses, and encountered an overpowering stench that burned his eyes and made breathing hard. He believed he had found the creature's lair and asked the witness to keep it secret.
Odor near Davie, Florida (1974)
While staying at the witness's sister's house one night, the witness and cousin noticed a very strong skunk-like odor drift past. The house dogs became extremely agitated and had to be put in the garage. The next day the sister said the smell was the skunk ape that comes around in hot summers.
Construction worker has startling encounter outside hunting cottage
The witness and a relative camped overnight at two unfinished houses in swampy pine woods while on a work assignment. After dark by a campfire the witness saw eyes and then watched a tall upright figure cross an open area and take bacon left near the fire. The witness retreated into the house, retrieved rifles, and kept watch through the night. No usable tracks were found the next morning.
Odor near Lake Helen, Florida
A horrible stench lingered outside the house for two days while the retriever refused to go outside even in daytime.
Odor near Lake Helen, Florida
Witness and daughter repeatedly noticed foul odors near home, strange night noises, and waking simultaneously without known cause.
Odor near Perry, Fla, Florida
While hiking in the days before the main night, the group sometimes noticed a horrible foul smell.
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.
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.
Young girls have daylight sighting near their home
The witness and a relative went to a play hut at the edge of the woods just after daybreak. They noticed a foul odor, heard something large moving and growling, and hid in a nearby gully. They then watched a very tall, broad, brownish-red haired biped with human-like shape approach the hut from 50 to 70 feet away before turning and walking away, after which they ran home.
Odor near Geneva, Florida
The witness recalls smelling a strong rancid odor while bow-hunting from a stand that came and went without a wind shift and left no tracks in the rocky creek bed when checked the next day.
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.
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 Lakeside, Florida
One of the two fishermen reportedly noticed the same foul odor in the same area the day before the main trip.
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 in Florida
Two younger brothers and a cousin went to play by a slanted live oak and fruit trees. They hid in grass and watched an auburn-reddish tall creature pick fruit and hold it in its arm, sniffing toward them before walking off. The brother later reported hearing owl-like calls but never seeing it again.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida
Months later after moving to a prairie area, the witness was riding four-wheelers at night with two friends. Headlights lit a tall hairy creature by a cow feeder that looked identical to the first one. The friends fled immediately, the witness watched briefly, then fled after his four-wheeler stalled.
Chatter in Florida
While working in Florida, the witness repeatedly heard rapid chattering from woods behind the parking lot as distant coyotes went silent, and smelled a wet-dog and skunk-like odor from the swamp. The sounds lasted minutes and recurred on several occasions. Nothing was ever seen.
Footsteps in Florida
The witness returned with a friend in law enforcement to camp at the same area. Friday night they heard close footsteps and saw hogs, Saturday they measured the sighting location and saw broken vegetation, and Saturday evening the friend silently alerted and later said a creature watched them from about 15 feet. On leaving they found fresh teepee-like grass structures with the same foul smell, and afterward both were questioned by supervisors who called it a bear.