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Boy Scouts have sighting while camping at Quednau Ranch
The witness was on a Boy Scout campout in the Murdoch area near Tampa. On the second night after midnight during an initiation outing with another scout, they saw a very large figure running bipedally into the woods at high speed while giving a high-pitched scream or shriek. A strange smell was noted but was attributed at the time to sulphur water. The troop reportedly never returned to the area to camp.
Man recalls a possible up-close nighttime encounter on Gilchrist Island
Late at night while returning to his Boy Scout camp on an island, the witness took a shortcut through a clearing and approached what he thought was a stump to about six feet away. The shape stood on two legs revealing a broad, hair-covered bipedal figure that stared at him briefly before walking then running away through palmettos with loud crashing footsteps. He returned to camp frightened and was told by the adult leader to go back to sleep.
Early evening sighting by residents on the Hillsborough River
In the mid-1950s the witness and a companion were watching a drive-in movie from across the river after dark. They heard something behind them, turned, and saw a large hairy creature backlit by a lamplight. They fled immediately without looking back.
Cryptid sighting near Lake Wales, Florida (1940)
An older woman wrote that she and her uncle set traps for disappearing oranges and caught a tiny hair-covered naked man speaking an unknown language. Police put him in an orange crate, then the house was pelted with sticks, stones and oranges by dozens of similar beings until he was released. A later police worker recalled the crate incident.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida (1918)
In 1918 a boy was reportedly abducted near the pond. Community members pursued, recovered the boy, who was scratched up, and captured the creature. The teller notes the creature did not seem intent on harming the boy and describes it as acting lonely rather than aggressive.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida (1884)
In 1884 a rural community living around Ocheesee Pond lost livestock and heard eerie nighttime calls from the water. After children were frightened by a hair-covered figure, residents formed a posse, captured it, and transported it chained to the governor in Tallahassee. The governor could not place it and sent it to the nearby Chattahoochee hospital, where it died and was buried under later construction.
Sasquatch sighting near Barden, Florida (1800)
The guest described a longstanding local legend of an 8 to 10 foot tall skunk ape that lounges around and is often seen carrying a lantern. Stories go back to the 1800s and include chasing people off horses, with a revival around the late 1960s. A store owner later admitted dressing a boy in a monkey costume to fake some sightings, which leaves earlier reports unresolved.
Sasquatch sighting near Edgewater, Florida
A group including a witness sitting around a bright fire pit at night heard something large moving through the woods and saw a single red eye reflection about six and a half to seven feet off the ground.
Sasquatch sighting near Edgewater, Florida
The next October a witness found a family dog bleeding from the stomach outside the home and the dog later died after veterinary treatment.
1. loud vocalization sounds woke sleeping couple. 2. family dog found injured
In the fall of 1998 two witnesses were asleep at home when they were awakened around 10 p.m. by two extremely loud vocalizations, first a growl and then a rising scream that felt as if it was inside the room. Their two dogs were too frightened to move, and a check outside found nothing.
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.
Howl near Lake Helen, Florida
The witness heard a deep powerful howl from the front of the house while front and back doors stood open.
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.
Scream near Lake Helen, Florida
While watching a loud movie, the witness heard a scream over the sound near the master bedroom.
Odor near Lake Helen, Florida
Witness and daughter repeatedly noticed foul odors near home, strange night noises, and waking simultaneously without known cause.
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.
Vocalizations heard and nests found in remote part of Ochlockonee River bottom
Around 2002 the witness was hunting alone from a tree stand in river-bottom woods during an afternoon hunt. After a prolonged silence and faint squabbling sounds, just after dark he heard a loud piercing call immediately followed by a deep prolonged growl, repeated three times at closer range while a deer moved past. He called out, scanned with lights with his rifle ready, saw nothing, then left quickly when a boat arrived.
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.
Odor near Perry, Fla, Florida
While hiking in the days before the main night, the group sometimes noticed a horrible foul smell.