Incident #991576
Branford, Lafette Cty, Florida
1942
Account
Isaac said a skunk ape leaped on running board and held on for half a mile, looking in the window, then jumped off and ran into woods. So heavy it nearly turned the car over.
When
- Year
- 1942
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- Lafette Cty
- Nearest Town
- Branford
- Latitude
- 2958
- Longitude
- 8256
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- trees
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- St. Petersburg, FL, Times Floridian, Mar. 26, 1972, quoting L. Frank Hudson quoting a man named Isaac.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Movement
- jumping up
- Later Movement
- handled somethingýwatched observer
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- vehicle
- Arms Used
- hanging onto something
- Object Handled
- vehicle
- Human Contact
- look in window
- Reaction
- ran atýwatchedýfled from
- Additional Movement
- jumpedýfledýentered woods
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- under 5 feet
- Action on sighting
- kept going