Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Henry Rose and Joseph Simbili were staked out on a prowler report near a mobile home behind the Air Tronics factory on Hwy 84. They heard a thump as if something had fallen on a tin-roofed building, then something splashed through a shallow canal and an Alsatian chained to the mobile home started to snarl. They shined lights under the trailer and saw two huge feet and 10-inch ankles covered with fur, ran around the trailer and saw a huge hairy beast which lumbered away into a nearby orange grove, leaped 20 feet in the air, caught a tree limb and swung away through the orchard. Dog was now cowering and whining, and there was a horrible smell in the air. Flashlight showe a 14-inch footprint with a depression at the heel like a dew claw. Next morning Detective Ben Tenny found footprints leading to the orange grove, and where it had slide into an irrigation canal, and left the canal on the other sice a quarter mile upstream. He and Henry Ring, rabies control officer for Broward County, followed on horseback until the trail entered the sea of sawgrass at the edge of the Everglades.