Incident #991599
Fort Pierce, St. Lucie Cty, Florida
1969
Account
Robert Goble, with Peninsular Archaeological Society Inc., was driving down a road near a swamp near Fort Pierce and saw out the window an apelike creature grubbing for roots in a creek. Later he saw its footprints.
When
- Year
- 1969
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- St. Lucie Cty
- Nearest Town
- Fort Pierce
- Latitude
- 2727
- Longitude
- 8021
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- water
- Near or/at
- road
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 1
Setting
- Terrain
- swamp
- Nearby Water
- creek
Source
- Source
- St. Petersburg, FL, Times-Floridian, Mar. 26, 1972, quoting Robert Goble, Miami, FL.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Movement
- eating
- Arms Used
- for digging
- Object Handled
- vegetable matter
- Eating
- roots
- Water Activity
- reach in
- Use of Water
- eat plants
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- bent over
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 18.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Average Depth
- 4.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 48
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Action on sighting
- kept goingýcame back