Incident #991612
Plantation, Broward Cty, Florida
Oct 1973
Account
Danny Lee and seven other teenagers at Sunshine City mobile home park saw a a hairy animal 7 feet tall jump off the porch of an unfinished building. Doc Medlin found footprints which included knuckle marks, so he speculated that the animal was a chimpanzee, although they are not normally nocturnal (and are only half that tall).
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 25 1973
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- Broward Cty
- Nearest Town
- Plantation
- Latitude
- 2609
- Longitude
- 8025
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- empty building
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 8
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 1
Source
- Source
- Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel, Oct. 28, 1973, quoting Danny Lee, 231 Commodore Dr., Fort Lauderdale, FL. and deputy game officer Doc Medlin, Broward Cty.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Movement
- jumping down
- Evidence Left
- footprints
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye