Incident #992824
Paolita, Collier Cty, Florida
Nov 1993
Account
Six policemen hog hunting in the Everglades just Southeast of Big Cypress Indian Reservation, driving all day with 4-wheel-drives in very swampy area filled with oak and cabbage palm hammocks. At a big puddle on a trail they saw human-shaped bipedal tracks, one very big, the other foot small, perhaps deformed. Stride was approximately 6 feet. New tracks showed up later in the evening, and about three miles from there they found more of them on a hard, dry roadbed, just as deep as those in the mud. Tracks were videoed.
When
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1993
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- Collier Cty
- Nearest Town
- Paolita
- Latitude
- 2555
- Longitude
- 8055
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- water
- Near or/at
- trail
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 6
Setting
- Terrain
- swamp
- Nearby Water
- swampýpond
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- BFRO Scott McNabb, from Kelly Reeves. Contact information confidential.
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- big
- Average Depth
- 2.50
- Stride in Inches Average
- 72
- Number of Tracks
- few
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
- Other Tracks
- hogýdeerýracoonýbird
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting