Incident #992826
Ochopee, Collier Cty, Florida
Jul 1997
Account
Dow Roland is a tour guide for Everglades Day Safari. About 2.30 p.m., with a group of tourists on Turner Road, he observed a brownish bipedal creature about 7 feet tall, with long brown hair and a smooth face, resembling a gorilla. It ran into the bush. He saw it on a return trip and a few minutes later was by again with different tourists. He then saw it about 50 yards away, twice as close as the first sighting. Again it appeared nervous and ran into the brush. After work he went looking for it again, but eventually gave up. Then on the way home he saw it briefly again.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 18 1997
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1997
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- Collier Cty
- Nearest Town
- Ochopee
- Latitude
- 2555
- Longitude
- 8122
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- trees
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- many
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Nearby Water
- swamp
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- BFRO, from Robert Smith and Susan Burlingame - [email protected] - quoting Dow Roland.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- ran
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Action on sighting
- studiedýdeparted slowly