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1975
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
Crew of workment pouring a concrete slab saw an ape as tall as a man watching them. As they looked it ran off into brush. They followed and saw it again, then lost it.
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Jul 1975
Lake Lindsey, Hernando Cty, Florida
Three people from Lake Lindsey coming home from church saw a sasquatch standing in a ditch by Hwy 581.
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Jul 1975
Inverness, Sumter Cty, Florida
Woman reports a hairy man crossed Hwy. 41 in front of her car. In the same vicinity, but on Hwy 581, two men walking at 1 a.m. after their car broke down were stalked by something that crashed through the…
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Aug 1975
Lake Lindsey, Fernando Cty, Florida
Man mowing pasture at dusk saw a sasquatch watching him from pine trees. The next month a cow was found mutilated and five dogs went missing. All incidents close to Morrison farm.
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Aug 1975
Captiva, Lee Cty, Florida
Todd and Carey Macdonald say they were chased by an ape 4.5 to 5 ft. tall, with a peaked head and small ears that ran after them upright, but sometimes went down on all fours in a crab-like manner. It…
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1975
Brooksville, Fernando Cty, Florida
Joyce Hudson said her step-brother saw a sasquatch on Croom Road late in 1975, which jumped up a bank and ran into an orange grove. It had a stench of rotted flesh.
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Nov 1975
Crystal Springs, Citrus Cty, Florida
John Sohl and six friends were at a campfire at the Rock Crusher, a hole in the ground northeast of Homossassa Springs and southeast of Crystal River. Hearing a noise, Sohl walked up a small hill and looked down along…
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Feb 1976
Dunnellon, Marion Cty, Florida
Ramona cast toe prints 4.5 inches wide on shore and saw 18 in. tracks in the water. The smaller tracks had five short toes, the big tracks had four toes. There were finger marks as well, and holes from digging…
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Apr 1976
Lake Lindsey, Hernando Cty, Florida
June Petrus talked to a woman rom Lake Lindsey who saw a dark brown creature cross a pasture at dawn, same place as Georgia Morrison reports, on Hwy 476.
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before 1977
Dunnellon, Marion Cty, Florida
Elderly man heard a noise on his porch "like a man mumbling", opened door face to face with a 7-foot sasquatch. He shot it 6 times with a .22 at point blank range. It looked at him and walked off.…
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1976
Fort Myers, Lee Cty, Florida
Resident of Drawdy Road in Buckingham, east of Fort Myers, said he shot a skunk ape with 6 or 7 bullets from a .22 handgun. (Similar to 1975 story from Cape Coral, west of Fort Myers)
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Jun 1976
Grove City, Charlotte Cty, Florida
Robert and Ralph Platt and Kent Hazelrigg twice reported a 7 ft. skunk ape at a fresh water pond at the end of Buck Creek in Grove City. Deputy Tom or Carl Williams attended and had his spotlight on the…
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Jun 1976
Bayshore, Charlotte Cty, Florida
John and Bill Holly and John Kersey were driving on a dirt road (Rt. 31 or near to it) when they saw a sasquatch in a clump of pine trees. Apparently in Charlotte County, as Charlotte Deputy Warren Vallier participated…
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Jun 1977
Frog City, Dade Cty, Florida
In conservation area No. 3, Everglades Park (position a wild guess) west of Miami, 14 people on a tour boat saw a sasquatch on a grassy knoll. It walked in about 3 to 4 feet of water to get around…
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Jun 1976
Dunnellon, Marion Cty, Florida
Donald Duncan said his 5-year-old boy saw the Dunnellon skunk ape in the afternoon and was hysterical. That night about 3 a.m. Donald heard his dogs and went out on the porch with a .22. The creature was rolling in…
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Jun 1976
Nobleton, Hernando Cty, Florida
Lelton Robbins said campers at the Silver Lake entrance to Withlacoochee River in Croom Wildlife Reserve reported seeing an 8-foot upright black creature that smelled like a dead animal, growled and screamed and ran off into the woods. It came…
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1976
Brooksville, Hernando Cty, Florida
Some children saw a skunk ape in a drainage ditch at dusk, off old Ft. Meade Road.
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Sep 1976
North Fort Myers, Lee Cty, Florida
Ramona Hibner wrote that the Macdonald children saw a creature larger than the one they saw the year before (5 ft). They were looking down into the woods from their 3-storey sundeck.
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Sep 1976
Pine Island, Hernando Cty, Florida
Ramona mentions a sighting by elderly people at Pine Island and that tracks were found, no specifics of creature or tracks.
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Oct 1976
Orlando, Orange Cty, Florida
Two accounts differ slightly. One says Joseph South threw a rock and hit the creature in the head, the other that he hit it on the side of the head with a stick. It reached out and scratched his arm…
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Feb 1977
Bayonet Point, Pasco Cty, Florida
Charles and Noreen Wilson and their son Jay, living in a trailer in a wild area of swamps and woods, near Moon Lake saw three creatures come into their yard, leaving tracks 22", 17-18" and 8-10" long. The big one,…
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See 1677.