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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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Jan 1977
Bayonet Point, Pasco Cty, Florida
Percy saw a skunk ape walk out of the woods and turn into the swamp. He and others had dogs hurt or missing, his wife heard screams. They live on the edge of the swamp. Near Moon Lake.
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Feb 1977
Delray Beach, Palm Beach Cty, Florida
John Street quotes the superintendent of a golf course west of Delray Beach, that he saw a 7-foot, shaggy haired creature down drinking water from a lake near the second tee. He turned his lights on the creature and it…
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Feb 1977
Delray Beach, Palm Beach Cty, Florida
Police Lieut. Lorenzo Brooks said man on CB radio told of a 7 ft hairy biped jumping in front of his car in a densely wooded area a few miles outside Delray Beach called Torrey Pines.
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Feb 1977
Delray Beach, Palm Beach Cty, Florida
John Street quotes security guard as saying he saw a creature that looked like a gorilla on the same golf course as 1681.
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Feb 1977
Fort Myers, Lee Cty, Florida
Randy White organized a skunk-ape expedition, with members of a high school ROTC unit taking part. One of the students at an observation post saw an ape at the fringe of a cypress head across a large pond at the…
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Mar 1977
Delray Beach, Palm Beach Cty, Florida
David Smith and Bob Saurriding a motorcycle down a dark, barely-travelled road west of Delray Beach about 10 p.m. shot past a huge hairy biped that just kept walking down the road. Its hair was slicked down as if wet.…
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Apr 1977
Bayonet Point, Pasco Cty, Florida
Ray, Dick and Jerry Williams, driving on a dirt road in the Moon Lake area saw a 9-foot sasquatch with large muscular thighs cross the road in front of their truck in a single leaping stride.
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Apr 1977
Bayonet Point, Pasco Cty, Florida
Charles Wilson shouted at a sasquatch that banged on their trailer awning and it ran off, but returned later while he and friends were playing a guitar. Duane and Ramona Hibner found poor tracks where it jumped a 20-foot road.
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May 1977
Nobleton, Hernando Cty, Florida
Terrance Craigsmith and Robert Merrit saw dogs fighting with a large upright creature in the yard. Duane and Ramona Hibner investigated and found tracks in the woods next the house. Location is on the Withlacoochee River.
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May 1977
Nobleton, Hernando Cty, Florida
Man to the rear of the Craigsmith and Merritt trailer (1688) the next night saw a 6-foot grey creature trying to get in a tool shed. It ran off when he shone a light on it. On Withlacoochee River.
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May 1977
LaBelle, Hendry Cty, Florida
Willie James Silvers, Bobby Lee Turner, Bobby McCoy and Tony Collins were in a van that broke down 10 miles south of LaBelle on SR 39 in the middle of the night. They spent five hours watching a UFO, a…
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Jun 1977
Punta Gorda, Lee Cty, Florida
Jim Spink spent seven years looking for skunk apes after he found a 14-inch footprint in 1973 on a wooded, island-like peninsula at the mouth of the Peace River. In 1977, lying in a hole in the middle of a…
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1973
Punta Gorda, Lee Cty, Florida
Jim Spink spent seven years looking for skunk apes after he found a 14-inch footprint in 1973 on a wooded, island-like peninsula at the mouth of the Peace River.
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Jul 1977
Tavernier, Monroe Cty, Florida
Charlie and Charlie Stoeckman were hunting for rare bottles on Key Largo when they saw something dark and hairy ahead in the mangroves. It stayed still, they backed off and it went crashing off in the otheer direction, crying in…
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Jul 1977
Tavernier, Monroe Cty, Florida
Leslie Stoekman wakened by footsteps outside at 3 a.m. looked out and saw huge shoulder and head above an 8-foot bush 30 feet outside bedroom window. Husband Charles also saw it, shocked at how huge it was, bright, colorless reflecting…
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Jul 1977
Tavernier, Monroe Cty, Florida
Charlie Stoeckman and neighbour Shawn Tubbs, crawfishing, with lights left on in pickup, saw skunk ape run across a field by the ocean with great lumbering strides.
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Jul 1977
Tavernier, Munroe Cty, Florida
On the evening of the first sighting, Charles Stoeckman Jr. saw an 8 foot form approaching the rabbit hutch outside his bedroom window. Charles Sr. ran outside and saw the creature hunched over in a wooden shed at the side…
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1977
Oneco, Manatee Cty, Florida
Driving home from work near midnight on State Road 70, Chip Coffey saw what looked like two reflectors, then thought it looked like a horse, then it stood up from a hunched position and moved bipedally into the woods. Two…