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Oct 1977
Salt Springs, Marion Cty, Florida
Rev S.L. Whatley was cutting firewood on Hugh's Island in Ocalla National Forest (a sandy hill covered with oaks and surrounded by sand pines) when he saw an erect, dark, hairy creature, like a gorilla but with a face like…
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Nov 1977
Fort McCoy, Marion Cty, Florida
Hunter fired six times at apelike creature in Ocala National Forest. near Big Scrub Campground. Estimated 8 ft., 800 lbs.
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1977 to 1978
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
Mike Corradino saw a 17-inch footprint with the basic pattern of a human foot, but the owner of the property raked it out to avoid publicity.
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Jan 1978
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
A number of Venice residents reported a pair of skunk apes, evidently of different sexes, frolicking just outside the city limits, according to Mike Corradino.
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Nov 1977
Brooksville, Hernando Cty, Florida
Farmer said he heard a terrible noise and went out with a lantern, saw a sasquatch chasing his bull across the pasture. It then went over to a cow, picked her up and carried her off. Cow was in heat…
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1978
Winterhaven, Polk Cty, Florida
Unnamed man likving in a large trailer park just west of Winterhaven looked out kitchen window about 8 p.m. and saw 8-foot sasquatch looking in. Next morning large sasquatch tracks all around garbage can.
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Feb 1979
Jacksonville, Duval Cty;, Florida
State troopers who asisted four motorists with mechanical problems on the shoulder of Interstate 95 near Jacksonville were told of an encounter with a hairy white humanoid that sounded like a tank going through the underbrush.
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May 1980
Eustis, Lake Cty, Florida
Someone spotted a huge hairy creature crossing a main highway near the town of Eustis.
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Jun 1980
Altoona, Lake Cty, Florida
A road contractor found the footprints around a bulldozer on a road in Ocala National Forest close to Camp Ocala. Dee Kirby made casts for sheriff's department.
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1977
Oneco, Manatee Cty, Florida
John Allen and his mother saw a 'hunched over hairy-like man' walking down a road.
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May 1978
Jay, Santa Rosa Ctky, Florida
Five truckloads of men reportedly fled after seeing a 6.5 to 8-foot creature on a pipeline from Flomaton to Jay.
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Mar 1978
Century, Escambia Cty, Florida
Man saw a very huge hairy manlike creature on the Canoe River standing picking something out of the water.
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Feb 1978
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
Owner found barn door knocked down, and inside rabbits removed from their hutches, heads bitten off, drained of blood. Nearby were 18-inch footprints resembling naked human prints except for size. Presume Corradino report.
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about 1977
Florida
Mike Corradino, newspaperman and founder of Florida Monkey Sanctuary, recorded 74 skunk ape sightings in two years. A busload of people heading south to the Everglades watched a 9-foot hairy man run into the swamp as they approached.
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Jan about 1978
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
Mike Corradino, newspaperman and founder of Florida Monkey Sanctuary, tells of construction crews clearing a site in scrubby pinelands awakening a sasquatch with their heavy equipment early in the morning. It ran away, growling loudly at first, then shrieking as…
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1981
Bardin, Putnam Cty, Florida
Group of friends and neighbours of Bud Key hanging around the church at at Bardin, scattered when something immense and apelike approached.
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about 1982
Paladka, Putnam Cty, Florida
Randy Medlock and Ronny Cone saw a big, hairy, bipedal creature cross the road close to them. It walked into the woods, slapping pine saplings out of its way as if they were nothing.
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1985
Hernando, Sumter Cty, Florida
Brother-in-law of Eddie Solero said he and friends saw a tall hairy creature 7 to 8 feet tall that looked at them then ran away through brush.
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1989
West Melbourne, Brevard Cty, Florida
Wendell Littlejohn, then 16, and friends were camping in swampy farmland ner Lake Washington. They heard something following them when walking through the woods but did not see it. Later they did see a creature with long, apelike arms, lumbering…
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Sep 1992
Merritt Island, Brevard Cty, Florida
Barbara Vega and her boyfriend were driving east across Merritt Island on Hwy 528, and were crossing the bridge over Sykes Creek when they saw a huge hairy apelike creature walking south across the median into their path. They had…
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Jan 1993
Bellwood, Brevard Cty, Florida
Art Dandridge was driving southwest on state road 407 across the flood plain of the St. John River, a mile past the I-95 overpass when he saw a figure lurching and limping on a bridge ahead. He had to swerve…
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Jan 1993
Bellwood, Brevard Cty, Florida
Jeff and Michelle Leitner and four children were drivingfrom Port St. John to Titusville. Going north on Tulsa Boulevard, just north of the King's Highway intersection they saw up ahead a hairy creature, about 7 feet tall, with long arms…
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Date unknown
Waycross, Ware Cty, Georgia
Two farmers hunting deer near Waycross saw a sasquatch cross the Southern Railroad track. 7.5 feet tall, foul odor, greyish brown hair. It stood and looked at them, then wandered into the swamp.
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1943
Georgia
A prospector Rich Grumley has known for some time says that when a boy in Georgia he saw the corpse of a huge creature that had been shot. It was in the back of a pickup, head propped against the…
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about 1951
Boston, Thomas Cty, Georgia
Rebecca Leinberg went outside because dogs were barking and saw a giant hairy animal cornered by them on the front porch. Her husband shot at it and it ran off.