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1978
Oneco, Manatee Cty, Florida
Footprint found in a patch of mud in the otherwise grassy back yard of the trailer home of Robert and Carolyn Coffey.
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Aug 1977
Oneco, Manatee Cty, Florida
Frank Luke, Grant Prince and Tony Dault were playing cards in Prince's trailer at 2 a.m. when they smelled a skunk-sewer smell, looked out the window and saw two shiny green eyes. The creature left the window and the boys…
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Aug 1977
Captiva, Lee Cty, Florida
Sean Macdonald said he saw a sasquatch walk in front of him near the boat dock on Captiva Island. His mother, Darlene, found footprints on the road, wide, but showing no toes. No size given.
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Sep 1977
Captiva, Lee Cty, Florida
Walking home in rain, saw creature on all fours, then it stood up. He ran home in a panic. Creature was larger than what Sean and other children saw a year earlier. 1658.
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Oct 1977
Apopka, Valusia Cty, Florida
Donnie Hall said he was checking a noise in some tall plants in John's Nursery at 2 a.m. when he was grabbed from behind by an apelike animal twice his height, covered with long hair and smelling like a goat.…
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Oct 1977
Belleview, Marion Cty, Florida
Hitch-hiker phoned to report seeing a brown and black animal more than 6 feet tall in lightly forested area off U.S. 441 half a mile south of Belleview. He said it smelled horrible, like garbage.
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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…