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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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1989
Cocoa, Brevard Cty, Florida
On Nova Road near a large TV antenna, off Rte 520 on way from Cocoa to Kissimmee, was out of car when sister heard something coming, Joseph Perkowski heard branches breaking, then saw 7 to 8-foot, dark creature running towards…
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1997
Ochopee, Collier Cty, Florida
Three separate sighting reports with little informatin. Vince Doerr, Ochopee fire chief, saw something large and hairy run across Burns Road on two legs, but thought it was just someone playing games. Dow Roland was guiding a group for Everglades…
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Jun 1984
Hudson, Pasco Cty, Florida
Witnesses, number not stated, all armed, heard a howling, growling noise when they were in an open field. Approaching the tree line they saw a creature, not described, crouched down slightly. It stood up, about 8 feet tall, and ran…
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Feb 1998
Cocoa, Dixie Cty, Florida
Informant driving north on Hwy 349 5 miles north of US19, about 5 a.m., saw 5.5 to 6-foot reddish long-haired ape picking up road kill in the middle of the road. It ran off into the woods. Half a mile…
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about 1986
Green Cove Springs, Clay Cty, Florida
Informant's mother driving on SR 209, saw a 6-foot, skinny, hair-covered creature run out onto the road, stop for a minute in the headlights, then run to the other side. Pine forest and grazing land.
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Dec 1980
Miltona, Santa Rosa Cty, Florida
Michael Sigler, then 12, was deer hunting in Blackwater State Forest just outside Milton, an area of pine forest scrub, when he saw a large animal run across a power line clearing 150 yards away. He immediately fled.
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Nov 1993
Paolita, Collier Cty, Florida
Six policemen hog hunting in the Everglades just Southeast of Big Cypress Indian Reservation, driving all day with 4-wheel-drives in very swampy area filled with oak and cabbage palm hammocks. At a big puddle on a trail they saw human-shaped…
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Jul 1997
Ochopee, Collier Cty, Florida
Steve Goodbread is a tour guide for Pelican Tours. Around 2 p.m., driving on Turner Road where there is a burned wooden bridge across a canal, about 2 miles north of U.S. 41, he and the tourists saw 70 or…
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Jul 1997
Ochopee, Collier Cty, Florida
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…
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Jul 1997
Ochopee, Collier Cty, Florida
Jan Brock was driving on Burns Road about 7.45 .m. when she saw a creature about 1000 feet ahead cross the road from west to east and disappear in thick brush and trees. Estimated 7 feet tall, covered with furry…
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Jul 1997
Ochopee, Collier Cty, Florida
Vince Doerr, driving on Burns Road about 7.45 a.m., shortly after Jan Brock's sighting (2827) saw a reddish dark brown creature about 7 feet tall walk upright across the road about 700 feet in front of him, going from east…
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Jul 1997
Ochopee, Collier Cty, Florida
David Shealy learned of Doerr and Rowland sightings, and went searching around Turner Road. He said he collected some brown hair from brush alongside a path, but later lost it. He also found several large tracks and cast two.
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Aug 1997
Ochopee, Collier Cty, Florida
Anonymous couple were driving on Turner Road just at dark. They saw something cross the road 100 or 200 yards ahead, drove to the spot and turned their car towards the side, catching the creature in the headlights about 30…
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Nov 1998
Kenansville, Osceola Cty, Florida
Steven Jewett and partner observed two creatures crossing a dirt road in Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, large oaks, sandy, ground covered with acorns and oak leaves, heading into deep cypress swamp. One was about 6'6" tall, 200 lbs. minimum,…
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Nov 1974
Immokalee, Collier Cty, Florida
Several hunters spotting for grouse, turkey and deer, near midnight in a dried up swamp bed ( Corkscrew Swamp ) smelled a bad animal smell, heard footsteps in the brush on their rear flank, lights showed nothing. Then saw orangish…
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Jan 1993
Courtenay, Brevard Cty, Florida
One of three Brevard County reports in January 1993. Others are fully detailed, but this is so minimal it would be left out if it were not for the associated events. Nimue lives on Merrit Island, near a wildlife refuge…
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1996
Valparaiso, Okaloosa Cty, Florida
Errol Cakici and four other people were parked on a dirt road in a pine swamp near Eglin Air Force Base, trying to look up a way out of the area when they heard a commotion in the woods as…
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1989
Oak Hill, Volusia Cty, Florida
Paul Schmitt and anonymous were delivering papers when the encountered the creature on a dirt road through a forested area connecting with St. John's River Wildlife Management Area. It was standing in the middle of the road and they stopped…
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Jul 1997
Lynne, Marion Cty, Florida
Brian Blair and family were on a nature walk in Ocala National Forest at Half Moon Lake camping area. He waited while two sons went exploring. When they came back and said they had seen a gorilla he went with…
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about 1984
St. Augustine, St. Johns Cty, Florida
Informant and another woman (or girl, no indication of age 15 years earlier) horseback riding alongside Florida East Coast Railway tracks in area of swamp and woods between SR 207 and Kings Estate Rd., noticed smell like something had died,…
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Mar 1996
Bloxham, Leon Cty, Florida
Jason Valenti and Denis Devignen, driving about 4 a.m. at edge of Apalachicola State Forest 10 to 15 minutes from Tallahassee, saw a human-shaped animal squatting at the side of the road beside a fallen tree, moving its hands up…
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Nov 1983
Naples, Collier Cty, Florida
Dan Jackson was hunting hogs in a sawgrass field when he saw what he thought was a bear at the edge of a cypress bayhead. He approached unobserved to within 100 yards, then the creature stood up on its hind…