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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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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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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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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 1977
Franklin, Simpson Cty, Kentucky
Checking on a commotion among his animals, J.C. Humphrey saw a large dark form near his barn 60 or 70 yards away. Next morning he found the drain pipe on the barn ripped down from a height of 12 feet.…
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Aug 1977
La Place, St. John The Baptist Cty, Louisiana
Man from Lucy (across the Mississippi from La Place) said he saw a 7-foot creature covered with brown hair and walking on two feet cross a strip of land after going through a logoon, then enter the Mississippi River. Story…
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Oct 1977
Melville, St. Landry Cty, Louisiana
Leonce Boudreaux said that when walking in the woods he heard noises in the brush then heavy breathing behind hinm, so he left the woods and walked along a fence row, but stopped under some trees when it started to…
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Oct 1977
Winnfield, Winn Cty, Louisiana
Unconfirmed story circulated that a local squirrel hunter shot a 6-foot, two legged hairy creature which escaped into the woods in the Beech Creek area west of Sikes.
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Nov 1977
Bentley, Grant Cty, Louisiana
Tracks in Grant Parish went for half a mile down a muddy road, in the vicinity of Hwy 8. Sheriff L.R. Hataway later reported that plywood feet with metal toes about the right length and width ad been found near…
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Nov 1977
Converse, Sabine Cty, Louisiana
Helen Paddie found tracks leading from a heavily wooded area down a ditch, across the road and back into the woods. Mrs. J.W. Shemwells took a photo that appeared in the Mansfield Enterprise. Deputies made a plaster cast. Location four…
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Dec 1977
Riceville, Acadia Cty, Louisiana
Mike Richards, hunting coon at night near the Bayou Queue De Tortue about 3 miles east of Riceville, three times had glimpses of a tall black creature with eyes reflecting red in their lights. Once it jumped a 6-foot fence…
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Jan 1977
Natchez, Adams Cty, Mississippi
Combined report: Dorothy Abraham saw a shadow cross her window, looked out and saw a huge black creature that backed away slowly, growling deeply and disappearing in the trees along Irving Lane. Ramona quotes the Daily Herald saying several Irving…
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Feb 1977
Brookhaven, Lincoln Cty, Mississippi
Ralph and Paul Case found a huge footprint on the side of the Buie Mill Road west of Loyd Star (not on road map) and later found more leading into heavily wooded area on Buie Mill Road.
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Apr 1977
Tylertown, Walthall Cty, Mississippi
Sandy Mangum, Jeff Fairburn, Robert Graham, Ken Beard, Gary McBeth and Alfred Kelly, going to swim in Magee's Creek, found tracks on the creek bank leading into the woods. Teacher Dot Bennett also saw them and noted that they stop…
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Aug 1977
Jackson, Hinds Cty, Mississippi
Donald Bracey said an upright creature with hair like a gorilla, about 6 feet high and close to 300 pounds limped across the road in front of his car on a curve near a wooded area at Maddox and McRaven…
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Dec 1977
Jackson, Hinds Cty, Mississippi
Donald Bracey said an upright creature with hair like a gorilla, about 6 feet high and close to 300 pounds was eating something in a cluster of trees near Maddox and McRaven roads as he drove by. There was another…
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Dec 1977
Jackson, Hinds Cty, Mississippi
Robert Trussel said the creature seen by Donald Bracey earlier that day crossed the road in front of his car about 10 p.m., presumably at about the same place, since location is not mentioned and the two men live on…
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Sep 1977
Newton, Newton Cty, Mississippi
Man walking from Bell Street to Pilate Street on the uncompleted Hwy 15 bypass found footprints going along one side of the road, then crossing the blacktop to the other side. No mention of beginning or end.
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Jan 1977
Saluda, Saluda Cty, South Carolina
Mark, grandson of D.W. Berry, and another boy found the tracks when setting traps on a piece of rural property the family owns about 10 miles from Saluda. Ralph Shealy, editor of the Saluda Standard-Sentinel, mentions three boys, says the…
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Feb 1977
Fort Mill, York Cty, South Carolina
Leonard Gromoske Jr. and his nephew Jamie Jennings, 8, found the track when their ball rolled into the vegetable patch. There were thick weeds to either side.Ray Liguori, curator at the York Couhty Natural History Museum, made a cast. Barbara…