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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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1976
Pembroke, Christian Cty, Kentucky
Mrs. Lawrence crossing the road from her trailer to her parents' house saw a heavily-built, short, bipedal animal crossing beside her 10 or 15 yards away. It ignored her. Her son and her mother saw it on later occasions, and…
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Apr 1976
Pembroke, Christian Cty, Kentucky
Jamie Lawrence and two friends were riding their motorcycles back towards his home and as they rounded a bend saw the animal sitting on its haunches on the shoulder of the road. Face like a monkey, covered with hair, very…
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May 1976
Pembroke, Christian Cty, Kentucky
Mrs. Spry went outside to investigate a noise and saw a figure in the front yard. She could not say for sure if it was standing up, but thought it was only 4 or 5 feet high.
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1976
Pembroke, Christian Cty, Kentucky
James Moorhatch and Mike Warren found a number of possible footprints but only one clear one, next to a rotted stump that had been torn apart, in woods close to the creek behind the house north of Sprys' house.
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1976
Simpson Cty, Kentucky
Byron Crawford said that a police officer saw a large hairy animal walk across the road at night.
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Mar 1976
Corinth, Alcorn Cty, Mississippi
Tracks found along Smith Bridge Road just north of U.S. 72. Joe McKewen and Gene Calvary tracked them about 250 yards in to the woods and another man reported to have followed them a quarter mile into the woods into…
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Mar 1976
Corinth, Alcorn Cty, Mississippi
Tracks similar to those in 1796 found around Mount Pleasant Methodist Church adn Hatchie Chapel Church south of Hwy 72 four or five miles from the earlier tracks. Some showed only three toes but some showed four. One set went…
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1976
Sanford, Chatham Cty, North Carolina
NNumerous reports of a 7 foot creature covered with long black fur, walking upright with a slumping gate. Screams at night. Three-toed, 18-inch footpirnts found.
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1976
Sanford, Chatham Cty, North Carolina
Brody Parker said he watched a 7 to 8-foot creature with black fur, sort of Hunched over, that was watching him for 20 minutes.
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Jul 1976
Mount Holly, Gaston Cty, North Carolina
Children on Oakland Street in Catawba Heights had claimed that they were chased through a wooded area by a huge black animal. Mrs. Brenda Rudisiall said she saw it, as did her sons, Brian, 7, and Scott, 9. Then Roger…
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Apr 1976
Flintville, Lincoln Cty, Tennessee
Gary Presley, 4, went out the back door after supper. His mother, Jennie Robertson, heard him cry out, rushed out and saw a huge figure coming around the corner of the house. It reached a long arm toward Gary and…
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1976
Flintville, Lincoln Cty, Tennessee
Combined entry to record information from several sightings referred to by Melvin Roberson and Houston Smith, but with few specifics. Smith told the Star he had been seeing the creature around the woods for 3 years. Robertson said he had…
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Jul 1976
Fayetteville, Lincoln Cty, Tennessee
Woman phoned Stan Moore and told him she had seen a brown sasquatch standing in a ravine about 20 yards away, about 5 miles from a fish hatchery near Fayetteville.
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Aug 1976
San Antonio, Bexar Cty, Texas
Ed Olivarri said that he went outside early in the morning to see why his dog was barking and was looking towards a wooded area along Quintana Road when a train whistle sounded on the Missouri-Pacific tracks and an animal…
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Aug 1976
San Antonio, Bexar Cty, Texas
Rosa Medina awakened by her dog barking, looked out and saw an animal sitting on her back steps. She knocked on the window and the animal jumped up and ran off on two legs.
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1976 to 1977
Manchester, Red River Cty, Texas
Lonnie Hamm said his daughter screamed on the porch so he went out with his .308 rifle and saw 100 yards away across a dirt road a creature 4 to 4.5 feet high but broader than a man, bent over…
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1976
Hallsville, Marion Cty, Texas
Unnamed woman said she and her son had been frightened from a blackberry field by a creature that came from the bushes breaking trees and bushes in its rush. Zollie Owens got permission to do a stakeout, using corn and…
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1976
Hallsville, Marion Cty, Texas
Woman and son frightened from a blackberry field by a creature that came from the bushes, breaking trees and bushes in its rush. Zollie Owens saw two-inch trees snapped in half. No description of the creature given, but hairy biped…
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Oct 1976
Alice, Jim Wells Cty, Texas
James Mapes said he was riding his motorcycle at San Diego Creek a half mile from his home when he saw an 8 to 9-foot creature tearing through the brush climbing a 70-degree slope up from the creek. He sat…