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Feb 1977
Bayonet Point, Pasco Cty, Florida
Charles and Noreen Wilson and their son Jay, living in a trailer in a wild area of swamps and woods, near Moon Lake saw three creatures come into their yard, leaving tracks 22", 17-18" and 8-10" long. The big one,…
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Jan 1977
Bayonet Point, Pasco Cty, Florida
Percy saw a skunk ape walk out of the woods and turn into the swamp. He and others had dogs hurt or missing, his wife heard screams. They live on the edge of the swamp. Near Moon Lake.
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Feb 1977
Delray Beach, Palm Beach Cty, Florida
John Street quotes the superintendent of a golf course west of Delray Beach, that he saw a 7-foot, shaggy haired creature down drinking water from a lake near the second tee. He turned his lights on the creature and it…
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Feb 1977
Delray Beach, Palm Beach Cty, Florida
Police Lieut. Lorenzo Brooks said man on CB radio told of a 7 ft hairy biped jumping in front of his car in a densely wooded area a few miles outside Delray Beach called Torrey Pines.
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Feb 1977
Delray Beach, Palm Beach Cty, Florida
John Street quotes security guard as saying he saw a creature that looked like a gorilla on the same golf course as 1681.
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Feb 1977
Fort Myers, Lee Cty, Florida
Randy White organized a skunk-ape expedition, with members of a high school ROTC unit taking part. One of the students at an observation post saw an ape at the fringe of a cypress head across a large pond at the…
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Mar 1977
Delray Beach, Palm Beach Cty, Florida
David Smith and Bob Saurriding a motorcycle down a dark, barely-travelled road west of Delray Beach about 10 p.m. shot past a huge hairy biped that just kept walking down the road. Its hair was slicked down as if wet.…
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Apr 1977
Bayonet Point, Pasco Cty, Florida
Ray, Dick and Jerry Williams, driving on a dirt road in the Moon Lake area saw a 9-foot sasquatch with large muscular thighs cross the road in front of their truck in a single leaping stride.
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Apr 1977
Bayonet Point, Pasco Cty, Florida
Charles Wilson shouted at a sasquatch that banged on their trailer awning and it ran off, but returned later while he and friends were playing a guitar. Duane and Ramona Hibner found poor tracks where it jumped a 20-foot road.
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May 1977
Nobleton, Hernando Cty, Florida
Terrance Craigsmith and Robert Merrit saw dogs fighting with a large upright creature in the yard. Duane and Ramona Hibner investigated and found tracks in the woods next the house. Location is on the Withlacoochee River.
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May 1977
Nobleton, Hernando Cty, Florida
Man to the rear of the Craigsmith and Merritt trailer (1688) the next night saw a 6-foot grey creature trying to get in a tool shed. It ran off when he shone a light on it. On Withlacoochee River.
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May 1977
LaBelle, Hendry Cty, Florida
Willie James Silvers, Bobby Lee Turner, Bobby McCoy and Tony Collins were in a van that broke down 10 miles south of LaBelle on SR 39 in the middle of the night. They spent five hours watching a UFO, a…
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Jun 1977
Punta Gorda, Lee Cty, Florida
Jim Spink spent seven years looking for skunk apes after he found a 14-inch footprint in 1973 on a wooded, island-like peninsula at the mouth of the Peace River. In 1977, lying in a hole in the middle of a…
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Jul 1977
Tavernier, Monroe Cty, Florida
Charlie and Charlie Stoeckman were hunting for rare bottles on Key Largo when they saw something dark and hairy ahead in the mangroves. It stayed still, they backed off and it went crashing off in the otheer direction, crying in…
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Jul 1977
Tavernier, Monroe Cty, Florida
Leslie Stoekman wakened by footsteps outside at 3 a.m. looked out and saw huge shoulder and head above an 8-foot bush 30 feet outside bedroom window. Husband Charles also saw it, shocked at how huge it was, bright, colorless reflecting…
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Jul 1977
Tavernier, Monroe Cty, Florida
Charlie Stoeckman and neighbour Shawn Tubbs, crawfishing, with lights left on in pickup, saw skunk ape run across a field by the ocean with great lumbering strides.
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Jul 1977
Tavernier, Munroe Cty, Florida
On the evening of the first sighting, Charles Stoeckman Jr. saw an 8 foot form approaching the rabbit hutch outside his bedroom window. Charles Sr. ran outside and saw the creature hunched over in a wooden shed at the side…
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1977
Oneco, Manatee Cty, Florida
Driving home from work near midnight on State Road 70, Chip Coffey saw what looked like two reflectors, then thought it looked like a horse, then it stood up from a hunched position and moved bipedally into the woods. Two…
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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.