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Counties in Florida with reports
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Pasco County Florida (Class A) BFRO
creature seen in an open field by witness.
We were in an open field when we heard the creature first. It made sort of a howling/growling type of noise.We went towards the tree line where the sound came from. It was crouched down slightly and t...
June 1984
Hillsborough County Florida (Class A) BFRO
June 1984 Manatee County FL Late evening sighting by 9 yr/old camper off Little Manatee River in Ruskin
At the time I was only about 9 years old, and my friend was going on a camping trip over in ruskin, fl. it was a weekend excersion just off the Little Manatee River. the first night we just herd funny...
June 1984
Collier County Florida (Class A) BFRO
while hunting hogs near a cypress bayhead, witness saw a dark brown/black bi-pedal creature.
I was hunting hogs by myself and had been in this area for about 3 hours. I was armed with a Remington model 1100 12ga. shotgun. I was walking between two large Cypress Bayheads in a sawgrass field th...
November 1983
Lee County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Scream Heard in a Cypress Swamp outside Ft. Myers
I will tell you about an experience that I and a friend of mine had back around 1982 or 1983 mid summer time in Lee County, Florida. I have lived in Florida since I was 9 years old. I am 44 now. I...
September 1983
Orange County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Memory told of hearing a loud breathing-growl while camping at Disney's Fort Wilderness
While waiting (not knowing my son had been injured and was taken to Orlando Hospital) I was inside the camper and had lowered the tent flaps slightly to allow air flow. The opening would have been app...
August 1983
Citrus County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Father and son were out scouting for deer when they spot large eyes 8 foot off the gound, also hear loud scream.
We were out shining deer in central Florida. It was about 2:00am and we hit a pair of eyes that appeared to be approx.7 to 8 ft. up. At approx. 150 ft. The eyes were at least 1 ft. apart! I thought at...
July 1983
Lee County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Possible Nighttime Encounter by Girls on Horseback north of Ft. Myers
I have just happened upon your web site and I am amazed at all the encounters in Florida. I just finished reading one from the Lee County area that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I gre...
July 1983
Hendry County Florida (Class A) BFRO
Daylight sighting by motorist couple in the Montura Estates area
My husband and I were returning home from the store. We were in no hurry so we took the long way around. We liked to see if any new homes were going in. Montura Estates at that time was very scarcely ...
January 1983
Pasco County Florida (Class A) BFRO
Man remembers observing a hairy, bipedal creature in the headlights of his car near Port Richey
This is an old sighting, having occurred around 1981 or 1982 in coastal Pasco County, Florida. I have not reported this for professional reasons, but now that I am retired, this is less of a concern. ...
January 1982
Santa Rosa County Florida (Class A) BFRO
Deer hunter spots a large animal run across open area
While deer hunting in Milton Florida I saw a large reddish brown unknown animal run on it's hindlegs through a cleared powerline area, 10 miles north of Whiting Field Naval Airstation. The distance wa...
January 1982
Taylor County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Man recalls his terrifying encounter near the Econfino State Park while camping with his family
During November -December hunting season in 1981 my stepfather took us hunting many times in the Snipes Island Grade/Econfina River area area. His family had owned many acres of land in that area for ...
November 1981
Seminole County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Foot steps heard in wood line. Weeks later more sounds heard
In the fall of 1981. My next door neighbor and myself, were walking down a dirt road in Casselberry. The road runs along side of a wooded tract of land. The land has been reserved for a bird sancturar...
October 1981
Levy County Florida (Class A) BFRO
Woman remembers observing a bi-pedal hair-covered adult and youth while driving near Bronson
I was 18 years old, living in Chiefland, Florida. I just graduated from high school (1981), class valedictorian, and had begun my freshman year at the University of Florida in Gainesville. It was arou...
August 1981
Levy County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Brothers hear howl while trailblazing
My brother and I were standing in some dense under brush at the edge of a very marshy area while we were trailblazing and we heard a howl, but it was a very deep and very loud it echoed in the trees a...
August 1981
Sarasota County Florida (Class A) BFRO
Youths have daylight sighting in wooded area of Sarasota
Me and my brother and our cousin (11, 10 & 12 years old at the time) used to frequent a neighborhood across from ours called Acorn Circle. It was a heavily wooded area that only had about three homes ...
August 1981
Lake County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Possible tracks and sounds outside a home near Lady Lake
After reading your reports from Florida's Lake County I must put down something that happend to me as a child. We had been staying near Lady Lake close to the Griffin Chain of Lakes. We were staying w...
February 1981
Broward County Florida (Class A) BFRO
a sighting by a group of boys along a canal, a mile or so north of South New River.
Forgive me for not knowing the exact year. It was around 1980 or 1981. My brother, I and a friend were hiking in an old cow pasture that was very overgrown. Back around 1980, Davie still had lots of w...
July 1980
Collier County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Man describes incidents in teen years in swamp area outside Naples
1979 or 1980 I went back in the swamp and woods in naples off of floridian ave where i lived and we came acrossed a metal cage trap a tall trap where if you go in and touch the meat the door will slam...
July 1980
Lake County Florida (Class A) BFRO
Large tracks found investigated by Federal authorities
Newspaper Article : Chronicle (Houston, Texas), July 2, 1980 "POLICE THINK MYSTERY FOOTPRINTS ARE FAKES" ALTOONA, Fla. (UPI) - Most investigators figure its a hoax, but there is enough doubt in ...
July 1980
Lake County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Man finds and casts large footprints after hearing of sighting
At the time, I lived in Umatilla, Florida.I used to work on CB radios and such and occasinally a deputy would stop by my little shop at my house and we would shoot the bull. One nite a deputy stopped ...
June 1980
Hernando County Florida (Class A) BFRO
creature sitting on a wood pile seen watching witness.
Over an 11 year period I found footprints. Fences repeatedly had barbed wire top lines pushed down to the field fenceing below and wrapped with moss and lodged with sticks. If you took them out they w...
January 1980
Holmes County Florida (Class A) BFRO
Motorist has morning sighting on road outside Sweet Gum Head
My sister, one late night was coming from work in Geneva, Alabama. She was passing thur another rural community not far from our home, in Holmes Co. Fl. She said she saw something ahead of her about 3...
January 1980
Orange County Florida (Class A) BFRO
Bigfoot rips door off of home. Witness has to flee from home
A few years back I lived in plymouth florida.We lived in a wooded area, in front of the house there was an orange grove. Beside us was a swamp, around that was a wooded area. I use to walk through the...
January 1980
Polk County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Noise, like wood being banged against tree. Tracks found
loud noise, like a large stick being banged against fairly large tree trunk approximately 20 to 30 yards off trail I as on. Tracks found in area several weeks later....
January 1980