Dade County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Possible collision with vehicle outside Homestead

My parents had a full-sized house trailer in Key Largo during the 1960s and 1970s for weekends and summer vacations. At that time we lived north of Miami and would drive out SR 820 to US 27 to US 1 to...

March 1972

Bay County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Man recalls childhood encounter with sasquatch

I was a boy of about 12 years of age camping on my parent's land. We had a house atop a hill that sloped down an acre or two, leading to Bear Creek, which is where our property ended. The land on both...

January 1972

Putnam County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Large Creature standing in road

We were driving back from Creasant Beach that night. It was a foggy night around 2am. My friend was driving when he had to swerve to miss this thing standing in the lane we were in. It was standi...

January 1972

Lee County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Large bipedal creature passes child's window near Ft.Myers

In 1963 I was nine years old and living in North Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida. In the weeks before this happened to me, there were several sightings of bigfoot reported in the newspaper. One of the...

January 1963

Alachua County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a close encounter with a man-ape outside Gainesville

My sighting was 41 years ago at NW 21 Terr/NW 31 Ave in Gainesville Fl. Back then it was mostly woods and I was going to see a neighbor at a slow jog, looked to my right and we were both surprised. He...

January 1963

Charlotte County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Boy Scouts have sighting while camping at Quednau Ranch

lived all my life with the Tampa Area as home, still do. While on a boy-Scout campout with Troop 232 of the Good Luthern church on Dale Mabry hwy. in Tampa , at Murdoch area , the strangest smell and...

August 1962

Citrus County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Man recalls a possible up-close nighttime encounter on Gilchrist Island

In March 1961 The Boy Scout troop I belonged to was camped on Gilchrist Island in Lake Tsala Apopka Citrus County, FL. near Hernando City. The days activities included hiking, swimming, camp craft, ni...

March 1961

Hillsborough County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Early evening sighting by residents on the Hillsborough River

In the mid nineteen fiftys I lived in a housing project in Tampa FL. It was called River View Terrace and it was right on the Hillsborough River next to Florida Ave. There was a movie theater on the o...

January 1955

Putnam County Florida (Class A) BFRO

While riding horse, young teen has day time sighting not far from Palatka

This incident happened around 1947/48. I was about 12/13 years of age. I have held this incident in my mind's eye all these years and have tried to figure out what I had seen. After reading sightings ...

January 1948