HERNANDO COUNTY-Brooksville,Fl. / Nancy and Debbie K. traveling down hwy. 476 saw a strange
creature standing in a pasture near Kelly Farms. / The creature was very large and gray in color. /
It had an ape like appearance.
PALM BEACH COUNTY-(Reported in 1971) Trucker tried to pick up hitchiker on
Hwy.27 and found a Skunk Ape instead of a human.
COLLIER COUNTY-Immokalee,Fl. / Graig Smith and his father driving at dusk saw a fisherman. /
When they got up close what they saw was a creature that was 7 -8 feet tall. / It approached
their car and jumped over the hood. / They reported to the local law and there were cast made.
BROWARD COUNTY-Hollywood,Fl. / Mr. M. Polesnk said a strange beast attacked his cattle and
horses. / They found three toed tracks. / 14 inches by 10 inches in length and width. / He notified
Police. / He and the Police made cast.
CHARLEOTTE COUNTY- Punda Gorda,Fl. / Two men had a very scary incident as a creature came
out of the fog and looked into window of their car. / They both froze in fear. / It had eyes that were
green like a cats. / It smelled like a skunk. / The creature had gray hair covering its body.
HERNANDO COUNTY-Brooksville,Fl. / Mr R.W. with some friends were out hunting with their dogs.
/His sister going back to the car to retrieve something saw a Skunk Ape. / Scared she ran to the
others. /The creature was 7 to 8 feet tall. / It had brown hair and was man-like. / The creature
moved when she did and ran off.
COLLIER COUNTY-Everglades area,Fl. / Mr. Dave Shealy and his brother Mr. J. Shealy spot a Skunk
Ape while hunting. / Dave becomes Collier Counties most out spoken advocate on the Skunk Ape.
HERNANDO COUNTY-Brooksville,Fl. / A report of a hairy ape like creature stood
looking at the witness. / It stood upright on two legs.
COLLIER COUNTY-White Horse Key-Ten Thousand Islands,Fl. / Mr. V. Robinson and a friend were
mullet fishing at low tide around midnight. / They saw footprints that came out of the water then
circled and returned back into the water. / Stride was greater then either of theirs spread eagle. /
The heels and toes were dug in. / 18 inch tracks that looked human./ This was twenty miles North
west of Everglades City and North of Everglades Park.
COLLIER COUNTY- East of Naples off Alligator Alley,Fl. / Father and son saw a 9 foot tall creature.
/ Face was more human then ape, sort of aboriginal looking. / Witness could see skin through its
hair. / Creature walked through camp and picked up a slab of bacon that was sitting by the fire as
it went. / Men were there working on a camp house for their employer. / This report said when they
heard movement in the woods next to them they entered the house they were working on going to
the second floor. / The witness watched out a window as the creature entered the yard and walking
by the fire reached down picked up the bacon and kept traveling on back into the woods. / It never
slowed down. / The father wouldn't look at it and wouldn't admit to what happened.
LEE COUNTY-Ft. Myers,Fl. / 5 children from a nearby trailer park in the north area of town were
playing in a play ground. / They saw a brown or gray colored large shape. / Scared them so they ran
back to tell their parents who laughed at them. / They said it was traveling in the opposite
direction from where they lived. ( this also was reported for 1974)
1973-Spring-The North Harney Hooter- Monroe County- Louise Hart and her father John D. Hart were anchored in their
flat bottom boat off Lost mans River entrance./They noticed a dark shadow beneath their boat that moved off and into
the river shallows./ Watching they saw a large man emerge from the water./ He pulled himself up out of the water and
shook himself like a wet dog; he was clearly covered about his body with hair./ The man wore no clothes,much taller
than the average man ;he turned and looked in the direction of their boat then walked off into the scrub brush. The
Hart's eventually told the story to fellow anglers Smitty and Avette Smith over at Chokoloskee Bay's old canoe ramp and
were told the man they saw was probably the North Harney Hooter; a crazy man or wild man who hung out around there
at Harney where he howled and hooted from the banks at sports fishermen./ The same wild man was reported spotted
the previous year (1972) swimming or fishing near Onion Key where terrified fisherman left the area./ One more account
with similar 7 foot tall creature description supposedly seen climbing in and out of Mangroves with glowing red eyes
south of Chokoloskee in (1972); it was unknown if that report was connected to the North Harney
1973-ORANGE COUNTY-Near Union Park,Florida Witness Jimmy Horton said about 10:30 Pm he was walking
his girlfriend, at that time, Cindy home. He had went and got her and brought her to his house for dinner and to watch
a movie. This was a Friday night in December. The area was about 5 miles from highway 50. It was thinly populated.
Cindy lived about a mile away on Mercury Road and he asked her to let him walk her home. She said okay and they
started out. They had to walk down four different roads to get to her house about a 30-40 minute walk. Going around a
curve of the last road, looking ahead they saw something big come out of a ditch that lined both sides of the road,
about 3 feet deep for drainage. It came out on its hind legs, Cindy said "Is that a bear". Jimmy said he told her to be
quite, it walked to the center of the road and stopped as if it was looking for something on the ground. It was very tall
between 7-8 feet. The moon was bright and lit up the road so the witness could see the road well and could tell that
the dark color wasn't pants,shirt,or any other clothing. About 10 seconds later, it went into the other ditch and was
gone,all this time it was on two legs. A bear couldn't do this.