SIGHTINGS Reported in 2010
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2004-MARSHALL COUNTY,MISSISSIPPI-DEC.16/ Batesville/Oxford Mississippi/ Witness returned to tree stand that
he had hung the day before for hunting season. It was in the area of North Sardis Lake on public land. Said he
knew that he was the only person there at the time because the trails hadn't been used for a while. He rode in
about 2 miles and then walked about 300 yards to where he had hung his climber.It was about day break.He was
about 20 feet up a pine tree when he heard what sounded like someone beating a stick against a tree. Spotted
movement from where the sound came from. What ever it was he said was brown and taall. At first thought it was a
bear.Looking through his scope on his rifle to see better he saw it wasn't a bear ,no ears on top of head and its
face was flat. It was black in color. It was at least 8 feet tall and stood like a man. Its skin was a grayish/green where
the hair was thin. Startled he stood up drawing the attention of the animal.Turning to look at him it raised its head
and smelled the air, then took off. It moved about 40 or so yards in a few seconds and was gone. Climbing down
the startled witness walked over to where the animal had been and seen where it had slid and left a print. It was a
human like foot print.That's when he heard a sound that came from the woods that sounded like whoop....whoop.
He hurried back to get his stand and left the woods.
1981-LEVY COUNTY-Bronson,Florida; US27/ August/ Witness was 18 years old at the time and lived in Chiefland,Fl.
Just graduated from high school, class valedictorian an had begun freshman year at the University of Florida in
Gainsville. It was around 7:30 Am, there was a fair amount of light. Fall was rolling in and the air beginning to cool.
Clear morning. Driving to first class. The drive from parents home to school took her through heavily wooded,
sparsely populated area.Traveling highway 27 between Bronson and Chiefland, going around a big bend in the
road.The trees had been clear cut away from the edge of the road about a 100 yards back. At this time 27 was two
lane. Following the curve her eyes caught movement on her left. Someone was walking out of the tree line towards
the road. She slowed down and then she pulled over. She said at first she didn't think Skunk Ape or Bigfoot she just
wanted a rational explanation to what she was seeing. She asked her self what was a tall,naked and hairy"man"
doing in the woods? She realized that it wasn't a man as the creature crossed the road in just a couple of steps and
continued on unhurried towards the line of trees on the other side of the road. As she sat in her car staring at the
creature it turned and looked at her moving the upper torso as it did. Then the creature reached down and swung a
juvenile up onto her hip and disappeared into the trees, clearing a small barbed wire fence in one step.
2009-MANATEE COUNTY,Mid Day/ May,15/ The witness said that he and his friend had found signs of a creature
while they were in Oregon-California border area back in 2007 and was very interested in the creature. Living here in
Florida the witness said his friend wanted to check out an area in Manatee County (No town named) Witness really
didn't expect to find anything because the area which they went to was to close to development and to small to
support an on going population and too busy with recreational human activities. Entering the woods on the north side
of the Rive (Not named) they took Claves" musical type sticks that are very loud when banged together. Waiting for
some folks in a canoe to go on by his friend hit the sticks together, within seconds they heard two knocks. They were
close and seemed to come from their left.. Moving out of the tree line where they had been standing they moved out
on to the beach and were now in plain sight. Still trying to get another response by hitting the sticks together they
heard a very loud "Knock" that came from farther west. About that time his friend went down on one knee and brought
his binoculars up and was focused on something across the river. It was about 60 feet to the elbow of the river that his
friend was focused on.The witness didn't say anything so as not to "interrupt" what ever his friend was Seeing the
witness said he could see without aid the area his friend was looking at fairly well.Giving the witness the binoculars he
saw what looked like damage to the oak tree his friend had focused on, the damage being tan down one side of the
gray tree trunk. Scanning around the area he brought the binoculars back to the oak tree only to fine that there
seemed to be another tree he hadn't noticed before up front and close to the original oak. Taking the binoculars down
he asked his friend about the tree,and he said no. Putting the binoculars back up the tree was gone.Scanning quickly
to the right he saw a 8 foot animal walking on two legs; leaning forward as it walked and discovered it was covering its
face with its forearms as it walked through some thorn vines hanging from the trees. It was dirty,smoky black in color.
He caught a quick look at the face. Definitely no snout. Or anything bear like. And then it was gone.They later found
17 inch footprints coming out of the water at a boat ramp. Seeing human footprints all around the same area made
the "Creatures"prints stand out.
2008-Febuary15, CLAY COUNTY- Middleburg,Florida/ Report made to BFRO researcher David Wright, Two
witnesses on foot leaving Jennings State Forest by Nattie Nolan Road. Walking towards home they saw something
about 40 yards away. Witness said he believed it to be about 7 feet tall as he thought that he would come up to its
head. Mr.Wright went with witness to site and he took photos of twisted trees that littered the place. Then as they were
walking back the researcher performed one of their calls and received a call back.This happened three more
times.Witness said he never heard an animal sound like that.
2010-HIGHLANDS COUNTY=June 20th./ Lake Placid Fl. Nearby Ranch-Nearest Road State Road 70./ Hunting with her
father 12 year old girl said she was shining spot light around area in pasture where her father had stopped his truck.
The Dog set free had chased wild hog through fence and off into the woods. Father climbed the fence ran after the
dog and wild hog leaving witness in the truck. There were other dogs in back of the truck in a dog box. These were
raising cane . Witness said over the noise the dogs were making she heard a growl and shinning light saw a Bigfoot
(Skunk Ape) She started screaming and said she ducked down in the truck. Father coming back to truck with other dog
said he didn't see anything strange. No odd smell or anything else, all he heard was the dogs and his daughter. He
said she had to have seen a cow and being afraid thought she saw something else. She claimed that she really did see
a Skunk Ape. She said it was big and was black and brown in color. Also said she thought it hit the truck. She claimed
she saw it and he said she was mistaken. Thought I'd log this on even though possible mistaken identity
2009 -CALDWELL COUNTY-North Carolina-About Dec 8th,/ Daytime/ Wooded area/ By witness; I was out mountain
biking with my one of my friends out on some trails that encompass Lake ? We go out there about every other week
and ride and everything seemed normal when we started. About halfway through the trails we stopped to take a break
and drink some water. After we had been sitting down for probably a good ten minutes a deathly silence came over
the area of woods we were at. This was enough to frighten me at the time but then we heard kind of a cross between a
grunt and a howl that made my skin crawl. We both turned around and up on the hill adjacent to us was this massive
creature staring straight at us. It was only fifteen feet max from us, hill top to hill top and I could see it well enough. It
was covered in white fur. It had bipedal legs like a man along with long dangly arms but what I noticed most was that it
had the head of a dog. With piercing yet somehow human blue eyes. Not the usual red deathly stare you hear about
in stories. But it still scared the crap out of me and my friend and we ran, leaving the bikes. We had to go back and
get them later that day, still afraid to go into the woods. We finally got the bikes out and went home and have only
gone back into those woods while in a large group such as our school track team who runs the trails for practice. It
was broad daylight, just after lunch. Nobody else was on the trails when we were there. About two months after the
incident another one of my friends claimed to have seen it too but in another section of woods. We were Mountain
biking as we had done almost every time we hang out on the weekends at my house. Nothing out of the normal.
Description of Creature: Taller than my friend and me, which at the time we were both around 5'11", 5'10" and it
seemed to linger over us. It had to be at least seven feet tall. Off white/grey fur, head of a dog with the body of a
stereo typical Sasquatch, walked with an unusual gait and was massively built. It also had long arms that might have
came down to its knees with bright blue eyes that seemed almost human.
The trails we were on have been there for over five years now I think with no other sightings that I'm aware of but
recently there have been reports on the news about sightings in Cleveland County and Burke county. A man in Burke
County made a cast of a foot print he found in back trails that seem similar to the trails we were on that day. Another
student about a month later also said they too saw the creature.
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Nighttime sighting of two upright creatures by a motorist in their own words
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YEAR: 2009- SEASON: Winter-MONTH: November/CLAY COUNTY-Middleburg/ once you turn off of CR220 and left
onto Blanding, the first side road to the right. NEAREST ROAD: SR21 (Blanding Blvd) - About10:20 PM.
OBSERVED: I was driving home from work one night, down CR220 (Middleburg) turned left on SR21 (Blanding Blvd)
and when I rounded the corner, my headlights caught sight of 2, not human or animals, standing by the speed limit
sign and when they heard my vehicle/seen the headlights- they stopped (looked like they were rustling w/ something)
and looked up.
ALSO NOTICED: they were doing something w/ their hands- like fidgeting w/ maybe/possible roadkill? no other
witness.
OTHER STORIES: yes.. A friend of mine lives in the Camp Blanding area and his buddies wife reported to police a
(her words) a 9 ft. Yetti. Police obviously did not believe her and she went and bought a shotgun- this was FEB 2010.
ENVIRONMENT:woodsy
On a clear Wednesday evening she was returning home from work, around 22:30 when she stopped at a traffic light
at an intersection on the outskirts of Middleburg, traveling west. There was no other traffic. When the light changed
and she turned south, her headlights panned across 2 large creatures that were located just off the road onto which
she was turning (about 18 meters) and on the side of a second road that was intersecting her new direction of travel
from the west. Because she was accelerating slowly from a dead stop,the sighting of these creatures lasted probably
5-6 seconds . She stated that one of the creatures stood in a half crouch or half squat, hunched over with its head
facing down towards its lap. She described it as making fast jerky movements with its arms and hands, "like it was
beating a drum on its lap". Its elbows seemed to be moving wildly to and fro as well. She stated that her first
impression was that it seemed to have something alive across its lap and seemed to be trying to subdue it or kill it.
The other creature was taking no action, but just standing there and observing the first. She couldn't exactly estimate
their height, though they were about the same size. She did say that the one that was moving was standing right in
front of a speed limit sign for west bound traffic and its head blocked the sign. I later measured the center of the sign
to be right at 7'. As she went by she became very frightened at seeing this unusual sight and sped away.
Her attention was primarily focused on the creature that was engaged in activity, they looked like they were about the
same size except one was in a half crouch and the other was not. Her physical descriptions of the creatures were as
follows:
- Neither overly bulky nor skinny.
-The creatures both had long gray hair (not fur) that appeared to hang in layers, straight and not matted.
-2 pairs of eyes reflecting red were seen as they looked up at her car.
- Facial hair that appeared swept back off the face on the sides.
-Neither creature gave an impression of a visible neck nor ears.
-The arms were described as longer in proportion than humans with long hanging hair from the forearms.
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