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Bigfoot sighting near Lakeland, Florida
1980 · East of Lakeland, FL, Florida, United States
In summer 1979 or 1980 east of Lakeland, Florida, a witness heard a loud wood-like banging on a tree in the afternoon and tracks were found in the area weeks later.
Facts
- Reported as
- Noise, like wood being banged against tree. Tracks found
- Date
- 1980
- Place
- East of Lakeland, FL, Florida, United States
- Evidence
- vocal
- Point
- 28.021, -81.864
- Located within
- 2.5 km
- Light
- daylight
- Witness was
- hiking
- Witnesses
- 3
- Sounds
- wood knock
- In the account
- felt watched, footprints found, swamp or marsh, wood knock
- Account
- firsthand
- Sources
- 2 independent (5 listings)
Sources
- BFRORead the report
- BFRO (full-text copy)Read the report
- BFRO (KML copy)Read the report
- ManganiRead the report
- BFRO (Renner copy)Read the report
Nearby sightings
- Hunter has unexplained, late night encounter while in small boat on Saddle Creek
- Twilight sighting on the west side of Lakeland
- Bigfoot sighting near Winterhaven, Florida
- Possible sighitng at dusk by father and daughter riding an ATV near Bartow
- Three black figures seen moving thru a hunting area during the daytime in the Green Swamp
- Possible daylight sighting by fisherman near Bartow
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