Bigfoot · Ocala National Forest, Florida · 1977

FL-1977ID case-6f5abdfea0Added to map Oct 7, 2026

The account

A Baptist minister reports standing eye-to-eye with a large, upright, hairy creature in the Ocala National Forest.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect · 1 cited source not found yet

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Creature: Bigfoot
Where: Ocala National Forest, Marion County, Florida, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words
When: Nov 15, 1977
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 7, 2026
Case id: case-6f5abdfea0

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Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.

Omega news, 1977-11-24
newspaper_ga · 1977-11-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
a close-range, daytime sighting by a 67-year-old Baptist minister
BFRO · 1998-09-15

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