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Florida man claims he came face to face with a Bigfoot that was ‘huffing like a freight train’
It took a Florida man years to spot a creature that he claims was a Bigfoot, and the experience is one to remember forever. But, the first time he allegedly came face to face with the mythical creature, it was nothing like he had imagined.
Dan Jackson, a venomous snake expert from Lithia, never beleived in Sasquatches until he took a hog-hunting trip near Naples in 1983, where he claims he had his first encounter with a Bigfoot.
Florida man claims he came face to face with a Bigfoot
Dan thought he was sorted with dinner when he saw a “dark object” about 150 yards away, under the assumption that it was a hog approaching him.
But soon he thought the creature was a bear, only to realize it wasn’t. “It had been bending over, then it turned at the waist and looked at me. It had a black face and black eyes. It stood up, turned, and walked on two legs right into the bayhead,” he recollected.
When the creature approached him, he froze in time as all his assumptions about it being a gorilla or chimpanzee proved to be wrong.
It was like water pouring into a computer. My mind just short-circuited. What transpired might have taken 10 seconds. It could have been 10 hours for all I know,” he noted.
He took to examine the spot where he allegedly saw the creature that was easily 6 1/2 to 7 feet tall and the place smelled like someone had been “sleeping in a goat pen.”
Dan claimed the supposed bigfoot had a “dark and hairy head. Glistening black eyes. A mouth full of bared teeth clenched in rage.” He further added the creature was “huffing like a damn freight train.”
His quest for the mythical creature led him to another sighting
Dan was so intrigued by the creature he believed was Bigfoot that he set out looking for it, again. He used different techniques and baits to lure it this time thanks to the resources on the internet.
I admit, for the first two or three years it was probably comical the way I was doing things in the woods. But I started to get better and better. My techniques got better, he said.
His failed attempts to find the creature only made him realize it was way smarter than he thought. Youre dealing with an intelligent creature, and he knows his environment better than you know your home.”
Dan added: “I feel like he has a heightened sense of hearing, eyesight and smell. He knows youre there long before you know hes there.
He spent 20 years visiting the region two to three times a month, hoping to see it again. Eighteen years into his search, he found a footprint as big as 19 1/2-inch, which he made a plaster cast of. Dan claims he found it in the middle of the Everglades, 6.2 miles from the nearest road.
Dan learned from an engineering professor that the creature behind the footprint weighed “a little better than 500 pounds.” The man was determined to find the Bigfoot which he beleived was in the woods and during a nighttime helicopter ride over the region being explored, he spotted the “mother of all game trails.”
It took him 21 days to reach the end of the trail near the rear of a small strip mall. He knew the Bigfoot would come near the mall looking for food, so he set up a “bait”, consisting of a half-gallon of orange juice with sugar and chloral hydrate.
The bait was placed in the dumpster, while Dan waited patiently, with pop cans filled with pebbles on the lid of the dumpster to alter him should the Bigfoot arrive.
One time all his efforts paid off when he heard a can fall off the lid of the dumpster and when he brought his head above the top of the dumpster, he “saw a pair of eyes.”
He feared for his life
Dan recollected there wasn’t anything friendly about the terrifying creature. When he finally came face to face with it after 20 years of relentless searching, he “feared for his life” for the first time.
My instinct was self-preservation. As I straightened up, he jumped out and landed; it was me and him. Theres no way to describe the fear, he said. Although he fired a shot at it when it leaped towards him, it was gone in a blink.
Theres no way I would have been able to fire twice. He was gone that quick. He was tremendously fast, Jackson said. It was one, two, three, and then it was over.
After the spine-chilling experience, he vowed to never go looking for Bigfoot again. “I made the same mistake others had made; I wanted to prove it existed. And it almost cost me, Jackson said. Im satisfied. Im not running into any lightning storms,” he told Daily Sun.
