BFRO #77223: Long bigfoot trackway found in state forest near Jacksonville

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📝 Description

On February 23, 2024, my team (The Mid Florida Bigfoot Research Team) and I went out on a weekend campout/investigation to Jennings State Park outside of Jacksonville FL at the Hammock Campground. It had lightly rained for a few minutes but the weather cleared up. We met some campground volunteers when we were there and they were nice enough to take us out to an area next to some powerlines to take a look around. When we got there, everyone was standing around chatting and I decided to leave the group and go take a walk down a dark, creepy sandy road to see what I could find, which is normally what I like to do. I then started to spot some large footprint impressions in the sand and I called my team members over to take a look at them and get their opinions. We all agreed that they did look like footprints and you could lightly see some toes in some of them. The average length of the prints were 16 inches long and it had a 54 inch stride. Since it was really dark out, we couldn�t tell just how many there were, so we marked the 2 best ones with sticks so we could easily find them in the morning. Afterwards, we went back to our campsites to settle in for the night.During the night, some of us had encounters at their campsites. I was car camping, so I was trying to sleep in my car but I was wide awake all night. At around 4-5am, I heard something very heavy and bipedal walk right next to my car. I thought at first that it was my team member Ruby walking around (who was camping with me at my campsite) but it was very loud and she wouldn�t be walking right next to my car. Then I felt something gently push my car and I was shocked, but I was still in denial and wondered why she was walking so close to my car and would do that. Nothing else happened the rest of the night.In the morning, I got out of my car and Ruby was nowhere to be found, so I walked down to the next campsite where team members Mike and Chris were camping. Mike proceeded to tell me when I got there that he couldn�t sleep at all that night and that he heard something heavy and bipedal walk around their tents. I then told them about what happened to me at my car and they were both stunned. Chris didn�t hear anything because he slept all night.When I returned back to my car, Ruby got out of her car and I asked her if she got up early in the morning for anything and she said no and that she just woke up. So it wasn�t her walking next to my car and she didn�t bump it. I then told her what happened to me but she didn�t experience anything because she slept well that night and didn�t hear anything.After breakfast, we went back to the site where I found the prints and we looked around some more. The trackway was about � a mile long and most of them were faint but you could see them and they ended where a deep creek crossed the dirt road. We took a 3D scan of the best print and we casted it and another one, but unfortunately our plaster was too thick and it didn�t pick up the faint toe impressions.

🔍 Circumstances

6 witnesses to seeing the prints, 3 witnesses to having the encounter at the campsites.

🌤️ Weather Conditions

Prints were found around 10pm and the encounter at our campsite was around 4-5am. It was a chilly weekend there with a short, light rain shower when we arrived on Friday the 23rd.

ℹ️ Additional Details

Prints were found around 10pm and the encounter at our campsite was around 4-5am. It was a chilly weekend there with a short, light rain shower when we arrived on Friday the 23rd.

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