| Jason Valenti's Sighting |
In the spring of 1996, a former business partner & I were coming back from a meeting in Pensacola, Florida
on a week night, heading for home to Largo, FL. We left Pensacola around midnight. We arrived in
Tallahassee at approximately 4:00 am. I stopped and asked a policeman at a convenient mart to give me
directions to a road that would take us from interstate 10 to U.S. 19 so that we could avoid the rush hour
traffic that we would have encountered later in the morning if we had continued via the interstate.
Approximately 15 minutes into the ride out of Tallahassee, going south bound on a road that bordered the
east side of Appalachicola National Forest, is where this experience took place and I was traveling on the
wrong road (but the right one to have this experience). I had just reached down to turn off the radio,
because the stations were out of range for good reception, when I saw something on the right side of the
road. We were traveling at about 55 mph, and at about 200 yards is when I first saw it. I immediately
took my foot off of the accelerator and "covered" the brake in case it was an animal that might move onto
the road.
My first impression was that it was a small deer or a dog, like an Irish setter or cocker spaniel, because of
the light color I saw. I then clicked my high beams on and this thing lifted its head from a downward
position to look our way. It was squatting behind the top of a pine tree that had fallen through the forest.
The tree was perpendicular to the road and right up next to the road. My guess is that it might have been
picking through something like a bird's nest. In the next moment, at about 100 yards, she stood up and
put her hands in front of her face to block my headlights, and that got my attention immediately because
they looked so human.
I remember seeing a dark purple coloring to the pads of her fingers and thumbs and also on her nose.
What I could see of her face was just for a moment, and it seemed she had a terrified expression. I had a
couple of clear shots where I saw that her mouth was open, and I even saw saliva glistening from the
headlights. Her coat of hair was blonde in appearance, at least in the lighting of my headlights. It
definitely was not like fur. It was patchy, and I could see her white skin in places where the hair was
sparse. Her head seemed unusually small for the size of her body and was set low, in between her very
broad shoulders, almost as if she didn't have a neck. Her face was like a cross between a chimp and a pit
bull, with a sloping forehead and a mouth that stuck off of her face with no chin. I could clearly see skin
around the eyes, forehead and cheekbones. I couldn't see any color to her eyes, but they glowed like a
cat's eyes (orange- reddish) when light was shown in them, and they were very large in diameter. She had
a classic hour glass figure -- very small waist in relation to her chest and hips -- and it really was amazing
how big her hips were, about as wide as her shoulders. She didn't have very much body fat; in fact, she
seemed very defined in her muscles. I remember seeing striations of muscle in her forearms, upper arms
and shoulders. Her arms weren't really big, just very defined.
When she was walking backward, I noticed that her gait seemed to have a waddle to it, as if she were
squatting a bit and knock kneed, kind of like how Grouch Marx would do that goofy walk, but just backward.
I'm 6'4", and I know she was at least 7' maybe closer to 8'. As I was coming to a complete stop, just a
few yards past her, we were so close to her that if Denis had had the window rolled down, he could have
reached out and grabbed her arm. That's how close we were to a Sasquatch! I passed her at about 20
mph before we stopped. As we passed her, Denis got a view of her that I didn't get to see since I was
driving and the topper on the back of my truck was blocking any view I could get through the rear window.
He told me that a few seconds after we had passed her, as he was looking back through the passenger
window, he witnessed her leaping, from a standing position, approximately 20 to 30 feet horizontal, and 10
to 15 feet vertical. When she landed, she was already running in a full-blown sprint through the sand pine
forest without any need to stop and absorb the shock or weight of her landing. The reason Denis had such
a good view of this was because my rear taillights were illuminating the forest from having the brakes on.
Also, sand pine forests in Florida don't have much undergrowth over 2 feet high and the branches on the
trees don't start until around 20 to 30 feet off the ground. So, he said he had a very clear view of this
creature. He also told me that he had never seen anything run that fast!
on a week night, heading for home to Largo, FL. We left Pensacola around midnight. We arrived in
Tallahassee at approximately 4:00 am. I stopped and asked a policeman at a convenient mart to give me
directions to a road that would take us from interstate 10 to U.S. 19 so that we could avoid the rush hour
traffic that we would have encountered later in the morning if we had continued via the interstate.
Approximately 15 minutes into the ride out of Tallahassee, going south bound on a road that bordered the
east side of Appalachicola National Forest, is where this experience took place and I was traveling on the
wrong road (but the right one to have this experience). I had just reached down to turn off the radio,
because the stations were out of range for good reception, when I saw something on the right side of the
road. We were traveling at about 55 mph, and at about 200 yards is when I first saw it. I immediately
took my foot off of the accelerator and "covered" the brake in case it was an animal that might move onto
the road.
My first impression was that it was a small deer or a dog, like an Irish setter or cocker spaniel, because of
the light color I saw. I then clicked my high beams on and this thing lifted its head from a downward
position to look our way. It was squatting behind the top of a pine tree that had fallen through the forest.
The tree was perpendicular to the road and right up next to the road. My guess is that it might have been
picking through something like a bird's nest. In the next moment, at about 100 yards, she stood up and
put her hands in front of her face to block my headlights, and that got my attention immediately because
they looked so human.
I remember seeing a dark purple coloring to the pads of her fingers and thumbs and also on her nose.
What I could see of her face was just for a moment, and it seemed she had a terrified expression. I had a
couple of clear shots where I saw that her mouth was open, and I even saw saliva glistening from the
headlights. Her coat of hair was blonde in appearance, at least in the lighting of my headlights. It
definitely was not like fur. It was patchy, and I could see her white skin in places where the hair was
sparse. Her head seemed unusually small for the size of her body and was set low, in between her very
broad shoulders, almost as if she didn't have a neck. Her face was like a cross between a chimp and a pit
bull, with a sloping forehead and a mouth that stuck off of her face with no chin. I could clearly see skin
around the eyes, forehead and cheekbones. I couldn't see any color to her eyes, but they glowed like a
cat's eyes (orange- reddish) when light was shown in them, and they were very large in diameter. She had
a classic hour glass figure -- very small waist in relation to her chest and hips -- and it really was amazing
how big her hips were, about as wide as her shoulders. She didn't have very much body fat; in fact, she
seemed very defined in her muscles. I remember seeing striations of muscle in her forearms, upper arms
and shoulders. Her arms weren't really big, just very defined.
When she was walking backward, I noticed that her gait seemed to have a waddle to it, as if she were
squatting a bit and knock kneed, kind of like how Grouch Marx would do that goofy walk, but just backward.
I'm 6'4", and I know she was at least 7' maybe closer to 8'. As I was coming to a complete stop, just a
few yards past her, we were so close to her that if Denis had had the window rolled down, he could have
reached out and grabbed her arm. That's how close we were to a Sasquatch! I passed her at about 20
mph before we stopped. As we passed her, Denis got a view of her that I didn't get to see since I was
driving and the topper on the back of my truck was blocking any view I could get through the rear window.
He told me that a few seconds after we had passed her, as he was looking back through the passenger
window, he witnessed her leaping, from a standing position, approximately 20 to 30 feet horizontal, and 10
to 15 feet vertical. When she landed, she was already running in a full-blown sprint through the sand pine
forest without any need to stop and absorb the shock or weight of her landing. The reason Denis had such
a good view of this was because my rear taillights were illuminating the forest from having the brakes on.
Also, sand pine forests in Florida don't have much undergrowth over 2 feet high and the branches on the
trees don't start until around 20 to 30 feet off the ground. So, he said he had a very clear view of this
creature. He also told me that he had never seen anything run that fast!
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