| 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!
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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