Hi,
I'm using free Google Earth 4.2 on Win XP. I tried to click the link for your bigfoot sightings. The file is there but there are errors in the file. I get parse errors on several lines so no points at all show up in Google Earth.

Is there a way around this?

Outstanding file you've put together here! I spend quite a bit of time with my son going through and reading the various accounts over the centuries worth (!) of sightings.
One that I was reading about today caught my eye, however, for several seeming inaccuracies, and I thought I would let you know. In Report # 15694, the witness stated that they were driving south on Florida's Turnpike, yet you have the placemark pinned to one section of the toll road 'beltway' that they're strangling Orlando with, Tollroad 429, which only runs from Apopka northwest of Orlando to a southern terminus on Interstate 4 by Celebration, just west of the Disney sprawl. The highway you've indicated crosses the Turnpike about a mile farther down, but I'm through that area quite a bit and can tell you, there's no real large swampy stretch along the 429 such as he refers to. It's rolling countryside, fairly 'hilly' (for central Florida) with some citrus groves, oak and pine tree stands and well drained pasturelands for the most part, even though Lake Apopka is just a few hundred yards off to the side of the road. The situation of the placemark to where its probable location actually should be is no more than 2 or 3 miles as the crow flies to the WSW, as the Turnpike at that particular point in its traverse of the state is actually running absolute west to east for about 3 miles, though all the signs that refer to it have South and North Turnpike on them.
The other thing that stuck in my mind (and this one is for the BFRO or whomever took the report) is his claim that they were going to have a look at the Waterford Lakes Mall. Now they may have and in all likelihood meant the West Oaks Mall, as Waterford Lakes is way the heck and gone East on the complete other side of Orange County and Orlando, just south of the University of Central Florida, on Alafaya Trail. And it's more of a collection of strip stores, big anchor stores, free standing parcels with various restaurants and so forth on them, all sharing one vast parking lot. The West Oaks Mall, on the other hand, is a true indoor mall between Ocoee and it's immediate neighbor to the west, Winter Garden.
But here is where things get a little hazy; he claims that the Ocoee exit was upcoming as he travelled south(east, in truth, if on the Tpk). But for there to be a large enough swampy area such as he described, they'd have had to be west( north) of Winter Garden as well, where the Turnpike again turns toward true north, so that town's exit to the Turnpike would be coming up first. The Ocoee exit and the intersection of Toll Road 429 and SR 50 are all jumbled up into this big confusing spider's web of crossing super overpasses and roadway and space, and to get to Ocoee proper from the Turnpike means you have to get off of the Tpk and travel about a mile east on SR 50 to reach the town limits.
I guess that the thing that needs to happen here is, the BFRO need to get back in touch with this person and find out for certain which roadway they were actually driving down, so that you could place the marker with greater accuracy. It may not look it from the air, but nestled in amongst those clusters of tree greenery are quite a few homes, meaning that the area where the marker is placed right now is populated much heavier than it may appear. I don't think a BF could go undetected in that area on the southeast edge of Lake Apopka very easily, even in 2006 they were building a great many new homes to accomodate the folks who want a home 'in the country' but also desire a commute of less than 30 minutes into Orlando to work. The southwest edge of the lake, on the other hand, opens up quite a bit more and seems to be the more likely spot for the placemark. If you had an email I could send a screenshot to, I'd show you where I think they mean, if, at the very base of this whole argument, they were actually driving on the Turnpike and not the 429 Tollroad.

Sorry to get so wordy!

Neill
crash_clavin@REMOVEMEyahoo.com

i seriously doubt if the old skunk ape hangs out around here... they tend to stay away from U.S. Marines with M-16's in 120 degreee weather with no trees to hide behind.

I grew up 30 mins south of that area. In fact there is an old timer farmer that lived about 8 miles from our farm. He claims that in the late 1950's he went out to finish swathing the field .

He saw something near the machinery it hiked it hard across the field and then into the bush. He said as he got closer it was like a man figure but of course all hairy and I can't remember how tall he said it was but it did not take this thing long to run across a field about half mile wide...

He told my dad and I the story one time and he told us the spot it was... Unfortnately people didn't believe him and he stopped talking about it due to the fact that you know how it goes. People start to talk and gossip fly's so he stopped talking about it due to people and there comments.

But the gentlemen was hard working honest farmer and I don't see any reason why he would just make it up....

Anyways regardless if you want help I can pin point it out if someone can direct me how to make it global for everyone to see. I know exactly where it is and by car it would be about 35 min drive south of this location that was pin at Island Park.

PM me and I'll try my best to make it work..

Hi,

I'd just like to throw in my .02 towards the report listed in GE called 1980-07sum ~10mi (referring back to http://www.oregonbigfoot.com/report_detail.php?id=01339).

See icon data below.

My family has been going up into this area for the better part of 60 years. As a matter of fact, the Google Earth "i" icon that links back to this report is down the hill from our cabin up there.

Over that extended period of time, and across the experiences of many, my family has never seen or heard anything that resembles a bigfoot, or remnants of one, to my knowledge.

I also find it questionable that one individual would run into so many "sightings", according to the linked report.

I don't want the residents and guests of the cabin owners to get the wrong idea about the area or be fearful for no reason. Surely, some of the bikers and questionable characters that camp up there sometimes should be considered more of a threat than an unverified mystical creature. Also, bears and mountain lions, which we have encountered.

Also, the description in the story is one of camping, and the icon is located on a cabin property, which doesn't match.

If you're trying to just generically locate the story, might you at least move the icon to the top of Devil's Head, which has a campground and is sort of the main camping area?

Thank you!

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Happy to oblige. Consider it done. It will probably take about a month for the change to filter through the Google Earth Gallery.

The last thing I want to accomplish here is to cause anyone distress, so I will always accommodate this type of request. But I think it is fair to note that I labeled the margin of error at ~10mi for this report. And I do stress in the main post here that these mapped locations are approximations, at best, so as to ease this sort of concern.

Nice Job