YEAR: 2024

SEASON: Winter

MONTH: February

DATE: 23

STATE: Florida

COUNTY: Clay County

LOCATION DETAILS: We were camping in the Hammock Campground . The prints were found in the dirt/sand road near some powerlines.

[Investigator (MM) Notes:

Hammock Campground is within Jennings State *Park*. The tracks were found outside the park but within Jennings State *Forest*.

Approximate GPS for where the first track was found:

30.187284, -81.912810

See maps below.

NEAREST TOWN: Middleburg

NEAREST ROAD: don't know

OBSERVED: 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 ¼ 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.

ALSO NOTICED: nothing unusual

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

OTHER STORIES: Never been there before.

TIME AND 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.

ENVIRONMENT: Mature oak and pine trees, ground was mostly compacted at our campsite, so no prints were found there.

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Dr. Robert S. (MD):

I spoke via phone with the submitter/witness. She is the founder and leader of the Mid Florida Bigfoot Research Team, and as such has extensive experience in the field. She was invited to camp in this particular area by an out-of-state bigfoot researcher who wanted to explore the area based on a history of sighting reports. She was there with her team as noted.

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The campground volunteers were there for security and discouraged travel around the park after sunset, but accommodated this group by escorting them to other forest locations after dark out of curiosity toward their squatching.


The road substrate where the tracks were found was sugar sand typical for this area, described as ‘chunky’ with a freshly tilled appearance making it challenging to obtain detail via casting, but the 3D scanned image shows a foot shape with toe impressions.






Of note, free 3D scanning apps are available for smartphones and useful for providing valuable information to document evidence, particularly with poor casting conditions. The app used by this witness was called ‘Scaniverse.’ The length of each impression and step length was consistent along the trackway, which steadily followed to the inside of the wheel tracks along the road. At 54 inches, the measured step lengths were nearly twice the average adult human step length at 30 inches. The tracks were heading westerly toward a creek and located approximately 2 miles from the campground.


The witness and Ruby were car-camping in their respective cars at site 8, parked about 15 feet from each other. The witness’ car had privacy shades all around so had no outside visibility. She heard at least 10 bipedal heavy footfalls on the driver’s side pacing back and forth, then felt the car pushed (like a nudge) from the back, after which there was no further activity. She did not find any prints on the ground or on the car the next day.


Her teammates were tent-camping at site 9 approximately 80-100 feet away. The footfalls were heard by the young son of a team member and estimated to have occurred early in the morning at a similar time. The campground was half-occupied, per witness’ estimate.


I was able to visit this area and based on witness photos I located the portion of the road where the trackway was discovered and casts were attempted. It had been 4 months since that time, and the road was relatively overgrown (see road cast picture) with little to no recognizable remnants of the trackway. The witness estimated the trackway length to be 0.25 miles before ending at a washout, and the road does contain a small, eroded gully at 0.25 miles, then at 0.38 miles the road is truncated by Yellow Water Creek, which was wide and flowing during my visit. Numerous large game sign was noted throughout the area.


The Hammock campground consists of 10 campsites around a crescent drive, with fine gravel parking pads and hardpacked surrounding ground. Sites 8 and 9 are nearly identical with a fairly large open area in the forest behind each (see pictures).


Jennings State Forest covers 25K acres and is well known for camping, hiking, biking, horseback riding and fishing as well as permitted hunting. It has a surprisingly wide variety of ecosystems and terrain. Deer and turkey are prevalent, as well as snakes and alligators. Black bear sightings are not common in the State Forest but there are sightings every year in the surrounding county (Clay). A good portion of its periphery is bound by highways and neighborhoods, with a secure perimeter protecting private land as well as an active airport (former Naval Air Station) at its northern border. Additionally, there has been recent and rapid residential growth in southeastern Clay county in the Black Creek area, to include a beltway-type highway extension that will eventually cross the St. Johns River. It’s not unreasonable to view this development as habitat encroachment which would certainly impact south and southeast transit corridors. However, there are several waterways and powerlines to the south and west that would provide potential transit paths for these creatures to access and easily convey through the area.


There are many reports of Florida ‘Skunk Ape’ from the panhandle to the Everglades, but a large number of reports originate from central to north Florida. This report occurred approximately 20 miles from a recent daytime road-crossing sighting in October 2023 (see BFRO report #76617). Additionally, there was a flurry of BFRO reports from Jennings State Forest and the surrounding area 15-20 years ago (see BFRO reports # 18065, 18349, 18247, 21658, 21849, 21879, 24078, 27347, 31122). Given the extensive history of bigfoots in this area which has maintained a relatively supportive ecosystem, it is reasonable that this witness came across a valid bigfoot trackway and then possibly had a creature investigate their camp later that evening.

About BFRO Investigator Dr. Robert S. (MD):

Robert S. is a physician practicing in Florida. He has attended numerous public and private expeditions since 2006 in FL, GA, TN, WA, OR, CA, NM, NY, and NC.

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