Subj: [ParanormalFlorida] Last Night's Investigation Report  
Date: 9/12/2004 2:00:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time 
From: AngelOfThyNight@aol.com  
To: ParanormalBuffalo@yahoogroups.com,  paranormalghostsociety@yahoogroups.com,  Paranormalflorida@yahoogroups.com,  ParanormalGhostSociety@groups.msn.com  

French Docks

The road was very sandy felt like we were on a beach. But the deep tire grooves made it very hard to walk in the sand and a few times I almost twisted an ankle trying to venture through it. It was apparent that this road led to one place and one place only the French Docks as there was no houses near by just swamps, woods, and wildlife surrounding us.  One of the things I noticed is the sound of a wild board just a little ways in the woods. To me they just sound like pigs on a farm but you could hear it along with gators and owls in the distance. Just lots of other activity going on in the woods.

We walked fairly far up the road when we seen car lights. I darted up a hill and hid behind a tree. John and Joy this time stayed out walking the road. The guy speeded fast and swerved almost hit the both of them. The swerving is caused by the deep sand on the road. They talked to him ask if he had seen a car but the guy I guess was drinking which if I knew that and had a cell it would have been c-ya for him. But being it was 2am almost anybody coming from this place this late of night by themselves probably is up to no good. The guy did take off and I stayed behind the tree till they came back. The woods felt safer then the road skunk apes or not. 

We continued to walk down the road and it curved around and we noticed this was not the end. But at this point we were walking parallel almost with the St. Johns River. It did not take long to know that we were being followed. It seemed something was walking on both sides of the woods along with us following us up the road. Whatever it was sounded pretty big as some branches snapped fairly heavily. Then when we stayed still it stopped completely. There was something in them woods just way to many branches breaking and the sound of walking every time we walked deeper down this road. As the road dead ends at the French Docks but nonetheless the foliage on each side is so thick my spot lights would not even penetrate what was hiding back here but something was. 

We then came across an area that smelled real bad I had a bad feeling about this. The smell was beyond a dead animal it was very strong, very close yet we could not see any animal carcasses, and the smell seemed to go quite a ways. It smelled like a skunk but much worst almost to a point where if you smelled it to much it could make you vomit. So this should give you an idea how strong it was. John called it a man sized rotting smell meaning that whatever this smell was coming from had to be quite large. But its strange how on the tracks in the woods we smelled this and then on this road we smelled it. What I think is that whatever we smelled was real close or at least much closer this time.

After a little ways we noticed a gate blocking some service road and to the right a clearing. Then it was obvious we arrived at the docks. This area just did not feel right unlike the road which had a skunk ape watching you feeling the docks had a more haunting feeling. When you read about murders and bodies being dumped here you start to realize that this is a bad place and bad things happen back in here. It was in the air here and just about anybody could feel it especially us.

I noticed to my right of the concrete dock some pylons as if at one time there were two other wooden docks. What is really interesting is where the docks are here it over looks the St. Johns River and Hontoon Island the only way to reach it is by boat. Trust me there were gators in the water you could hear them and see some motion in the water. So we tried not to get to close to the water. 

Joy looked up to her right side and seen two crosses made out of wood. We ran up there and there was a grave stone or memorial there for a teenage boy who died along with two crosses stuck in the ground. This area did not feel to comfortable and I could feel a ghostly presence here with us. We took our photos and decided it was time to head back up the long road as we were very deep in the woods.

We started to head back up the road again hearing some movement in the woods we tried talking to it but it would not come on out. But this time the branches breaking were more intense I am very sure whatever it was seemed to be following us. I did notice again the rotting smell but this time it was a little weaker and seemed to have moved. I believe that this was a Skunk Ape and perhaps hid farther out since we became aware of it perhaps it knew this. There was some movement in this area again it was apparent we were dealing with something that was not a known animal that gave off a strong scent.

We then started walking some more and Joy was using her flashlight well I looked to my right and seen two sets of eyes they did move and they were taller then me even. They seemed to be following us along the road then I knew for sure something taller then me was following us along that road especially after seen eyes traveling with us. The eyes were white in color there was really no color to them.

Later one we heard rustling in a bush and John is like come on out I looked carefully and see a possum peak its face out and look at us haha but still it was a nice laugh. As we were walking we heard a bunch of gators and ducks become real started and you could hear the sound of wading in the near by water as if something was traveling through water following us nearby on the road. The river runs not to far away from the road and its fairly still so we thought this was odd. But whatever it was scared a lot of ducks as you could hear them flapping and quacking. We then proceeded till we got back off the dirt road and onto the main road near not to far from the railroad bridge and sure enough Teresa and Amanda were back with the car signaling us. 

We then unloaded our things and talked for a while. They went to go look for gas, get a drink, and use a restroom I guess but a sheriff down the road was parked there so they could not come back right away. But they did sit in the car for a while and had a few experiences. Amanda said while they sat in the car they felt watched as if something was near the car but they could not see it. She said you could hear some movement as well. 

We came to the conclusion that there was more then one of these creatures out tonight whether its Bigfoot or something of native American legend or ghostly it is hard to say. But Teresa said it stressed her out and Amanda told me the same. They both stated that it did not feel ghostly but rather something out there non-ghostly that was with us. I also felt it to that there was not much ghost activity but rather like we intruded on there territory. Amanda said that perhaps they were becoming annoyed with us because we were out and about all over hiking on roads, trails, through the woods and perhaps they were just as scared of us or rather felt a little threatened.

In conclusion to tonight's report we pretty much cover three areas Blue Springs itself then we covered on each side of it so in reality perhaps that is the reason for experiencing so much activity is that we were able to cover so much ground. Although today I am feeling it we did a lot of walking but we also found a lot of nice things like the house and house boat hidden in the woods. 

I believe that at all three locations we experienced Skunk Ape activity I do think that there was quite a few of them and perhaps more curious of us then dangerous. But nonetheless I very rarely ever have unwanted feelings or a such discomfort like lets get out of here so there definitely was something in those woods and it wanted us to know it was there.

When you put into account what Amanda seen walking, the moving eyes, the strong scents, movement all around us it was apparent we were not alone. We will revisit these areas perhaps a couple more times to do follow up investigations. Everybody did a real good job taking photos, helping explore and observing things. We covered a lot of grounds and unfortunately we were not able to investigate the two other places since gas was low however next week will be bringing you a real special investigation to make up for it. 
Peace,
Rick