All Photographs and Enhancements of the Myakka Photographs on this page are © David Barkasy and Loren Coleman 2001.

It all began with a December 22, 2000, letter signed “God Bless. I prefer to remain anonymous,” mailed to the Sarasota (Florida) Sheriff’s Department. Two photographs were enclosed.

I’ve written about this extensively, so for some quick details, merely click here. For this blog, it is more about just re-viewing the images, not reading the words. Let’s look.

I’d like to see more progress on this one, either pro or con, in 2007.

Here’s a selection of the photographs, with details like the hand or foot that can be seen at the bottom of one of the photographs, comparison of the photos to show the leaf in the mouth does change position, and facial comparison points with an orangutan.

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Some critics have said that the object photographed in Florida was really this reddish Bigfoot Ripley’s Believe It or Not model in Wisconsin. I say the “classic” posture for any Bigfoot sculpture is going to poorly imitate the Patterson-Gimlin footage. Besides, several items between the two don’t match, but here it is for your examination. Others have said the Myakka thing is a person in a dark straight-legged costume from an Oriental source, but here too, definite reference points don’t align.

So what was photographed in Florida by an elderly woman in her backyard in the fall of 2000? Who is that person? What do you think?

All Photographs and Enhancements of the Myakka Photographs on this page are © David Barkasy and Loren Coleman 2001.