Yes we have 3. One in the back/side yard that I just posted from on the daily photo page. It's currently aimed to capture our visitors under the persimmon tree. Another is aimed at our long driveway and catches comings and goings of any vehicles. And some wildlife of course. The third DH moves to random spots on the property depending on what is going on. We've been trying to figure out when the armadillos are out lately and if our foxes are still around.

Yes, we have 2. One near the pond where we have seen deer, foxes, wolves, skunk, an owl, a bald eagle, ravens and other small critters. Another watches the driveway and back door.

Yes, we have one trail camera in our back yard - it's actually the one that got a clear photo of our burglar a few years ago. lol

We also have security cameras.

I would love to have a couple, I actually think we have a skunk ape around here and I would LOVE to prove it by having a photo of it. Everyone thinks I'm nuts but of course when I experienced what I did a couple of years ago and told everyone they wanted to commit me.

Tell us your story, ritaweeda! I'm usually one of those people that has to see it to believe it but i have an open mind! My no-nonsense aunt and uncle swore they saw a UFO (as in alien... not just something they couldnt ID).

OK, I never saw anything. But I sure as heck heard something. And as far as I know there are no apes in Florida. So here it is: 2 years ago I was out in the veggie garden and it was around 9 am. Suddenly I heard the cry of a fawn and sure enough, my dog had found one on the property - (we live on nearly five wooded acres in a rural area). So I threw down my hoe and started for the sound, knowing it was going to be a hard job saving the poor thing, it had happened before. So I can't run (bad back) and I yelled and chased them all over the place trying to get the dog to stop. Every time she would bring the fawn down I would try like heck to get to them and the fawn would get loose and it would start all over again. The fawn kept crying all the while. Finally they ran into an area where we have a seasonal wetland area and the dog was so hot and tired she just collapsed in the middle of the pond. I really thought she was going to die of exhaustion at this point. So since the fawn got away from her and she was too tired to chase her anymore, I managed to grab her collar after she cooled down for a few minutes and took her back to the house, sprayed her down with the hose and put her in the house. It took her almost an hour to finally cool down. So around 11 I decided to go out to the road to bring in the trash can. I made the dog stay inside because I didn't want a repeat of what had happened earlier. When I got to the corner of the front of the house to head down the driveway, suddenly I heard this horrible growling, snarling sound and thrashing around in the woods and underbrush and I stopped and looked. Didn't see anything but suddenly the snarling sound stopped and then there was this spine-tingling ape sound. I froze because I couldn't understand why I was hearing this - it kept on making the sound and every hair on my body stood on end. I stood there frozen, dying to see what it was but afraid to go out there any further, I was actually thinking that I might have to make a run for it back to the house - (and remember, I can't run). Then it was complete silence. No sound of the ape, no growling or snarling or thrashing of brush, not even the sound of anything running away, which if it had run away there should have been the sound of water splashing. Nothing. I finally just turned round and went into the house. When I first heard the snarling and thrashing, I figured it was a coyote that had heard the fawn before and had come in to take advantage of the situation and finish it off but then when the ape sound started, I knew it wasn't a coyote. So that's my story and I'm sticking to it. But also a couple of months after that, my husband had left for work and it was still dark, about 5:30 in the morning. I let the dog out and went out on the front porch to look at the sky. The dog went across the front to the side where there is a sense light. When she reached that area the light went on and she stopped, looking out to the side of the property (wooded) and then leaped up like she was going to go after something but then she suddenly stopped and turned around and went back, turned toward it again and barked, started to go after it again and then stopped, backing up, then she turned her head and looked at me as if to say "mommy, look at that". So I stepped out a little from the porch but was afraid to go far and couldn't see anything. What scared me was the fact that the dog is not afraid of anything out there. This time she was. So there is something out there that both me and the dog is afraid of. I am convinced that the sound of that frightened fawn drew something in here to finish it off but what it is I have no idea but when I heard that ape sound let me tell you, I was scared to death. And to this day I don't go out there anymore in the dark. The reason I call it a skunk ape is because that's what they call bigfoot here in Florida.

Thank you for your story Rita. I do believe what you heard was probably one. I don't believe though I have any, where I live. We too have seen a UFO one Thanksgiving evening coming home from a family meal. It was very, very big and appeared to be out either on the back of our property or in the hay field behind us.. When we arrived home and walked out back, pitch black, not a thing there. This was big as a barn and red orange. This was some years ago.

Anyone else have any stories. Some places in the south the Bigfoot are called Boogers.

Sue

Im just thankful the little fawn got away!

I've never seen or heard anything I couldn't explain as being "normal". At least as far as I can remember. I'm thinking on it. :)

That's another mystery about this: we never found any fawn remains or any sign that something had gotten to it. You'd think that if it had been a coyote it would have been very difficult for it to jumped over the fence with it (the whole property is fenced in field fence). But then again, coyotes don't make ape sounds either. And if it had been a coyote or any other normal wild animal it would have immediately ran off, they don't like to be seen by humans. It's like whatever this thing was watched me until I went inside. That's not normal. And again, if it had taken off I would have heard it splashing through the swampy area which is where all the noises were coming from. Whatever it was, it managed to be very still and well hidden from my view or even up in a tree.?? Yes I would love to get some of those cameras and also some fawn in distress recordings and set them up and see the results.

Just be careful if you play recordings of a fawn in distress. You may attracts wolves or other predators.

Our Science class created a woodland study area on school property a few years ago. We put up three cameras along the deer trails in the woods. And that's mostly what we saw, deer and a few raccoons and skunks. The kids really enjoyed it though, cause they never saw anything when we were there.

No, we are too far from wilderness areas to get much beyond neighborhood cats, birds, skunks, opossum, raccoon, and rodents. I don't think I want to know how many rodents outnumber the rest of the critters. ;)

I love my cameras. One of the funniest os of a sandhill crane that went up to it while I had it on video. It started to peck at the camera...too fun! We've seen lots of deer, raccoons, fox and her babies, gopher tortoises, and armadillo .

I have a camera my brother sent me. It is sitting here bc I know I should upgrade my computer and it never works and it confuses me.

I saw a UFO about 10 years ago in NC. A hovering thing that zoomed out very quickly.

My mother and brother saw them in the 1980s or maybe 70's, in PA. It was reported to be seen by many in the local newspaper.

I once found a dead fawn torn apart in my bank of ivy next to the driveway and cant imagine how it got dismembered that way. I called animal control and begged to have someone come and get it but they said I had to get it to the curb. I said "That is why I am calling. Would you like to collect these fly/maggot infested parts?" She said no, sorry. Well I think my husband or someone finally got it in a garbage bag and threw it out. But Something was out there. Creepy! The fawn was not very small. I live in suburbs, not wilderness.

I have gotten some super good pictures of my horses with mine. And the usual wildlife. I brought mine in to get the pictures off the card and it's still waiting for me to take it back out.

Geez, I'll have nightmares too. Marilyn_Sue, may you never ever see a dang bigfoot on your trail cam:-)