One occupational hazard of reporting on unexplained phenomena: You  can always count on waking up in the morning to find an email from  someone swearing that they've just seen Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, a  hybrid human alien or a UFO on the moon.
2015 began with a photo  from John Rodriguez, a 66-year-old retired electrician, who claims that  he was fishing Dec. 26 on the Hillsborough River near northeast Tampa,  Florida, and came upon an incredible sight.
"I fish for gar in the  river and I bring my camera to take pictures of the birds and what not.  I heard a squishing sound, looked over and saw this thing walking  through the water and crouch down in the duck weed. It did not look like  a guy in a suit -- it was definitely an animal. I took this picture and  got out of there as fast as I could."
Rodriguez claims to have seen and photographed -- in a completely clear  and non-blurry moment -- that tall, hairy, elusive creature often  reported in North America and other parts of the world that goes by many  names: Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti. In Florida, it's known as the Swamp  Ape or Skunk Ape (primarily from descriptions of an extremely pungent  odor it supposedly gives off).
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