Name: Damon Adkins

Age: 26

Number of witnesses: 1

Location of Sighting: Orlando, Florida

Date of sighting: 4/6/2022

What you believe the creature was: Monster Sized Bat

Message: “I was driving into work at 6A.M. on April 6th 2022, and I was driving on the John Young Parkway in Orlando Florida. This happened directly under the overpass for I4, just before the Orange County jail heading south. I was driving alone with my driver window open and my arm sticking out, the sky was still dark and the street was illuminated by street lights. As I approached the overpass for I4, I started hearing a loud flapping noise that sounded like a flag blowing in the breeze and I thought it must have been a semi truck on the overpass that got a flat tire. However when I got under the overpass the noise was so loud it was almost ear splitting. I looked out my driver window and I saw a monstrously huge bat with a wingspan longer than my SUV (ford escape) and who's body was larger than my own (I am 6'4" and 240lbs), it was on the opposite side of the street separated by the support columns. It had the snub nose face of a vampire bat, but it's face resembled more of a gorilla almost. The overpass is illuminated underneath by street lights and when the beasts wings were up I could see it's veins through the membrane of it's wings. It almost looked like it's flight was incredibly labored as though it was struggling to keep itself in the air. I immediately began to panic and rolled my window up. As soon as the beast and myself were out from underneath the overpass it shot straight upwards into the sky and turned east flying higher and higher and was soon out of sight. I have never believed in Bigfoot or any other large undiscovered creatures before today, but after seeing this obviously undocumented creature of this enormous size, I believe anything can exist. I do not know what it was or if anyone has ever seen it before, but in a very populated city like Orlando, I can only hope that someone else has seen this monster and I am not the only one.”

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