In the early-morning blackness, partially bathed in a Hollywood-weird glow of incandescent light and rolling fog, Dan Jackson slowly uncoiled from a half-hour crouch in his hiding place behind a garbage Dumpster.What he saw — the very thing he had spent 20 years looking for — was so terrifying, Jackson would see it in his broken sleep for months. A dark, hairy head. Glistening black eyes. A mouth full of bared teeth clenched in rage.“He was huffing like a damn freight train,” recalled Jackson, a venomous-snake expert from Lithia, who claims he came face to face with a fearsome creature he once didn’t believe existed.“In November 1983, if you had asked me whether I believed in Bigfoot or Sasquatch, I would have said, ‘You mean that thing Hollywood made movies about? full story