Incredible Facts About The Skunk Ape - Really Exists or Not?

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1. The Skunk Ape, also known as the Swamp Ape, Stink Ape, Florida Bigfoot, Myakka Ape, and the Myakka Skunk Ape.
2. The Skunk Ape , is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit Florida, as well as North Carolina and Arkansas, although reports from Florida are more common.
3. In the mid-1970s, a few years after the public release of Bigfoot footage, Florida police received a flow of reports claiming a similar creature was living in the state's swamplands.
4. Many witnesses described the beast as like an ape standing upright, seven feet tall and covered in light brown hair.
5. In all it sounded like a Bigfoot clone, but there was one unique aspect to the Florida monster -- it smelled like a strong mixture of rotten eggs, manure and an elephant's cage.
6. Numerous sightings were reported in suburban neighborhoods of Dade County, Florida, of a large, foul-smelling, hairy, ape-like creature, which ran upright on two legs.
7. A group of tourists who were being shown round the Everglades saw a large ape-like creature moving around the edge of a nearby swamp.
8. There were suggestions it had been caught by the US Army and imprisoned at the Everglades National Park.
9. This urban myth said that the creature escaped by smashing through a concrete wall and returned to his swampland home.
10. In 2011, two pictures that were said to be of a Skunk Ape were taken by an anonymous woman and mailed to the Sarasota County, Florida, Sheriff's Department.
11. The photographs were accompanied by a letter from the woman in which she claims to have photographed an ape in her backyard.
12. The woman wrote that on three different nights an ape had entered her backyard to take apples left on her back porch. She was convinced the ape was an escaped orangutan.
13. The pictures have become known to Bigfoot enthusiasts as the "skunk ape photos."
14. In the last few years however, new sightings have appeared in Ochapee, Florida.
15. Dave Shealy spends most of his time in the Big Cypress Swamp searching for the Skunk Ape when he's not maintaining theTrail Lakes Campground.
16. Trail Lakes Campground sits on 30 acres surrounded by the Big Cypress National Preserve and is at the same location as the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters.
17. According to the United States National Park Service, the Skunk Ape does not exist.
18. With confidence like that from first-hand witnesses, what hope is there that the Skunk Ape really exists?

The Skunk Ape, also known as the Swamp Ape, Stink Ape, Florida Bigfoot, Myakka Ape, and the Myakka Skunk Ape, is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit Florida, as well as North Carolina and Arkansas, although reports from Florida are more common. It is named for its appearance and for the unpleasant odor that is said to accompany it. According to the United States National Park Service, the Skunk Ape does not exist. Reports of the Skunk Ape were particularly common in the 1960s and 1970s. In the fall of 1974, numerous sightings were reported in suburban neighborhoods of Dade County, Florida, of a large, foul-smelling, hairy, ape-like creature, which ran upright on two legs.

In 2011, two pictures that were said to be of a Skunk Ape were taken by an anonymous woman and mailed to the Sarasota County, Florida, Sheriff's Department. The photographs were accompanied by a letter from the woman in which she claims to have photographed an ape in her backyard. The woman wrote that on three different nights an ape had entered her backyard to take apples left on her back porch. She was convinced the ape was an escaped orangutan. The pictures have become known to Bigfoot enthusiasts as the "skunk ape photos."
Loren Coleman is the primary researcher on the photographs, having helped track down the two photographs to an "Eckerd photo lab at the intersection of Fruitville and Tuttle Roads" in Sarasota, Florida.
According to Chester Moore, Jr., the anonymous photographs were taken in Sarasota County near the Myakka River.

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