The Skunk Ape of Florida | Folklore

Deep in the Florida wilderness lives a strange, smelly, hairy creature: the Skunk Ape. First reported in the 19th century, this strange hominid has been the subject of local legend for many years, though it gained prominence in the 1970’s. But what is it? Is this some sort of real, as of yet undiscovered species of ape? Is it something more sinister? Or is it just a hoax perpetrated by the newspapers? To find out, we dig into local news, indigenous folklore, and the ever so reputable Bigfoot Research Organization. Welcome back to The Lore Lodge…
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[@noahlee8113]

Best evidence for Skunk Ape: it’s Florida. Even we don’t know what we’ve got down here.

[@IndepenisDay]

Lol, we have no idea

[@hanaasako5983]

It's true we really don't

[@Ed_man_talking9]

I'm not goanna lie, I read the thumbnail tag as "big feet, big stick" and I thought this was a drunk rant.

[@roganmarshall4610]

Hell no we don't. I live in Tampa and I'm not even sure what I've got, in my pipe, and I'm smoking whatever it is, right now

[@AlexBerezovskyJr]

Florida for the win

[@warlockfangirl]

"Skunk Ape Car Chase" is the best band name I've ever heard

[@Pixelkip]

Read this as he said that 😂

[@mahariwynn1339]

The answer to "what's up with our names?" is most of the town or county names here in Florida are Indigenous.

[@bakedveal2624]

I'm sure he never knew that...

[@marineautopsy]

@Baked Veal he makes a point about looking into native folklore often so he should have a greater awareness of how naming conventions are preserved

[@marineautopsy]

@Baked Veal also its pretty obviously native, if he wanted to understand why names were 'weird' he could have taken a second to research rather than make a joke

[@____________838]

Fairly certain he’s just making fun of Florida in general rather than the native names.

[@abbie_joan]

@@marineautopsy oh nooo, it's the joke police here to make an arrest

[@dudeguy1049]

Ok, so "Sasquatch Shootout" sounds like an AMAZING B-Movie idea.

[@malegria9641]

Noted.

[@Dagreatestwaffle]

And a band name

[@phoenixrq9139]

Sasquatch needs a .44 magnum

[@dd11111]

Hell yes!

[@Mark-nh2hs]

Get The Asylum on to it - it will be a dvd blockbuster 🤣🤣🤣

[@dannyd.9932]

The Lima bean traps being “raided” most likely implies the traps were pulled down or apart in a way more consistent with humans than say animals.

[@InquisitorNocturne1]

My best friend tells a story goes like this . He was around 15 and he lives on the edge of Carrie state forest in bryceville. He goes to do some illegal hunting cause .. teenager . And he takes a slingshot and heads to a tree stand that has been in the forest for a few months. He's sitting there for an hour and the forest goes quiet then he notices a giant creature that was "taller and wider than anyone he's ever seen" and it moved silently about 25 yards away from him . It moved from forward left to about middle right and disappeared from view . He waited 15 minutes and terrified snuck back home . He has never seen anything like it before or since.

[@JakeAllen3]

This channel is amazing

[@Justin-pq3rq]

A slingshot?

[@hahafunnyname]

​@@Justin-pq3rq you can hunt squirrels with a slingshot most likely

[@NoobTamer]

@@hahafunnyname Any small game really. People underestimate slingshots.

[@fetusdeletus9266]

The Cherokee Devil is just a story of a guy dealing with in-laws

[@marz-95]

Appalachia Cola sounds like a drink in Fallout 76

[@witchdoctor1394]

Okeefenokee Fizz was a cola-like drink featured in a Scooby Doo episode so you're not too far off!

[@marklang6648]

Skunk ape sounds like a pot strain on my list to smoke.

[@comradeurod9805]

​@@marklang6648infinity stone(r)

[@Laudanum-gq3bl]

I was a kid in the 70s and lived in central Florida. For a few years there it felt like there was always another sighting of a skunk ape being reported in the local paper

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I want someone to make a movie where the skunk ape fights the drop bear

[@devinjones1527]

Me, a Floridian: *hears rustling and growling in the bushes+smells skunk-ape-musk* Me: "... aunt belinda?"

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Tsul 'Kalu sounds like a nice guy. Maybe a bit scary looking, but that only means we'll never be mugged.

[@yeehawsharky4043]

My dad has a story about something he encountered in the swampland behind my childhood home near the Florida Alabama line, never found a cryptid that seemed to fit what he was talking about until I heard about the skunk ape. He always called it "brown face" when he would tell us the multiple encounters he had with the thing. Riding horses as a kid in the woods, the mare I had would freeze, smell the air, then turn around and bolt off back to the house with me. It was always near the swampy area. She wouldn't stop no matter what I tried. This horse was not scared of coyotes or hogs, she even killed a couple coyotes over the years she was alive. Never flinched at the smell or sight of a hog. Still don't know what she spooked at to this day.

[@superscatboy]

"Fine, I'm never revealing myself to humans again" Can relate.

[@Matlacha_Painter]

I live in Matlacha and fish the eastern shore of Little Pine Island. I have spotted skunk apes many times in the mangroves near the water doing whatever they do. In fact, once many years ago, I actually made eye contact with one as it looked up at me and kinda smiled and winked. I’ve been a true believer ever since.

[@Mark-nh2hs]

Sounds like my dad and his new extended family on a day out 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jimmystrickland1034]

Your full of it

[@jsnremt4258]

I love listening to non Floridians saying our town names 😂 love the videos man keep it up, God bless!

[@Laudanum-gq3bl]

Okeechobee, Micanopy, Chattahoochie…big fun hearing tourists say then.

[@reggieg8610]

Damn Yankees messing up our beautiful state!!!!!

[@abbie_joan]

@@reggieg8610 beautiful is a word I would use to describe it.... unique? yes.

[@spookcityghouls]

Oh-cuh-luh lol

[@Rork333]

​@@spookcityghouls I love that they pronounce it so won't Google tries to translate what they're saying into English like it wasn't the language they were speaking

[@jigglybones3318]

'The Unexpected Skunk Guest", "Skunk Ape Car Chase", "The Sasquatch Shootout of 1970"- honest to god, this is some of the funniest shit I've ever heard 😂

[@sterlingwilkes3240]

>loves “indigenous folklore” >hates floridian names >doesnt realize all those silly city names are from the siminole and cherokee indigenous peoples Bruh

[@swoodc]

14:15 bro I got goosebumps when you said it could read minds because there’s many cases where big foot knows your language and also can speak to you telepathically so this makes sense

[@spookcityghouls]

One of my bosses back in the mid 2000s was telling me a story about when he first moved to his little farm just outside of the Ocala National Forest. Most of the land was at the front of the property while the house toward the back, with his yard butting up to the forest. He was on the back porch with his wife finishing up with dinner, then he heard some really heavy footsteps out in the trees. He catches a glimpse of the top of its head, saying it was well over 7-foot. He shouts out to it, it stops, then starts walking again. Dude runs into the house, grabs a shottie, comes back out and fires into the air. The thing stops for a second, lets out a roar that, according to him, wasn't like one he'd heard before, then it takes off into a sprint. Which makes no sense, bc you'd have to be huge to get thru the thickness of that brush with anything faster than a walk. He fights his way out to where the thing was, and it left a track of bent palmettos and small trees. He never did catch up to it, and didn't see or hear anything for another decade, where he ended up facing the same scenario. The one thing he noted was the horrific smell it left behind both times. Said it smelled like black mold and rotting meat. If you talk to the people who live out there, they'll tell you that a skunk ape wouldn't be the weirdest thing out there. I've heard all sorts of weird shit.

[@dogshake]

I like these kinds of stories. One thats just dudes chilling and talking. I find that when friends tell you these kinds of things, theyre not lying. And hearing stories like this, and others in these comments, of just people hearing things passed on to them by a friend or neighbor that I would presume have no reason to lie. Hearing these stories of a lot of seemingly average people that have seen a large orangutan-like creature in Florida has really made me start to believe there just might be an undocumented species of a monkey-like creature in Florida.

[@TJay423]

"much like the years, they start comin' and they don't stop comin'" aiden your musical taste is truly unmatched😂👌🏻keep up the awesome work!

[@arxsonroush3513]

The sweet home Alabama reference was way to smooth 😂

[@toeray5864]

There's plenty of weird wildlife down here but the skunk ape is the weirdest. Many people who have gone camping or hiking well off the beaten path have seen this thing. He doesn't just live down in the Everglades. There's plenty of sightings in the backwoods of the panhandle and in more rural areas of central Florida. I'm a little surprised this video didn't have the Myakka photograph from the late 90s.

[@birovz]

Well he talked about it but put up an incorrect photo

[@marsixm]

"he built a tower full of bats. who gave him the idea? a doctor" MORBIUS STRIKES AGAIN

[@lordpotassiumthegoldenking]

"what cryptid are the Clintons? They're the Clintons, what more do they need to be. The Clintons aren't natural!" Man last night's stream was good ✨✨✨

[@TheWhiteTrashPanda]

Every time i hear "apple atch ya" i want to throw apples at people

[@jaejonmalloy1341]

Perfect. When that queen thing died, my immediate thought was, skunk ape. I don't know how you do it.

[@TheLoreLodge]

We’re just that good

[@debodevil6974]

"That Queen thing"??? Have some respect when someone has lost their life

[@mikemcchesney2555]

Being born in North Florida and raised in New Orleans, I am very familiar with the Fouke Monster/SkunkApe/WoolyBooger/Honey Island Swamp Monster/Etc. The Southern Bigfoot usually is down on all fours until it crosses a road, ditch, creek, fence, etc, when it stands up to get a better view of the area (is it safe to cross). They are excellent swimmers, and have been known to dive into the water, then stay still on the bottom. They don't stay standing up either unless they have to, or unless they feel very comfortable.

[@idiosyncraticmushroom3030]

As someone who studies Orangutans, that description of the footprint spacing with the knuckle marks, combined with the fact that nobody saw it, actually fits Orangutans very well - they're arboreal most of the time, meaning they're high up in the trees and are notoriously difficult to spot in the wild

[@jeffgoode9865]

I'm from Florida. These are all native American names. Apalachicola is a mix of Apalachee and Pensacola.

[@MissSubliminality]

It comes from hitichi, a muskogean tribe from the area. It means "people on the other side" :)

[@theunknownfragment5473]

I like the native American culture when it comes to folklore. It's the same in my culture, basically majority of legends we have about different creatures they are not seen as necessarily as good or bad, sometimes they will be good sometimes bad but in general they are seen as neutral. Take for example the Vampire lore most people have no idea that it's a lore that's specific to Albanian culture and was spread to the west due to a Serbian who believed he had been "infected" after visiting Kosovo. Austria-Hungarian empire sent someone to investigate and the lore got completely messed up as it was carried from there. Everyone adding something to it, it doesn't even sound any longer what the native culture believes. In Albanian it's Dhampire but the letter Dh is something our neighbors don't have and for some reason can't really pronounce it so it got switched with V. Dhampire has two meanings, to drink with teeth but also it can mean to numb you with teeth. However the Vampires based on the native lore ( Albanian ) don't go bitting people for the hell of it, don't have the ability to change humans to Vampires ( this is a lore for Wolf Shifters ) and generally they are a bother only for their immediate family. In fact my late grandfather was a Police Chief and had this pretty big scar on his forehead thanks to one of those "vampires". A family called the Police because they were being bothered by a "vampire" so when the Police got there they all said they couldn't see anything or anyone but walnuts were flying at them like bullets from a Walnut tree.

[@malegria9641]

My mind: “RED AND BLACK I DRESS EAGLE ON MY CHEST-“

[@creepy.cookie3187]

I'm from Florida, Sarasota specifically and Ive had an experience that I cant really explain. My family home was suburban in a gated community backed by a very large swamp. In 2010 my brother, father and neighbor all claimed to see a black panther in the swamp stalking our home. I never saw the animal but I know that large (like mountain lion large according to those who saw it) black cats shouldn't be in my backyard. Around this time, we often smelled what was like skunk-cabbage, a very strong sulfuric smell, worse than the usual methane smell of the sprinklers in the yard. This went on for a few weeks, my family saw the "panther" a few more times and there were sightings by others around the neighborhood. To my knowledge no one reported it because we all assumed it was an endangered species or something similar and it should just be left alone unless it posed a threat. It seemed to move on after a few weeks, we also found a dead and torn up deer in the swamp where my friends and I had a treehouse. Make of this what you will, its not a skunk ape, im sure of that, but it was weird and it did happen in Florida

[@cassandral.5840]

THANK YOU for talking about the Native American lore and beliefs. This video was so well done, great work!

[@Mark-nh2hs]

Love the Native American folklore - esp I live in the UK find their stories and myths fascinating

[@Tarbtano]

10:56 I'd like to put a correction down. This photograph is the one the fire chief submitted, whereas the claimed photos from the old woman are the "Myakka Ape" photos as the net has dubbed them.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

I love the old lady letter, "My husband says it's an orangutan. Is someone missing an orangutan?"

[@Winter-mh3lb]

This is the first lore lodge video I’ve ever seen and i already intend on watching all of them instead of sleeping tonight. This guy is hilarious AND does his due diligence with research and reality, also awesome pacing, I didn’t get bored at any point in a 20 minute vid which is pretty rare for me

[@camorfloworhadal2023]

huh. this brought up a memory of being a little kid in that florida disney park and going outside the resort house in the middle of the night and seeing... something? it looked like a very tall hairy guy, too tall for someone little like me to quite understand. i think i ran inside after seeing that though, it was very scary for me as a kid. maybe i'm just overthinking it.

[@EmoGundamAce]

Thank you so much for that Smash Mouth reference. I audibly laughed and scared my wife.

[@davidtowery403]

So I can only share my experience. I stayed in ponce de leon Florida. In the panhandle. I was around 9 years old. I was playing a video game and I heard the neighbors dogs going nuts. So I peaked out the window and I seen this figure that wasn't a bear. I've seen bears my whole life but it's fur was dark and redish. But not straight up red but bleached red. The face was flat weird shaped head almost like a shorter cone head shape. It scared me so much as a kid that I wouldn't go out when I stayed at my aunts. The thing was roughly 7 ft tall I would guess. I remember thinking that it was like a foot or so taller than my step-dad. I'm still not a full believer but I cannot explain what I seen

[@TylerHowellOutdoors]

I live roughly in the same area and do my own research. Would you be willing to speak about this incident? @davidtowery403

[@arthurp.8499]

13:55 it's interesting af, there's a very similar folk story to this in Finland. It's called the Mouse Princess, and about the youngest of 3 sons named. He goes off into the woods and finds an abandoned cabin with a mouse inside. The mouse and him essentially have the same dynamic as the "Cherokee Devil" and the girl. He asks her to do tasks (some of which he's concerned about, some of them his father asks for smth to be demonstrated). At the end she turns into a princess and his jealous older brothers loss out even though they ostensibly started off better.

[@stolentheif8426]

There's a LOT of woods down here and shit there can get weird

[@Deltron1337]

Florida man here, the names of our cities are mostly Native American in origin

[@Mark-nh2hs]

Hahaha l couldn't but laugh at the image of an enraged Skunk Ape shaking a wooden bat tower - image of an angry Wookie springs to mind with all the Wookie noises 🤣🤣🤣

[@TonyBagadonuts]

Actual Ancient Aliens quote my friends and I have cherished for almost a decade: “There are Two facts we can be sure of: 1. Did the Alieums did come to the house? 2. Facts.” Edit: my buddy corrected me, the first fact was 100% a question

[@andreyradchenko8200]

It's Florida Man after after a particularly hard crack binge. There, mystery solved.

[@stevendorries]

Crack? No, there’s a reason he smells skunky

[@andreyradchenko8200]

@@stevendorries In his delirious state, he tried to shag a skunk, with predictable results.

[@wb9913]

It’s the Everglades, we do meth

[@stevendorries]

@@wb9913 also true

[@andreyradchenko8200]

@@wb9913 I stand corrected.

[@donz6211]

Guys, I literally just realized, the native American story is basically beauty and the beast. It's the Cherokee version of beauty and the beast. There is an old European version that has a young woman marry a man that is a lion during the day, and a human at night. It's kinda like this Cherokee story. But yeah, that is what it is. I don't think that it's in reference to any actual phenomenon.

[@HaileeSmith]

Me as a born and raised Floridian just chuckling this entire video. All checks out😂

[@Megaman8880]

Damn bro I live right outside of Apalachicola and felt attacked at the start of this video lol

[@lisehiker9867]

Phenomenal intro. Great episode!

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

I love the line "is someone missing an orangutan?" from the letter attached to the Mayaka photos...

[@postpunk6947]

This is the funniest take on skunk ape ever. Titles are hilarious. And bat tower's experiment fail wins.

[@spook4429]

I loved the story on the Cherokee "devil", that was awesome. I'm gonna incorporate that now into my beliefs on skunk apes 😌

[@Ramsfan69]

Love the improvements in quality with the camera!

[@Shambley1]

The myakka skunk ape is the most realistic picture of any picture of "bigfoot". The eyeshine, the movement of the subject, the aging the teeth seem to have, the facial reaction. The facial reaction is exactly that of a real ape. Thats a full toothed smile which is a sign of fear which makes since because some strange lady flashed a camera in its face then in the second picture it has moved back making the scream face apes make when they are trying to escape from crazy situations.

[@tothesky8799]

10:45 That is not the picture sent in to the Sarasota Police Department by the elderly woman, which makes me question the validity of all your videos...

[@_KaiTheGamer_]

I think the entirety of Florida is one big mosquito problem, having unfortunately lived here for about a decade.

[@shanehutchison6791]

Excellent narration, and presentation. Cheers. 🇨🇦

[@ws6408]

I grew up in the Okefenokee swamp!

[@sammitaylor3942]

XD as a Floridian, I also sometimes laugh about how weird Florida names tend to be. But we also love the weird names as much as we love Skunk Ape

[@clamcrewcarclub6017]

Florida native here; I go night hiking in the green swamp and ocala national forest with my friend to spook ourselves, and while we haven’t seen mr. Ape in the flesh, there are definitely some strange things going on out in the Florida swamps/wilderness. Weird vibes for sure lol

[@jamesdaviesanswers8751]

I do think there’s a squatch in these woods

[@klaytonb9609]

I told my teacher in Florida that I saw a sasquatch footprint that were far larger than any footprints me or my family has ever seen, they were obviously human shaped but very wide, and they were too big to be a human's footprint. My dad never believed in sasquatch until he saw that footprint. To this day he promises me that it wasn't a joke and it was real. She kept saying "maybe it was someone in your family who had really big feet" no matter what I said, no matter what counterpoint I mentioned, she would say it was someone in my family who had big feet. Well my dad is 5'6, my mom is 5'8, my brother is 5'11, and I was 11 at the time wearing a size 6 shoe. No one else was living with us at that farm and the footprint was on an anthill deep in the woods where no one would be barefoot. I was very angry with her to say the least. The only way I could believe that a human being made that footprint is if Shaquille O'Neal himself was running barefoot through the hillbilly backwoods of rural Florida with no people around for miles.

[@__reneemaof2]

Just like New York there are several names that are from the natives of the area

[@locket0730]

I competently understand why you would take all of this with a massive grain of salt but you know just as well as the rest of us in this community that there is a sea of people just looking for attention but there are plenty of different occasions that simply have to much evidence to be written off as anything else, I know I know I might get hell for this but bob gymlans channel really is great and goes in very deep detail about the entire Bigfoot thing. So before you all go crazy and call me some Bs just watch what bob has to say and really listen to him I promise you will really consider changing your mind about the situation.

[@odubnumero9649]

His videos are very good. My favorite person on the subject as a whole. He really makes you think about it like other people don’t.

[@mr.onethirtyeight5088]

That guy thinks everything he reviews is real evidence. In reality in this day and age we would have had definitive proof by now. But we don't because it's not out there. The ONLY evidence that makes me go hmmm is the PGF. That's it.

[@odubnumero9649]

@@mr.onethirtyeight5088 For the most part he only does videos on things he believes so yeah, In a way he does believe everything.

[@anthonyavitia6155]

Bob is a treasure

[@RedDeadRogue]

Hey Aiden, not saying this to be a jerk but the photo you show at 10:45 isn't the photo that was sent, or allegedly sent, by an elderly woman into the sheriff's office. You actually use one of the two photos she sent as your thumbnail for this video. As I said, she actually sent in two different photos and one can see that the subject, a large ape looking creature, moves and changes facial expressions between the photos. Now, I'm not saying it's a skunk ape but at the very least it's a large, very much living animal that was around 10 feet away when the photos were taken. That would definitely be enough to scare me haha

[@ChristmasFireFly]

Holy shit I was NOT expecting you to mention the Bardin Booger here. I’m from the town it’s attached to, Palatka. If you look up the Bardin Booger, Palatka Daily News did an article on it years back now. Although this is the first instance I’ve heard it referred to as similar to the skunk ape. I always heard about it wearing a coat and stealing hunters deer that they shot but couldn’t find.

[@aguynamedbailey2102]

DANG I just discovered your channel and bones gonna see this 5 months after, but I live 15 minutes outside Apalachicola, there are no copies of the paper probably due the fact every 20-30 years we have a hurricane that floods the towns around here. (A la hurricane Michael) but I’ll go see if I can scrounge anything if this gets any traction. If not I’ve bothered the county clerk for nothing haha. Altho we are about 400 miles from Everglades Florida north west. It’s crazy I’ve been to the national Bigfoot museum and never knew the first mention of the skunk ape was in my back yard?!? Great video

[@joshuapatrick682]

I love and miss my Grandpaw, he passed away in 2007 after succumbing to cancer but while he was still with us but fading I was sitting in the living room with him watching western’s and he turned to speak to me, but looked passed my shoulder with a look of surprise, pointed and said “a buggabear” I looked and didn’t see anything but that has stayed with me as he never in my life mentioned anything cryptic or supernatural and wasn’t a spiritual man.

[@jessehutchings]

The one good photo that exists is actually really good but it could easily be just a curiosity shop prop

[@Mean_Jean]

I like your style sir. Subbed

[@dd11111]

We all know that The Skunkape is just looking for the toys of power. Stay strong Skunkape, don't let them know that you are crying inside!

[@mkaylor121]

I'm ready for the story of the skunk ape versus the lizard man!!

[@Talcor]

that intro got me good lmao

[@alestiiidaeno_last3075]

"It's September 8th, and the queen is no more. So we're discussing the skunk ape". Can't argue with that logic. Have a like.

[@fairyencyclopedia]

This was a really interesting video. I love how you connect modern cryptids to indigenous beliefs

[@Ammo08]

My mom lived for many years in the 1920s near Sand Mountain, Alabama and she told me there were creatures in them thar hills...

[@l3xther3x86]

That damn grin at the intro LMAO

[@jimmyw7537]

I didn't realize Appalachacola was a weird name. Ig we get used to native American words

[@rachbee8033]

This was hilarious; love it!

[@mikemcchesney2555]

Great Intro! "The Queen is dead, so lets talk about the skunk ape!" HAHAHA

[@williamalmeida7119]

He can read minds 😂

[@LG-hm2tv]

Hey y’all, should we tell him there’s a Yeehaw Junction, Florida?

[@wb9913]

I want to hear him try to say Chokoloskee lmao

[@sparklefairykitten]

This makes me wonder about Humbaba from the Epic of Gilgamesh.

[@BlueSkys23]

I absolutely believe there have been orangutans in the Everglades

[@cmcapps1963]

Less than 2 minutes in and loving the episode as always but...there are monkeys in Florida but they are not native! They were released in the early 20th century and were not present in 1818!

[@adamwest8256]

I believe that Sasquatch/Yeti/Skunk ape/ Bigfoot is just an evolved descendant of the Gigantopithecus. Yes, I've posted the same comment on another video, but I feel it's the most logical answer. Unless it's all a lie.

[@westondearmon7835]

You should do an episode on the titanaboa sightings in the Amazon river.

[@jsouth5577]

commercialized? nahhh. Quiet, nobody tell him about Skunktoberfest.

[@ashkkramer]

Well anything supernatural to religion, Roswell to Bigfoot individuals capitalize on it to make money. That doesn't discredit the myth, lores or origins of it. Believers/researchers seem to think that the Skunk Ape is smaller then the Pacific Northwestern Bigfoot or even the reporter larger Alaskan Bigfoot. And it would make sense when you take into evolution and what these creatures are said to primarily eat. The deer are small down in the south. I guess growing up with Corn fed Midwest deer they would seem much smaller. Pacific Northwest you have deer, elk, salmon. And Alaska you have moose, caribou, elk, salmon. The reports of larger Bigfoot seem to correlate with large game availability in the region. I mean you would need to be pretty large to take down an elk or moose. The reports and videos and flying over Florida and Georgia that region would be all dense forest without human involvement. You would need to use water ways to travel any distance. So yeah if a creature didn't want to be seen I can imagine it can manage. If it is real I want to know why our government is keeping it from us. Is it an evolved humanoid ancestor from giant to put the kids or an offshoot of one of ours? Or does it have alien origins which is why the government is so keen on keeping it hidden. Though I mean they are slowly declassifying and releasing intelligence regarding UFOs. Maybe As a process to desensitize us in preparation for the eventual release of existence because it's harder and harder and harder to conceal. And maybe aliens are not like travel long distance in space kind of thing but more like travel and dimensional kind of thing. And some Bigfoot researchers seem to think that Bigfoot has this dimensional travel capability which makes it so hard to catch. Who knows Just hope I live long enough to maybe see some myths become real

[@michalcocoa3529]

My rule of thumb for when it comes to bigfoot like creatures is; if it's 6-7 or higher, most likely not true.

[@robertcoggeshall3071]

The photograph shown was the photo he said he didnt have. The myakka photo shows a closeup of a very apelike looking creature.

[@sammybrown7450]

That might be the best intro I’ve ever heard. 😂😂

[@knighthart5068]

I was born and raised and live in Florida and i was born on September 8th. But out of all the weird stuff i have seen here skunk ape is not one of them.

[@redaly124]

i use to live close to the state line in florida Deep in the woods - no roads & closest town was atleast 15 mins away - Saw packs of them multiple times. they’re 6ft + tall, white fur/fuzz, monkey tails and they smelt worse than decaying rotting garbage and skunks combined. Close to a small town called Greenwood - Each time theyd come back in a bigger pack/group (4, 6, 8, etc.) Scariest moments of my life each time it happened.

[@redaly124]

it stood on like a human and ran / hopped the same way - Piercing orange and red eyes. Family still lives on that land and i refuse to go back to this day even if it’s been 10+ years

[@egobruiserr]

I’ve encountered one. Was in the woods as a teenager with friends. But yes they do stand like humans they even squat like humans. It was a dark night and the only reason I even noticed it was because it stood up as we were approaching it. I saw the silhouette. Stopped my friends and yelled wtf is that? They were like what is what? I pointed and said that huge thing! It just stood up! That’s when my friend pointed flash light and my friend said wtf is that? After staring for a few mins he said it was bear. It wasn’t tho and we all told ourselves it was tho. We ran! It didn’t do anything to us so that’s good. I was actually left alone with it for about 5 seconds because everyone else ran and I was too scared to run at first and I looked at it and it made no movement when my friends took off first so I ran as fast as I could when I realized it wasn’t chasing.

[@ozone377]

All these people r on some good stuff. I've lived in Florida my whole life. I haven't seen no skunk ape.

[@FabianMarquez-sy7jw]

@ozone377 yeah most people never see bears or cougars neither

[@Fortjul]

I do know people who swear about what they saw in the glades in fact they used to rangle pythons but won't go near it anymore. I'm not saying either way or if they didn't mistake it's identity but it scared the crap out of them.

[@reubenfielder6139]

Can you do a video explaining why there is so much shade thrown on the national parks?

[@sleepytime-qe4vh]

Man you have to talk with some natives our stories can get pretty wild

[@AzraelThanatos]

The raided traps thing tends to mean that something other than what was being aimed at being trapped...also things that tend to destroy the traps. It's things like raccoons raiding rat/mouse traps and taking the bait, or bears raiding animal traps.

[@m00se37]

Once I was hiking in the everglades/Big cypress area and had my rifle, kit, and ruck just training and working out. enjoying the wildlife and scenery of our beautifully dangerous, and unique ecosystem while Smoking the fattest blunt with the skunk ape, they dont call them skunk just for how he smells.

[@markspitz7883]

A lot of the names are native American here in Florida. Apalachicola being one of them, and it means 'people on the other side of the river.'

[@oscaruzcategui6259]

Skunk ape car chase ?Sasquatch shootout? 💀