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Skunk ape
Groupingcryptid
Sub groupinghominid
CountryUnited States
RegionSoutheastern States
HabitatSwamps

The Skunk Ape is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit the Southeastern United States,[1] from places such as Oklahoma, North Carolina and Arkansas, although reports from the Florida Everglades are particularly 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 exists only as a local myth.[2] 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.

Myakka photographs

In 2000, two photographs of an alleged ape, said to be the Skunk Ape, were taken anonymously and mailed to the Sarasota Sheriff's Department in Florida. They were accompanied by a letter[3] from a woman claiming to have photographed it on the edge of her backyard. The photographer claimed that on three different nights the ape had entered her yard to take apples from a bushel basket on her porch. She was convinced it was an escaped orangutan. The police were dispatched to the house numerous times but when they arrived the Skunk Ape, also known as the stink ape was gone. The pictures have become known to Bigfoot enthusiasts as the "skunk ape photos".[4]

Loren Coleman is the primary researcher on the Myakka photographs, having helped track down the two photographs to an "Eckerd photo lab at the intersection of Fruitville and Tuttle Roads" in Sarasota County, Florida.[5]


  • The skunk ape is very real it is one of the most fierce mamals aninmal ever. Few have ever came out alive from encounters with them all the cases i have seeen the skunkape will go for the right jugular and slash it then just bite off your legs and take it to its den with him. We have been able to reconize these encounters by the wierd aray of teeth marks and claw slahing. We can tell its not a bear beacause 1 they are not native to this area and 2 the teeth marks and claw marks are way to advanced, large and powerful to be a bear. we have noticed by some people telling us that if u r in a group of more than 9 people you are safe from the skunkape but if your group number are between 1 - 8 you will must likely end up as dinner.
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Further reading

  • Newton, Michael (2005). "Skunk Ape". Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-2036-7.
  • Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America (NY: Paraview Pocket-Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-6975-5), which contains primary historical material on Apes, Skunk Apes, and the Myakka photographs.
  • The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide, Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, Illust. Harry Trumbore, ISBN 0-380-80263-5

References

  1. ^ Lennon, Vince (2003-10-22). "Is a Skunk Ape Loose in Campbell County?". WATE 6 News. WorldNow. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
  2. ^ "The abominable swampman". BBC News. 1998-03-06. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
  3. ^ Coleman, Loren. "Myakka Skunk Ape "Letter"".
  4. ^ Newton, Michael (2005). "Skunk Ape". Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 430–431. ISBN 0-7864-2036-7.
  5. ^ Coleman, Loren. "The Myakka "Skunk Ape" photographs".
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