The Local Skunk Ape

 

So, it was the beginning of May 2017 a beautiful summer evening in Florida. My husband and I were sitting on the lanai enjoying a coffee and great conversation together as dusk was falling all around us. Our property runs along the Green Swamp here in Florida in the center of the state. Beautiful thick forest and swampy areas full of Florida's wild life. We just love it here. We could hear in the distance the sounds of the screaming's of the local coyotes. We could hear the cows mooing in the distance as if there was some disturbance.  

We kept on talking and then noticed that the Coyotes were getting closer to the property line. Then there was silence. I heard the loud mooing of a cow several times and asked my husband if we could walk out back to see the cows. They always come to the water in the evening. It's a treat to hear them but I had never actually seen any of them yet.

We held hands and walked out to the back end of our property and there they were. Two huge black cows at the waters edge. We don't know where they come from but they come every night to this same spot. We have lived here over a year and although I hear these animals every night I have never seen them.

I was staring at them as I was amazed at how big these cows were. I heard in the distance the distress cry of a young calf, I have heard the calf before as well, but it was no where in sight.

So as I began to look  around and over to my left to see if I could see anything

I suddenly see a very tall dark black figure standing as high as the tree. He was standing very still looking straight back at me. Imagine my shock! I took a deep breath! It seemed as if it were watching us. How amazing this was! I screamed to my husband to look over there as I pointed in the direction of the creature,  and as I screamed loudly this tall creature covered in dark black hair backed up slowly and retreated into the woods. It backed up one step at a time. It seemed very deliberate. That was odd as well I thought. My husband said, "where, where? What is it?  I kept pointing just as this creature was almost out of sight. I screamed "look over there, over there by the trees in the center of the trees",  my husband caught a very slight glimpse of something dark just before we lost complete sight of it. The trees were so thick it just disappeared into the trees. How odd that was I thought. It didn't make a sound as it watched us.  I wanted to run in it's direction but it was on the other side of the water and there was no way I could get over to it quickly. The distance was just to far. We had nothing to protect us. Would we need protection I wondered? My husband said it's getting to dark to go in that direction without some form of protection.

Both my husband and I stood there until the darkness fell watching to see if it would return. We had hoped to catch another glimpse of it. We had no cameras or a phone. The coyotes were screaming again and we both thought it best to head towards the house.

I was really excited and now a bit scared as well.

As we headed back I said to my husband I was sure that was a Skunk Ape. It was way to big to have been anything else and it was standing on two legs. It was not a bear. It had to be a Skunk Ape!

We are both pleased we had this experience and hope we can catch something on the Cameras we've have placed out back on the trails.

A Skunk Ape sighting was also seen less than 3 miles from our home in the Green Swamp area a few years back. I believe we saw the same one that has been seen before.

You know I will post it if we catch anything.

This is a strange world we live in and truth is still stranger than fiction!

 

 

 

The Swamp Ape

 

So I was on my first ever exploration to find the elusive

Swamp Ape of Florida.

It was 2013, it was a very warm autumn day. I started the day very early with a team mate from Enigmatic Anomalies, it was 6:00 a.m. or so when we got to the desired location. We were heavy laden with all the best gear available for documentation, collection and proof. We headed through swamps and heavily over grown old Florida growth where a sighting of bigfoot had been reported just a few weeks earlier.  We walked for 3 miles into the dense forest stopping every half hour to check the dense bush with our binoculars for any movement. We also used video cameras to listen for sounds on playback as well as documenting the search.

We decided to take a break as the sun was now very warm and we had been dressed for a much cooler hike.

 

We found a clearing and a huge tree that had fallen over in the area, we took off all our heavy gear and sat down to have a bit of breakfast as we looked over the map we had to determine if we were in the general vicinity of the recent sighting. There were no roads where we were at all just thick brush.

We determined that we would continue heading East for another mile or so and see where that would take us.

Our hopes were to find a nest and some sort of scat or bedding to indicate where the elusive beast may be.

 

We got our gear together  again loaded it onto our back packs and headed East.

After walking for about fifteen minutes we stopped to check the brush out for anything moving with the binoculars.  My team mate was searching to the West watching and listening near areas we had just trekked through and I was looking to the North East, when all of a sudden I saw a fluid movement of a huge black hairy something out about 100 yards away. It moved as if it were flying but yet it was to low to the ground to have flight, and it had a deep orange spot on it like a large marking of some kind. I called to my team mate and said look over there, and as he looked he barley saw the creature as the entity was moving so fast along the tree line.

I was trying to imagine what it could be.

Had we found bigfoot!

We both looked at each other and ran in the vicinity of where I saw this thing moving. We were running towards it but saw nothing. We headed in it's direction and still saw nothing. It took off and moved like it was in flight. I saw no wings and heard just slight crunching of foliage. It took us a while to get to where it was as there was thick foliage and it was difficult to get to the tree line that I saw it near. Once we got there we saw that it wasn't as low as I had thought as it had been as high as some of the trees in that area and now that we were closer it was clear it was about 7 feet tall.

We heard nothing to indicate what it could have been for certain.

It moved effortlessly through the heavy brush. We could barely walk through this stuff. We found many prints but the strides were long and hard to make out, like it was running on the ball of it's foot. We took some pictures for documentation but in the thick brush we couldn't find anything specific to make an impression of.

My teammate said I had beginners luck.

He said he had been out hundreds of times and hadn't gotten a good lead like this.

I wondered if perhaps it was a bit more than that.  

I believe that if there is a bigfoot it is an alien hybrid of some kind. Perhaps that's why I saw it today briefly. Being a contactee perhaps it sensed my presence in the woods. I'm sure what I saw was nothing known to man. The colors of this thing were not normal. Black hair with strong vivid orange markings. I have never seen anything like it.

I continue to search for the creature. I have had several other outings. I have heard it and recorded it. It has responded to my calls, but I  have not seen it again.....

yet.