The Everglades Skunk Ape has gone national. The headquarters for the mysterious creature has been named one of the top roadside attractions in the country by USA Today’s “10 Best” reader choice ...

With Florida seeing a boom in new residents in recent years, many transplants might not have heard of the state’s strangest cryptid. This creature, known as the “Skunk Ape,” is the Sunshine State’s ...

He bills himself as the Jane Goodall of skunk apes. “I am the expert,” he told a Bigfoot website last year, “the state and county expert on the Florida skunk ape, and have been for years.” In July ...

Skunks like this adult stripped skunk spray a strong odor on intruders when harassed, experts say. The “baby skunk” hiding in a man’s BMW did not resort to such tactics, Florida officials say. Lezlie ...

It’s unclear who coined the name skunk ape, but it appears to have surfaced sometime during the '60s. During the 1960s and '70s, the period when Shealy had his first sighting, more and more reports ...