The Skunk Ape

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

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True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Coming to you deep from Florida’s swamps and, well, wherever else it wants to be, is the Sunshine State’s favorite cryptid, the skunk ape: an extra smelly bigfoot who grew popular in the 1970s but, perhaps, has been around a lot longer than that.

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing,
0:08.3	the show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:29.3	Strangers, it's June, and we can't help but think, well, summary kinds of thoughts.
0:39.6	These humid memories, they naturally evoke Florida, which then, of course, reminds us of a certain, well, a certain stink.
0:43.9	We are not suggesting that the state itself is malodorous.
0:51.6	In fact, some of our very favorite people who definitely do not stink hail from the sunshine state.
0:55.0	Melissa and Mandy from Moms and Mysteries. Ariana Grande.
0:56.0	Florida.
0:57.0	The list goes on.
0:59.0	No.
1:00.0	When our sensory memory tingles at the thought of Florida,
1:04.0	it's because one of our favorite cryptids has entered the chant.
1:08.0	The Skunk-Ape.
1:09.0	Lord of the Swamps, Bigfoot of the Bayous, Emperor of the
1:13.6	Everglades. We can honestly do this all day. If Skunk Ape is in Florida's favorite paranormal
1:20.1	sun, then we're willing to pull up stakes and turn in our expert cards at the door.
1:26.2	According to a News 6 poll, that's a Florida station,
1:30.1	29% of their viewers believe that they'd personally seen a skunk ape. And maybe that's not so
1:36.9	surprising. After all, skunk ape expert Dave Shealy says that the cryptid is spotted all over
1:43.7	the state.
1:44.7	He reports that spots like Maia State Park and Ocala National Forest are most common, but
1:50.5	they aren't, quote, the only locations.
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