Skunk Ape

The Skunk Ape is a reported cryptid that gets its name by its awful odor that has been reported with these cryptids. The first ever sightings of the skunk ape were reported in the 1960s and 1970s. In Fall of 1974 there were many sightings from one county in Florida. Twenty-six years later, in the autumn of 2000, the police of Sarasota county, Florida received a letter from an anonymous woman. With the letter were two attached photographs of what the woman said was an escaped orangutan. After the images were released to the public, cryptid enthusiasts dubbed the creature in the photograph the "Myakka swamp ape."