The Skunk Ape: Florida’s Foul-Smelling Bigfoot

A pond on the Anhinga Trail in the Florida Everglades, the swamp country where the Skunk Ape is reported

About 4 min readDeep in the Florida Everglades lives a creature, say witnesses, five to seven feet tall, covered in reddish hair — and smelling so bad it gave the beast its name. In 2000, two photographs arrived anonymously at a sheriff’s office. They have never been explained.