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On the Trail of Florida's Bigfoot--the Skunk Ape

On the Trail of Florida's Bigfoot--the Skunk Ape

An investigative report on the Florida Skunk Ape by a science journalist.  The first time Dave Shealy saw a skunk ape, he says, he was ten years old. It was 1974, a few years after his father had come upon a set of footprints left by the creature—an Everglades version of Bigfoot named for its supposedly pungent odor. Dave was out deer hunting with his...

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Keywords:
Everglades, Cryptids, Folklore, Cryptozoology, Florida, Bigfoot
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Material Type:
Case Study
Date Added to MERLOT:
March 30, 2014
Date Modified in MERLOT:
October 28, 2025
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Michael Plotkin
Primary Audience:
High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
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Video, Website
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None
Languages:
Abkhazian, English
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No
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