"'My first encounter was with my brother. We were hunting, and he said, 'Hey, look, there's a skunk ape,' Shealy told Daily Mail. 'We had heard about skunk apes from our families at dinners. It was a big topic of conversation.'"
"'We were maybe 300 feet from it, and it was walking through the grasslands,' Shealy recalled. 'It was walking through the grasslands. And that's what got me started as a researcher. I've been doing this a while.'"
"'They said it was something really big, hairy, small eyes with a monkey face, long arms and gray splotches over the body.'"
Dave Shealy reports a first sighting of a six-foot, ape-like Skunk Ape in 1974 at age ten, an encounter that directed his lifelong search. He and his brother saw a hairy, foul-smelling creature moving through grasslands about 300 feet away. The Skunk Ape features in long-standing Florida folklore as a half-man, half-ape entity. The 1970s saw heightened reporting, including a 1971 incident where ten armed men hunted something that frightened children. Rabies control officer Henry Ring noted descriptions of a large, hairy creature with small eyes, a monkey-like face, long arms, gray splotches, and deep knuckle-print tracks leading into the swamp.
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