“I am the expert,” he told a Bigfoot website last year, “the state and county expert on the Florida skunk ape, and have been for years.” In July 2000, he captured one of his encounters on video. In ...

A quiet Florida city, Polk County is home to some of the state's most important natural resources, making it the ideal home base for a trip into the wild, yet still within easy driving distance of ...

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 ...