Polk County, Florida -- Reports & Articles

Polk County, Florida

August 2017 (Class B) - Large brown figure seen standing in water near Lake Wales
April 2014 (Class A) - Motorist has nighttime sighting and strange incidents near Lake Weohyakapka
May 2013 (Class B) - Possible sighitng at dusk by father and daughter riding an ATV near Bartow
May 2013 (Class B) - Possible daylight sighting by a bicyclist on the General James A. Van Fleet State Trail
April 2013 (Class B) - Two deputy sheriffs report hearing possible vocalizations while hog hunting near Poinciana
January 2012 (Class B) - Three black figures seen moving thru a hunting area during the daytime in the Green Swamp
November 2008 (Class A) - Hunter watches creature picking persimmons in the Green Swamp
December 2006 (Class B) - Family describes repeated incidents on their property near Lake Wales.
October 2004-2005 (Class A) - Couple describes vocals and a sighting on their fence-line outside Mulberry
Spring About 1995 (Class B) - Possible daylight sighting by fisherman near Bartow
September 1985 86 (Class B) - Hunter has unexplained, late night encounter while in small boat on Saddle Creek
Summer 1979 or 80 (Class B) - Noise, like wood being banged against tree. Tracks found
January 1978 (Class A) - Multiple witness motorist sighting in daylight at the edge of the Alafia River
September 1974 (Class A) - Twilight sighting on the west side of Lakeland

The Skunk Ape of Florida (28-Oct-2007; The Ledger)
Swamp Ape Seeker’s Faith Holds Fast (13-Dec-2005; Tampa Tribune)
"Ape" Sighting Draws Interest (29-Dec-2004; The Ledger)
[Our Own Loch Ness Monster? Woman's Sighting of Ape-Like Green Swamp Creature Among the Theories Studied by Cryptozoologists] (13-Nov-2004; The Ledger)