Polk County, Florida

Reports:

• 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

Media Articles:

• The Skunk Ape of Florida (28-Oct-2007; 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)

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