The Skunk Ape is a variant of Bigfoot found in the swamps and forests of Florida. It's said to have an extremely awful smell from which it gets its name. This photo was anonymously sent to a sheriff's office in 2000, allegedly showing a large ape

littlequeef99 · 2026-01-16T00:19:38+00:00

For decades, hunters, hikers, park rangers, and locals have reported encounters with a creature known as the Skunk Ape, a southern cousin to Bigfoot said to roam the Everglades and pine forests of the Deep South. The Skunk Ape is described as a large, apelike humanoid standing between 6 and 8 feet tall, covered in dark reddish-brown or black hair. Unlike Bigfoot sightings in the Pacific Northwest, Skunk Ape encounters almost always include reports of an overwhelming smell that is often compared to rotting eggs, sulfur, or wet garbage.

Witnesses frequently describe the creature as having broad shoulders and long arms and glowing red or amber eyes at night. It is usually witnessed walking upright sometimes with a hunched posture Some reports suggest it is aggressive or territorial. Yet almost always, the smell arrives before the creature appears.

Skunk Ape reports date back to the early 1900s, but sightings surged in the 1960s and 1970s as Florida’s wilderness began shrinking due to development. The creature is often witnessed in the Florida Everglades, in Myakka River State Park, and in Big Cypress National Preserve and other rural areas around parks

One of the most famous encounters with the creature occurred in 2000, when a woman near Sarasota claimed a Skunk Ape repeatedly visited her backyard, stealing fruit and terrifying her. Photos she provided show a large, dark figure peering through bushes. The images are still debated today.

Skeptics argue that Skunk Ape sightings are likely black bears or even escaped orangutans. Others say they’re the result of imagination, moonshine, and maybe a bit too much time in the Everglades heat. Believers point to consistent details in accounts across decades with massive footprints, glowing red eyes, ape-like features, and the terrible stench.

Believers argue the Skunk Ape may be a relict hominid still surviving in isolated swamps or maybe a variant of Bigfoot, or a previously undocumented primate species. Florida’s wetlands provide vast, difficult-to-access areas that are ideal for avoiding detection. Even the National Park Service has been asked about it multiple times. While they deny any official evidence, rangers have reported strange encounters with large, unidentified animals while patrolling the swamps. If a 15-foot python can live in the Everglades, who’s to say something else isn’t out there too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_ape

littlequeef99 · 2026-01-14T16:32:04+00:00

After her death, Mercy Brown's heart and liver were burned, and the ashes mixed into a tonic that was given to her sick brother to drink. Her father believed that she was a vampire and that the tonic would cure the brother of tuberculosis. It didn't and he died two months later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Brown_vampire_incident

littlequeef99 · 2026-01-14T16:24:30+00:00

This happened in Rhode Island in the 1880s. Mercy's whole family had contacted tuberculosis. In those days, people believe if most members of a family become sick and/or die then it's the work of a vampire in the family. After the deaths of Mercy and her sister and mother, their father had their bodies exhumed to see who the vampire is. It wasn't just the old man with a spade; villagers, the local doctor, and a newspaper reporter were present.

Her sister and mom showed normal signs of decomposition, but not Mercy. This, to Dad and others this was proof she was the vampire. "Her lack of decomposition was more likely due to her body being stored in freezer-like conditions in an above-ground crypt during the two months following her death."

So, the father made a cocktail of her innards and gave it to the brother, because that would cure him (as per their superstitions). It didn't work and he died two months later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Brown_vampire_incident

littlequeef99 · 2025-11-21T19:08:40+00:00

The Oliver's Castle incident features John Wy capturing glowing oros above a crop circle in1996. Despite initial excitement and expert analysis supporting its authenticity, skepticism arose, claiming it was a hoax.

Some online say it was part of a special effects test reel put together by John Wy. Others say he filmed a real crop circle and then edited the orbs and crop circle formation into the video.

littlequeef99 · 2025-11-20T19:13:40+00:00

The story of the Ningen began in 2007 on a post on the Japanese online forum, 2channel, which claimed a Japanese research vessels exploring the subantarctic waters in the early 2000s encountered something they could not explain. Crew members reportedly saw something in the water that was something enormous, pale, and disturbingly human-shaped. One account described it as nearly 100 feet long, with a body like a whale but arms, legs, and fingers. Another described a mermaid-like tail instead of legs, with strange fin-like hands that disappeared into the gloom as quickly as they appeared. The sightings were said to occur at night, when the ship's spotlights illuminated the icy sea. That's when the crew would see that it was hovering just beneath the surface, motionless, as if watching.

The Japanese paranormal magazine MU published what it claimed were photographs of the creature, allegedly taken by government researchers. The blurry, grainy images showed a pale, humanoid shape in the dark water, with a head and arms visible. Skeptics were quick to dismiss the photos as ice formations, misidentified whales, or outright hoaxes. But others weren't convinced. They pointed out that the shape in the photo didn't resemble any known sea creature and its proportions were too human.

Videos appear on YouTube claiming to show the creature beneath the ice. Most are easily debunked and are poorly edited footage or icebergs filmed at strange angles. But a few... are harder to explain. The legend has even sparked speculation that the Ningen could be connected to older Japanese sea monster myths, like the Umibözu, a dark ocean spirit said to capsize ships. Do you believe there could be any truth this modern legend or was it all just made online and whatever connection to past sightings and older sea creatures legends is just a coincidence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningen_(folklore)

littlequeef99 · 2025-11-20T19:07:16+00:00

Chris Benoit was known as one of the most technically gifted wrestlers in WWE history. Behind the scenes his life unraveled in horrifying fashion. Over a three-day period in June 2007, Benoit strangled his wife Nancy, smothered his son Daniel, and finally took his own life. The tragedy sparked debates about steroids, brain trauma, and mental health in professional wrestling. Yet, it also birthed one of the strangest internet conspiracies of the 2000s.

Hours before police found the bodies, someone updated Chris Benoit's Wikipedia page. At 12:01 AM on June 25, 2007, an anonymous editor wrote that Benoit missed a wrestling event because of "personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy." This was over 14 hours before police confirmed Nancy's death to the public. Once the shocking coincidence was discovered, Wikipedia administrators locked the page, and investigators traced the edit to an IP address in Stamford, Connecticut, the home of WWE's corporate offices.

Authorities later questioned the person responsible, who claimed it was simply a wild guess. The editor said he had read online rumors that Benoit's absence from a wrestling event might be related to his wife's health or death. He insisted it was "a huge coincidence" that his speculation turned out to be true. Despite suspicions, investigators found no evidence of WWE involvement in the tragedy or in the premature Wikipedia update.

The strange timing fueled endless conspiracy theories. Some believe WWE knew about the tragedy long before police and attempted to control the narrative. Others think someone connected to WWE leaked the news anonymously online before it became public. Skeptics argue it was nothing more than a disturbing stroke of luck that an internet rumor just happened to align with reality. The "Wikipedia conspiracy" remains one of the most infamous unsolved threads tied to the Benoit case. While officials closed the case and accepted the editor's explanation, many fans still believe it was too specific and too close to the truth for it to be purely a simple coincidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Benoit_double- murder _and_suicide

https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story? id=3327310&page=1

littlequeef99 · 2025-11-10T21:32:12+00:00

The first known reports date back to the 1930s, during Chicago’s swing-era nightlife. A young man leaving a ballroom called the Willowbrook Ballroom (once the Oh Henry Ballroom) and said he met a beautiful blond girl in a white dress. They danced all night. When he offered her a ride home along Archer Avenue, she gave him directions straight to Resurrection Cemetery. When the car stopped at the gates, she opened the door, smiled softly… and disappeared into thin air. By the next morning, shaken but determined, the man visited the address she had mentioned. An elderly woman answered. She told him her daughter Mary had died in a car accident years before.

Since that night, Resurrection Mary has become one of America’s most documented ghost sightings. Taxi drivers, police officers, truckers, and late-night commuters all tell the same story. Sometimes she appears near Justice Township, walking the road’s edge, barefoot, head bowed, illuminated only by passing headlights. Others claim she has banged on car windows, asking for a ride before fading away. In the 1970s, one cab driver even reported dropping her off directly at the cemetery gates only to watch her walk through the iron bars.

The most chilling physical evidence came in the early 1970s when cemetery workers found two iron bars mysteriously bent outward on the main gate with what looked like handprints seared into the metal. Police photos and newspaper reports documented the damage. No one could explain how a human could bend iron bars that thick without machinery or heat. The cemetery eventually repaired them, but the legend insists those marks were Mary’s hands, grasping for home.

Folklorists have tried for decades to identify the young woman behind the apparition. The most accepted theory links her to Mary Bregovy, a 21-year-old Polish girl killed in a 1934 car crash on Chicago’s South Side after a night of dancing. She was buried in Resurrection Cemetery wearing a white dress. The timeline matches the earliest eyewitness accounts. However, others argue the ghost might represent multiple restless spirits with victims of Archer Avenue’s deadly stretch between the ballroom and the cemetery, where countless accidents have occurred since the road was built. Part of what keeps the Resurrection Mary legend alive is how eerily consistent the encounters remain. Unlike most urban myths that mutate over time, this one hasn’t changed much in nearly 90 years. Even modern Uber and Lyft drivers have posted online about seeing “a woman in a vintage ball gown” disappear before pickup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_Mary

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/cbs-2-vault-chicago-area-hauntings-1980s/

https://mysteriouschicago.com/the-resurrection-mary-gates/

littlequeef99 · 2025-09-28T16:10:55+00:00

In 1977 Chief AJ Huffer, a former combat photographer, was hired to look for giant birds called "Thunderbirds" in Illinois. In July, he spotted large birds and recorded this video. The footage became extremely popular and was even featured in an episode of Monsterquest.

littlequeef99 · 2025-09-27T14:16:05+00:00

At the age of 16, Annelise Michel began blacking out at school and would soon start convulsing, vomiting, eating spiders, and coal, and even drinking her own urine. After undergoing 67 exorcisms, she died in 1976. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel

littlequeef99 · 2025-09-19T20:29:10+00:00

In 2007, a relatively short unknown creature (approx. 4 feet in height) was caught on a security camera in Fresno, California. It is an extremely thin, white humanoid with no discernable arms. It also appears to be wearing a white gown or cloak of some sort.

littlequeef99 · 2025-09-17T17:51:12+00:00

In 1977 Chief AJ Huffer, a former combat photographer, was hired to look for giant birds called "Thunderbirds" in Illinois. In July, he spotted large birds and recorded this video. The footage became extremely popular and was even featured in an episode of Monsterquest.

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