{"id":11147,"date":"2015-02-03T15:10:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T09:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=11147"},"modified":"2015-02-03T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T09:10:58","slug":"video-of-skunk-ape-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2015\/02\/video-of-skunk-ape-from-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO OF SKUNK APE FROM FLORIDA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/02\/01\/bigfoot-re-emerges-from-florida-swamp_n_6583158.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592\" target=\"_\">Huffington Post<\/a> published an overtly skeptical article about recent Skunk Ape activity in Florida.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6627\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkunkApe.gif?resize=236%2C300\" alt=\"SkunkApe\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkunkApe.gif?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkunkApe.gif?resize=807%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 807w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkunkApe.gif?resize=696%2C883&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkunkApe.gif?resize=1068%2C1356&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkunkApe.gif?resize=331%2C420&amp;ssl=1 331w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkunkApe.gif?w=1392 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkunkApe.gif?w=2088 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/>The year began with a Jan. 3, controversial story of how a fisherman claimed to have seen and photographed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/hairy-hominids\/\" target=\"_\">HAIRY HOMINID<\/a> &#8212; known in Florida as a SKUNK APE &#8212; while it allegedly sat in a few feet of the murky swampy Hillsborough River outside of Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to Jan. 25, when Matthew McKamey sent a video of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/06\/napes-north-america\/\" target=\"_\">NAPE (North American Ape)<\/a> he says he and a friend saw while canoeing in a swamp that day in Lettuce Lake Park near Tampa, Florida. According to McKamey:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Initially, it was exciting and it was like, &#8216;Oh, is that a bear? That&#8217;s pretty cool. When we moved up closer, it started to look less and less like a bear. That&#8217;s the point where I decided to start filming. In that moment, I was looking at it and getting a little freaked out, especially once it started really moving.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McKamey went on to tell how frightened he and his friend became at the sight of this potential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/12\/devil-monkeys-north-america\/\" target=\"_\">DEVIL MONKEY<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You could tell he was slapping the water and it looked like maybe he was grabbing something. At the time, I was just thinking, &#8216;Holy s**t, what the hell is this?&#8217; By the time it walked off, my buddy was just like, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go! Let&#8217;s go now!'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post published an overtly skeptical article about recent Skunk Ape activity in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":11962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,120,307,272,814,800,784],"class_list":{"0":"post-11147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bigfoot","9":"tag-devil-monkey","10":"tag-napes","11":"tag-skunk-ape","12":"tag-swamp-ape","13":"tag-swamp-monster","14":"tag-video"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/o-BIGFOOT-STUMP-570.jpg?fit=570%2C353&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11151,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions\/11151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}