David Shealy, Skunk Ape researcher and founder of Shealy’s Skunk Ape Headquarters in Ochopee, and son Jack Shealy, of The Jack Shealy Band and owner of Trail Lakes Campground, at the Headquarters on U.S. 41 East of S.R. 29. Photos by Kelly J. Farrell
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SWAMP LEGENDS
Skunked again as Shealy’s HQ named leading attraction
Footprints of Florida’s Skunk Ape—a Bigfoot-like cryptid—lead to Big Cypress National Preserve, home of Shealy’s Skunk Ape Headquarters in Ochopee. And that’s hardly the only place, near or far, that the primate and its tracks have been reported.
