The Skunk Ape

How can we talk about ex-cryptids without mentioning the Skunk Ape? It would even be an offense.

On October 25, 2010, a man was watching the comedy film ''Scary Movie 3'' around 1:00 am at his home, when he heard a noise outside his house that sounded like a long blast from a car horn or a police siren. He picked up the remote and hit mute on the TV, and he then realized that the sound was more like the howl of an injured animal. He assumed it was a bear or a mountain lion.

The next night, a friend came to pick him up to go to a casino around 8 pm. The two men had traveled about four miles when they heard the noise once more. They slowed down, and the noise stopped. They continued driving, but suddenly had to swerve to avoid hitting something in front of them that stopped abruptly. It was then that the two ''players'' saw what appeared to be a similar creature with a man at least 7 feet (2.13 meters tall) in addition to being ''very strong'', covered in dark fur, and with reddish eyes that gleamed in the reflection of their headlights.

"Human eyes don't do that," the witness explained in her report. After 20 to 30 seconds, the creature then walked towards them with a fluid snarl that was definitely not human, and both men quickly slammed on the brakes in fear. They got home that night by a different route to avoid another encounter. The witness now describes himself as a "true believer" in Skunk Ape, but added: "Whether it's Skunk Ape or not, I don't want you to come around my house again." Skunk Ape doesn't usually attack humans — and experts, or even acquaintances of him, like Caio or Thiago, say that Skunk Ape only almost attacked him because the two headlights pointed in his eye for a certain period of time ''can really start to hurt''.