The Sawgrass Skunk Ape - Bigfoot Beyond the Trail 

I wonder how often there are 2 different research groups knocking and whooping back and forth, both thinking they’re hearing a Sasquatch 😂

These little documentaries always make my day better.

So cool seeing u guys in my stomping grounds I was born and raised in them swamps and roamed them by my self as a kid and ever since I was in diapers I been walkin barefoot there and having fun super cool to see u guys respect it and talk so foundly of it thanks hope u enjoyed it

I'm starting to realize noone ever looks up in the trees...they can be watching you from right above your heads...

i kind of like this approach to the whole thing. not out trying to find the thing itself but just giving insight to where sightings have happened

That was awesome that y’all actually found that panther print! Great job!!

Great episode, learned more about Florida in that intro than I've ever heard in anything else - you are really showing a side of America we rarely see here across the pond

You guys have some of the best cinematography in the business as always

Well I do mushroom and wild ginseng hunting and I have a certain place I have gone for years recently I walked in and the forest went completely silent nothing moving or birds chirping. I heard trees fall with no wind I heard something walking in the distance. I'm a very curious person so I walked toward the sound and I got probably 50 yards from where I heard the foot steps and I seen a big huge creature it was white and black fur or hair. I didn't smell a skunkie smell I smelled real bad body odor very strong smell. It was I think 7 foot maybe 8 foot. Now I'm not the type of person to run from anything in the forest. I didn't run I took a step back but I stood there and it was behind a small tree peeping around looking at me. I just stood there trying to get a better look at what it exactly was. It then turned and walked away and the crazy and really spooky think was there were two more like back up for it. Crazy to think there were that many in one area. Now I still go there and I hunt for the mushrooms and ginseng to this day and you can hear them getting in position guess. These creatures are smarter faster and more than capable to take us out. I believe there a family of bigfoots in this area. No one believes this I told a few people but I got laughed at. This was last year when this happened it was August 2021 and I'll be going back in April looking for morels. Their there and they are real I even thought about putting it on youtube I may do it what do you think

Appreciate how real this is, no glamour just truth. Love it.

Another favorite 💚👋 Saturday Sas/Bf 👣💯👍nite

I love your work, and realize the effort it takes. A constructive criticism: dear editor-, please give some thought to volume levels of the music... And , watch your finished (?) final edit on a phone with ear buds, good headphones, and lastly 2 different sets of consumer grade speakers. This is a narrative enhanced documentary, not a Hollywood epic. The music should enhance rather than over power the content, and it definitely should not leave bleeding ears in its wake. And, while I'm at it, EQ primarily for voice, without heavy bass and razor sharp high end that leave Your viewers diving for the volume control. Your clip edits are right on. This really is meant to be constructive. I've recorded and mastered audio for many years, and my video editing coach has multiple Emmys. Keep going - you're right on the edge of being damn good.

Ok but seriously... I’m dying to have a list of all the BEAUTIFUL music used in these Beyond The Trail episodes...!! 😱 Pretty, pretty please?? 🎶 (esp. in the CO and this FL episodes!) Also, another great episode. So appreciate you, STM!

Just happened to come across your channel, very professionally done, congratulations to you guys.. 🥳🥳🥳 ❤ Now I have videos to watch.. We're in Michigan, heading up to Oscoda Michigan for the color change and found out Matt Moneymaker and Cliff Barackman are putting on a Bigfoot Expo, September 29 and 30 2023 @ the veterans hall and Oscoda high-school... it's Already sold out.. 😮 next time I guess.. Thanks for the Videos 👍🇺🇸

Try gearing up with camo instead of light colored clothes - On a decently moonlit night, you can see a white shirt for 100+ yds through the woods. Be stealthy and quiet like a hunter chasing after life sustaining game. Be the 1st to find one!!!

Ya’ll are brave; gators, snakes; black widows, better you than me lol. I love watching your adventures. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome job guys.

I'm surprised to hear the everglades is the largest national park in the lower 48. I always thought the national parks in Western states were larger. I love Florida. It's such a cool diversified state.

Lmao I didn't even know there was a Bigfoot legend here in Florida.

Yall did well. Getting a return knock on a full moon with all that IR .

I know this region very well as I've visited and photographed wildlife there. I've often thought of Bigfoot/Skunkape and have visited that 'center'....can't wait until the day someone gets good video/photos of this cryptid! Best of luck guys....(if you ever need another volunteer camera/video guy- drop me a note!

These guys have got to be actors, why do they keep trying the same things over and over again and expecting different results? For example, If tree knocking is they’re form of communication, why would they react to you walking around and randomly hitting trees? They would probably know instantly that it doesn’t sound right and that’s why that never works. If they do a little more research and start taking it seriously is when I’ll help fund the cause. It’s entertaining to watch but definitely seems like a scam for money.

I'm from Naples / Collier County where u guys were and we have a cottage up in Steinhatchee / Taylor County in the Big Bend of Fla ,, Up there in North Fla in the Big Bend they call it the Nature Coast and it's really Old Fla with low population and alot of woods ,, The woods is like the woods in the Deep South different then the Glades ,, Check it out they have had fairly recent Skunk Ape encounters up there too ,, They even had a display with stories and plaster cast footprints in the Steinhatchee Ace Hardware few years back

No bust guys! Youre lucky to be alive in that area. Snakes everywhere. great video. thank you!

If you are trying to find one I guarantee it already found you. I would definitely carry protection but keep it concealed just like being around people they know what a firearm looks like.

Your vids are so relaxing to watch and I’m on a mission to watch every single one 👍👍

I haven’t seen a correction in the comments as of yet, but just watching this episode of the Sawgrass, skunk ape, and I about fell out’a the chair when I heard your pronunciation of the Indian tribe Miccosukee Indians….. Mick-co-sue-key not Mick-co-sucky! Lol Don’t worry most can’t pronounce the Indian names in Florida!! I’ve been pronouncing them almost 57 years. Flo-Grown!! Thank God I’m not down there but grew up west of Ocala Nat’l forest on Florida’s swampy west coast.

Y’all have to be tough to handle the mosquitoes. Striped mosquitos are our state bird. I’ve seen hogs,gators,bobcats and deer but have never been lucky enough to see a skunk ape but I believe that they are out there! Keep up the great work guys! Absolutely love it!!

Better than Standup comedy!

This has to be the best wood knocks ......so clear......and the echo.....is sweet

Well done Guys ❤️

Great work! really good!

Next time, you should post the name of the background music you're playing in your video. That will help us viewers a lot when looking for that music. Thanks for sharing us this wonderful educational video about the Skunk Ape of Florida.

These Sawgrass Skunk Ape are very much real. There have been 3 sightings in my town of a Skunk Ape and Big foot himself since 1977

Love everything you guys do! ( Even the x-mas bells in the intro,lol ) keep it going 💪 cheers from s, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ✌️

I’ve been doing big foot research and it feels good to know we have some close to broward county

There in lake Wales Florida I heard one outside my trailer in 1984

i love florida

Yeah, Skunk Ape don't want to get bit by a snake when they are sleeping either.

Now you're in my neck of the woods 😎

My Wife and I recently had what I suspect was a Big Foot encounter. I say "suspect" because whatever it was stayed between 100 - 150 yds away from us and it was tough to get a clear look. It was definitely a bipedal, animate, very dark object that followed us as we pedaled by the wooded area on our bikes. I was able to snap 3 decent cell phone pics and 1 decent video of it. I am puzzled as to what the creature was, but keep coming back to a kid or man in a suit waiting for someone on the bike trail to notice him. I have been following Big Foot evidence and sightings for years, looking for one piece of solid evidence but unfortunately never seem to find it. The evidence seems to be limited to sightings, broken trees, a few tracks here and there and howling etc... With game cams & drones being so easy to setup and cheap to operate, why on earth has no one been able to get a pic of a Big Foot?

Eli 🤣😂🤭😁 love the comment, while setting up the trail camera's. Alek & you in all your vlogs conduct bigfoot search well together. Scenery footages 💯👍audio too💯👍🎼🎶🎵🎼🎶🎵like watching a movie👍🤗💯 All 3 of KUDOS👏👏👏💯snakes, alligators, Panter among other critters roaming

The map dude did an amazing job! You all always do brilliant stuff.

Love taking a couple tips off weed and watching anything Bigfoot

Really interesting history great stuff guys

You know what they say about big feet? big plaster casts 😉

Thanks! I love your videos. Thank you from Washington State!

That's a smell you never forget

Thanks for another great video, think you guys need a couple of drones with night vision, would really help with open planes and tall grass, just a thought, keep up the good work you do and keep it real 👍

Bigger the haystack, harder it is to locate the needle.

Loving the Bigfoot adventures. Subscribed

I really enjoyed this, your cinematography keeps getting better and better!

THANK YOU ,NICE WORK,, DES CREAN,, BELFAST ,, IRELAND

Let’s go guys 😃 can’t wait for this keep them coming. 👣🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Love your videos!

Great job and thanks for doing the research for us that can't..but I would like to ask you more about the apps that was shown on this video.i would like to do some research..! Thanks again

You guys went to all the wrong spots in Florida, the Skunk Apes are north of where yall were but south of Ocala. They thrive in the forrests that surround Lake Okeechobee. They don't live in the swamps they prefer the small stretches of forrests that border the lake and swamps, as well as the conservation land to the east of the lake. And they don't live in the open, they're always found in woods that are seperated by a canal. They use canals and waterways as their fence to keep them safe and hidden from humans. I was never a bigfoot guy, until I stumbled across them last year...I know where two "troops" or clans live near me and i see them nearly everytime i go to these two spots. I'd be happy to take yall there if you dont reveal the location publicly.

This is an awesome channel, you guys make it awesome .. Wish I had enough to be heavily involved but I can't, I will however put to it what I can...all the best Lee

Always entertaining, however that wasn't a cat track. It was K9 Cats have retractable claws.They don't walk with them extended. Claws are clearly visible in the image. Common mistake. But excellent production. :)

What is the link to that map, can not find it. Can someone please post map link.....thanks !

You guys captured some realistic skunk ape farts. Stellar work!

The BFRO is a joke...

I like how they have proper like guns. What not. Like hpw they have jeans on instead of like rubber or some paints for rattle snakes.

From the 70s through the 90s, the loop rd was an excellent possibility to see Panther, bear or skunk ape. But way too many people visit that road nowadays. The larger predators(aside from the gators) have become very “skittish”, weary and shy in that area. It is no longer a “home run” to see these exceptional species anymore. Unfortunately

Great stuff.

Whatcha smokin in that pipe my guys? Lol

I have a suggestion for a new approach to finding and filming sasquatch. It's something I doubt anyone has ever tried... I know it may seem gross or just insane but bare with me.. Seduction. You'll need a brave beauty whose ovulating and hasn't showered in at least half a week so she's got strong, overpowering pheromones. She'll need to be muscular attractive with unbrushed long hair, have unshaven underarms (she'll need to display the underarm hair) , no deodorant. Set up all sorts of trail cams. Thermals, panoramic, etc.. put a couple guys with her with tranq guns and just camp out. My guess is 10/10 you'll get an overly curious teenage sasquatch who can't resist the pheromones, even if they're not sqautch pheromones, they're likely similar, and hormonal drive is nature's number 1 motivator. Good luck and godspeed. You're welcome. 😁

If you think you will catch one on a trail cam, forget it. No one ever has because they can see infrared light and it is magnified many times in their eyes and they hate it.

Awesome!!!!

👋 from NH 👍👊

Production quality has gotten much better!

Reminds me of most of the Bigfoot t.v. shows. They never find anything. If I were looking for Bigfoot, I would go to a recent active place, set up camp for a few days, and wait. No calls, knocking, or other noise. Just be normal campers. Better chance of having something coming into your camp to check you out, and hunt for food.

At timestamp 26, the music being played is by who? I heard this song a long time ago and it brings back memories. Just curious. Oh, thanks for this series, Aleksander, the filming is quite wonderful!

Ah Florida every 2 inches of water comes with a gator 🐊

Awesome video guys

I heard it wasnt called the Skunk Ape bc of it's smell, but bc of how it looks. It supposedly has a stripe down it's back.

Yall need to go to the skunk ape festival in ochopee fl. It was a dang good time thats for sure. Its on the edge of big cypress reservation. Its at a place called trail lakes campground. They have a skunk ape museum. Its a pretty neat place. Its in the bfe thats for sure lol stumbled across the place on accident looking for somewhere to camp while going down there fishing in chokoloskee. We didn know the event was happening or that there was a skunk ape museum and were in line thinking why is there a line 30 min long to pull in the campgrund and then somebody in a bigfoot costume or should i say skunk ape walked by us and everyone in the truck looked at each other like where tf did we end up. Not gonna lie def could smell pot the whole time there. So needless to say we finally found the perfect campsite lol 😂 definitely have plans on going back. Only live 2 hours from there in highlands county in central fl.

This looks awesome love these episodes 🥰🥰

that guy at the skunk ape center needs to stay off the drugs.

Just a suggestion but you might want to upgrade that 9mm bb gun you tote around.

I know the Skunk Ape does exist. I met a Skunk Ape at a major airport. He said he was going back to his family in Florida. He had been visiting his parents and family in the state of Washington.

You should get in touch with The Trail To Bigfoot they are also in the green swamp, they have had a lot of weird stuff going on with them. Stay safe everyone all the best from Scotland 👣🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I've seen them down here a few times born an raised in southwest FL.

Instead of using loud air boats and other vehicles. Have you ever used parashuted into areas interest. So, they don't hear or smell you coming

What I love about this channel is they never (ever) record anything that we didn't know existed, yet they carry on looking!

Those are Melaleuca trees that have been broken intentionally and treated with herbicide a while ago

I've camped many times in Mitchell's landing nothing ever seen. Go to MM 63 hike north,that's where we heard some weird things in the day time too. You should of talked to Lucky cole on loop road

Florida is the one place in the world that has both Alligators and crocodiles. The alligators are found throughout the southern states, but the American crocodile is only found in the everglades outlying mangrove areas. Most are found near Miami at the Turkey Point power plant cooling. Keep in mind, humans are the most invasive specie in Florida.

Good Stuff Guys 👍👍from Ohio 🍻🍻

i will say that first cluster sighting area is not an area someone would be out messing with people or randomly be unrecognizable. ive spent alot of time in that area for years fishing and looking for snakes. if you get off 41 you can go the entire day without seeing another person

At least there was distant knocking heard at one point.

The Orangatan research center north of Big Cypress has admitted escapees. They stand some 6 ft have four toes and red. The skunk ape is 6 ft red and four toed. Bigfoot has 5 as do all others. That's my experience hiking and camping and hunting pythons throughout Big Cypress. I personally have never seen any and don't believe they exist.

I have lived in Florida most of my life and as far as I know there was only one official documented Bigfoot sighting that was actually investigated by the BFRO back in the late 1980s I did not know that they were even around back then but I guess they were.. It happened late at night off Nova Road west of Cocoa Florida. At that time Nova Road from West Cocoa to St Cloud Road was a very rural road. Nothing but pastureland and marshes for 40 miles. Also I believe that the Brevard County Sheriff's department and the West Cocoa Police Department checked out the site the next day and they found some things that prompted two guys from the BFRO came all the way from Louisiana to investigate it. The story itself it's somewhat amusing about what happened.

41:50 Serious question, why are all these "bigfoot hunter" always searching at them at night? Are they nocturnal? Majority of sightings i believe is during the day when the sun is up....

Weird that they mention just killing the pythons but everything we watch on discovery Channel and other videos we see the people catch pythons live and turn them in for a reward. I don't understand this difference

A ladder stand is a necessity to see any distance in south Florida. There are not enough climb able trees, without one. Dave at the skunk ape research place mentioned this in a video I watched right before this one. Yeah you probably already knew this, but thought I should mention it. Seems like you guys bought the proper boots, so maybe next trip a ladder stand could make a huge difference for spotting with that cool infrared scope yall have...peace...Jim

them bring new swamp boots going to hurt like heck until they are broke in

Can you guys come out to Oregon. There is a very active area where I would like to take you guys. Not sure if you guys charge or you guys do it for the research.

Excellent doc, as always! Love the panther track find and the woodknocking segment! If you listen closely, at 57:04, there is a possible, distant knock response to Aleks' two power knocks. Use headphones! And, at 1:01:09, after Tate does his loud woodknock, there is a "wooo" vocal. Not sure if it's an owl or something else. Again, use headphones.

People don't realize that it does get cold in Florida. I have even seen it snow in Miami. Yes, it's rare, but it does happen.