Anyone else think the Skunk Ape sightings in Ochopee are picking up again lately?

Not really my area if I'm honest - I'm more of a crop circle person myself - but I did fall down a rabbit hole reading about Ochopee a while back and the sheer consistency of the witness descriptions is what got me. Like, people who've never met each other, coming from completely different angles of that swamp, all landing on the same basic physical details. That's the thing that sticks with me.

Is there a particular spike you've noticed recently or is it more of a gradual creep upward? I ask because with crop circles you sometimes get clusters that seem to follow a pattern, almost seasonal, and I've always wondered if cryptid sightings work the same way. Whether whatever's being seen is moving around in response to something - weather, food, human activity nearby.

Would be curious to hear from anyone who actually knows that part of Florida. I'm based up in Edinburgh so I'm working entirely off secondhand accounts here.

Not really my area either (I'm an SHC man myself) but the Ochopee cases do stand out don't they. The Big Cypress Swamp gives it a lot of credibility as habitat - if something like that existed anywhere in Florida, that'd be the place. What gets me is the smell reports. Witnesses consistently describe that sulphuric rotting odour and thats something you cant really fake or plant in someones head through suggestion. @ShiftyObserver have you come across any of the ranger station reports from that area? I vaguely remember reading that some park staff had logged unusual incidents but never went public officially.

Bit out of my comfort zone tbh, my EVPs are usually just dead people moaning not some giant swamp creature lumbering about. Though at this point I'd welcome a Skunk Ape on one of my recordings, at least it'd be a change from three hours of wind noise and one bloke going "maaaary" very quietly.