I think some of the sightings are of escaped animals from zoos etc.
Also have seen one from nearby which turned out to be nothing but a really large and ugly dog.
I know that there are monkeys or is it chimps?, who escaped from a movie in Florida many years ago.
“”nothing but a really large and ugly dog.””
THAT was Mad Maxine or at the least Moochelle....either would fit that description.
On the Silver river there are monkeys. They escaped when they shot the Tarzan movies at silver springs in Ocala, fla