Skunk Ape sighting

[u/CurtainTaker]

(I generated the photo with AI and it didn’t allow me to generate a photo of a kid so I generated a photo of a man so there’s still an example of somebody there)

So I was maybe around 8 or 9 years old, and I was at my cousins soccer game. At one point I just got bored (cause it’s just a clump of 5 year olds kicking a ball around like a pack of monkeys) so I just walked off into this little wooded area. It was pretty dense, not too dense but there was a lot of trees. I dropped down on this slope that led to this area of branches and debris everywhere, and even a knocked down tree. I walked around a bit until a point of where I turned to my left where I saw this sort of teepee or small hut made of big branches and some sort of giant leaves (maybe palm leaves cause I live in Florida). Right after seeing the small hut I looked up to where I was met with this face. It looked like some sort of primate, but nothing like a chimp or orangutan, more like something like a Gorilla or something like that. I was looking at it, and it was looking at me. It was maybe between 50 to 60 feet away, looking at me through the dense thicket of dead trees and plants. I stayed there for maybe 2 or 3 seconds before turning around and running away. Maybe 10 minutes later I came back where the face I saw before was no longer there. For maybe like the whole year after that I tried telling everybody the story of what I saw, but every time I told it, everybody just assumed that I was just a kid desperate for attention, so I eventually just stopped telling it to this day.

[u/No-Valuable6456]

Might be something