Monkeys are still on the loose in small town Yemassee [Video]

YEMASSEE, S.C. (WCSC) – Greg Westergaard, the CEO of Alpha Genesis, says the monkeys are staying close in the area grabbing food from the staff and watching him and his team at the lab.

He said they have eyes on them but have yet to capture them.

“There’s been multiple sightings over night and through the day in the adjacent woods. The monkeys are crossing back and forth between our property and the adjacent property. The monkeys seem at ease. They’re playing like juvenile monkeys will,”Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard says.

Locals in the area said they’re used to the “monkey farm.”

One gentleman, Issac Washington, is from Yemassee, and also helped construction when Alpha Genesis was building their facility.

They started in the 60’s, and built their walls along Castle Hall Road.

Washington says because the town is pretty used to seeing monkeys along the fences and in the trees, they aren’t a bother.

“I walk every …