The Skunk Ape: Florida's Answer to the Abominable Snowman

Times Online ^ | February 18, 2008 | Jacqui Goddard

[SteveH]

February 18, 2008

The skunk ape: Florida's answer to the abominable snowman

Jacqui Goddard

Deep in the swamps of Florida, something is stirring. Witnesses to its haunting presence speak of howls in the night, unexplained footprints in the mud and glimpses between the trees of a fiery-eyed creature that reeks of death.

Now, a 30-strong team from The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) has embarked on an expedition to try to flush out the mighty skunk ape - the Sunshine State's answer to the abominable snowman. They have thermal imaging equipment, video cameras and microphones poised to capture the secrets of the hairy, 7ft-tall hominid with yellowing teeth and dubious personal hygiene.

“We have to keep these expeditions low-key because unfortunately the subject is still a little stigmatised,” sighs Matthew Moneymaker, head of the BFRO, as he drives to the expedition's secret base camp in southwestern Florida.

[Inyo-Mono]

Ping!

[Inyo-Mono]

The Sunnk Ape: Florida's Answer to the Abominable Snowman

Shouldn't that be Skunk Ape?

[Hot Tabasco]

The Sunnk Ape...

I don't mind misspellings in posts or whatever but don't make them in the main thread titles you are posting.

[Moonman62]

We also have the Chupacabra. The Skunk Ape has been around for decades but was mainly invented to explain South Florida smells (probably actual skunks) more than anything else.

[capt. norm]

Relax!

It's my mother-in-law.

Don't pay her any attention and she'll go away.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

To Skunken_Civ; Sunken_Ape; PiltdownMan;Fifi LePew; All:

This whole thing could really hairball, I mean snowball, I don’t know what I mean.

[digger48]

...hairy, 7ft-tall hominid with yellowing teeth and dubious personal hygiene.

There are claims of it lurking behind trees and crouching in roadside ditches, trailing a foul odour akin to a mixture of rotten eggs, mouldy cheese and dung on account of its penchant for camping

Where HAS Cindy Sheehan and her groupies gone?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

a 30-strong team from The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization

But that's already quite plenty about the personal hygiene of the scientists. Apparently, the ape also is pretty gamey.






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[LRS]

Uh oh! You’ve been sunnk. Better than being skunked tho’!

[Popman]

I hate to bust some bubbles around here, but it has already been determined Janet Reno is the mysterious skunk ape of Florida

I thought that was common knowledge

[SteveH]

Sorry, complaint filed in hopes of obtaining a correction.

[Alas Babylon!]

Matthew Moneymaker. I wonder how much money he makes leading these "expeditions". And yes, the BFRO charges folks to go along for the trip.

[sushiman]

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers version - Lyrics

Well look, see, there’s an abominable snowman in the supermarket
And apparently the housewives have never seen anything like that before
Hear the housewives complaing to the manager,
“Get that snow thing out of this store.”

Abominable snowman in the market,
That’s right, you heard me right, gang.
And the housewives, they all remarking,
“Looks like a dirty marshmallow with fangs.”

Well, there’s an abominable snowman in the market,
Now he’s down by the peas and carrots.
Abominable snowman in the market.
And they cannot chase him away.

Abominable snowman in the market.
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Abominable snowman in the market.
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

See, there’s an abominable snowman in the market,
And the situation is grave.
Well, the housewives hurt and confuse him,
And I can’t see him treated this way.

Well, there’s an abominable snowman in the market,
And I think he’s a real nice guy.
I like the snowman, I want to help him out,
I don’t want to see him hurt this way.

Well, Abominable snowman in the market.
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Abominable snowman in the market.
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Look, we have to talk to this abominable snowman man. And we have to say something that he can understand.

There’s an abominable snowman in the market,
And he’s doin’ better every day.
I know it’s helped him to have a more tolerant feeling.
And I like to see him treated this way.

Well, there’s an abominable snowman in the market,
And he’s down by the peas and carrots.
There’s an abominable snowman in the market,
And that is what I now say.

Abominable snowman in the market,
all right Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Abominable snowman in the market
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

There’s an abominable snowman in the market
Down by the peas and carrots.
Abominable snowman in the market
He just arrived by plane yesterday.

There’s an abominable snowman in the market
And the housewives never seen something like that before.
Housewives treat him like a stranger,
They want him away from the supermark’t door.

Abominable snowman in the market.
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Abominable snowman in the market

[SteveH]

I hate to bust some bubbles around here, but it has already been determined Janet Reno is the mysterious skunk ape of Florida

And here I was thinking manbearpig has finally been found! :-)

[BGHater]

You talking to me?

[pcottraux]

Classic pics in post 16.

[Defendingliberty]

The guy is a kook, It’s a stunt to attrack folks to his campground.

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[mkjessup]

Has anyone seen Janet Reno lately?

[blam]

The Dixie Dingo

[Clintonfatigued]

I also remember something like this from Arkansas, the beast from Boggy Creek. Whatever happened to that?

[ScratInTheHat]

We also have the Chupacabra.

Yeah the Latinos are bring all kinds of crap up here! LOL

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

LOL!

[Vince Ferrer]

This is a stunt to sell foreclosed condos. I bet the expedition has to sit through a presentation at their base camp.

[Kimmers]

You forgot about the Jacolope, a Jack rabbit and antelope cross....”it must be true cause I seen it on post cards from South Dakota”.....

I would post the pic but alas I am lacking in knowledge or talent in posting pictures.....

[punster]

I think this topic stinks. I know how to keep that skunk ape from smelling, cut off his nose. :-)

[Brilliant]

Then there is this one:

[EveningStar]

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[capt. norm]

At least it keeps her out of the swamps where she has been scaring off all the alligators.

[Charles Martel]

I also remember something like this from Arkansas, the beast from Boggy Creek. Whatever happened to that?

The town of Fouke, Arkansas still has a cottage industry based on that critter. Click the link for a quick tour.

That town is a bit south of Texarkana. It's possible that the "monster" went looking for a better-paying gig... like maybe politics. I hear Hillary has pretty big feet...

[SteveH]

Yeah but I think we should all be more concerned about this one:

[Fiddlstix]

Probably just Pepe Le Pew lookin' for love.........

He is a very romantic skunque

[knarf]

That was the first truly frightening movie I ever saw.

.. and now that you've reminded me ... I think it was the forerunner of "Jaws" ... because, as in Jaws ... there is a scene (or more?) of the beautiful girl swimming and the camera shoots up from below (first glimpse at a woman's below waist torso) ... and the creature ... J u s t out of reach, but going for her.

Brrrrrr.

I watched about 1/2 of Jaws ... and I will NEVER see it again. There is nothing more helpless than a human in deep water being stalked/attacked by a sea creature.

OK ... back to the skunk ape ....

[fso301]

the hairy, 7ft-tall hominid with yellowing teeth and dubious personal hygiene.

Someone must not have told these BFRO people that Janet Reno lives in South Florida

[martin_fierro]

Skunk Ape was last seen in Daytona.

[SteveH]

More on Skunk Ape:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Ape

More on Manbearpig:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manbearpig

I report, you decide!!

[razorback-bert]

Skunks won’t live in swamps, too wet for them.

[airborne]

Where HAS Cindy Sheehan and her groupies gone?

If Cindy Sheehan was involved, it would be called a "Skank Ape"!

[SteveH]

Skunk Ape was last seen in Daytona.

I'm on it! I'm on it! I'm on it!

:-) :-) :-)

[skr]

Is this a South Florida legend? I’ve lived in NW Florida (including in a town formerly known as Boggy Bayou) since the sixties and have never heard of this.

Hirsute, gamey creatures could also be explained by tramp hippies in Florida for the weather.

[varon]

in 1975 another was seen tottering along a roadside with an armful of stolen corn.

Well, there you go, there's the answer. The skunk apes are nothing more than moonshiners not wanting to be seen or caught!!!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Must have been reading some of the old books by Ivan T. Sanderson.

[crusty old prospector]

We also have the Chupacabra. The Skunk Ape has been around for decades but was mainly invented to explain South Florida smells (probably actual skunks) more than anything else.

We used whatever we could to get the girls to cuddle closer to us when we were parking. For us, it was the Hog Valley Monster. Half-man, half-hog. Don't know how geneticists feel about that one but it worked for us.

[uglybiker]

Kucinich!

[BerryDingle]

[GOPJ]

This is a stunt to sell foreclosed condos. I bet the expedition has to sit through a presentation at their base camp.

Now that would be really scary...

[Eleutheria5]

It’s a hermit, fond of streaking in the swamps and farting up a storm.

[fso301]

Florida has long had a problem with exotic species being released or escaping into the wild. In the case of Rhesus monkeys, a feral population exists in the State. It’s not out of the question for other released/escaped primates to be roaming the wilds.

[Morgana]