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The Skunk Ape: Florida's Answer to the Abominable Snowman
Times Online ^ | February 18, 2008 | Jacqui Goddard

Posted on 02/17/2008 5:05:07 PM PST by SteveH

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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

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.


41 posted on 02/17/2008 6:36:12 PM PST by skr (How majestic is Thy Name, O Lord, and how mighty are Thy Works!)
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To: SteveH
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!!!

42 posted on 02/17/2008 6:44:40 PM PST by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: SteveH

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


43 posted on 02/17/2008 6:53:50 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Only infidel blood can quench Muslim thirst-- Abdul-Jalil Nazeer al-Karouri)
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To: 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.

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.

44 posted on 02/17/2008 7:04:49 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Brilliant

Kucinich!

45 posted on 02/17/2008 7:36:57 PM PST by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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46 posted on 02/17/2008 7:53:37 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagon)
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To: Vince Ferrer
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...

47 posted on 02/17/2008 8:05:42 PM PST by GOPJ (Obama didn't get one counted vote in Harlem's 94th. Not one. Will Texas and Ohio cheat next?)
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To: Inyo-Mono

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


48 posted on 02/17/2008 8:24:12 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (http://www.publishedauthors.net/benmaxwell/index.html or try http://astore.amazon.com/bemasnebo-20)
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To: SteveH

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.


49 posted on 02/17/2008 8:29:22 PM PST by fso301
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Thanks for the ping!


52 posted on 02/17/2008 9:06:10 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Brilliant

A close relative of my Brother-in-law, his name was Ricou Browning or something similar, was the professional diver who played the creature from the Black Lagoon.


53 posted on 02/17/2008 9:06:26 PM PST by yarddog (`)
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To: SteveH
" hairy, 7ft-tall hominid with yellowing teeth and dubious personal hygiene. "

Cynthia McKinney, you come home right now!

54 posted on 02/17/2008 9:22:32 PM PST by matthew fuller (MOVE-ON McCAIN!)
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To: pcottraux

Please put me on that list if you would.


55 posted on 02/17/2008 9:51:22 PM PST by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney ("I'm a proven leader. That's what the Des Moines Register said."-Mrs.Bill Clinton)
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To: yarddog

Correct, you had his name right. He still appears at conventions and signs autographs to this day, as far as I know. On land, The Gill Man was played by one Ben Chapman.


56 posted on 02/17/2008 10:00:29 PM PST by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney ("I'm a proven leader. That's what the Des Moines Register said."-Mrs.Bill Clinton)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Hmmmmmmm. Janet Reno is from Florida. Could she be skunk ape?


57 posted on 02/17/2008 10:11:01 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: JulieRNR21; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; summer; Goldwater Girl; windchime; ...
I remember all the stories around the campfire about this critter when I was a boy in Sarasota county in the 70s.

We camped a lot, in a lot of places. We never saw one.

Florida Freeper


58 posted on 02/18/2008 6:43:28 AM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: BGHater

Those are certainly interesting pictures did you take them? Where?


59 posted on 02/18/2008 6:47:40 AM PST by Ditter
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To: BerryDingle

giggle.....thank you, you have more skills than I


60 posted on 02/18/2008 6:48:43 AM PST by Kimmers
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