Actual photo of the elusive skunk ape. Did you know that he was in Vietnam?
Posted on 01/05/2007 11:32:24 AM PST by presidio9
The scene: the Everglades, mysterious in the darkness.
Four college kids, armed only with a night-vision camera, trudge through a palmetto thicket, guided by a snake-booted man who claims to have had multiple encounters with the state's most elusive creature.
They seek a half-man, half-simian, fully reeking legend known as the Skunk Ape.
A curious rustling draws them closer. Nervous patter. Closer. What is making those sounds? Closer. Suddenly, a blinding flash, screams and . . . .
This is not some cheesy monster movie. It's the real experience of Florida International University film students who spent months on the trail of one of the shaggiest tales in folklore -- the Skunk Ape, a k a Florida's Bigfoot.
What they found in Footprints, a brisk and engaging documentary completed last month for a class project, won't rewrite anthropology texts.
Turns out that unsettling flash came from an automatic camera set up by their guide to record what a skeptical world still awaits -- ironclad evidence of the existence of the Skunk Ape, Yeti, Sasquatch and other hulking, hairy relations.
''We looked and we looked and, of course, we didn't find anything. We came to the conclusion that it's a myth,'' said Romy Santana, one of eight seniors who teamed on the film.
NO PUT-DOWNS
And yet after much digging, talks with claimed witnesses, interviews with scholars of Bigfoot lore and other experts, they're not dismissing every believer as hoaxer or wacko either.
''There are a lot of things going on in the Everglades,
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The four college kids should receive their 4 hours of fame on Art Bell's radio show soon.
maybe they found some snipes out there too
I hear the submarine races in the Glades are great.
Maybe they can find Jimmy Hoffa also.
Actual photo of the elusive skunk ape. Did you know that he was in Vietnam?
I'm staying out of the swamps. I wouldn't want that thing after me. Poor Tony Snow.
I think the Skunk Ape just left Florida for Alabama.
Wasn't there a Kennedy who got lost on Spring Break?
Just a thought.
Good one! I was thinking Cindy Sheehan -- Helen is better!
I believe that there are real Skunk Ape's/ Skookum/ Omah / Yeti/ Sasquatches.
"I hear the submarine races in the Glades are great."
Only in the winter time, unless you like to give blood at the submarine races.
Mosquito spray really, reeeeeaaally, ruins what could otherwise be a memorable submarine race.
Shouldn't the Headline read
" Helen Thomas Retires, Finds New Work In Florida"
I have always heard stories of the skunk ape but sure neve went looking for im.
You forgot to mention Snipe Hunts. Always a favorite sporting event here abouts.
I thought that Snipes turned himself in?
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