She's a believer in the skunk ape

Houston Chronicle (NYTimes of the South) ^ | Nov. 28, 2004, 9:42AM | LINDA FLOREA

[TexasCajun]

"Roosevelt wrote that the previous year a trapper's body had been found torn to bits and partially eaten by an "unknown beast, which left enormous human foot tracks in its wake."

Spooky!

[BigCinBigD]

Sasquatch.Bigfoot whatever you want to call it has been in the Sulpher river bottoms of East Texas since before White men ever set foot there.

Back in 1974 when I was a kid me and some friends found a foot print about 15 inch's long in a muddy creek bank about 10 miles East of Greenville way out in the woods.

In 2003 when I was 40 myself and my brother in law were hunting in the deep woods around Columbia County Arkansas when I found another foot print. This print was bigger than my size 13-1/2 booted foot.

One late November night in 1997 'something" tore the back wall off my brother in laws shed. We think it was trying to get at the deer hanging inside. We ran to the back yard armed but did not see it. But we did hear "something" large moving away through the woods.

Boo!

[TexasCajun]

Wow! Great Website! All the BigFoot info you want to know!

I was surprised by the number of Texas sightings. The closest sighting to me would be in Liberty County, one county away.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I first came across this story in a beautiful old copy of TR's book. Scared the bejeebers out of myself when I read that one the first time, so I used to read this to little 'uns as a bedtime story. Makes the hair stand up on the nape of their necks...

[Boazo]

ping

[TexasCajun]

so I used to read this to little 'uns as a bedtime story.

Hehe - I know where they ended up before morning!

[BigCinBigD]

Nothing that exciting. But I tell you. I NEVER EVER go in to the deep woods unarmed. I have been camping and night fishing plenty of times and "felt" I was being watched.

[Bobalu]

Where is that picture with Janet Reno's head grafted onto that old bigfoot photo?

[WorkingClassFilth]

I know that feeling myself, but in Minnesota I always have assumed it was the DNR.

[Willie Green]

I had never heard of skunk apes before, and were it not for FR, I would still be in the dark.

This is old news on FR.
The Pajamahadeen already determined that the Skunk Ape is actually A+Bert back in '99.

[RightWingAtheist]

Here's another:

[WorkingClassFilth]

One time, nephew of about 4 years was over. During the reading he interupted me stating that he really was interested in hearing the story, but, he wanted to know if I had ever noticed how dark the kitchen was when the lights were out.

Well, turning on the stove light solved that problem. Then he said he was too sleepy and thought it would be a good thing to hear the rest of the story in the morning. He finally dropped off after I let him 'examine' an unloaded firearm, a dummy hand-grenade and a dull pair of antique swords, in his bed, for the rest of the night.

Kids are great.

[SquirrelKing]

We have the Carolina Barking Spider and its close kin, the Barking Frog - both found at social gatherings and some quiet settings. Have been known to emit noxious odor.

[Caipirabob]

Competition for Hillary in 2008?

[Muleteam1]

>>This Southern relative of Bigfoot gets its name for the awful stench often associated with it.<<

No doubt this was a hairy Frenchman touting his Gallic body odor.

[TexasCajun]

Carolina Barking Spider

That's what I tell my wife she heard when we've settle into bed for the night!

"Honey!" she says annoyingly.

"It wasn't me!" I say, "That was a Carolina Barking Spider! hehe

[Shellback Chuck]

About a week after hurricane Charley, I was riding my Harley down a Florida road. I stopped to "sleep it off" when suddenly I was awakened by a wild eyed, psycho-yuppie woman looking thing.
I never believed in psycho-yuppie woman looking things before, but now I do.

[Nathan Zachary]

it was no skunk ape, just an inbred jaw-jun looking for road kill. She's lucky she got by the area before it spead out that barbed wire vehicle trap...

[Constantine XIII]

Hairy, smelly, eats frogs.

Obviously French tourists.

[momf]

Congratulations on your great picture of the elusive Jackalope. They're hard to photograph because of their great speed and powerful hind legs that enable them to jump 50 - 65" in one bound.

I've only seen two in my lifetime of searching, and they were on the caprock.