3 posts tagged “skunk ape”
Today I read that the Chupacabra which first appeared in Puerto Rico has made an appearance in south Florida. How exactly does an as yet unidentified blood sucking creature make its way from Puerto Rico to Florida? Can chupacabras fly long distances? If I were a skunk ape I would be pissed. You work hard earning street cred as a skunk smellin' missing link ape creature only to have this goatsucker show up and steal your headlines. If I were a skunk ape I would be pissed. It just goes to confirm my theory that sooner or later everything ends up in Florida. I expect the Loch Ness Monster will be showing up any day now.
Florida has its skunk ape (which I am still trying to track down) and Peoria-Pekin, Illinois has its Thunderbird. The Thunderbird is a huge ass bird with a reported wingspan reaching 20 or so feet. My wife is from Pekin and I asked her about the Thunderbird which supposedly last made an appearance back in the 70's. As the story goes a thunderbird came out of the sky and picked up some unlucky kid. The bird eventually dropped the kid and flew off. I asked my wife about this and she said that as a child she remembered seeing the shadow of a giant bird fly by her. I am going to need to go to Pekin to research this one further.
I found this interesting article today about the Florida Skunk Ape which is Florida's version of Bigfoot.
In response to thousands of sightings, the State Legislature in April 1977, introduced a bill (H.B.1664) to protect the elusive man-ape which in part, stated, “Any person taking, possessing, harming or molesting any anthropoid or humanoid animal which is native to Florida, popularly known as the Skunk Ape, or doing any act reasonably capable of harming or molesting such animals…” State Representative Paul Nuckolls wanted to make it a misdemeanor to capture or harass a skunk ape. “I’d hate to see someone catch one and put it in a circus or in a zoo,” remarked Representative Nuckolls. The bill never passed into law but that hasn’t stopped discussions about trying it again.
The other night I heard some animal howling. It was coming from a grove of trees behind my house. I have heard it many times before and I have usually shrugged it off saying it was wild dogs or a coyote. I now think that a Skunk Ape or possibly even Skunk Apes live in the grove of trees. I am going to put some raw beef in my backyard to try to lure it in closer so I can get a picture. It seems like a solid plan. What anthropoid or humanoid could pass up a hunk of raw beef?
