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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 06:37 pm |
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We've been in the woods along time and never seen hide nor hair of the thing,however there is a man that lives not far from the Big Cypress Res.,and if he said the sky was falling he would have my attention,a quite ,honest man, They feed the deer and turkeys,hogs etc. year round,he said he was going to a feeder one day to fill it up and there was something under it and it stood up and walked in the woods,this man kept on driving ,didn't stop,he said he didn't know what it was,he knew what it wasn't ,a bear.My daddy has always said our family has been in these woods from Little Marco north since 1830s, don't you think if the skunk ape was around somebody would have seen it.I don't know Last edited on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 07:51 pm by Firefly1958
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 05:44 pm |
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| Good idea, but how would you prepare it, rare,sauce or no sauce, are they vegitarians, wine, beer, or sweet tea? Just have to let them fix their own.
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OkeeNarnie
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LovebeingaSouthernGirl wrote: This is just too humorous!!  You guys really keep me entertained oh, and well informed  Thanks
Your welcome. Humor and Legends are great.
Here is a question...To be on the safe side, if we BBQ should we fix a plate and leave it on the picnic table? Just in case he is out there reveling in the scents were providing.
I have never met one but I sure wouldn't want the first encounter to be with a hungry one!
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 05:22 pm |
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| This is just too humorous!! You guys really keep me entertained oh, and well informed Thanks
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 05:19 pm |
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The Tarzan's were filmed up in The Ocala area they used the springs around Silver Springs for the under water sceens. It is true that many primates were left in the area from the films and thrived there for many years after.
As far as a Skunk Ape... I believe nothing I hear, Half of what I see, and everything I say. I've never seen one. Just remember the stories from the 70s. Speak Out printed the story today so I'm sure we'll hear about more sightings.
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 02:46 pm |
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I've been seeing a lot of dead cows in that pasture where the big brick house is. Every day, as I go to Lake Placid, I look over to see if there are any more cows, and that's when I saw it. At first I thought it was a big bull trying to mate with a cow, but when I looked closer, I only saw one cow, and I thought it was strange for a cow to be standing on its back legs like that. I kept looking and then the "cow" ran away on two legs. That's when I knew it wasn't a cow. It was the craziest think I ever saw. That's when I almost drove off the road.
You know, I didn't put 2 and 2 together, but I have been smelling skunk up and down that road. I even remarked to my wife about how there seemed to be a lot of dead skunks lately and maybe it was mating season or something. I never did see a skunk, I just smelled it. This is freaky.
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 02:27 pm |
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| Agreed, But maybe that could be how it originated. I saw an animal out on 70West one night around 2pm, big and black. It ran across the road between my vehicle and another, our head lights against each other made it hard to see. I figure it was a florida black bear; but you put a theory out there and simple siteings like that can keep it going.
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P.VanTassell
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 02:23 pm |
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thinkred77 wrote: Like I said, just a story my Grandma used to tell. Just a Theory.
And yes, the original story might have very well been something like that. I'm just convinced that no such animal exists today. Maybe for a year after it got loose from filming but not much longer and it surely didn't reproduce.
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 02:19 pm |
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| Like I said, just a story my Grandma used to tell. Just a Theory.
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P.VanTassell
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 02:17 pm |
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thinkred77 wrote: My Grandama used to say that some of her favorite old Tarzan movies were filmed in the Everglades and that the whole Skunk Ape idea is really just an adult chimp or orangutan or something that escaped during filming and grew up in the swamps. I don't know, but it's a theory.
Maybe for a few months after filming. Then it would die of inability to adapt. Which is why there are no apes in the Everglades, they can't survivie there.
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 02:11 pm |
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| My Grandama used to say that some of her favorite old Tarzan movies were filmed in the Everglades and that the whole Skunk Ape idea is really just an adult chimp or orangutan or something that escaped during filming and grew up in the swamps. I don't know, but it's a theory.
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Posted: Mon Jun 30th, 2008 04:51 pm |
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| The Skunk Ape was a big deal for awhile in the 70s, Back when The Bigfoot craze was going on. I think that Florida was just wanting their own Yeti to claim. It was suppose to stink, but not sure if the smell was exactly that of a skunk. I have never seen nor smelt one so I'm not sure.
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Posted: Mon Jun 30th, 2008 03:45 pm |
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| I have heard the stories about the Skunk Ape but have never seen one. But driving SR 70 West, just before the turn for Lazy 7, I have often smelled something bad. I just assumed that a lot of skunks get run over there. although I never saw a dead skunk on the road. But thinking about it ... maybe it was your Skunk Ape!
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Posted: Mon Jun 30th, 2008 03:40 pm |
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P.VanTassell wrote: Alright then...after looking at that site and reading it all I will now ask yet another question.
Does anyone believe in this? That a "skunk ape" inhabits and can survive in the Everglades and/or Okeechobee.
No, but my daughter does. Then again, she is worse with common sense that I am.
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Posted: Mon Jun 30th, 2008 02:35 pm |
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| Back in the 70s my dad use to commute from here to Miami he would use Hwy 27, one time on his way back to Miami traffic was stopped on 27 because of a Skunkape sitting, he didn't see it just got held up in traffic because of it. Last edited on Mon Jun 30th, 2008 02:37 pm by 4string
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OkeeNarnie
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Posted: Sun Jun 29th, 2008 01:01 pm |
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| Hmmm...you know we were out singing last night, got home around 11:30. As we got out of the truck I said damn, smell that? Smells a little like a skunk dosen't it? We didn't see anything, and I had never heard about this Skunk Ape Fellow...but just maybe he had been wandering around the Okeechobee Airport last night? Ya never know!
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Posted: Sun Jun 29th, 2008 01:00 pm |
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Skunkape sightings in Florida
1999, June Ochopee
Skunkape Hunter David Shealy films Skunkape in Big Cypress swamp. Film featured on Florida's major news networks
1998, Nov. Keenansville
Skunkape seen crossing road heading into heavy cypress swamp
1998, Sept. Ochopee
Eight months of Skunkape hunting culminates with Skunkape Hunter David Shealy photographing Skunkape
1998, Feb. Dixie County
Small reddish haired Skunkape sighted early in the morning picking up roadkill. Fled at the sight of car
1997, Oct. Naples
A Skunkape's odor woke a man from sleep, and then the man sited the creature
1997, July Ochopee
Several witnesses, on five separate occassions, spotted a Skunkape. A busload of British tourist were among the witnesses. Photos were taken
1997, July Ocala Nat'l Forest
A family on a camping trip saw a Skunkape in broad daylight
1996, Fall Valparaiso
Five witnesses spot a Skunkape on the border of Eglin AFB.
1993, Nov. Everglades
Six men were hunting and found several sets of Skunkape tracks
1989, Fall Cocoa
Man and sister driving down desolate road. Man stops to releave himself, and sister tells him somebody is coming. Man sees Skunkape
charging. Estimated height was 7 feet
1989, Spring Oak Hill
Skunkape appears in truck headlights. Two witnesses report strong cabbage-like odor. Smell caused one witness to gag
1988, July Everglades
1986, Clay County
1985, April Brooksville
1983, June Citrus County
1980, July Altoona
1979, Summer Davie
1977, Nov. Ocala National Forest
1977, Oct. Belleview
1977, Oct. Apopka
1977, July Tavenier Key
1977, May Labelle
1977, May Nobelton
1977, April Moon Lake
1977, Feb. Moon Lake
1975, Jan. West Palm
1975, Coral Springs
1975, March Dade County
1975, March Lake Okeechobee
1975, Feb. Gainesville
1975, Feb. Cape Coral
1975, Jan. Mirimar
1976, June Grove City
1974, Nov. Corkscrew Swamp
1974, Sept. Palm Beach County
1974, Jan. Ft. Lauderdale
1974, Hialeah Gardens
1971, Aug. Ft. Lauderdale
1969, Davie
1967, Summer Elfers
1966, Dec. Anclote River
1966, Nov. Elfers
1966, Summer Elfers
1966, Brooksville
1963, Holopaw
1957, Spring Big Cypress Swamp
1947, Lakeland
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Posted: Sun Jun 29th, 2008 12:02 pm |
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| I think the world is a more interesting place with legends about.
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Posted: Sun Jun 29th, 2008 05:37 am |
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Alright then...after looking at that site and reading it all I will now ask yet another question.
Does anyone believe in this? That a "skunk ape" inhabits and can survive in the Everglades and/or Okeechobee.
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Posted: Sun Jun 29th, 2008 03:06 am |
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P.VanTassell wrote: Alright I'll bite...what is the Okeechobee Skunk Ape?
And why does anyone think that an ape would live here?
Or is this a joke and I'm taking it too far?
And can I possibly fit another question into this reply?
The Skunk Ape is the Florida version of the Yeti or Bigfoot.
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P.VanTassell
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Posted: Sun Jun 29th, 2008 02:20 am |
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Alright I'll bite...what is the Okeechobee Skunk Ape?
And why does anyone think that an ape would live here?
Or is this a joke and I'm taking it too far?
And can I possibly fit another question into this reply?
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Posted: Sat Jun 28th, 2008 12:41 pm |
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| He was in my class this year. He is a great reader .. probably reading this now. We tried to recruit him for the basketball team but he stunk too bad. LOL
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Pied piper
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Posted: Sat Jun 28th, 2008 12:39 pm |
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And I thought you were talking about the women of okeechobee!
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Posted: Sat Jun 28th, 2008 12:27 am |
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| LOL Sure it was not my ex-husband?? LOL
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Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 11:02 pm |
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Icare wrote: I used to think the Okeechobee Skunk Ape was a legend, but I think I saw it over in the woods on 70 West just before the turn off to the Lazy 7 area. Anyone else have a sighting?
Ciphered wrote:
I saw him at Wal-Mart Saturday. He was with Elvis.
Oh God, did my ex-wife find me here in Okeechobee ? 
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Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 10:55 pm |
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I saw him at Wal-Mart Saturday. He was with Elvis.
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Posted: Fri Jun 27th, 2008 10:33 pm |
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| I used to think the Okeechobee Skunk Ape was a legend, but I think I saw it over in the woods on 70 West just before the turn off to the Lazy 7 area. Anyone else have a sighting?
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