Hello and welcome to the program UFO warning, today's topic skunk
Apes. That's correct, skunk Apes.
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The Pentagon report came out on the UFO subject.
Looks like it's pretty much a nothing burger.
Just like I thought it would be, they've looked at 144 reports.
One of them was a drone 144 reports that since 2004 seems
pretty unlikely to me, but I, Guess that's what happens when
you classify every sighting as a drone.
So instead of looking at that this week, I decided look at
something that I was interested in.
And I wanted to continue little bit was Bigfoot Topic in
particular, what's called a skunk ape, which some people
think is a subspecies of the Bigfoot family, and a lot of
times, you see, these down in the Southeast and specifically
in Florida, and that's where it seems to be a lot of good
stories out. I've got several Links at the
website UFO, warning.com, it's you UFO, warning.com you can go
there and Link the Articles and a pretty good video.
I think it was apparently produced by Les Stroud.
He's not in the videos and other fellow.
It doesn't narration of it and they do a lot of interviews.
I thought it was really well done, well done documentary on
the subject to skunk Apes with some pretty fascinating cases in
there. Now goes on here from this first
article that we're looking at comes out of West Palm,
Beach.com. And the title says the skunk ape
Florida's Bigfoot. It begins by saying for
centuries Florida's Seminoles called from called them the St
kept cocky are tall man. Today they are known as the
skunk ape and Palm Beach County has had its fair share of
sightings understandably. Most people are skeptical that
such a creature ever existed sightings peaked in the 1970s.
Is residential construction began encroaching on their
habitat, driving them further into the Everglades.
Regardless, some of these sightings were very credible.
The average skunk ape has a Shaggy reddish dark brown hair
stands approximately, seven feet tall and weighs in the vicinity
of 400 to 500 pounds. Then there is the smell reported
to be snow reported to be a carnivore.
And Seminole, Legend says, the SE cupp, I get pronounced St.
Jep, jockey was cannibalistic. The earliest published report of
a skunk ape that the term was coined in the 1960s was Um,
Suwannee County East of Tallahassee in 1942, when a man
said that one of the creatures hitched a ride on the running
board of his car for nearly a half, a mile before jumping off
and racing into the woods. Now, I do have much older
accounts in that will get into and 1957 three Hunters said that
one of the creatures invaded their camp in the Big Cypress,
National Preserve east of Naples in the southwestern corner of
the state, the distance between Suwannee County and National
Preserve is nearly 400 miles. There have been multiple skunk
ape sightings in Palm Beach. Hernando, Pasco Munroe Carter
counties in 1973 American cryptozoologist Loren Coleman,
suggested the Crump, the skunk ape be added to the extinct.
Genus Rio Pittacus There's a law that says David Shaylee.
First saw a skunk ape in 1973 when he was 9 years old a few
years after his father discovered a set of footprints.
He was deer hunting with his brother Jack and the Big Cypress
National Preserve. I was walking across a swamp and
my brother spotted at first, she leaves recalled.
But he couldn't see her. The grass, I wasn't tall enough.
My brother picked me up and I saw it about 100 yards away.
It looked like a man but completely covered with hair
today. She Lee owns and operates the
skunk ape Research Center and Ochopee a small town, adjacent
to the Big Cypress National Preserve.
He believes there are seven to nine of the creatures
inhabiting, the Everglades, just after midnight in January 9th,
1974, Richard Lee Smith. Slammed his car.
In his, something near the Intersection of US Route, 27 and
Hollywood Boulevard on the Eastern edge of the Everglades
and Pembroke Minds in Pembroke Pines Smith, told the Florida,
Highway Patrol that he intent that he initially thought.
He'd hit a stall man in dark clothing but he was stunned.
When seven when a seven or eight foot tall, hairy creature lifted
itself off the road roared at him and charged his car Smith.
Got his engine and took off over the next four hours drivers in
the area report. Being a limping giant walking
along u.s. 27 officers were dispatched in a to 12 a.m.
Hialeah. Gardens patrolman reported a
huge hairy creature. Limping along the road, a few
miles from the accident scene before it disappeared into the
brush at Don. Police searched the swamp of two
helicopters that failed to find anything, Vietnam War, veteran,
and form, and former police officer, Charles Stickman, his
wife Leslie and three children lived on the Ocean Side.
Near marmara, mile marker. 94.5 on Key Largo on July, 14 1977
Stockman and his 13 year old son, Charlie.
We're collecting bottles in the thick red, mangroves behind
their home. When they caught sight of an
enormous 8 or 9 foot tall, skunk ape quote, it had a huge Head
and Shoulders tuchman said long fur all over it and it stink
like a dirty wet, dog, the noise he made was a high-pitched
wailing Stockman. 30 feet of brush, from around his home, to
discourage a return visit. But the overpowering stench of
the skunk ape, persisted over several nights.
Then local law enforcement received a call about a massive
creature. Crouched beneath the cover of a
shed on this token property, Monroe County Sheriff.
Deputy Bill Heiss Florida, Main Patrol, Captain Jack Gillian and
Sergeant. Randall chin from the
plantation. Key substation investigated.
There is definitely a problem there.
Officer. And reported these people are
scared to death. Mrs. Stockman fled, to Homestead
with her children, after catching a glimpse of the
creature, 30 feet, outside her bedroom window, you can imagine
that. Although no trace of the skunk
ape was found Charles token, slept alone with his shotgun for
almost a month before joining his family.
In Dade County. This is strange.
They've seen this giant, you know, four five six hundred
pound ape-like creature but they don't say anything about any
tracks. That's strange to me at 2 p.m.
on Wednesday, July 16th, 1997, Steven good bread.
Guide for a pelican tourist was driving.
A bus with 30 tourist along, tournament River Road.
In a Big Cypress just to east of hup.
Okay. Ochopee he was stopped at a
wooden bridge when he observed a large creature, standing erect
behind some brush approximately 70 yards away.
It was about seven feet tall and thick, brown hair covering its
entire body. The creature was rocking back
and forth shaking the bushes and appeared irritated by their
presence. That's something we see.
I'm at the zoo do sometimes says good bread and his passion is
observed what they believed to be a skunk ape for about at
least 15 minutes, he tried to persuade one tourist.
With a telephone with a telephoto lens on her camera to
exit the bus and take photos, but she refused and retrospect
good bread. Said it was probably a good idea
that no one got off the bus, he drove away with the creature
still in sight. Even though good bread had
always believed in the possibility that the skunk ape
existed. He was shaken by the experience
and refused to Advertise or exploit the skunk ape with his
tours and as a picture here, with the reported to be a
Bigfoot, or skunk ape less than a week later at 7:45 a.m.
July 21st, 1997, real estate agent Jack Jan, Brooke spotted,
a skunk ape across your front of her while driving on Burns Road
and Big Cypress. She described it as very Shaggy
looking. Maybe six and a half or seven
feet tall. 15 minutes after Jam Brooks encounter.
But you be fire. Chief Vincent door.
Photograph the same skunk ape after it entered the forest near
his home at first, I thought it was a bear but Bears don't stay
up on two legs. The way, this thing was door
said 20th century reports of the skunk ape and Palm Beach County
are numerous, quote, I know it exists, Palm Beach County
Sheriff's, deputy Marvin Lewis, insisted in 1980, he and fellow
Deputy Ernie, minor shot a tall creature, 1974, west of Lantana
that grunted and quickly disappeared into the In June
1974 Lake Worth farmer. But he starts at a skunk ape
lifted, one of his Hogs, weighing over 100 pounds and
ripped it to pieces and September, woman security guard,
carry canner shot, a skunk after it approached shot a skunk ape
after it approached him from out of the woods and ignores his
commands to stop the wounded creature, ran back into the
brush. It is interesting to note that
1974 the Everglades was experiencing a record drought
and wildfires. Fires that might explain why
these things are on the Move in 1977, two workers reported
seeing a 7-foot tall hairy ape-like creature ship, sipping
water, from a lake on a golf course near Delray Beach.
Notified Palm Beach County. Animal Control, Florida, skunk
skunk ape sightings persist into the 21st century here.
It says, I December 29th. On December 29, 2000 the service
of the sheriff's department received an anonymous letter
with to enclose photos from a woman, purporting to show what
her husband believed was an escaped orangutan that had been
stealing fruit from their back porch.
She never mentioned anything about a skunk a, but the photo
clearly shows a large primate. That is definitely not an
orangutan, the letter began enclosed, please find some
pictures. I took my husband thinks he does
an orangutan is someone missing an orangutan the woman wrote
that for two nights it Take an apples from heard on her
daughter. Brought down from up North off
their back porch. The photos were taken on the
third night after she went out to investigate a repetition of
deep, whoop noises. She aimed your camera is
something that moved to the darkness behind.
You saw palmetto bushes at the rear of the property after a
quickly snapping to photos each accompanied by a blinding flash
that creature retreated into the woods.
The woman wrote that. It's a no it's a no Awful smell
lasted long. After it left the area, she
leased her dog in the backyard and it never returned.
The woman signed off. God bless.
I prefer to remain anonymous. She wouldn't give her name, but
wrote that the incident occurred on the property, near I-75 each
of Sarasota in an area. That includes the mic, her River
and the my car State Park the creature has, since been become
known as they my car skunk ape and have a picture there.
As I said, you can link to this article on the website.
You have a warning.com because honest is many richer.
Leave that skunk apes are descendants of orangutans that
escaped from traveling circuses in the frequent in Florida
during the mid 20th century. While it is true, that many
sightings have described the creature as resembling an
orangutan. The average orangutan stands,
only four and a half feet tall and weighs less than 200 pounds.
Many of these skunk Apes have been reported to be at least
seven feet in height. It would also not explain why a
tall swamp creature known as the Aztecs Pocky has been seen by
the Seminole Holes in the Everglades for over 200 years,
pretty pretty neat article there.
Now, we have another article on the same subject here of the the
skunk apes. And I want to take a look at
this one right here once. and this one comes to us, from
Anomaly alien.com and it's called the okra fee and counter.
Now it says it starts. This is also linked at the
website UFO morning.com. Let's see here.
It says while some of the swamp has been opened up today with
modern roads and guided tours, it was different back in 1829.
When a group of men had a fatal encounter with what could only
be described as a giant Bigfoot. It says two men that lived in
the outer area of the Okefenokee decided to explore into the
swamp. After a couple of weeks, the men
were shocked by what they saw Footprints.
Um, 18 inches long, and 9 inches wide.
The men quickly headed for home fearing.
The Beast that was responsible for the gigantic Prince.
The two men told their strange story to others living in the
swamp. And soon a group of seven, men
decided to go back into the swamp to hunt down the creature,
after a couple of weeks group was at the spot.
Where the two men found the giant print.
It was still there is it was late in the day, the men settled
in planning to continue the hunt for the following day in this.
And then in seconds, the gigantic Beach Beast was in
their Camp, exploding out of dense vegetation, a creature,
some 13 feet tall, and covered with hair, the men grabbed their
weapons and opened fire. Although wounded the creature
continued on a tack. The man five of the seven men
were killed the creature. Then collapse mortally wounded
as the to Divers looked on the dying, be slit, let out a
terrifying. Screams the two men, feared, the
screens would attract more of the creatures flood, the area at
leaving their fall and fellow Hunters behind the truth of this
report can never be known. It may have been written for
entertainment purposes, but if it is 1 it, but if it is true,
it is one of the earliest written reports of encounter
with a bigfoot-type creature by non-native American, and that is
the kind of that. It's been floating around there
for some time. Of course, the problem with the
older accounts like that, unless you have, you know, more names
dates and places are really hard to verify, but I thought it was
kind of interesting used to throw that in there.
It kind of adds a little bit to the lure.
Now I want to look at one one more article here that the
subject is so fascinating to me. This one comes from BFRO dotnet
and then it's a Bigfoot research organization.
I believe dotnet also linked at the website UFO warning.com and
this is real. Port number 44, 837 submitted by
witness on Wednesday. April 16, 2014.
It says years of South Florida Skunk Ape story supported by
witness accounts and newspaper articles and sixth year 1974.
Season summer month, July 20th, Florida, Brevard counter
Sunshine, Acres University Road, 106, 2011, Town, Davey, Nearest
Road University roads, to see the tell you right there where
it's at, when it happened, very nice.
Observed in 1974, says witness says I was 12 years old.
My sister and her family and divine Florida with my cousin,
a, who was 15 at the time. One night, we were sleeping on a
pull-out couch. In the sitting room, when we
smelled something like a skunk only worse, we asked my sister,
what it was, and she said it was the Skunk ape and he comes
around in the hottest Summers, we didn't believe her.
So we asked our friends and they said it was real One night while
she was sleeping. We, we seen a huge Shadow come
across the picture window. Then it turned looked at itself
and let out a blood-curdling scream that scared us half to
death. Then it turned and walked to the
side of the house and we followed it by going in the side
bathroom. There it squatted down to eat a
wall to watermelon. Then it went to the back of the
house to a man-made lake squatted down and drink some
water, a few nights later, the Beast, attacked a wild horse and
the Corral. But the horse Got Away by
jumping over the Corral and ran off into the pasture.
The Rancher came out and took a few shots at the beast, but I
got away when the horse came back, it had fingerprints on its
hind quarters, not scratches but finger marks.
A few nights later, the Beast came and killed a farmer's bull.
The farmer took a few shots of the beast, but missed it.
At the same time, my sister and her husband Jay, we're coming
home from a night out and the sheriff.
And his Deputy were on patrol. We jumped into His car and
follow the deputy when the Beast stepped out of the darkness and
was hit by the police car, the Beast went down and when it got
up, it looked into the police car and let out a blood-curdling
yell. We were about 10 feet behind the
deputy's car. When the Beast hit, the police
car with both hands and the back of the car came off the ground,
then it limped off into the swamp when the sheriff got out
of the car, when the sheriff, when the when the sheriff got
out of the car, It looked like it hit a utility pole, just then
the farmer came over and told the sheriff that his prized bull
was dead. This bowl was huge, at least a
ton when it with his head ripped off and thrown across the
pasture. That's when they called in the
state, police with their horses and dogs and helicopters.
They search the swamp all night, but found nothing says here.
Also, notice underground caverns in the swamps off the banks of
the canals for Witnesses in the family.
Yes, on the skunk ape website in Florida.
And it says, I am flood lights on all corners of the house
centralized environmental in the Everglades.
Wow, that's really neat. There was another case that is
brought up, it's a have a link to a report about it on the
website I won't go into reading it right now but you can go look
it up and it was also in the documentary that's the video
document. That's linked their the Les
Stroud produce documentary and it goes back to Believe 74-79.
They had an interview there with one of the guys involved.
What happened was there was a fire and this was in the
Everglades better, particularly dry year.
There's been a fire that year, several fires and they were out.
He said this guy had been a game warden for, I believe, it was
for the federal Park service. And so him and a co-worker were
out in a pickup truck. And he said, one of their jobs
was after one of these first went through was to go.
In and pick up any dead animals off the road, basically, that's
a had died from smoke, inhalation.
Or if they were to find one there that was distressed and I
thought they could say that would bring it back and they
would, you know, try to perform Medical Services to the Critter
to get it back. Released any way he describes
how they were going along and they hit one of these things, a
skunk ape and the truck they were driving had, a big brush
Garden. You want to brush card is like
basically just big steel pipes in the front of that truck that
in case you hit a deer you pushed your brush or something.
It doesn't doesn't damage your radiator that much.
And so of course when they hit this 8 that Rush guard took all
of the took all of the impact and save the truck from being
totaled. So anyway they knock this thing
down and turns out it's a small one.
I think it was like four or five foot tall.
Maybe they thought maybe they killed a person.
They didn't know. I mean, it first.
Yeah. But obviously, when we looked at
it wasn't, you know, they said they could tell it wasn't a
bear. I could tell it wasn't a monkey.
So as I recall, they loaded the thing up the back of the truck,
finally, and they took it back to the office or whatever.
And the next thing, you know, they're in an interrogation room
with a couple of basically Men In Black and these guys 3M.
I think take them back out to the site of where it happened
and just more or less threatened them and told them, hey, you
know, you're not going to talk about this again.
When you hit was a bear, you know, this Bigfoot talk is going
to stop and just more or less you know put it out there and
they're pretty in a pretty violent way actually there
anyway and they talk about, you know that situation.
It makes you wonder will you know, what will they have to
cover up? Why would they even care?
If there's some there's some connection here with a deep
state which got me to thinking about a story that Stroud
himself touched on a little bit you say you don't want to get
into it, but he did mention it. And I think it's pretty
fascinating really on one of the episodes I watched with him, he
was up on a mountain. I try to make contact with you
sayings, which you basically did make contact because he had some
apples Cleopatra's disappeared. There's no way that there was a
bear Broder anything like that to me some really strange stuff
it happened but he said that night on the mountain Four
lights were just off the distance suspended and he said
they weren't like there were. I think, what we would call orbs
basically, and he said, they weren't airplanes.
He said, if they were airplanes, that would have been the size of
a football field. You know?
I mean, they were just enormous. And then the next day they had
these, these, you know, Bigfoot, well, suspected Bigfoot
encounter, and I think, I think less was almost a little bit
hesitant to make it possible. Section there between, although
he did mention it, between Bigfoot and ET, your Bigfoot in
any kind of extradimensional, interdimensional type stuff.
But you see this, come up and up again.
And what I guess what I'm a little bit unsure about is some
of the some of the accounts you read a people shooting these
things. They do show, physical wounds,
it act wounded, they act hurt the ACT is or they've been
physically injured and then in other cases you hear, they say
well I shot the thing. And I just like it exploded into
a blue blaze of light or something.
It's whether it's almost, you know, you're getting two
separate types of accounts here one that they're somehow
physical and one that there's some of them metaphysical.
But either way it just like when you had the art with the head,
the article talking about the one there in the Everglades,
where it was coming up behind the house, and these kids were
home, the things, walk all over the place, and you go outside
the next day and there's no sign of it.
But you would suspect, it was walking around your yard.
There be some Cracks you suspect that if this creature is
actually physical, but if it's metaphysical, maybe not.
And that's what I think I find them was fascinating about this
when this Bigfoot thing is that it just, it just crosses the
lines crosses lines all over the place and, and it crosses the
lines is behaviors across those lines and evidence left behind,
and it's like Straw Hat. Straw pointed out, you know,
there's been a bunch of DNA tested on these things and a lot
of his come back inconclusive. It's come back primate.
They had one come back, 95% human-like.
The last time I checked the chimpanzee was like, 97 % human.
I mean, to say, but, but from the lab, you know, the feeling
you get is like, oh well, it's 95% human.
So, you know, that just means is front person.
It's got some contamination in it.
That's not it at all. You're not telling us what it
is. You're telling us that it's
something human-like. But, you know, even a coconut or
a pineapple is going to have some common DNA with a human.
So let's be real here, not right?
Telling us anything what you're telling us is that it's not,
it's non-human, that's what you're telling us.
I mean, if we depend on these labs to determine whether or not
somebody faces the death penalty, I mean, if they're, if
they're making decisions that important, it should be able to
tell us whether or not a suspected Bigfoot, blood sample
comes back as human or Not, Human not just come back and
say, well, it's 95% human. It's not good enough.
I mean you're the same lab that we're using to determine if
somebody lives or dies in a murder case you can do better
than that. You can tell us what is this
thing? Is it human?
Or is it not human and not telling us that it's 95% humans.
Not good enough, not in my opinion.
Just that's that's like refusing to admit that you don't know
what it is. Okay?
And if you can't determine what it is and why are we depending
upon you determine the guilt or innocence, somebody can be
facing the death penalty. Your life in prison really?
I mean it's just we have a real epidemic in this country of
people not wanting to apply the scientific method of thought,
two things that really need it. There's plenty of things that we
can that we can apply our opinion to or our own personal
thinking to, I mean, but when it comes to things where we're
talking about We're talking about evidence-based stuff.
We should do a lot better job of applying the scientific method
of things doing our very best to make sure that we rule out
mistakes doing our very best to make sure that our opinions
aren't clouding. The evidence.
We saw that happen. A lot.
This covid thing, wear a mask wear masks.
Where's the scientific evidence? Show us the studies.
I see the same thing happening with this Bigfoot thing.
People are Faithfully sitting in these Bigfoot samples, but we're
not really getting the answers back that we deserve, you know,
are they? Are they forming a base of the
samples so we can find commonalities so they can say oh
yeah, this is a Bigfoot sample. We don't have one alive but we
know this is the same DNA that came in the last five samples
are. They just blowing us off and
saying, oh, it's 95% human doesn't mean anything.
But just this we don't know anything more now than we did
before you tested it. And secondly, it's interesting
to see a lot of these groups, you know, really getting out
there in the woods and trying to make contact and stuff.
But I'm not sure how much good they're doing other than just,
maybe raising some awareness of it.
But at the same time, there is some room for investigation
here, you know, dr. Greer seems to think somehow
that I think you mentioned something about the Deep State
being connected with this phenomena.
Maybe, I mean, who knows? Maybe this thing's been around
for Generations since the Native Americans have believed in him
for thousands of years, but you No, maybe it's a phenomenon has
been around long enough. That doesn't mean that actors in
the Deep State couldn't have somehow try to corrupt this
thing or get in contact with it or you to use this phenomena to
their advantage, some kind of super soldier, who knows but
there's lots of information on lots of encounters and that's
probably kind of funnest thing about this.
It seems like the encounters make the newspapers a lot more
of these and people seem to do people seem to do a little
better job. It's a little easier for them to
explain. What happened?
Because they see this Bigfoot of the skunk ape or whatever you
want to call it, and they're able to think of it in physical
terms. So, their mind is able to
actually create a narrative that we can that we can communicate
to each other. It's not something that's so far
out there with like some of these UFO encounters that it
almost defies an explanation. And so that makes that makes for
some good reading. Actually.
Until next time, though, this is you with a warning Over now.