A friend of mine from Shelby County,Al told us a story about a creature they called Skunk Ape. He told us that one late evening that him and a friend were going through a train tunnel through a mountain about a quarter mile long, as a short cut home. They were almost to the other end when started to smell this horrible smell and loud scream. They turned around and saw the outline of something big and hairy standing on the rails at the end of the tunnel behind them. They ran and did not look back. Has anybody else from the south heard of this or chalk it up to a good story.

Here is an interesting page about the skunk ape, with pictures:

http://www.lorencoleman.com/myakka.html

Or to read other interesting stories of the Skunk Ape ( Bigfoot) go here

http://www.bfro.net/


that is other sightings

the skunk ape pics are interesting some say its an orangatan but i dont think so from the pics

That freaks me out.Those pictures look like what he described. Went to that BFRO site, and on there was one sighting in Selby County and one in Madison County on Green Mountain. I used to live no more than 15min. from this mountain and ride fourwheelers at the foot by the river lately. We also canoe and camp on this same river. I really need to start taking a camera.

That would be awesome if you got pictures. Good luck

ugh....the skunkape is from the everglades...and we dont have freakin moutians here in florida. So really your friend is lying...because the skunkape is an everglades creature that is it. I've been hunting in the everglades plenty of times...we just dont have mountains in florida.

When I first saw that Skunk Ape photo it freaked me out. I think its more accurate than any other photo of a giant ape myth.

Good capture of the Skunk Ape, I bet the woman taking that photo was scared out of her mind, makes you think whats still to be discovered.

Well, im not sure about him or her in alabama but i can tell you the story i have:

I was born an raised in Miami, im 36 now, my Dad told me his story and i will share it with you...When i was around 5 or 6, i guess between 1973 an 76 my dad worked for the dade county puplic works,anyway him and his crew were some of the first men to help build and set up the grounds for the Miami International Airport, he told me about the day they were out there putting the fences up that surround the property, now back then there where allot of woods and hardly no roads so he says....they put up about 3 to 5 miles of fence up that week and were goofing off on that friday because they were way ahead of schedule, at lunch time there was a small lake out in the woods and they decided to go there and eat, he said it was around 11:30 - 12:00 , he said it was a sunny, bright day out so they went under a big ficas tree too eat and get out of the heat, he said to this day he will never forget the smell that made him sick to his stomach, the other guys thought maybe it was a dead animal nearby because they have seen a couple dead dear around where they were working the day before but this smell was unbearable, he described it as something dead,ammonia and sulfur mixed? anyway they were joking around about it when they heard a splash in the water, my dad looked toward the lake, one of the guys yelled that it was just a big fish jumping but my dad quickly corrected him and said that is no fish, they walked closer to the lake and thats when he realized that it looked like a big brown bear swimming to the other side, they watched it for about a minute to see what it was up to, he told me that when it got to the other side that it kinda jumped out and what freaked them all out is instead of it crawling or trotting away(like a bear or dog would walk) it jumped out of the lake and starting walking upright like you and me? he said it did not look back at them so he could not see the face but was not a person...or animal that they have ever seen, he said it didn't run away just a quick wobble walk, the interesting thing is that he said it looked like it had a stick or some sort of long piece of wood in its hands, i asked him if they tried to follow it.. he said Hell no, i guess i wouldn't either, he said after that him an his crew never talked about again. I did not ask why im sure they have there reasons....he said that the thing was to him about 5 1/2 to 6 1/2 ft tall, brown in color with 2 light brown or browny orangy spots on its back, it walked upright but hunched in its posture, 2 of his crew got transferred cause they would not go out their again but my dad said that Monday he was back there again and the 10 years he was there after never seen it again, he did say that a couple years after that some of the guys said they were out around the spot were he saw the thing and called him on the radio about an awful smell that they were smelling right around lunch time, but he didn't say anything to them about what it might be....and no one has ever told him that they seen anything else out there....

how do you know something is hairy from its outline?

Ok, first of all I want to say that no Hominoids (ape) has ever evolved in the Americas. And that if one did it would not look like an ape found only on two islands in south east Asia. The only kind of primate found in the Americas are the New World Monkeys, witch do not look anything like a Hominoid. The only places you’ll find a new type of Hominoid is in Asia or Africa.

never say never because monkeys are the only know apes living in america doesnt mean that something unknown doesnt live in the country

Who said they evolved here in North America. Many animals such as the giant hyena, the cave lion, the mammoth and the mastodon migrated to North America from Asia. Horses went in the opposite direction. They first evolved in North America then migrated to Asia, then into Europe.


Lapi'che

Ok just because you and all the books that you have read and all the tv specials you've seen say that its impossible for a giant ape to be roaming around the North American continent without anyone knowing about it doesn't mean that it's true. Because people know about it but they are all probably afraid of people like you who will say that they are crazy and ridicule them. It wasn't until the early 1900s that we found out that gorillas were actually real. Hell some african tribes are still finding out about them today cause they have never seen them before. Same with the Giant Squid no one believed in them until dead bodies started beaching on the shores. Science has been put to the test many times and if it has to it will change again.

Edgar Rice Burroughs a former adventurer and scout for the U.S. cavalry in the Southwest wrote about "mythical" great apes in his 'Tarzan' novels in which he basicly described giant chimpanzees. These giant chimps were only discovered a few years back and only after poachers had worked their way into the animals territory and started killing them off. Now they are just about extinct and not long after their discovery.
Older people in both the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and the Florida Swamps both talk about the Jersey Devil and the Skunk Ape as if it were just another animal. They just clam up around strangers.

Lapi'che

Piney, my coment was directed toward odin sorry if you took it the wrong way
I've heard about those giant chimps they're very interesting.
and those are all good points. im sure if someone did prove old B.F.'s existance, every gun toting red neck would be craming into the woods to bag themselves a bigfoot

My comment was directed at Odin too. I was just agreeing with you and I really agree with you on your last comment. You wouldn't believe how many Jersey Devil hunters I've escorted off my property. The most hilarious was two teens carrying a .22 rifle.

Lapi'che

This is why i love this site, Everybody has an opinion and voices it and make's quality points on other ppl's comments, Now for mine... I don't think that if say i were in the wood's fishing or hunting and minding my own Business when (all of a sudden) i see a Bigfoot or swamp monster or anything that ppl tell me is not real, there's no way it can be there like UFO"s. i have personally seen things that i have no clue what the hell it is, but i, being a normal sane person would have doubts on rather i would say something to my family or friends because i would not want to be known as the (oh there he is ) guy..lol,

But i do respect other ppl's views and what they say they see because YOU NEVER KNOW..........

Odin11, i was wondering if you have your pirate uniform in your closet? Due to your aviator.........

the14u2cee,
Of course I do. May The Flying Spaghetti Monster bless us all with His Noodly Appendage.

I mean no disrespect to anyone. And I would never call someone crazy because they think they saw something. For as long as humans have been on the earth they have seen things that they can not explain. I know I have.

The closest primate that looks like Bigfoot or the Skunk Ape that I know of is a member of the extinct ape genus Gigantopithecus. Fossils indicate that a vegetarian ape larger than the gorilla lived in East Asia at about the same time that members of the genus Homo began to inhabit the region. It could have migrated here but there are no fossils of any Gigantopithecus found in America, and I don’t think it could have lived here. It’s a tropical animal, as are all apes.

I have never heard of giant chimpanzees, I’ve heard of bonobos, but they were known as pygmy Chimps. Can anyone post a link? I want to learn more.

'National Geographic Magazine' I am digging through the archive right now and will return with a link and the bigfoot on the East Coast and West coast seem to be omnivores. Gigantos were knuckle walker's on top of being diet specific (bamboo) and could not possibly be Bigfoot.

Lapi'che

I know Gigantos can't be Bigfoot, but it can be The Yeti in Asia.

I don’t know that much about Bigfoot but they say their bipedal, they have no reason to be. Humans only became bipedal due to the fact that we started going out into the plans. Why would Bigfoot be, if he lives in forest are swamp? And again I do not think there is Bigfoot in America, but there could be in Asia.

And thanks if you get the link.

Dude if a Hairy oratangan can live in a steaming hot jungle than he can life in florida

I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE ... OVERGROWN GORRILLAS

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...strangeape.html

Heres sumthing about the giant chimps of the congo

I TELL YOU MONKEYS WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!

btw the skunk ape in the very first pic looks like hes smiling...but i have a BIG imagination...

I know florida people like exotic animals but really who wants a probply a finger eating gorilla in there house Geeezzzz!!