So in the afternoons, I watch a little Escape TV because they run these old true crime shows. Within that marathon of TV watching is a program you might be familiar with called Unsolved Mysteries.
NOT the original series with Robert Stack, I'm talking about the last one with Ferina and in one episode they did a segment on the sightings of the Florida skunk ape.
Let me just say that I loved me some Unsolved Mysteries when I was growing up and the new show is about as exciting, but we live in a different time with practical technology, legitimacy and facts. The only people fucking that up these days are the same people that are trying to convince us that the skunk ape is real.
At the end of the program they showed an update on the case and it shows one of two pictures, the one you see if the one which better identifies what we might be looking at.
According to the report on those photos, the woman who took them said in a letter that she thought it was an escaped Orangutan:
Maybe it's because the information is too old (fifteen years old, can you believe it!?) that I couldn't find anything on it, or maybe I'm just incompetent when it comes to research. I'll take that.
I also felt I had something to say about that a post someone made on that Finding BigFoot show that just pisses me off:
Unfortunately there’s no such thing as magic, there are no skunk apes and no supernatural beings anywhere to be found. Instead, we have these crooks running around trying to get people to believe in something while they snag money away from everyone else. Sure advertisers don’t care since they too make money off of these guys to make for a compelling show, but these dudes have also been out there actively conning the rest of us. I know I come across as livid here but let’s face it, it is entertaining.
And really, though I said it is entertaining, I think we have to come to some kind of public understanding that we know these guys are taking us for a ride. I mean, what more of a guideline do you need than when the center of odd news Coast To Coast AM calls out a bigfoot hunting conman out on the air for scamming people out of a lot of money?