Get ready to smell what the Florida Man is cooking in this latest installment of Faecraft! Holly and Chelsea dig into the stinky cryptid prowling Floriday from the Everglades to the Keys: the Skunk Ape. They discuss the ape's biggest proponents, Florida's history, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the correlation between white nationalism and cryptozoology.
Sources:
- Atlanta Daily World, July 21 1977. "Fla. Family Cowers in Fear of Prowling 'Skunk Ape.'"
- Chicago Defender, Jan. 10 1974
- Connolly, Patrick. "Searching for Florida's Skunk Ape: Chasing the Sunshine State's Sasquatch in the Everglades," June 27, 2021 Orlando Sentinel
- Dickinson, Joy Wallace. "Skunk Ape among State's Odd Legends," Oct. 10 2021, Orlando Sentinel
- Knight, Henry. "Savages of Southern Sunshine": Racial Realignment of the Seminoles in the Selling of Jim Crow Florida
- Shealy's Official Skunk Ape Headquarters
- Stromberg, Joseph. "On the Train of Florida's Bigfoot--the Skunk Ape," March 6, 2014
- "The Man Behind Florida's Favorite Cryptid: The Skunk Ape," Atlas Obscura, 2015
- Todd, Verna. "Tribal Beliefs About Bigfoot," The Journal of Chickasaw History and Culture, vol. 13, is. 1 (spring 2012)
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