You were right the first time lady, you saw a Giant Sloth. It can
run on all fours and it can run upright. The gait is almost primate
like except there is a sideways sway observed in another report.
Another swamp ape reports catches it picking at road kill.
It is plausible that both the bigfoot and the giant sloth operate in
the South, however the Giant sloth is well adapted for Southern
Swamps while the Bigfoot is no better adapted than we are. In the
event this is only the second report that recognized a giant Sloth
when they saw one.
I am sorry to say that our silly assumption that the Giant sloth was
a slow moving critter is dead wrong. We already knew that from the
other reports we are uncovering but this makes it explicitly clear.
Much more important is that the natural habitat for a giant sloth is
up in large old trees able to support their path-finding even deep
into swamps were nothing can follow them. It is also comfortable in
water when it needs to be which is why we have observed mud covered
examples.
The creature is certainly as solitary as the Bigfoot appears to be
and it can range widely. It is not limited to a specific terrain and
has been spotted even in this short review from swamps to high
country.
The footprint is quite different from the wide Bigfoot print and is
clearly clawed. This is the beginning of a search.
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by Linda Florea
September 5, 2012
WINTER HAVEN --
It's had more sightings than Elvis.
They
call it Wookie in Louisiana, Yeti in Nepal, Yowie in
Australia and Susquatch in Canada. In Florida, it's called Swamp
Ape, Skunk Ape, Stink Ape or Stink Man. More plainly put,
Bigfoot.
For one local man, finding the creature has become
like searching for the Holy Grail, and he is teaming up
with other believers the first week in November for a
field-research class through Florida Keys
Community College. He hopes to bring back proof of its
existence.
"I know it's there. I know it on
several levels," said Scott Marlowe, a founder of the
Pangea Institute in Winter Haven and instructor of an online
class in cryptozoology, the study of creatures that may or
may not exist, through Florida Keys Community College.
"Of
all the species on earth, man is presumed to be the only one that
has one example of its genus -- the only genus that has only one
species still alive. All other species have more than one."
Marlowe
isn't the only one with faith that the creature exists.
Patricia
Edwards of Lakeland has seen what she believes is the Swamp Ape in
the Green Swamp. Although her sighting was in the fall of 2002, it
was not until she read about another sighting that she decided to
go public.
It
began when she was going to visit a relative in an Ocala hospital.
The morning was clear, and she was driving along Country
Road 471, a long, straight stretch of road through the Green
Swamp. She said she saw something less than a half block away.
"If I
live to be a couple hundred years old, the story will not change,"
said Edwards, 69. "There was very little traffic and I see
something that ran out in front of me. It looked like a giant
sloth except I know they're slow moving -- this one
moved fast and dove down into the edge of the road into a ditch
area.''
"It started out running, galloping on
fours like a dog, but when it dove I could see the arms come up.
It was sizable, almost like a bear, but not a bear, not the way
its arms moved."
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