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 Quest for the Skunk Ape |
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MIAMI — The scene: the Everglades, mysterious in the darkness.
Four college kids, armed only with a night-vision camera, trudge through palmetto thicket, guided by a snake-booted man who claims to have had multiple encounters with the state's most elusive creature.
They seek a half-man, half-simian, fully reeking legend known as the Skunk Ape.
A curious rustling draws them closer. Nervous patter. Closer. What is making those sounds? Closer. Suddenly, a blinding flash, screams and ....
This is not some cheesy monster movie. It's the real experience of Florida International University film students who spent months on the trail of one of the shaggiest tales in folklore — the Skunk Ape, aka Florida's Bigfoot.
What they found in "Footprints," a brisk and engaging documentary completed last month for a class project, won't rewrite anthropology texts.
Turns out that unsettling flash came from an automatic camera set up by their guide to record what a skeptical world still awaits — ironclad evidence of the existence of the Skunk Ape, Yeti, Sasquatch and other hulking, hairy relations.
"We looked and we looked, and, of course, we didn't find anything. We came to the conclusion that it's a myth," said Romy Santana, one of eight seniors who teamed on the film.
And yet after much digging, talks with claimed witnesses, interviews with scholars of Bigfoot lore and other experts, they're not dismissing every believer as hoaxer or wacko, either.
"There are a lot of things going on in the Everglades, a lot of reports of smells and sightings and a whole bunch of things," Santana said. "Who are we to say because we didn't see it, it doesn't exist? Maybe there is something out there."
At least in the public imagination.
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