The Myakka Skunk Ape

Two remarkable new photographs of what may be a Florida Skunk Ape have been discovered through an interesting chain of events by Sarasota resident and animal welfare specialist David Barkasy. “Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America” overviews how these photographs were taken, how this find surfaced, the first reactions and analyses, and some tentative conclusions. For the time being, certain supportive notes will remain, here, available and online

Here is the December 22, 2000, letter signed “God Bless. I prefer to remain anonymous” mailed to the Sarasota Sheriff’s Department.

Newspapers in Florida, the Art Bell show, and other radio programs during mid-February, decided to talk about the Myakka photographs. The hope is that the woman photographer will be identified.

In the meantime, meaningful analyses of the eye-shine, the pupil diameter, the dentition, the tongue, hair color, and exhibited behavior of this apparent primate is taking place.

These Coleman enlargements and details were created from the first generation color prints scanned by David Barkasy of the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Department’s originals. These prints show forehead lines, yellow canines, fingernails, hair, and other significant details.  Copyright 2001 by David Barkasy and Loren Coleman

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Orang_lowAt right: A young male Sumatran Orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus abelii, American Museum of Natural History.

 

 

 

 

Below: Tony Scheuhamme, a biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, pointed out some features on a good photograph of an orangutan by Denise McQuillen. This is not to say the Myakka photographs are of an orangutan, but it certainly assists in identifying features that are found on a known anthropoid that appear to exist on this one too.

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The Myakka ape head closeup Copyright 2001 by David Barkasy and Loren Coleman. Compared with a Sumatran Orangutan’s head, photograph at the Cincinnati Zoo by Denise McQuillen, 1999;

 

Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot: New Evidence Found On Frame 61

foot2M.K. Davis’ recent discovery on the Patterson-Gimlin footage is a powerful blow against the skeptics who for decades have denounced the footage as a hoax. On the 61st frame of the extraordinary footage, Mr. Davis was able to stabilize and enhance the frame significantly enough to show Patty’s digits.  Why is this significant?

Think about it. For years believers have argued that back in the late 1960s (1967 to be exact) there were no advanced gorilla suits in existence. Meaning that all you could find or make were these rubberized, high bulky and stiff-jointed suits. Those who believe, confidently argue that what we see in the Patterson-Planet-of-the-APesGimlin film is not a man in a rubber gorilla suit but an actual Sasquatch.

This specific piece of important evidence that is M.K. Davis’ Frame 61 should now be considered damning evidence against the gorilla suit theory. After all, it was only a year after the Patterson-Gimlin footage was shot that the iconic 1968 film Planet of the Apes came onto Planet-of-the-APes-500x322the screen. Surely we can all appreciate the vast contrast in the P & G film and that of Hollywood’s leading special effects. If Patty is some man in a suit, then that is one highly sophisticated and priceless body suit.

The Patterson-Gimlin Film

The Patterson–Gimlin film (also referred to as simply the Patterson film) is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a “Bigfoot”, that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson (February 14, 1926 – January 15, 1972) and Robert “Bob” Gimlin (born October 18, 1931) on Bluff Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River about 25 road miles north-west of Orleans, California. The film has been subjected to many attempts both to debunk and authenticate it. Most scientists have judged the film a hoax with a man in an ape suit, but many Bigfoot believers contend the film depicts a cryptid, a creature unknown to science.

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