Since October, 2008, I have been doing some carefully chosen searches for the south Georgia and north Florida "Skunk Apes" up here in the regional river and swampland areas near my home town of Tallahassee. I want to specifically talk about some of my expeditions into a local river swamp area that is found inside the massive WMA and National Forest. This area runs along a major river basin as it comes out of a local lake. The river runs down through the national forest and into the Gulf of Mexico.
"Skunk Apes", as they have been historically known, have been seen and reported to exist in this area for centuries. Local legends, handed down through the ages from Native Americans and Pioneer people of the region, tell of numerous encounters with these "swamp devils", "skunk creatures", "swamp boogers", etc. Now here I am trying to find the elusive, secretive, quietly existing southern Sasquatch amid upteen thousands of acres of forests, swamps, and many, many miles of roadways, both paves and unpaved. The task is interesting in that one has to be constantly aware of numerous dangers - not from the Skunk Ape creatures - but from all the other local "nasties" living out in this wilderness. Added to this task is the ever possible unpleasantries of becoming injured or lost as I seek the evidence needed to prove a modern family of Bigfoots are here, now. If you don't think you can get lost messing around in the swamps, just read my blog story about loosing it in south Georgia!
I am out here conducting my own research, investigations, and expeditions mostly alone. What I wouldn't give for a couple of trusted NESRA people out here with me running around and having so much fun. Up until this summer, I have been doing all these things under the guise of hunting and fishing! As of now I'm out of hunting season, so I'll continue the research under the heading of fishing. I am not one of these investigators who like to write about their expeditions in the form of a police reports. Unfortunately, local horrific rains caused the river system to flood out of their banks and prevented me from accessing all my research areas early in the spring. It is likely that the Swamp People reestablished new habitat on higher ground and I cannot find any evidence so far to justify launching any more expeditions until they give me some signs.
In the meantime, I have been busy reading reference materials in the form of new books and maintaining contact with my mentors in an effort to learn more about how to approach these beings. There are no shortcuts to a continued relationship with any of these Shadow People. Learning what must be done to show respect for their way of life, their surroundings, their personal space, and methodologies of appropriate contact details have become my prime directive! In effect, I had to back up a few steps in order to create the correct mannerisms of approach in order for them to trust me when I do reestablish contact again (sometime soon I hope) with the Swamp Folks. One major benifit about living in Florida is that the temperatures remain elivated, not crashing into the freezing degrees such as the north, east, or western regions. It may be too rainy here sometimes, but the weather is always unpredictable no matter where you live and choose to research these people. My point being that these "Swamp People" stay active all year long.
Blog revised 7/30/09.
