Skunk Ape Research Headquarters - Hunting Down The Everglades Creature
http://www.AdamTheWoo.com - PLEASE RATE & SUBSCRIBE - Scott Yuken and I ventured down to the Florida Everglades in hopes of finding more info on the world famous Skunk Ape. Enjoy !
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world. Welcome everyone. And we're deep
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in the middle of nowhere Florida in the
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Everglades. And today we're looking for
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the elusive skunk ape.
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Uh, which way to the sky gape?
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That way.
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Uh, okay.
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Here's one of the only existing pictures
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of the skunk ape. Some say to be the
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smaller Florida version of the Bigfoot.
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I have no idea. But we're going to need
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some help finding this thing.
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Out here in the Everglades, there's a
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lot of rumors of sightings of the
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elusive skunk ape, but there's only one
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man who's actually seen and documented
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the skunk ape. That man is Dave Sheiley
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of the skunkape research headquarters.
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It's time to pay a visit to Dave
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Sheiley.
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Come on outside here and I'll fill you
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in on this
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track. It's probably the most
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significant uh find in the last two
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years down here. Oh, you're welcome.
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So, you're down here filming a thing on
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skunk? Yeah, we we Yeah, we've been down
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here we've been doing a few videos in
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South Florida. Uhhuh. We just cut our
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way across from the east to the west
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coast.
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This is a skunk cake
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track. Just for the sake of saying, I'm
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going say like January the 8th. Mhm.
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Um of
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2013, I was filming here in the Big
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Cypress with a with a film
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crew and uh we found these tracks and we
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followed them about a mile and it was
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pretty neat. The water levels are going
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down and the ground was holding tracks
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pretty good. They only had enough
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plaster to cast one track, but there
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were literally hundreds of them all over
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the
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swamp. This is typical of the tracks
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that you're going to find here in the
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Big
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Cyprus. This would be an average size
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adult. A lot of people just say, "Well,
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it's a Bigfoot." Yeah, I was going to
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ask you, what's the difference between a
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Bigfoot? I'm sure you ask that all the
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time. It's pretty obvious looking at the
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track that it's only got four toes.
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Um historically the eastern seabboard of
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the United States for the last 150 years
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any castings that you that have been
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picked up are all four to spend a lot of
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time in the trees unlike a Bigfoot. Uh
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50% of the sightings that I get reported
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here are of skunk apes and trees. Do you
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think they're carnivores? They're
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omnivores. They eat plants and meat.
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Have you ever physically seen one? Oh,
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yeah. With your eyes? Many times.
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Really? Yeah. About how tall are they?
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Um,
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not much more than 6 and 1/2 ft tall.
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Smaller than the Bigfoot.
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Came in on the back side with a with a
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burlap matting and that'll give it
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strength. I've had problems with the
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toes breaking because they're they're so
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long. But this here track, you'll
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probably be seeing this track a lot in
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the next, you know, 20 years. This is
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this is going to set the bar in my
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lifetime. This is this is the standard
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track that I've been farming. Go to that
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and it looks kind of childish and I
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think it looks awesome. It's personally
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it's a it's it is a very good
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Hey guys, how do you do?
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Mhm. Why don't you go over there so they
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can see you?
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People have given you just enough to be
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Have a good day to you.
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Painful.
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This is the regular red rat or corn
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snap. Nuts out.
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How's it feel? Yes.
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Snakes. Feeling good.
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What?
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If she were aggressive and hungry, she
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would bite you and then wrap and
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constrict you and then a wrap. It's
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the bite is almost simultaneous with the
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And she's big enough that she can
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constrict us to death, right? What does
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her bite do? Hurts like hell. Okay.
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Hurts like hell.
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Good stories about doing stuff like
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this, right?
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Wow.
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But for one of a better explanation,
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she's ticklish. Oh, whenever you touch
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her, she will twitch. I think it's
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almost involuntary.
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There are no vegetarian snakes ever.
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This is the skull of a 13t African rock
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python.
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I tell people he doesn't try to bite. He
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simply doesn't try not to. Gotcha.
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He's saying, "Raise your arm. I don't
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want to clock."
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Wow. Now the foot up means next. My
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sunglasses on so he doesn't snag my
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eyeball.
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We're having a stare off. He'll win.
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Well, I just won. He looked at you. I
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won. I'm the winner. I'm the winner.
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I don't think so. I'm the winner.
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If you want to find the skunk cape, this
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is how to do it. Come out here and get
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the book and do some research on your
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own.
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So, this would be the best place to find
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a skunk ape at this time of year. Uh,
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they say in the winter months that they
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like to frequent oak forces. This is
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better than the tundra, the wetlands.
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So, we
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should see a skunk if we're lucky.
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Doesn't this look like a place skunk ape
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would live?
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You just stick his will stick up there.
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Yeah, that's what he would be doing if
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you were the skunk. Yeah, let's continue
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looking. Man,
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the skunk ape has a skunky swampy smell.
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That's how you know he's around.
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No, skunkgate's not
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here. Says the skunk gates are really
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elusive. That's why they aren't seen too
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often. Um, you just got to be quiet
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and maybe with luck we can find a skunk
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cave. Know these things are out here.
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Maybe they're watching us right now.
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I need to find a Wi-Fi network to upload
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this video. Should I choose Skunk Ape or
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Skunk Ape 8?
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Click my face. Click my face. I just
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want to let you know that uh I've got to
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be on
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hit. That's me being confused by the
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water wizard. The water wizard has
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tarnished my speaking skills.