Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Better and Better


Well Lunch Clubbers, what can we say. We've got the cool blog banner. We got the cool handshake, and the best blog orbiting the sun. Endorsements from Loren Coleman (Sorry for name-dropping Loren) How can it be any better?! How about a new URL? Yeah! Starting tomorrow you will be able to find us at www.BigFootLunchClub.com. Until then expect a few hiccups as we make this crucial transition.

Why the change? Expand the full post to find out.

Well all the great Bigfoot organizations have only four letters in their name; BFRO (Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization) to name one.

The second reason has to do with the removal of "researcher's" from our name. Although we believe research is essential in any Bigfoot endeavor, we wanted to make sure the name of our blog and URL reflected a more casual vibe.

Besides, with eleven less letters in our name that's 4015 less times your keyboard gets tapped (over the course of a year). So when you think to yourself Jeez we've had this keyboard forever thank us!

We appreciate all your support as we continue to provide you with the freshest Bigfoot news anywhere on the web.

Guy Edwards
Co-Founder

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Mogollon Monster: AZ's Bigfoot


Hey its been a long time since the crew here has saluted another BF site. Its time we did. In Arizona there is a creature named the Mongollon Monster, not to be confused with John McCain (rimshot). There are several good websites out there specializing in the research of this desert bigfoot, but one stands out amongst the rest...

Desertbigfoot.com is a site run by four guys. Read about Jeff, Vic, John and Bernie on the about us page and theres is no doubt these guys are dedicated to their craft. BfRLC Salutes you men continue the good work with your research and your site.

Palm Beach Celebrates Skunk Ape


Florida is a hotspot for Bigfoot right now. As I noted in an earlier post, there is a contest backed by Ripley's believe or not!, Haunted Attraction Magazine and Shadows in the Dark Internet Radio.

The 1980 photo above shows Marvin Lewis (left) and Ernie Milner, both former Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies, with memorabilia about the Skunk Ape. With the photo the Palm Beach Post celebrates Florida's answer to Bigfoot is a 7- to 12-foot, 300- to 700-pound human-ape thing that really stinks.

To read the article expand the full post below or read the original article at the Palm Beach Post here.


Skunk Ape: Area's own stinky Big Foot
THE WAY WE WERE: Something stinky in the swamp
By Eliot Kleinberg
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Readers: In honor of April Fools' Day, we bring you: the Skunk Ape!

Florida's answer to Bigfoot is a 7- to 12-foot, 300- to 700-pound human-ape thing that really stinks.

It supposedly hides in muddy, abandoned alligator caves, thus the smell.
For more than two centuries, people have sworn they saw it dash across the Everglades or retreat from a rural road.

In Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast, barking dogs, petrified security guards and bug-eyed kids bear testament.

There are photographs, grainy and distant, but attested to by their bearers.
More than 75 sightings were reported in Florida in the past two decades.

The scare had started when an amateur archaeologist claimed he'd seen the thing in southwest Florida's Big Cypress Swamp.

But it was concentrated locally in the 1970s, when South Florida then had more open space and about half the people it does now.

A local dispatcher said he was advising lawmen that locals were so jumpy the cops should identify themselves when they approached homes.

"I know it exists," Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy Marvin Lewis said in 1980.
He said he and fellow deputy Ernie Milner made some 50 forays to the wild.

They said they shot something in 1974 west of Lantana that grunted and fled back to the dark. Another time, they found mysterious hair on a barbed-wire fence.

Lewis put in 27 years and retired in 1997. He hasn't changed his mind.

He said recently that any along the coast were long ago driven west by encroaching civilization.

"I couldn't point to a photo and say, 'That's what I saw,'" he said. "But cops act on investigation and evidence. And the evidence says something was there."

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