Author Embraces The Legendary Florida Skunk Ape

From Jeffery Pritchett of Examiner.com

Interview with Mike Robinson on his fortean book Skunk Ape Semester

1. So what inspired you to write a book about the legendary Bigfoot exactly? You take another road and call it Skunk Ape in the title of your book. Why is this?

Mike Robinson: My entire life, I’ve been fascinated with the world of Forteana, that is to say, the paranormal and the unknown. Like many of my generation, I’d watched The X-Files since the pilot episode, but the true catalyst for my interest was when I was 13 and unwrapped a copy of Dr. Karl Shuker’s edifying (and entertaining) book, The Unexplained: A Guide to the World’s Natural and Paranormal Mysteries. Bigfoot, in particular, enthralls because of his cultural, regional and mythical ubiquity, and his human-like qualities.

The skunk ape, Bigfoot’s marsh-dwelling cousin, is one of the intriguing, lesser-known subspecies of Bigfoot (we all know the Yeti and Sasquatch, but a swamp version?) Also, from a writer’s perspective, “skunk ape” is just very colorful semantically.

To read the full interview about the novel Skunk Ape Semester and learn more about this mysterious creature click here

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