SKUNK-GUY: Museum First Room

Late one evening in the summer of 1975, Ron Gregory, the evening disc jockey on WOWO radio in Fort Wayne, Indiana, received a peculiar telephone call. The caller identified himself as Skunk-Guy, a new superhero in town. Ron was faced with a decision, he could either hang up on the prank caller, or he could talk to him on the air, he opted for the latter.

Thus it began. . .

For several months, Skunk-Guy could be spotted around town. It was at this early stage that the Fort Wayne police force dubbed him The Black Knight. He would call in to Ron’s show periodically, to fill him, and the rest of the city, in on his latest escapades.

RON GREGORY LISTEN TO RON & SKUNKGUY

LISTEN TO CAROL & SKUNKGUY

One day on her way to the radio station, Carol Ford, the late night DJ, who replaced Ron at 11:00 pm, had spotted Skunk-Guy on the street prowling around, and excitedly invited him to call her on the air.

He became a semi-regular from that point on. It was, at this time, that the formation of the Skunk Scouts occurred. On her birthday (She neglected to say which one) Carol Ford was sworn in, on the air, as the first official Skunk Scout.

Interest in Skunk Scouting was slow to catch on. However, as the spark of skunk mania was beginning to glow, Carol deemed it necessary to move on. It would be up to her replacement, to carry the mantle of den mother to a wild bunch of Skunk Scouts.