Ape Man? Researchers Spot Legendary Orang Pendek in Sumatra

Legend has it, an ape-like man has been roaming the forests of Sumatra for years. For two weeks, a team of British explorers from the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ), along with an Indonesian guide, tracked the creature deep within the Kerinci National Park to find evidence of the ape-like man known as Orang Pendek, or short man.

Two of the explorers caught a brief glimpse of the hairy creature. The two described the creature as a broad-shouldered, large-headed creature with black skin and dark brown hair about the size of an adult chimpanzee.

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If Bigfoot exists, it's not an ape

If Bigfoot exists in North America, the mythical beast is no mere ancient representative of an ape family that migrated across the Bering land mass with mastodons and ancient man, a primatologist says.

Bigfoot — or Sasquatch or Skunk Ape or Fouke Monster or whatever name you prefer — would have to be a completely new and specific species, Esteban Sarmiento told attendees at the ninth annual Texas Bigfoot Conference on Sept. 26. "If it's real, this animal is exceedingly human-like," Sarmiento said. "It would be our closest relative on earth."

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The Muck Monster Has an Official Home

The mysterious sea creature known as the "Muck Monster" has officially gained city residency.

Amid debates over budget cuts, tax hikes and potential layoffs, West Palm Beach commissioners took the time out to take care of the vital task of naming the Muck Monster an official citizen.

Muck Monster CapturedGood thing they did it now because rumor has it Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is looking for a new mascot to add to his changes.

The monster, which has gained fame like everything else these days - through YouTube video, has appeared only once in the Lake Worth Lagoon, but that cameo has made it the most famous resident in the city.

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Nessie On Holiday In Lake District?

A search is underway in England's Lake District, after two people claimed they saw something in the water, and strange ripples were caught on camera.

The sightings have prompted paranormal experts to say the evidence is overwhelming that Scotland's famous Loch Ness Monster has a relative in England.

The man who caught the occurrence on film didn't initially realise what he was looking at.

'When I saw this large patch of white water, I naturally zoomed-in on it...but shortly afterwards I just thought 'it's nothing really, it must be the local Windermere ferry' which operates on cables, and that would create such a horizontal effect...not realising that the Windermere ferry is a mile and a half north of that area,' John McKeown, a local film producer, said.

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Alien Found In Panama?

Not being one who looks for U.F.O.s or aliens, I must admit that this creature has me thinking. The story begins in Panama in a community known as Cerro Azul. There is no doubt that this unidentified creature looks as if it is straight out of 1977’s Spielberg classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Is it another Montauk Monster? Just what it is, however, no one knows; not the zoologists who are examining its corpse or the teens who state that they killed it when it came towards them. The organism looks unlike anything currently known to man, and the resemblance towards humankind’s depiction of aliens is uncanny. Could this have possibly been some form of life from another planet?

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Dickson County man believes he killed a Chupacabra

A Dickson County man claims the creature he killed near his home over the weekend is not of this world, but from mythical folklore.

John Hunter says he noticed the odd-looking animal a couple of weeks ago when it showed up in the driveway of his White Bluff home.

He and his wife tried to get closer to get a better look, but the creature ran off.

Hunter said, "Then it came back, closer to the house. That's when it took off and came back again. Every time it came closer and closer, like it wasn't afraid of me."

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Legendary man-eating New Zealand bird 'did exist'

A giant man-eating bird that appears in ancient Maori legends did actually exist, according to new research.

The Te Hokioi was described as a huge black-and-white predator with a red crest and yellow-green tinged wingtips, in an account given to Sir George Gray, an early governor of New Zealand.

Scientists now think the stories handed down by word of mouth and depicted in rock drawings refer to Haast's eagle, a raptor that became extinct just 500 years ago.

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Hunt For The Yeti

A group of British explorers and scientists from the Devon based Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ), the world’s largest mystery animal research organisation, are about to embark on an expedition in search of a yeti-like creature in Indonesia. The four-man team will search the jungles of Sumatra for what locals call the ‘orang-pendek’. The powerfully built, upright-walking beast may be related to both the orang-utan and the much larger yeti of mainland Asia. In the same island chain remains of the tiny hominid known as Homo floresiensis were unearthed in 2003.

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Cameron Lake Monster Hunt

People have reported seeing what they can best describe as a creature in Cameron Lake, just 30 kilometres west of Parksville, and John Kirk wants to find out what it is.

Kirk co-founded a B.C. group dedicated to hunting unidentified animals, or cryptid, and said he and his fellow members of the Scientific Cryptozoology Club have been fielding calls from people who say it's time to take a closer look. The author of In the Domain of Lake Monsters plans an expedition to Cameron Lake to look for scientific evidence on Sept. 19.

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Bigfoot In A Garden?

A gorilla-like creature that resembles the mythical creature Bigfoot is causing excitement on the web after being photographed in the back garden of a home in Kentucky.

The large, hairy beast can be seen in a blurry picture taken on an automatic camera set up by an amateur hunter.

While flicking through images of rabbits and deer, Kenny Mahoney noticed a dark, humanoid creature that does not look like any of the southern US state's known native species.

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UFO or pterodactyl over Argentinian Lake?

A UFO of a very irregular shape has been spotted by more than one person as well as photographed in Argentina (images above and below). The UFO sighting took place in the vicinity of the village of San Rafael on the artificial lake of El-Nihuil

The witness originally did not want to be identified due to fear of ridicule however later changed his mind, seemingly realizing that 'seeing a UFO does not make you mad'.

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Chupacabra In Texas?

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River Monster In Australia?

FROM the depths of time it comes from the ocean, gliding up our waterways to lay its eggs then slipping silently away again - this is Sydney's own "Nessie''.

Gallery - Sydney's Nessie - do you believe?

Cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy said he recently saw the 12m giant surface in the Hawkesbury River. Through binoculars Mr Gilroy saw a dark shadow ``with a longish neck'' near Wiseman's Ferry.

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Bigfoot On Holiday In Poland?

Two teenagers in Poland claim to have captured a Bigfoot on video camera. 19 year old Justyna Folger was being filmed playing around in a river in the Tatra Mountains by her friend when they spotted the creature in the undergrowth.
"At first I thought it was a bear," Justyna said. "But then the creature straightened up on both legs and ran away."



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