They are the sub-humans of Central and Eastern Asia known as
the “Almas.”
The proto-pigmies of Asia, Africa and South America
–the “Teh-Ima,” “ Duende,” “Orang-Pendek” and the “Agogue.” They are also the neo giants of Indochina,
Asia, North and South America such as the “Dzu-teh” of the Himalayas and Tibet.
You may be mystified but three Western names for some of
these creatures will probably be more familiar to you: “Yeti”, “Sasquatch” and
“Bigfoot.”
The old days of calling the sightings of these creatures a
misidentification of a bear or a more familiar primate such as an orang-utan
under poor lighting conditions are gone.
Naturalists, anthropologists and biologists have been drawn
into the study of these reports of what are collectively known as Hominids, and
those researching them Hominologists.
For over 50 years scientists in Russia have conducted expeditions and studied
reports and physical evidence concerning the Almas.
In China
the Yeren has been the subject of official investigations and expeditions by
scientists. In China there are written historical
accounts along with illustrations of the Yeren going back thousands of years.
But there are also early records of sightings of these creatures
and their activities going back to the early settlers and explorers of both
North and South America –all centuries before
any “popular mythology” on Bigfoot began.
In fact, some of those early explorers went so far as to dismiss what
they saw with their own eyes and one was prepared to believe he had found
mammoth footprints in snow rather than believe his native guides insistence
that they were tracks of a huge hairy man.
It is not only the historical accounts that hominologists
have to study. Ancient native rock art
in North America has revealed images of known
animals but also tall, hairy hominids.
Then there are the footprints. Over the years various people have come
forward claiming that they faked Bigfoot tracks using carved wooden templates. These are very easy to spot because the
tracks they leave have no flexibility in them.
Today, there are anthropologists specialising in anatomy who
study genuine Bigfoot track casts. The later Grover Krantz pioneered this work
and D. Jeffery Meldrum, Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State
University, has taken
this further. Meldrum has, probably, the largest collection of Almas, Bigfoot, Yeti and Orang-Pendek casts
in the world. Meldrum has access to
digital scanning equipment that picks up fine details in casts –some unseen
with the naked eye. Fakes and
misidentifications are easily dismissed.
A study of casts shows not just how the alleged Bigfoot walks (completely
different to a man) but even its weight and height –it is the science used in
criminal cases to secure convictions.
And genuine hominid tracks have something else. Dermal ridges. Take a look at your hand and you’ll notice
they are covered by large and small lines and you’ll find these are also on
your feet –in the US
and other countries babies have their footprints taken in hospitals to
positively identify them if required.
Former police latent-finger-print examiner Jimmy Chilcutt has prints
from every type of primate kept in captivity so has a unique record. Chilcutt has examined Bigfoot cast dermal
ridging and states that they are not like any of the primate prints he has
–they are from an unknown animal. It
needs to be noted that Chilcutt is using the same methods that get convictions
of criminals in court.
The famous Patterson-Gimlin footage of a Bigfoot (known as
“Patty” today) taken in 1967 is often mimicked in hoaxes or jokes. For years I joked about it and called it a
fake. It was shaky footage and not great quality. But in forty years technology
has moved on. Not only have digital
image scans been taken on the location of the incident but microscopic digital
photographs have been taken of each frame of the footage to reveal detail no
one could ever have guessed at in 1967. The
“costume” needed could not be produced in 1967 even by Hollywood and anatomical analysis has shown a
man could not have fitted into any such item. The walk has been examined and
using a very tall athlete covered in sensors in a lab. There are a lot of hoaxers claiming they wore
the ‘costume’. Not only could the athlete not duplicate the walk but after the
tests were concluded the experts agreed that “Patty” did not walk like a human
and neither did it walk like a gorilla.
There is also another fact that could not have been
faked. While checking the cleaned up
footage it was noted that something odd appeared on the creature’s upper right
leg. It turned out to be a muscle that had obviously been damaged that kept
popping up during walking. Now just how
did Patterson and Gimlin fake that.
It is the only piece of film evidence that has stood the
test of time and been attacked by every critic going who discovers “this” or
“that” in the footage. They all get shot
down in flames. The Patterson-Gimlin
footage could well be the most
important piece of wildlife footage ever.
There are the tracks, the footage and reports from the area
before and after this event. Try as I might I can no longer cry “hoax” on this
one.
But what are these hominids?
The general concensus of opinion is that in some cases they are an
unknown primate. In the case of the
Almas and Orang-Pendek it is thought that they may be relic populations of
ancient Man still living, endangered, in the wildest places on Earth.
© 2012 T. Hooper
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