"Johor is home to large tracts of jungle, including its famed Endau-Rompin National Park, and unconfirmed sightings of large creatures surface periodically."
Posted on 12/29/2005 1:55:33 AM PST by Stoat
MALAYSIA'S wildlife department says it will investigate claims that man-like "Bigfoot" beasts are roaming the jungles of southern Johor state. Newspapers have this week aired stories of sightings of the legendary creatures, and photographs of a giant footprint left near a jungle swamp.
The director of the wildlife department's Biodiversity Conservation Division, Siti Hawa Yatim, said they would examine the prints, which reportedly measure up to 45 centimetres).
"We are going to check first if the case is a true one," Siti Hawa said.
She said officials would interview people living around the Kota Tinggi area, where workers last month reported seeing two huge creatures and a youngster, and may set up cameras in jungle areas to try to capture images of any beasts.
"If we can't work out from the evidence what it is and we can see the footprint is still there, and there's the possibility of something other than animals, then maybe we would put camera traps," she said.
Johor is home to large tracts of jungle, including its famed Endau-Rompin National Park, and unconfirmed sightings of large creatures surface periodically.
An adviser to the Johor branch of the Malaysian Nature Society, Vincent Chow, has been lobbying the government to look into the claims and said an investigation could spur global interest.
"We are sitting on a wonderful opportunity by way of the Bigfoot research to spur ecotourism in Johor, taking the cue of Loch Ness in Scotland," Chow was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times.
Chow took the photographs of the footprint and estimated the beast was three metres tall, based on a broken tree branch found hanging over the site.
Brown hair reeking of body odour has also been retrieved around the area, he said.
Sightings of mythical ape-like creatures have been reported in wilderness areas all over the world. They are known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch in the United States and Canada, and yetis in Asia.
"Bigmouth" used to be the Prime Minister there.
we have a FReeper in Kuala Lamur selling hot dogs.... hhhmmm
Malaya has many bigger problems to deal with than Big Foot: like, for instance, implementing Democracy and the will of the people.
> and there's the possibility of something other than animals, then maybe we would put camera traps..."
These jokers will probably set down machine-gun traps for Big Foot. If there ever was such an animal lurking in the Malay penninsula, soon there won't be.
"Koooo-Eeeee! Big Foot! Yeh, mate! Keep yer head down until these larrikins give you the vote! Mate, I mean it!"
...Then there's the Siberian ice giant that some Russian oil explorers supposedly found that they are now hushing up... click on the thumbnail to see the page and go to the film.
"Okay Mohammed...you make a noise like a female Bigfoot who wants a date. Achmed and I will move in through this thicket and flush him out. Abdullah, you set up the MG4 over there and blast anything that comes down the path!"
Fascinating! I hope to hear more on these discoveries soon!
Maybe these bigfeet are some of the beast men the russians tried to make for invincible soldiers. They escaped.
When Malaysian shoe factories are cranking out those size 21 basketball shoes...they wonder what kind of creature could have such feet
Where is Janet Reno these days?
"Bigmouth" used to be the Prime Minister there."
Wasn't he also the last Democratic Party presidential
candidate?
At this point I'm not ruling out any possibilities.
Trying to get a new tourist stream going?????/
Squirrels go nuts on crack (addicts hide drugs in gardens; our furry friends dig it up)
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