Post by Ceratodromeus on Jan 7, 2017 5:12:50 GMT 5
Overview & sightings
"The Batutut or Ujit, sometimes also known as the "forest people," is a proposed hominid cryptid, reportedly similar to Bigfoot, thought to inhabit the Vu Quang nature reserve and other wilderness areas of Vietnam, Laos and northern Borneo. The Vu Quang has been the source of a number of newly discovered mammals by Dr. John MacKinnon. Mackinnon claims to have first observed tracks in 1970 that led him to believe that a hominid similar to the Meganthropus lives there. Instead, cryptozoologist Loren Coleman believes that the Batutut are a surviving population of Homo erectus or Neanderthal. Mackinnon's 1975 book In Search Of The Red Ape describes his experiences and findings. A 1947 sighting by a French colonist refers to the animal as a L'Homme Sauvage ("wild man"). Vietnamese scholars refer to the animal as the Người Rừng ("forest man").
It is described as being approximately 2.1 m (7 ft) tall and covered with hair exception its knees, the soles of its feet, its hands, and its face. The hair ranges in color from gray to brown to black. The creature walks on two legs and has been sighted alone and gregariously. The creature is most often sighted foraging for food from fruits and leaves to langurs and even flying foxes.
In Borneo, witnesses describe it as four feet tall and very aggressive, occasionally killing humans and tearing out their livers.
In his 2001 Ballantine book Very Crazy G.I. - Strange but True Stories of the Vietnam War, Veteran Kregg P. J. Jorgenson relates a sighting of such a creature by a team of LRRPs. The men refer to it as a "Rock Ape" reporting it as being small in stature, about 5 feet tall, and having a reddish tinge to its fur.
Two Người Rừngs were reportedly captured by tribesmen near Dak Lak Province in 1971. In 1974 a North Vietnamese general, Hoang Minh Thao, requested an expedition to find evidence of the creatures, but it was unsuccessful."
cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Batutut
Supposed Batutut skull, pretty interesting i must say.
