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Malaysia to investigate "Bigfoot"
News.Com (Australia) / Agence France-Presse ^ | December 29, 2005

Posted on 12/29/2005 1:55:33 AM PST by Stoat

Malaysia to investigate "Bigfoot"

From: Agence France-Presse
 

December 29, 2005
 

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.

 
"If there's a possibility of it really being the Bigfoot, then I think we should do it," she said, although venturing a guess the creatures were actually large sun bears.

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.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigfoot; cryptobiology; kayak; malaysia; science
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"Johor is home to large tracts of jungle, including its famed Endau-Rompin National Park, and unconfirmed sightings of large creatures surface periodically."


1 posted on 12/29/2005 1:55:34 AM PST by Stoat
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To: Stoat

"Bigmouth" used to be the Prime Minister there.


2 posted on 12/29/2005 2:02:07 AM PST by Roy Tucker
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To: Stoat
In the right country, the big-foot souvenir business can be very lucrative. Malaysia sounds like an excellent place to set up shop. It's loaded with superstitious suckers.
3 posted on 12/29/2005 2:02:33 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Stoat
aaaaaarrrrghhhhh!!!,... my eyes, my eyes..... scared the crap out of the cat.... I getta more...

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4 posted on 12/29/2005 2:04:54 AM PST by GeronL (http://flogerloon.blogspot.com)
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To: Nathan Zachary

we have a FReeper in Kuala Lamur selling hot dogs.... hhhmmm


5 posted on 12/29/2005 2:05:32 AM PST by GeronL (http://flogerloon.blogspot.com)
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To: Stoat

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!"


6 posted on 12/29/2005 2:06:10 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (I am the Chieftain of my Clan. I bow to nobody. Get out of my way.)
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To: Nathan Zachary
In the right country, the big-foot souvenir business can be very lucrative. Malaysia sounds like an excellent place to set up shop. It's loaded with superstitious suckers.
 


7 posted on 12/29/2005 2:07:58 AM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat
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It's my sister's dog, Pom Pom
8 posted on 12/29/2005 2:11:43 AM PST by GeronL (http://flogerloon.blogspot.com)
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To: Stoat
Sighting all kinds of big monsters lately...



There's the one that the Tsunami
uncovered in India that they
are wondering about...
(Click on photo to see video)










Ice Giant Full
...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.


9 posted on 12/29/2005 2:19:35 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: DieHard the Hunter
These jokers will probably set down machine-gun traps for Big Foot.

"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!"

10 posted on 12/29/2005 2:22:38 AM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Bon mots

Fascinating! I hope to hear more on these discoveries soon!


11 posted on 12/29/2005 2:46:04 AM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

Maybe these bigfeet are some of the beast men the russians tried to make for invincible soldiers. They escaped.


12 posted on 12/29/2005 3:34:23 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: Stoat

13 posted on 12/29/2005 4:44:23 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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To: Stoat
This is what comes of 'outsourcing'

When Malaysian shoe factories are cranking out those size 21 basketball shoes...they wonder what kind of creature could have such feet

14 posted on 12/29/2005 5:26:21 AM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister.. but we knew what to do.. we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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To: Stoat

Where is Janet Reno these days?


15 posted on 12/29/2005 6:09:24 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: Roy Tucker

"Bigmouth" used to be the Prime Minister there."

Wasn't he also the last Democratic Party presidential
candidate?


16 posted on 12/29/2005 6:10:33 AM PST by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: Stoat
I have a totally non scientific viewpoint that at some time something we call a Troll did exist, and may still exist somewhere. (A Neanderthal sighting?) This is based only on myth and story. We need something that stands outside our regular, ordered world and gives it a sense of the unknown and of mystery.

Of course, I would also acknowledge that the majority of these sightings-as well as UFOs sightings-are pure bunk and fabrication perpetrated to bring tourists to purchase products from the local convience story. (I haven't see you in the trailer park..yer not from around here, are you?)
17 posted on 12/29/2005 8:09:43 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ("Myths are beams of light shining down on a jungle of rot and imbecility.. "CS Lewis)
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To: Joe Boucher
Maybe these bigfeet are some of the beast men the russians tried to make for invincible soldiers. They escaped.

At this point I'm not ruling out any possibilities.

Stalin's mutant ape army (Yes, it's what you think)

18 posted on 12/29/2005 11:30:13 AM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

Trying to get a new tourist stream going?????/


19 posted on 12/29/2005 11:33:27 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: Dallas59
Thanks so much for your undercover, top-secret photo of the REAL Bigfoot.  Most people think that squirrels are just cute, fuzzy and harmless little creatures, but they have no idea of the real truth about squirrels.

Squirrels go nuts on crack (addicts hide drugs in gardens; our furry friends dig it up)

20 posted on 12/29/2005 11:34:15 AM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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