Posted on 07/08/2007 1:52:43 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Perhaps it is nothing more than a legend, as skeptics say. Or maybe it is real, as those who claim to have seen it avow. But the mere mention of the mapinguary, the giant slothlike monster of the Amazon, is enough to send shivers down the spines of almost all who dwell in the worlds largest rain forest.
In some areas, the creature is said to have two eyes, while in other accounts it has only one, like the Cyclops of Greek mythology. It's said to be more than seven feet tall and covered in thick, matted fur.
The folklore here is full of tales of encounters with the creature, and nearly every Indian tribe in the Amazon, including those that have had no contact with one another, have a word for the mapinguary (pronounced ma-ping-wahr-EE). The name is usually translated as the roaring animal or the fetid beast.
So widespread and so consistent are such accounts that in recent years a few scientists have organized expeditions to try to find the creature. They have not succeeded, but at least one says he can explain the beast and its origins.
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That might give pause to any hoaxsters running around the woods in costume.
Luckily, that has never happened. :’)
Well, Cartman did try to pull a Scuzzlebutt hoax.
That might give pause to any hoaxsters running around the woods in costume.
Most of them have taken the easy way out anyway by just come back and claiming to have seen him.
I remember back in the seventies when you were decried as "close-minded" if you didn't believe that bigfoot was out there "man!" Now after 30 years of advancement in the sophistication of the general public and LOTS of Pacific Northwest development later, you really have to squint your brain to believe in a sustainable population of 300# 7+ foot semi-intelligent bipeds existing all this time in the US without a single specimen being come across.
I think I have an email address where I still might be part of a discussion group on it; kind of backed into a subscription.
They’ve seen something all the way down to Oklahoma.
They discover species of animals that they did previously did not know existed previously. I guess it is in the realm of possibility.
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Ever watch ‘Destination Truth’?
They did a segment on a hominid type of animal in Indonesia.
Supposed to be about 3 feet tall and very broad shoulders, human type face. (little foot?)
An anthropologist living there says she believes it’s real.
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