We often hear about Nessie from Scotland, Chupacabra from Puerto Rico, Bigfoot from the USA or Yeti from the Himalayas. Some countries are very popular among researchers and fans of the paranormal, but some are known only to a limited circle of people. This is the fate of the cryptids (mysterious monsters) of Guyana, a small country on the northeastern coast of South America.
Several of these creatures were reported by Richard Freeman, a former employee of the British zoo Twycross zoo, who traveled to Guyana several years ago in connection with the transportation of animals for the zoo.
“We met a guy named Ernest there. He opened his own fish farm and one day he saw a strange creature about which there were stories among the locals. They called this creature the "red-faced pygmy".
Wherever we went, we heard stories about these creatures, and met many who also saw them firsthand. They all said that these pygmies were barely a meter high or slightly shorter and had red faces. Another man named Kennard said that once these pygmies chased a group of travelers for a while and jumped out to meet them, probably to scare them. Although usually these creatures do not cause any harm to people.
The faces of these pygmies displayed strange facial expressions and it was often possible to see how they bare their teeth, grinning at people. They were also described as upright creatures and there was no fur on their body, just bare brown skin. Everyone who saw them described them as very small people, not animals.
Our guide Damon Corrie saw this pygmy once. He said that that night he slept in a tent and suddenly woke up and saw this little man next to him, who was looking down at him. I think these creatures are from a very primitive and ancient tribe."
South America is still not very widely explored, so it is quite possible that somewhere in the jungle there may be a still undiscovered small tribe of savages living at the level of the Stone Age. And their very small stature is also not surprising, the Amazon Indians, for example Kayapo or Pirahu, are also very short.
Another cryptid that Ernesto told Richard Freeman about is a huge anaconda snake, much larger than ordinary anacondas.
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“Ernest said he saw a very large anaconda about ten years ago, and it was about thirty feet long (9 meters). However, Ernesto admitted that in fact he saw only the skin of a snake of this length, and the snake itself was rumored to be captured by some Briton. We told him that if this story is true, then the snake was clearly illegally brought to England.
We were also told about huge anacondas that were over 40 feet (12 meters) long and allegedly lived in caves in a place called Corona Falls. Unfortunately we could not go there, the place was 70 miles away and the water level in the river was too low to travel there by boat."
Official science believes that anacondas over 6 meters long are fictions. Although several times it was reported about the capture or observation of anacondas 8-11 meters long (and a couple of times even about giants over 18 meters long), none of these cases have been verified by scientists.
Another mysterious creature that lives somewhere in the jungle of Guyana is called the "water tiger".
“Once we even went in search of this' water tiger. We talked about it with several witnesses and one of them was an elderly man named Joseph who saw the hide of this animal after it was killed by hunters in the 1970s.
He said it was probably a mammal and about 10 feet long (3 measures). Its color is white with black spots, and its head is very similar to that of a tiger. He also said something very interesting: this creature hunts in packs. Which is not at all typical of tigers and felines in general (except for lions).
Another eyewitness, a guy named Elmo, told us a story about how an adult “water tiger” sent young individuals to hunt in the water. According to him, this animal is not a jaguar or an otter, and it is very aggressive.
Ernest also told us that he was once on a boat with his uncle when something grabbed the boat and started shaking it violently. People had to cling to the overhanging branches of the tree to avoid falling into the water. Uncle Ernest later said that it was the "Water Tiger" ".
In Guyana, another creature lives, which, in appearance and description, can be either a local analogue of the yeti, or a very large sloth (which are found in abundance here). Freeman was told about this creature, which is here called the word "didi", that it is shaggy and with large claws.
Most likely, this didi is closer to the yeti, since there is one story that allegedly happened in the 1940s, when the didi kidnapped a local girl and lived with her as a wife, and she gave birth to him a child that looked like both didi and human … This story ended sadly for the half-breed. The woman managed to escape with the canoe hunter, and when the didi saw her escape, he killed the child in a rage, tearing him to pieces with his hands.