Despite the overpopulation of many countries in the South Asian region, in many of them, rather inaccessible places have survived, where mysterious humanoid fur-covered creatures are still sometimes found. The so-called Bigfoot was relatively recently met in India. It is striking that one of the eyewitnesses is a real enthusiast in the search for a relict hominoid.
Indian forester Deepu Marak passionately believes in the existence of Mande Barunga (Forest Man), an Indian species of Bigfoot. In 2003, he saw him three times. This man, covered with black and gray wool and about 3 m tall, met a forester in the jungle in the Garo hills (Meghalaya state) in northeastern India. Deepu Marak collected wool samples and handed them over to BBC reporters. Marak believes that this is a herbivorous creature weighing about 300 kg, consuming fruits, roots, and some types of plants for food.
Such a creature was observed not only by Marak - people have long talked about encounters with a mysterious hominoid in the region of the western, southern and eastern slopes of the Garo hills. One of the eyewitnesses, collecting firewood in the forest, saw a whole family of Mande Barungs: two adults and two cubs. According to him, the adults were huge and overweight, their bodies were covered with thick black-brown fur. And the local resident Nebilson Sangma not only saw this creature while hunting, but also came across its rookery, which somewhat resembled a primitive hut built from branches. "After overcoming the initial shock," Sangma recalled, "my brother and I watched this big hairy creature for three days in a row."
By the summer of 2008, British scientists were still not entirely sure about the samples received from Marak. However, an expert on great apes, Ian Redmond, noted that the specimens are "strikingly similar" (they have the same ornament) to the yeti hair collected by the conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmond Hillary. Preliminary analysis has already ruled out that hair belongs to the most common animals of the Garo Hills. “We now know for sure that this hair does not belong to an Asian black bear, it does not belong to a wild boar and does not look like the wool of various types of monkeys,” Ian Redmond said. - The discovered hair remains a mystery. I can also confirm that if this hair really belongs to the yeti, then they, like humans, have split hair!"
Hair analysis was performed by renowned primatologist Anna Nekaris and microscope expert John Wells at Oxford Brooks University. The image of the alleged Bigfoot hair was enlarged 200 times and compared to a database provided by the Museum of Natural History and the Department of Primatology at Oxford Brooks University. Redmond and Nekaris do not rule out the possibility that the hair belongs to some unknown primate. “Just two years ago, a new species of macaque was discovered in northern India,” says Redmond. "It is possible that the jungle has pockets in which primates that have not yet been discovered can live."
The yeti is also found in Pakistan. In early 2003, Raju, a 20-year-old resident of the Pakistani mountain village of Haripura, told reporters about an attack by a similar creature. It happened right in the village - Raju left the house and heard strange sounds coming from the bushes. “Suddenly a creature more than a meter tall appeared, covered with thick black hair, which snarled at me,” the young man said. Although Bigfoot was not very tall, his physique was very strong. He pounced on Raju, scratched him, after which the guy rushed back into the house with a cry. Uncle Raju, forty-seven-year-old Mohammad Shafi, ran out to the noise, with his household. Such a numerical superiority clearly did not like the creature, he growled at people and hid in the garden. Men with burning torches began to comb the garden, and only after that did the yeti run away,uttering high and sharp screams.
As it turned out, local old-timers had seen such creatures many times in the old days. They usually descended from the mountains in the winter months in search of food.
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