Yeren

The Yeren is another large primate that has been sighted in the remote mountainous forested regions of western Hubei Province in China.

Entrance to the Yeren Cave in Western Hubei Province

Witnesses typically report the creatures to be covered in reddish colored hair. Some white specimens have also been sighted. Their height is estimated to range from six to eight feet, although some colossal examples allegedly in excess of ten feet tall have been reported. Overall, it is smaller than the American Bigfoot. Like Bigfoot, the Yeren is peaceful and will generally quietly walk away when encountering people in the Zhejiang province.

Some cryptozoologists have drawn a link between the Yeren and the extinct hominid Gigantopithecus, which formerly inhabited the general region. It has also been suggested that the Yeren is actually a new species of orangutan, one that is ground-dwelling, bipedal and native to mainland Asia instead of Borneo or Sumatra.

 There have been a lot of links connecting many of these giant primates seen around the world, the foremost is the fact that most seem to resemble to orangutan. So maybe there could be a undiscovered species of orangutan that was killed off when man first evolved, so only scattered remote colonies still exists.

It is also thought that the Yeren might just be a legend. The Yeren apparently dwells in a region already rich with superstition and strange phenomena, including an inordinate occurrence of albinism in the local fauna, adding to its mystique. It has been connected with ancient Chinese legends of magical forest ogres and man-like bears.

Most reputable scientists, Chinese and Western, who have studied the Yeren case agree that almost all the physical evidence and sightings claimed by local people are unreliable and often fabricated, and that given the absence of any reliable evidence pointing that the Yeren is likely to not exist.

It is quite hard to say whether or not this creature does exist, most experts are saying that most of the evidence was fabricated and that any real proof is lacking, that being said the people of this province do know this story very well and seem to respect this creature. So maybe there is some truth behind all this but without a official exploration into this area, the truth is still probably hiding, waiting to be found. 

Skunk Ape

The Skunk ape is a primate that has been sighted in the Southern United States, but most of the reports have come from Florida during the 1960's and 70's. It is named for it's appearance and it's unpleasant odor.

Sightings of the skunk ape go back to before Europeans arrived. Indian tribes such as the Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole all told stories of a creature that stood 5–8 feet tall, and gave off a pungent odor. When Europeans arrived, they learned of the legends from the Native Americans. They reported that these creatures were dangerous towards white people and friendly towards the Indians. A famous example of this reportedly occurred in the fall of 1822. One cold night, two hunters were awoken by a fierce roar near their camp and fled leaving all of their belongings behind. They made it back to their village and told their friends of their experience. The villagers formed a posse to hunt down the creature. They searched the woods for several days armed with rifles, pistols, swords, and knives. After a week of searching, they reportedly found huge footprints in the mud close to where the hunters had their experience. Encouraged by this new find, they made camp and planned to continue searching the next morning. Later that night however, the creature attacked the camp. The creature was reportedly hit repeatedly but still continued to attack. The posse fought back but the creature killed several of the men before they finally managed to kill it. The survivors examined the creature, which they claimed had jet black hair, was 12–13 feet tall and weighed over 1200 lbs. Fearing that the sounds of the battle would attract other creatures, the survivors fled back to the village without bothering to take any evidence of the creature. Historians and biologists argue whether this event really happened. Some say its just a story passed from generation to generation. Others say it happened, but the animal was possibly an unusually large black bear.

In 2000, two photographs of an alleged ape, said to be the Skunk Ape, were taken anonymously and mailed to the Sarasota Sheriff's Department in Florida. They were accompanied by a letter from a woman claiming to have photographed it on the edge of her backyard. The photographer claimed that on three different nights the ape had entered her yard to take apples from a bushel basket on her porch. She was convinced it was an escaped orangutan. The police were dispatched to the house numerous times but when they arrived the Skunk Ape, also known as the stink ape, was gone.

Their are a lot of sighting of giant apes across the world, and the possibility of an undiscovered large ape existing in the undiscovered wilderness is quite high. The photos themselves are quite interesting as well, if you look at the structure of the face of the ape, it looks a lot like a orangutang (although bigger). So this may just be a escaped animal, but the history of the area says that this animal has been around along time, so maybe there might be hidden colonies of the skunk ape roaming the forests of Southern United States. But there still isn't enough evidence to say that they do exist, so until we are able to capture one we will have to put this down as unconfirmed.        

Enfield Horror

This was one of the most bizarre creatures that has been reported. The Enfield Horror terrorized the quite town of Enfield, Illinois in the United States.

The creature was reported as being 4 - 5 feet tall, and having a large grey body, looking almost like a pile of living mud. Its eyes were reported to be large and reddish-pink in color, It walked on 3 short legs, and had two short arms protruding out of the chest area of its body. Its tracks are similar to a dog’s but with six toe pads. A group of M-Forcers who encountered the creature report that its body is hairy. When threatened, the creature hisses “like a wildcat”

The southern part of Illinois is sometimes referred to as the “Devil’s Kitchen”, a designation left behind by the Native Americans and the early settlers to explain strange sights and sounds like unexplained balls of light, apparitions, screams in the night and various other unsettling types of phenomena. The Native Americans often considered such sites as “sacred” but the settlers usually believed them to be “cursed”, or at least well avoided. The idea that such locations were linked to the "Devil" was the first thought that crossed the minds of the bible-reading, god-fearing folks and they promptly set about to do two things. They learned to avoid these strange and haunted places and secondly, they gave names to the spots to alert other visitors and settlers of the dangers of the area. In the case of the Devil’s Kitchen, just about anything is possible, from ghost’s reports to mystery animals and weird monster sightings. This tiny community in southeastern Illinois became the scene of bizarre happenings for a short period of time and while the case has largely been forgotten today, it remains a part of the high strangeness of the region.

This creature was sighted at night, and twice it was trying to attract the attention of a homeowner by making scratching sounds on the outside of its door and walls. When the home owner opened the door, the creature stood there looking at him, and then fled away into the woods, hissing. It was also reported to have been shot by a group of men searching for it, when shot it seemed unharmed and fled at a speed greater than a human could move.

At the time of the creature’s sightings, there were also a large number of UFO reports in the same area.

A “baboon-like” leaping monster was blamed for livestock deaths in nearby Mt. Vernon Illinois in the 1940s, but reports are not detailed enough to determine if this was the same type of creature encountered in Enfield.

Recording of the creatures Hiss was taken but later destroyed for unknown reasons.

Considering this was the only time the creature was seen, it is hard to say whether or not these encounters were true, if it is linked to alien activity, then it's safe to say there aren't colonies of them running around the forests of America. But the area which the sighting occurred are known to be a hotbed of activity for abnormal, but we will have to wait again till something like this decides to show up again, to find out the truth behind this story.  

 

First Post

Hello World, I have just created this blog for my group, so we can show you our findings and opinions on subjects from Cryptids to Ghosts. At the moment we can only research over the internet, and help share the stories that are popping up all across the media about strange events and beings, but soon we will be able to finance going into the field and finding the truth for ourselves.

We will update regularly, on any stories we can find that will take your interest, and comment with both our opinion and the facts.

"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it."

        Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist.