The yeti, also known as the abominable snowman, is a supposed large primate-like creature reported to live in the Himalayas. The Western name is derived from the Tibetan yeh-teh (transliterated: gYa' dred), "little man-like animal"; it is a false cognate with Old English geottan (or yettin in Modern English), an antiquated word for an orc or troll (see also jotun). Most mainstream scientists and experts consider current evidence of the yeti's existence to be unpersuasive, and the result of hoaxes, legend ...

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Many cryptozoologists, after careful examinations of eye-witness reports and statistical evidence, have concluded that yeti reports are misidentification of mundane creatures. Well-financed expeditions have failed to turn up any positive evidence of its existence, although a sample of hair retrieved from one expedition was reportedly confirmed as belonging to an unknown ape. Enthusiasts speculate that these reported creatures could be present-day specimens of the extinct giant ape Gigantopithecus, as the only evidence (other th ...

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Pongo pygmaeus Pongo abelii Orangutans (also spelled orang utan, orang-utan, sometimes incorrectly orangutang) are two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes brown, hair native to Malaysia and Indonesia. The word orangutan is derived from the Malay orang hutan meaning man of the forest, although local people do not use this term to refer to orangutans. The Malay word for orangutan is maias or mawas. They are the only extant species ...

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An anomalous phenomenon is an observed phenomenon for which there is no suitable explanation in the context of a specific body of scientific knowledge (for example, astronomy or biology). Anomalous phenomenon - Introduction. Out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, extrasensory perception, ghosts, demonic encounters, poltergeists, as well as sightings of UFOs and reports of alien abductions are phenomena, most of which are not widely accepted as real by mainstream scientists, some of whom go as far ...

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Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch, is described as a large, bipedal apelike creature living in the remote wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, specifically those in southwestern Canada, the Great Lakes, the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountains, the forests of the U.S. Northeast, and the U.S. Southern states. The majority of mainstream scientists reject the posibility of the creature's existence, and consider the stories of Bigfoot to be a combination of myth and hoax. Bigfoot - Description. < ...

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With the many yeti reports in the 1950s, the creature crossed over into popular culture. Mel Blanc lent his talent to voicing a bumbling, lovelorn Abominable Snowman on a few Warner Brothers cartoons from the era. The British film "The Abominable Snowman" appeared in 1957, starring Forest Tucker and Peter Cushing; Fred Johnson played the yeti. The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who featured a robotic Yeti in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear and i ...

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With the many yeti reports in the 1950s, the creature crossed over into popular culture. Mel Blanc lent his talent to voicing a bumbling, lovelorn Abominable Snowman on a few Warner Bros. cartoons from the era. The British film "The Abominable Snowman" appeared in 1957, starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing; Fred Johnson played the yeti. The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who featured a robotic Yeti in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear and i ...

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Out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, extrasensory perception, ghosts, demonic encounters, poltergeists, as well as sightings of UFOs and reports of alien abductions are phenomena, most of which are not widely accepted as real by mainstream scientists, some of whom go as far as calling the study of them pseudoscience. Sometimes the phenomenon is acknowledged as being real, but then the way it ...

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Anomalous phenomena seem to lack a clear scientific explanation, and thus are the subject of much controversy, debate, mystery, and potentially fear. However, at the same time, most of them are simply not widely accepted as real phenomena by mainstream scientists, who view them as hoaxes, lies, or conspiracies, perhaps going so far as to call their study pseudoscience. In other cases, the observation or sensing of a particular phenomenon is acknowledged as being a real, personal experience, but its interpretation - or the methods used ...

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Along with the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti (Abominable Snowman), Bigfoot is one of the more famous creatures in cryptozoology. While most Bigfoot encounters took place in the Pacific Northwest, similar encounters have been reported throughout North America. The phenomenon began in 1958 when enormous footprints were reported in Humboldt County, California. Many supporters of the creature's existence claim there had been accounts of large, hairy, apelike or "wild man" creatures (or reports of inexplicably large, human-like footprints) from ...

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Bigfoot - Bigfoot. Primatologist John Napier inserts that "the term Bigfoot has been in colloquial use since the early 1920's to describe large, unaccountable human-like footprints in the Pacific northwest" (Napier, 74). However, according to Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark, Andrew Genzoli deserves credit for the first formal use of the word on October 5, 1958 (Coleman and Clark, 39-40). Genzoli was a columnist and editor at The Humbolt Times, and that day's front page story showed Jerry Crew, a bulldozer o ...

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Bigfoot - Eyewitness reports. Some cryptozoologists have argued that the most persuasive circumstantial evidence for Bigfoot's existence is the high number (possibly thousands) of credible eyewitness reports from individuals, who claim to have clearly seen creatures that they describe as large, bipedal and apelike. See List of Notable Bigfoot Sightings or Reports. The majority of Sasquatch reports are generated from areas having low human population densities. In addition, most sightings are near rivers, c ...

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Bigfoot - Mainstream response. Skeptics: Mainstream scientists and academics generally "discount the existence of Bigfoot because the evidence supporting belief in the survival of a prehistoric, bipedal, ape-like creature of such dimensions is scant" [8]. Furthermore, the issue is so muddied with dubious claims and outright hoaxes that many scientists do not give the subject serious attention. Napier wrote that the mainstream scientific community's indifference stems primarily from "insufficient evi ...

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Various types of creature have been proposed by believers to explain the sightings. Bigfoot - Gigantopithecus. Krantz argued that a relict population of Gigantopithecus blacki was the most likely candidate to explain Bigfoot reports. Based on his analysis of its jaws, he championed a view that Gigantopithecus was bipedal. Bourne writes that Gigantopithecus was a plausible candidate for Bigfoot since most Gigantopithecus fossils had been recovered from China, and al ...

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There have been a number of formal scientific studies of Bigfoot or Sasquatch. 1950s: Bernard Heuvelmans’s 1955 magnum opus, On The Track of Unknown Animals, did not specifically discuss Bigfoot, but did discuss Yeti accounts and is often seen as the root of cryptozoology. 1960s: Ivan T. Sanderson’s articles on mysterious animals, some appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, as well as his book Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come To Life (1961) that went through several printings ...

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Whether they it is a real creature or not, Bigfoot has had a demonstrable impact as a cultural phenomenon. Advertising: The meanings of the words, "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch", are quickly understood by most individuals and have been used in advertising and applied to many products, such as pizzas, skateboards, skis, an Internet search engine, computer hard drive series, gas station, Kokanee beer, and ...

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Individuals claiming to have seen Bigfoot generally describe a 7 to 10 feet (2.1 to 2.7 m) tall, ape-like (or some would say more human-like) bipedal creature with broad-shoulders and strongly-built. Excepting the face, palms of the hands and soles of the feet, the body is said to be covered with short shaggy hair that is usually black or dark brown in color, though rust, reddish, sandy or silver are occasionally reported. Reports sometimes describe large eyes [3], a pronounced eyebrow, and a large, pointed, low-set head[4] that is al ...

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