Afghan Artillery and Baffling Barmanu
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 10th, 2007
Jodi Magraner discusses the Barmanu and shows the drawings he had made of them from eyewitness accounts.
In my modest effort to send some field guides and other books to the troops who are in harms’ way, a few shipments have gone out. Today, via a received email, I heard back from a soldier in an area known for some unknown hominoid activity and much more.
Mark Langenkamp is stationed someplace in eastern Afghanistan. He writes:
I got your book in the mail today! Thank you again for sending it.
When I am done reading it, I will leave it here at the front, in the small library that we have of used books. I’ll put your contact information in the front cover so even after I’m gone, you can be notified should our “Barmanu” be seen.
Lately, we’ve been shooting a lot of artillery here. I doubt the Barmanu like that too much. At least, I’ve not heard of anything resembling Barmanu coming in close to investigate the thunderous sound makers.
I’ll keep in touch from time to time to report what I have or have not seen. Right now, however, I’ve got a book to read!
This is the closeup of the drawing of the female Barmanu shown by cryptozoologist Jordi Magraner during his news conference (see above). Sadly, Magraner was killed in northern Pakistan in August 2002.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Very interesting item. From the military activity, and the reference to Chitral in the Magraner piece, I guess that ‘someplace in eastern Afghanistan’ would be Nuristan. Is the Barmanu anything like the almas-type creature known as Yavoi-Adam or similar in Afghanistan? If I were looking for hominids in Afghanistan I would start in the Wakhan coridor, where it runs through the southern Pamirs.
I see this hominid has bare knees, a seemingly common feature…
Three thoughts about this post:
1. The bare knees are from crawling around trying to avoid the artillery barrage.
2. So that’s whats happened to Bin Laden, he took up with Ms. Barmanu and is wintering in the Southern Pamirs.
3. Oh great! Now there’s something else to worry our boys while they hunt the Taliban.
hey loren interesting informative new article. thanks bill
Thanks again to Loren for posting!
Barmanu does seem to be exactly the same as Biabanguli/ Golub-yavans, the Almaslike creature, and both the bare knees and bare breasts are commonly reported in the type (especially noted in Russia and China also).
I saw while on a photo search that Loren had a previous posting concerning the Kaptar examined by Lt-Col. V. S. Karapetyan and another similar creature in the Pamirs that were victims of earlier wars, and that would be a good cross-reference in this matter. That posting had a couple of drawings which I felt would go well with this one.