Ucumar Zupai – Killer of Horses Part III

In addition to Patricio Saldano’s close encounter, two top class biathletes witnessed the hairy creature South American creature known as the Ucumar at close proximity on a trail in Cerro Termal and also filed an excellent report.

Humberto Sosa and Susana Romano were out on a training run when they suddenly heard branches being loudly crunched in a wooded area on a hillside. They were aghast when they saw what was making the noises – an ape of some sort moving smoothly parallel to the athletes. It then suddenly jumped into the growth where the birds there abruptly took off and then there was an eerie and dead silence.

Discretion being the better part of valour, Sosa and Romano took off in a bid to get away from the alleged Ucumar and it was then that the thing suddenly began to deliberately pace them in the bush some 10 metres away. The very loud crunching noises emanating from the woods indicated to Sosa that whatever was following them was very heavy indeed to have been able to make that kind of racket.

Before his sighting, Sosa had opined that the reports of a manlike beast were all due to the effects of mass hysteria, but now having seen the beast for himself, Sosa was adamant that what he had seen was a large ape of unknown variety.

Sosa’s report rekindled memories of an incredible report made known to the authorities by cattle rancher, Rogelio Martinez, following a fantastic incident that took place in 2001.

It seems that a gaucho (Argentine cowboy) Martinez was acquainted with, and who we only know as Posadas, was riding through a heavily wooded area very early one day when he encountered a fearsome looking hair-clad creature two metres in height, with the characteristic long arms and sharp claws. The hominid had an oval-shaped head and its huge mouth was dominated by a pair of vicious-looking fangs.

Now this mystery would have been solved by now if Posadas had been able to follow through with his thought of shooting the creature. Now let me make it clear I am NOT advocating shooting a hominid to prove it exists, but merely stating an outcome as it might have happened if events had transpired differently. Posadas dismounted and moved to draw his shotgun from the saddle, but for the brief moment he took to do this, there was adequate time for the quicksilver beast to rapidly withdraw from the scene and then for it not to be seen again by the perplexed and hapless gaucho.

There ends the modern day spate of reports of Ucumar sightings, but, fortunately, they may not be the last we ever hear of this critter if a determined individual with a fire in his belly for hominid research has his way.

For, you see, my friend John Andrews of Washington state, has conducted considerably more investigation into the puzzling Ucumar phenomenon than I have, and John has shown me a variety of materials dating back many years that indicate the Ucumar has been around for a very long time and descriptions of this creature are a very close to those match to those we have heard for sasquatch and yeti except for the strange claws.

John is hoping to be the first foreigner to travel to Argentina in search of the Ucumar and when he does ultimately do so, I will wish him every success as “he boldly goes where no one has gone before.”

John Kirk About John Kirk
One of the founders of the BCSCC, John Kirk has enjoyed a varied and exciting career path. Both a print and broadcast journalist, John Kirk has in recent years been at the forefront of much of the BCSCC’s expeditions, investigations and publishing. John has been particularly interested in the phenomenon of unknown aquatic cryptids around the world and is the author of In the Domain of the Lake Monsters (Key Porter Books, 1998). In addition to his interest in freshwater cryptids, John has been keenly interested in investigating the possible existence of sasquatch and other bipedal hominids of the world, and in particular, the Yeren of China. John is also chairman of the Crypto Safari organization, which specializes in sending teams of investigators to remote parts of the world to search for animals as yet unidentified by science. John travelled with a Crypto Safari team to Cameroon and northern Republic of Congo to interview witnesses among the Baka pygmies and Bantu bushmen who have sighted a large unknown animal that bears more than a superficial resemblance to a dinosaur. Since 1996, John Kirk has been editor and publisher of the BCSCC Quarterly which is the flagship publication of the BCSCC. In demand at conferences, seminars, lectures and on television and radio programs, John has spoken all over North America and has appeared in programs on NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, TLC, Discovery, CBC, CTV and the BBC. In his personal life John spends much time studying the histories of Scottish Clans and is himself the president of the Clan Kirk Society. John is also an avid soccer enthusiast and player.

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