New Johor Bigfoot Track
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 10th, 2006
For months, since November 2005, reports of the Johor Bigfoot issued from the rainforests of Malaysia. Cryptomundo even created a sorting category for them (see to the right of this column). Weekly updates and discussions ensued. Debates about the evidence raged. And then the horrible discovery was made that the “photographs” that supposedly existed were nothing more than extractions from a book about a television documentary on prehumans.
But here we are, back in another November, and there’s news from Johor and new findings of footprints. The shape of the footprint, it must be admitted does look interesting, but as you can see from the following article, caution is now the watchword even in Malaysia.
Here’s the dispatch from Malaysia, for today:
Koto Tinggi: The saga of the Johor Bigfoot may not have ended.
Loud noises and the breaking of branches at a rubber plantation in Kampung Batu 4, about three kilometres from the Kota Tinggi waterfall on Monday night, have fuelled interest again in the creature.
Workers at a kongsi checked the area at dawn and found large footprints on the ground.
State Wildlife Department director Ab Razak Majid said the prints were that of a young renegade bull elephant, but Tenggara Parliament Youth Consensus Council chairman Marozan Ahmad felt otherwise.
“Based on the size and shape of the footprints, droppings and remains of banana plants, we are sure that an elephant had intruded into the plantation,” Razak said.
“It would be difficult to track it down as it would have moved to another location in the jungle by now.”
Marozan had ventured into the secondary jungle behind the kongsi with a group of youths to investigate the source of the disturbance.
“We found large footprints measuring about 45cm long. The pair of footprints had a stride of about a metre apart. This indicates that a large bi-pedal creature had moved around here. There are twigs and leaves broken off from trees from a height of more than two metres.”
Marozan hoped the authorities and researchers would investigate the footprints.
“A group of experts should track into the interior of the jungle. The Bigfoot would be a positive development for the district as it will attract experts and scientists here,” he said.
Source:
“Is it the footprint of Bigfoot or jumbo?” by R. Sittamparam
New Straits Times
10 Nov 2006
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Seems to me this new Johor Bigfoot haven’t got any toes? I wanna see a drawing of the eyes before I’m ready to believe this one.
Where’s Chow?
Is it just me, or is that a boot print?
EastexQueenB, that’s the first thing I thought, too: boot print.
Here is an uploaded larger image of the above photo. When ThumbSnaps page loads click the big image should load the bigger image.
Hope it helps people decided.
It does seem odd to see a purported primate print, purportedly that fresh, that leaves no toeprints.
what’s wrong? can’t y’all see the dermal ridges?
Unfortunately, my red flag goes up when I hear anything about goings on in Malaysia. This rather poor photo of what could be so many things doesn’t help. Looks to me like it could very well be a footprint of a young elephant that slided in the mud while it was trampling the area. I also wonder why, if these were hominids, they would go on a rampage and trash this rubber plantation. It just doesn’t seem in keeping with the habits of an elusive, shy creature to me.
Actually, I think this is a decent footprint on lousy ground. I see no markings for boots at all, and at least this one looks like it should be from a homid. Remember the prints they took pictures of while making a cast (the one with the 2 beauties)? The “big toe” was out to the side. This is either someone with huge feet or the real deal. Oh, mystery_man, you were wondering why an elusive, shy creature would do such destruction? My dad’s uncle has something similiar happen at a logging landing. The evidence pointed towards sasquatch because there were only large footprints for tracks, so no heavy equipment to help in lifting, and full 50 gal. barrels were thrown against trees, some even split open from the impact, plus their brand new CAT (when caterpillar first sold their tractors) was pushed on its side. So, this is what I have always said, the shy, elusive creature we have come to know and love can get violent when something really makes them angry. For my great uncle, he thinks that either someone made it angry before it hit the landing or that their landing was right in the middle of its path (I’m thinking regular walking path).
Shumway: interesting.
And of course not the way I initially reacted. I thought: elephants do this; primates don’t. And of course this isn’t necessarily true, for either elephants or primates.
Funny you rang. I was just reading John Bindernagel’s assertions of how sas behavior when confronted with humans and their works can be seen to be pretty close to a mirror of that of the other great apes. This was part of what motivated Bindernagel to go big time into the sas field (he’s a wildlife biologist, talk about your timely intercessions). And of course Bindernagel notes: shy and retiring. Most of the time.
But certainly not always.
Good idea, shumway. I wonder what made it so angry?
And I still think this footprint is not very informative. Whether it is a bad print, or lousy ground, it is not immediately apparent what it is. It could be a bunch of different things except a hominid print. Were any other prints around the site photographed?