Johor Hominid: What Do You Look Like?

Vincent Chow’s associate, Sean Ang, wrote the following on Friday, July 7, 2006:

…we will publish a sketch based on the original photos, say by end of this week, latest next week. Vincent is working on one of the sketch now. I also intend to publish the close-up photo of the hair samples we have.

Ang also said that photographs are “potential Pulitzer prize” caliber. Why, at this stage, the continued hyperbole?

In transcripts of conversations on July 6th, with and shared by Jason Pritchett, Sean Ang noted that of the 14 reported photos, Sean has seen two individuals, both “closeups…of juveniles.. and footprints.”

Clearly, Chow still possesses the photographs, as Sean mentions he has viewed some of them, and that they have been shown to government officials. While the mysterious photographer or owners may have left the country, they have not taken all the samples of the photos with them. If Chow is freely showing them around to gain supporters (whether ones in the Johor establishment or a paleoanthropologically-aware webmaster), the photographs are within reach. This seems different from what was earlier stated.

What is beginning to come out in some of this casual chatter is disturbing. Sean Ang is saying that the

…irony is that the [Cambodian guerilla] group [that took the photographs] have been showing them, and wanted to sell the[m] ages ago. But everyone who sees the photos laugh at them until Vincent take [took?] a bet that they are real.

Sean Ang feels that tracings of the photographs will be satisfactory, but, of course, only the release of the pictures will do now. We have weeks and weeks of first native, then Peter Loh’s images, under Vincent Chow’s directions and corrections (see the evolution of them below) of the “Johor Hominid.” These images have not furthered this quest, up to this point.

A Johor local draws (at the very top) one of the first sketches (above) of the then so-called “Johor Bigfoot.” This was soon followed by a series of the Malaysian Mawas hominid drawings (below) by Peter Loh, which were further refined from instructions and feedback from Vincent Chow. The results were this slowly changing gallery of images, until we have the Homo erectus-like newly named “Johor Hominid.”

Directly below is Peter Loh’s latest, unpublished drawing of the upper body of the Johor Hominid.

The two following drawings graphically illustrate the stark contrast between the earliest head interpretation of what Vincent Chow says he saw in the photographs, and how it was suggested it be redrawn by Peter Loh, through Chow’s corrections.

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