May 11, 2006
Talking To Vincent Chow on the Appearance of the Johor Bigfoot
From the private collection of photographs that Vincent Chow has been shown, he has now described, in some detail, how he says the Malaysian Mawas or Johor Bigfoot appear to him. The following is a collection of the various statements from Chow of their descriptions.
While we all can debate the reality of the photographs, what and when they will look like when and if they are released, the drawings and descriptions can be accessed and analyzed, just as we do with eyewitness details, in our feeble human attempt to understand what we are dealing with now. Needless to say, I want to see these photos as much as the next person, but I am not going to neglect that the data is piling up, in the meantime, on the Malaysian front. I’ve always found it best to digest my meals a little at a time, and eat slowly.
Vincent Chow’s Descriptions
Mawas seem to be scattered in numbers and often leave footprints after their forays into areas of human settlements (fringes of forests, villages, orchards, stream sides, pond-sides etc.). Sightings reveal a tall individual, height variously estimated between 8-10 feet. Females are shorter , have hairy breasts, smaller heads. Juveniles 4-5 ft. Very pronounced ridge on eyebrow.
Colour darker compared to reddish-brown adults. Reports of sounds made by them to be guttural and low to high pitch. No record of causing harm to domestic animals or humans.
Males:. Arms strong and feet large.
General morphology indicates that they are not anywhere near to ape but more to Homo sapiens.
Little resemblance to the orang hutan (the real mawas).
As a tropical species, it has adapted to the high humidity and temperatures by wearing a thinner coat of fur or hair as compared to the Sasquatch.
Male: tall, est. to be 8-9 ft. Face looks human but nostrils rather flared, eyes , relatively larger than ours, double eyelids. face charismatic and with deep intense stare. Rather handsome but face wrinkled. Upper lip thinner than lower.
Chest sparsely hairy as well as areas where joints are found esp. limbs). Barrel-chested. Genitals: penis and scrotum very visible. Penis hooded.
Illustration: Drawing by Harry Trumbore, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe. © 2006.
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.
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