April 3, 2008
Cryptomundo correspondent Adam Campbell sends along this sighting of a Yeren:
I saw a Yeren between Guilin and Kunming in China, in October 1995.
I was on a train travelling at night at about 20 mph when the Yeren put it’s hand through the window and grabbed a bottle of beer off the table next to the window. We heard the bottle smash about 10 seconds later. Four of us saw it of which one [of the eyewitnesses] was Chinese; he kept shouting “Yeren! Yeren!”
The Yeren had very long thin fingers covered in gingery auburn hair. We assume that it was either on the roof of the train or sitting in a tree next to the track.
Yeren art used on “wanted poster” in China.
Harry Trumbore’s drawing (directly above) of the Chinese yeren in The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates (2006) shows the creature as much more anthropoid than in most contemporary renderings. See page 131.
Adam Campbell’s account recalls the “classic images” of the Yeti hand entering the Sherpa tent in popular art:
And in popular movies, such as:
There is one graphic frightening scene in the 1957 film The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas where all that is seen is a giant hand coming into the tent (which is, unfortunately, not in this trailer). I recall seeing it in some clip of the movie on the Internet, however.
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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