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According to the Malaysia Star of Thursday July 13, 2006’s article, “Big draw for Bigfoot site,” it’s all about the numbers first, and the hominids second. In the piece by Nelson Benjamin of The Star, dateline Johor Baru, the reporter writes: A website dedicated to the Malaysian version of Bigfoot has created a buzz among […]

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Artist Peter Loh thinks another revision to his drawing is in order based on Vincent Chow’s new sketch, above. Also Peter feels some explanations from his point of view are worthy of registering, regarding the Johor Hominid drawings he has submitted. This seems only fair, so here’s his say: Vincent is a great artist too, […]

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The drawings by Vincent Chow and Sean Ang, at one level, are to be appreciated. At another level, they have caused further frustration and a growing level of impatience within the general cryptozoological community. Here is Cryptomundo’s Peter Loh drawing of the head of a Johor Hominid (then called Mawas) – the first drawing allegedly […]

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Here’s the face drawn by Vincent Chow that everyone is talking about, allegedly drawn from the photographs that Vincent Chow has in his possession. This new one can now be compared to the two following drawings earlier sketched by Peter Loh. What is graphically shown is the great differences between the earliest head interpretation of […]

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Sean Ang has published his “hand-traced” sketch of the Johor Hominid (see below): Click on image for full-size version James Pritchett, a critic of the ongoing situation with the Chow-noted photographs, comments: ….Sean Ang has now provided us with his long promised sketch of one of the photos. Actually, I should amend that: he’s given […]

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Safuan Abu Bakar says we all will be seeing a captured Johor-like Hominid soon. What is this all about? Have we vanished down the rabbit’s hole finally and found ourselves in a twilight zone we did not know about existed in Malaysia? New Straits Times Spot Light: Supernatural sightings? 09 Jul 2006 ———————————————————————— If a […]

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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. […]

Read: Johor Hominid: What Do You Look Like? »

Patience is a virtue. Patience and passion are two important components of cryptozoology research, as I have often mentioned, as per Bernard Heuvelmans. Speculations on the Johor Hominid have reached new lows and highs, from muddled discussions of “reverse evolution” to the creation of a new Peter Loh sketch (above) based on all the information […]

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Environmentalist Vincent Chow and palaeoanthropologist Sean Ang, who are both involved in researching the question of unknown hairy hominoids in Malaysia, have created a website to focus their pursuit. The researchers have also, through the mere need to purchase a domain name, coined a phrase for their local Malaysian Bigfoot, capturing the notion they are […]

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Here’s the latest news from Malaysia: Reverse evolution theory about the Johor Bigfoot 30 Jun 2006 JOHOR BARU: The Johor Bigfoot could be a Homo erectus that had undergone “reverse evolution”. Homo erectus (“upright man”) is a hominid species that is believed to be an ancestor of modern humans. It is a large-brained species which […]

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The New Straits Times carries a non-Bigfoot story on June 20, 2006, entitled “Wild time in the jungle,” by Zalina Mohd Som. Even the opening summary says it all: She did not manage to see Bigfoot and his family but Zalina Mohd Som came away from Endau-Rompin National Park with lots of magical memories Don’t […]

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Delivered today, for inclusion in the Bates College exhibition, "Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale," the Adam Davies-Andrew Sanderson-obtained Orang Pendek original cast, from September 2001. During their next expedition, they were recorded on the National Geographic Channel’s documentary, Is It Real?: Ape-Man, Episode 14, Season 2, which first aired Monday, February 27, 2006. Please […]

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The story out of Malaysia today is pegged as an update, but there’s not much news in it. Bigfoot: Johor to verify new info New Straits Times 12 Jun 2006 By R. Sittamparam ———————————————————————— JOHOR BARU: Queries about the Johor Bigfoot continue to pour in from all over the world, with many Malaysians claiming to […]

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On Saturday, June 3, 2006, I’ll be giving a talk at the University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas, on "Malaysian Mawas, Flores Hobbits, and Witness Drawings from a Cryptozoological Point of View." I hope to see some Cryptomundo readers there. I’ll be happy to sign your books or talk about the latest cryptozoo news. […]

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A new article out of Malaysia betrays the underlying war between newspapers in the country over who "owns" the Johor Bigfoot story. Today’s editions of The Star are subtle in how they are using quotations and paraphrases from government officials to distance themselves from Vincent Chow, new books, and possible photographs of the Mawas. Here’s […]

Read: Newspapers in Malaysian Bigfoot War »