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Over the weekend and into today, you’ve probably continued to read and hear a great deal about the so-called "Bigfoot" activity in Malaysia. Most of the articles have been rehashed treatments. Some have been reasonable, especially the news items written closer to the core of the activities. A few have even contained new info, as […]

Read: ABC Ridicules Bigfoot & Travel Channel Doesn’t »

One of the great things about the explosion of media interest in the "Bigfoot" stories out of Malaysia is that the papers have to come up with more and more details to keep the interest level of their articles sharp. And these news items gives us the opportunity to learn more new news, and some […]

Read: More Good “Bigfoot” News Out of Malaysia »

A team of twenty scientists from Singapore has been told by government officials to delay a forthcoming expedition to find proof of the unknown hairy hominoids ("Bigfoot," to the media) being reported in the rainforests near Johor, Malaysia. News services are spreading a rather hastily and badly written dispatch today: The Singapore Paranormal Investigators (SPI) […]

Read: Malaysia Bigfoot Expedition Delayed »

Okay, all of us can see evidence that the Malaysia "Bigfoot" story has exploded into the mainstream when even USA Today decides to cover the story. But then, we also realize it is getting a little long in the tooth when the same newspaper can’t be any more creative than to use the old terrible […]

Read: Get Ready For Yeti »

Art by LAT, New Straits Times Tuesday, December 27, 2005 In an article entitled Johor Tourism in Malaysia waits for windfall from international interest in ‘bigfoot’, the BFRO is quoted as offering the following advice to the Johor National Parks Corporation (JNPC): "Even a fairy large expedition, if held over a short duration, is not […]

Read: Malaysia Bigfoot Update – The BFRO Weighs In »

Early Indian news reports seem to be linking the finding of "giant" footprints in India with the "Malaysian Bigfoot" media madness, and the the temporary closing of China’s Shennongjia Nature Reserve (or "Bigfoot Park" in some stories), the alleged habitat of the Chinese Wildmen or Yeren. But are the Indian reports clearly of an archaeological […]

Read: How Old Are India’s Giant Footprints? »

Reports Friday from Malaysia surfaced that a former zoologist came close to getting proof of Bigfoot’s existence in the jungles there in 2001, but the evidence was destroyed by loggers. Amlir Ayat, 38, now an environmental consultant in Kuala Lumpur, said he had gone in search of the remains of Bigfoot after villagers in Kuala […]

Read: Malaysian Bigfoot Update »

A new drawing of the Malaysian “Bigfoot” has been released in Friday, January 6th’s New Straits Times with their article “Closing in on Bigfoot, foreign media set to descend on Johor.” The sketch appears to illustrate the more distinctive Malaysian unknown hairy hominid, which technically is a more humanlike cryptid, and very different that the […]

Read: First Image of Malaysian Bigfoot ? »

I’ve already commented on the historical nature of the Malaysian reports of what is unfortunately being called a "Bigfoot." (Hey, what’s wrong with using the local name for this cryptid? Maybe Orang Dalam, perhaps?) So, today, I just wanted to mention a brief informal statistical media analysis that is being noted by the media itself. […]

Read: Media Madness: Malaysian Bigfoot Flap »

What are your cryptozoological predictions for 2006? Where will new expeditions search? What cryptids will dominate the news this year? What cryptozoological wonder will be filmed? Will someone use a cellphone camera to "capture" an image of a cryptid this year? Who will win the $5000 top prize for a cryptid-related photo in February, and […]

Read: What does 2006 hold for Cryptozoology? »

It sounds like the Malaysians are banking on tourism dollars from the recent flap of Bigfoot sightings there. Published today in the Star, Malaysia’s most widely-read English-language daily newspaper, is another article about the Bigfoot being seen in the jungles of Johor. If Bigfoot really exists in Johor, the find may turn out to be […]

Read: Malaysian Cryptotourism Spurred by Bigfoot »

Well, not yet. But the Johor Wildlife Department stated that they would install cameras in the jungle where the creatures have reported to have been seen after they had compiled the eyewitness accounts of or found any evidence of the creatures. The advisor to the Malaysian Nature Society welcomed the news that state and federal […]

Read: Malaysian Bigfoot Caught on Camera ? »

Reports from Bernama, the Malaysian National News Agency, of sightings of Bigfoot creatures in the forests of Malaysia. The indigenous peoples of Malaysia, the Orang Asli, call these creatures “Hantu Jarang Gigi”. The name Orang Asli is a Malay term which translates as ‘original peoples’ or ‘first peoples.’ Link to a map showing the location […]

Read: Bigfoot on the Loose in Malaysia »