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Sin Chew Daily journalist Lee Hoy Chin has written a new book Johor Bigfoot: The Beginning of the True Story after covering eyewitness accounts on the creature. The book is reported to be a compilation of newspaper reports on Bigfoot and other details not published in newspapers. Many people are searching for the truth about […]

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There is a new track photo, on November 17, 2006, to consider and a word of caution about them to share from Sean Ang. The New Straits Times is publishing details that a "Bigfoot researcher" named Mansur Poh presented them with several "unpublished photographs" of "footprints of the creature" found in the "deep jungles of […]

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The first recent sightings of the Johor Bigfoot took place in November 2005. Although the commotion had little to do with the traditional Pacific Northwest Bigfoot, the news organizations in Asia and America kept the interest level high for the first few months of 2006, calling them Orang Dalam, Johor Bigfoot, or Malaysian Mawas. But […]

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Are there more “unique” photographs like this one waiting in the wings in Johor? If you thought this was the last you had heard from the Malaysian investigators about a book and Johor Hominid photographs, you were badly mistaken. Sean Ang has emailed on Tuesday, August 8, 2006, at 6:19 am my time, to write […]

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Artist Peter Loh, who was there from the first, to hear of the leaked info on the photographs, puts pen to paper to record his editorial feelings for Cryptomundo about this sad outcome. For a complete rundown on all the other August 4th breaking news on the "Johor Hominid" hoax discovery, please also see: Johor […]

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The book above is the source of the recreations that were photographed, and then scanned, taken out of context, or otherwise shown to Vincent Chow as evidence of the “Johor Hominid.” We all know now it was an elaborate hoax, with a society created, some guardians, and eventually a website supporting this misinformation. This discovery […]

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Sean Ang, apparently on behalf of Vincent Chow, has decided to release a small portion of the eyes of an alleged Johor Hominid from one of the alleged photographs (see below). It’s not much. But it’s something. Of course, it only raises more questions. If they can show us this much, why not a total […]

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The matter of Sean Ang’s recent drawing discussed here on Monday is the subject of an article in the New Straits Times for Thursday, August 3, 2006, entitled “Sexual Gaze of Johor’s Bigfoot.” The paper is reporting on a new twist and extension of visual interpretations of the new drawing of the “eyes.” The New […]

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Raymond Goh of API gives permission to mirror his blog here: Chinese Experts questioned Johor Bigfoot Homo Erectus Reverse Evolution Theory Model of Shennongjia Bigfoot at Shennongjia Museum Illustration of Shennongjia Bigfoot (picture courtesy of Sina News) On July 3, the China News Network reported an article, entitled "Malaysian researchers new discovery :" Johor Bigfoot […]

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Interestingly, the day after Cryptomundo filed an update here on the void in the Johor Bigfoot photo situation, Sean Ang posted yet another drawing from the alleged photographs. My commentary on this new material follows an introduction of what has newly appeared. Part of what is being said follows: The above is a sketch based […]

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Why is the Malaysian situation at such a stalemate? What the February Johor footprint (above) tells us grows more confusing, but, at least, it is in hand. As of the last day of July 2006, still no photographs of the unknown hairy hominoids reportedly taken in Johor, Malaysia, have been shown publicly, shared with the […]

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Despite how frustrated a few people may be of the speculations, more images of the Johor Hominid continue to fire the imagination of other artists. Now with the tracings from Vincent Chow and Sean Ang, it only seems logical that someone would try to pull together the various parts of the picture. Cryptomundo shares the […]

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The following has been passed along by the API and permission granted to publish this English translation on Cryptomundo: July 23, 2006 Edition The International Chinese Newsweekly The Mystery of the Malaysia Nature Park Bigfoot by Lim Yu Soon The Orang Asli tribes in Johor believe in a mystery creature that they called Hantu Jarang […]

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According to a new article in the Malaysian newspaper, The New Straits Times, the ultimate motive of all of the recent news about the launch of the Johor Hominid website may have been revealed: a call for funding. R. Sittamparam, writing in an article on July 15th, notes that Vincent Chow’s and Sean Ang’s website […]

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Sometimes I start one place, go down a side road, end up elsewhere, and find my way back to say goodbye. The 1950s-1960s movie and television character actor Christian Drake, who played Trooper Ed Blackburn in the classic 1954 film Them!, has died at the age of 82. Is it a coincidence that I just […]

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