Team in search of mystery yeti-like creature
(Thisisnorthdevon.co.uk) Sept. 10, 2009
Mystery animal researchers from Woolsery are heading to Indonesia in search of a yeti-like creature. Four explorers from the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ), the world's largest mystery animal research organization based in Woolsery, will be searching through the jungles of Sumatra hunting for the orang-pendek.
Buddhist cosmology recognizes the existence of yetis, called yakkha in the exclusively Buddhist language Pali. (See preserved scalp and hand at right). They are hybrid-human woodland protectors and ogres. The females are reputed to be particularly vicious guarding themselves and the forest.
They are fearsome cannibals such that the word, yaksha in Sanskrit, is often translated as "demon." But the ancient cosmology recognizes many kinds of creatures of interest to cryptozoologists. They are flesh and blood but capable of great stealth and apparent cloaking or dematerialization. There is far more going on in the solar system, and this planet in particular, than most of us are aware. But ancient seers and modern meditators (like Siddhartha living in the forest before becoming enlightened was able to see, as depicted at left) can verify the existence of these "unseen beings."
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The yeti-like creature is described as a powerfully built and upright-walking beast, which the CFZ believe may be related to the orangutan and the yeti of mainland Asia. The Kubu people, the first inhabitants of Sumatra, will aid the team. This tribe and their chief are said to have seen the creature in their poorly explored jungle homelands.
The expedition's zoologist, Richard Freeman, said: "The orang-pendek is especially interesting as it is an ape that walks upright rather than on all fours. It may show us how our own ancestors first began bipedal locomotion. New species are turning up in Indonesia all the time — it is the real life lost world."
The CFZ said that huge horned snakes, alleged to be 30 feet (ten metres) long, and a savage golden cat with a stubby tail and large canine fangs have also been reported in the Indonesian jungles.
Wildlife photographer Jeremy Holden and Debbie Martyr, head of the Indonesian tiger conservation group, are both said to have seen the orang-pendek in the past. Joining Richard on the adventure will be team leader Adam Davis, Dr. Chris Clark, and Dave Archer. Source