Modern humans did not evolve in Africa

Modern humans did not evolve in Africa

(Highly Compelling) Oct. 22, 2025: The field of paleoanthropology continues to provide new perspectives on human evolution. Recent fossil discoveries are reshaping our understanding of ancient history and early humans. These advancements offer exciting insights in anthropology and science. 

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• Dating of Kabwe to 300,000 (nature.com)
• Bodo and Kabwe are not ancestral to Homo sapiens (researchgate.net)
• The Origin of Our Species • Chris Stringer

Native monsters: Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Yeti

"Bigfoot" cannibal ogre is recorded in an ancient Buddhist text called the Alavaka Sutta

(Oregon Public Broadcasting)

Ancient indigenous Native American rock art (petroglyphs) warn of Sasquatch creatures in area.

There really are killer "monsters" in the woods

Sasquatches, Yakkhas, Rakshasas, Yeren, Yetis, also commonly referred to as "Bigfoot," is a large, hairy cryptid creature said to inhabit forests around the world and in every state in North America, particularly concentrated in the Pacific Northwest [2][3][4].

Sasquatch is a feature in both Native American and Canadian (First Nations) folklore and since the mid-20th century has become a cultural icon, permeating popular culture and becoming the subject of its own distinct subculture [5][6].

The creatures are given many names worldwide.

Enthusiasts of Sasquatch (Istiyehe) hunting, such as those within the budding science of cryptozoology, have offered various forms of forensic evidence to support the existence of these Nature protectors and monsters (since they differ at least as much as human populations in terms of the behavior of individuals), including eyewitness claims of sightings as well as DNA, hair specimens, bodies, photographs, video, and particularly shocking audio recordings, in addition to a long history of tens of thousands of plaster casts of extremely large footprints [7][8][9][10] with individual fingerprints, as noted by Lloyd Pye.

Original film reexamined and found to be real

The evidence is a combination of eyewitness accounts, interactions, killings, folklore, identification, misidentification (confusing the humanin creature with bears of all kinds), and hoaxes.

The creatures are living animals but to say so causes a great deal of trouble to anyone trying to be taken seriously. Even a body is not enough because the gatekeepers and mainstream media insist and repeat that it cannot be a living creature [3][7][10][11][12][13].

Folklorists trace the phenomenon of these ogres and cave-dwelling monsters to a combination of factors and sources, including the European "wild man" figure, Asian Yeren, folk tales from every continent other than Antarctica, and indigenous cultures [14][15].

When disclosed, what will science say?

Examples of similar folk tales of wild, hair-covered humanoids exist throughout the world [16][17], such as the skunk ape of the Southeastern United States, the Almas (Almasty of Georgia and the Caucuses), Yeren of China, and Yeti of Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, India, and the Himalayas extending from Bangladesh to Afghanistan, including the Australian Yowie [14][18], and frightful (sometimes peaceful) creatures in the mythologies of indigenous people [19][20], who consider them another human tribe.

German Krampus, mean demonic shapeshifter

Speculation, a growing cultural interest in the preservation of the environment, and overall societal awareness of the subject have been cited as additional factors [21]. More: Bigfoot

Man enters Realm of Elves in Hollow Hill

In Malaysia there is a hill (Bukit Broga, near Semenyih and Kuala Lumpur), likely the entrance to an underground world (cavern, portal, tunnel system) called Alamaza, a name reminiscent of Agartha and Aztlan, references to a Hollow Earth civilization or levels of "heavens" in Hindu and Buddhist lore. This is a literal "fairy (féerie) kingdom" or alternate dimension as spoken of existing in woodland forests the world over.

Broga Hill in 2022 - One of the most popular hiking spots in Malaysia 🇲🇾, home of the elves

Mysterious Orang Bunian of Indonesia | Mythlok

In Malaysian, Singaporean, Bruneian, and Indonesian folklore, bunian people or Orang bunian [akin to the other humans, the Asian Bigfoot/Yeti creatures known as Orang Pendek).

They are suspected "supernatural" unseen beings said to be invisible to most humans, except for those who are born with or develop "spiritual sight." (In Buddhism, this is called the cultivation of dibba cakkhu or the "third eye" between the brows, likely corresponding to a DMT-oozing pineal gland).

• If they live underground to remain unseen, these are the "hollow hills," cave systems, or burial mounds into which they retreat.

While the term Orang bunian is often translated as "elves," it literally means "hidden people" or "whistling people." (Bigfoot all over the world are known to whistle and mimic human sounds very well, as well as tossing stones and rustling in the foliage).

Orang bunian when seen are described as beautiful, dressed in ancient Southeast Asian style, and nearly identical to humans in appearance. [One might call the bhumi devas or "woodland fairies, sprite, the Fae or sidhe.]

Some mythological accounts describe the lack of a philtrum (the human "love charm" or lateral cleft above the lip below the nose).

Modern depictions of Orang bunian deviate from the traditional folklore by including elf-like features -- pointed ears, high fantasy-influenced attire, or modern Minangkabau long-coat clothing [1].

Folklore

Aos Sí or aes sidhe of Ireland: Tuatha de Danann in European lore, myth, and legend

Orang bunian are said to inhabit the deep forests or high mountains in Sumatra, Borneo and Malay Peninsula, far from human contact [2], as well as near human communities, and are even said to share the same houses as human families [3].

According to legend, their social structure is similar to that of humans in the ancient Malay Peninsula, with families, clans, and royalty. As with other mythical beings in Indonesian folklore, Orang bunian often have supernatural powers [4] and must be appeased with certain rituals [or offerings] and customs before humans are allowed to trespass areas they inhabit.

Orang bunian are generally regarded as benevolent, befriending and assisting humans, particularly magicians (dukun or bomoh) and shamans (pawang) [5].

(Calista Leah Liew) Climbing Broga Hill in the morning

They are said to be able to intermarry with humans and bear invisible children [6].

Wake up, Rip Van Winkle! It's very late.

According to some tales, men married Orang bunian females but later decided to leave the bunian community and return to the human families they had left behind. However, after returning to human society, they found that many years had passed and everyone they once knew had died.

These narratives have been compared to Urashima Taro and Rip Van Winkle [7] [which would suggest that devas are much longer lived than humans but that "time" exists at different rates simultaneously everywhere all at once, such that one might experience an "eternity" somewhere then return to the human plane where an eternity had not yet elapsed and vice versa]. More

• See also Ghosts in Malay culture

Living TREE bridges and Yetis (video)

Bing, 6/27/19; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, Wiki edit

The roots of invention

Monsoons make this the wettest.

Welcome to the wettest place on Earth. "Living root bridges" can be found in the tropical rainforests of Meghalaya state, northeastern India, among the wettest places on Earth.

The gentle waterways that flow through the region’s valleys become gushing torrents during the summer monsoon season and would wash away traditional bamboo bridges.

So generations of indigenous Khasi people have devised a way of building root bridges by shaping living trees, like one near the village of Mawsynram.

It works like this: Rubber fig trees are planted or located on opposite riverbanks. As the trees' above-ground roots grow, the Khasi guide them across the water, sometimes with the support of temporary scaffolding like bamboo.

Limestone cave expedition, Jainta Hills

After years of tending, the roots eventually join and take hold of each other, forming a living suspension bridge that provides safe passage over swollen rivers. The innovation has proved critical to the Khasi people.

In this environment, bridges made of harvested materials would quickly rot and fall apart, leaving villages cut off and isolated. Building a living root bridge requires patience, however.

It takes about 15 to 30 years to grow a bridge sturdy enough to support humans. But the investment pays off. As these bridges age, they get stronger. Some are 100 feet long and can hold over 50 people.

Giant "wild men" of the world



Yeti (Mande Barung) of India

Of course they exist and gov'ts know. Ask Lloyd Pye.

In the U.S. knows them as Bigfoot, in Canada as Sasquatch, in China as Yeren, in Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, the Chechnia, and the Caucasus as Almas or "Wild Man," in Brazil as Mapinguary, in Sumatra as Orang Pendek, in Australia as Yowie, in Vietnam and Borneo as Batatut, Indonesia as Sajarang Gigi, in Bangladesh as Ban-Manush, in India as Mande Burung and, most famously of all, in Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet as Yeti or "Abominable Snowmen."

The little-known Indian version of this legendary ape-like creature is called mande barung -- or "forest man" -- and is reputed to live in the remote west Garo Hills of the north-eastern state of Meghalaya, India.

I was invited by passionate Yeti-believer Dipu Marak to travel throughout the area to hear for myself what he says is compelling evidence of the existence of a black and grey ape-like animal which stands about nearly 10 feet (3m) tall.

• "On the trail of the Indian Yeti" (BBC)
• In the footsteps of the Yeti: Hunt for Mande Burung (independent.co.uk)
  

The Mande Burung is a cryptozoological ape-like creature that inhabits the Meghalaya subtropical forests in the remote Garo Hills of the Northeast India. In July of 2019 I was invited by passionate yeti believer Dipu Marak to travel throughout the area of the Garo Hills, Meghalaya, in search of India's Yeti.

• Will Indian Army's Yeti post boost interest in cryptozoology?

No proof allowed not even hair DNA

(Indpendent.co.uk) [In 2008] a group of amateur "Yeti-hunters" from Meghalaya gave two hairs they say they discovered in a "nest" of the Mande Burung to a renowned British primatologist. Having examined the hairs, Ian Redmond said they were like that of no other creature known to live in these jungles. Even more teasingly, Dr. Redmond said that under the microscope the hairs most closely resembled those of a human, a chimp, a gorilla, or the purported "Yeti hairs" brought back by the late Sir Edmund Hilary's 1953 Mt. Everest expedition. More

BBC: Is Asian Bigfoot human?

Monster Quest (Asia Documentaries); Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

Artist's conception of what Orang Pendek may look like if it is an ape (Tim Bertelink).

The Hobbit like Humanoids of South East Asia BBC documentary 2015.

The Hobbit-like humanoids of Southeast Asia known as Homo floresiensis ("Flores Island Man," nicknamed Hobbit and Flo) are an extinct human species, yet people still see them in the forest. 

What are they seeing? There are miniature "Bigfoot" creatures, a Wild Man or warm weather Yeti, living in Asia. Others like Bigfoot, the Skunk Ape of Florida, Yeren of China, Yowie of Australia, Mande Barung, Yeti of the Himalayas, Almas of Georgia and Russia, and Barmanou.

Native Americans call them Sasquatches but varieties are distributed throughout the world.

Buddhism describes many fellow creatures, which are humanoids but living remotely in forests and jungles, mountains and waterways, as well as underground and in the sky (space, out there in the akasha).

Orang Pendek
 
Orang Pendek (Indonesian for "short person") is the most common name given to a cryptid, or cryptozoological creature, that reports say  inhabits remote, mountainous forests on the island of formerly Buddhist Sumatra, Indonesia.

It has allegedly been seen and documented for at least 100 years by forest tribes, local villagers, Dutch colonists, and Western scientists and travellers. Consensus among witnesses is that the creature is a ground-dwelling, bipedal primate that is covered in short fur and stands between 30 and 60 inches (80 and 150 cm) tall... More
 

Hobbits

I'm human.

Hobbits are kumbandhas, dwarfs, gnomes, duendes, tiny humanoids (aboriginals), possibly a kind of yakkha, a creature with more attuned powers than humans and higher than animals.

Science has now confirmed that they were around 13,000 years ago with evidence of them going back 700,000 years ago. Archeological remains show that they hunted komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world today. They have been around, of course, much longer as have "modern" humans, according to Michael Cremo.

There are many, many kinds of "human" on this planet and others

Buddhism
Kumbhandā: a class of beings (gnomes, pixies, fairies) grouped with yetis, demons, titans, dragons, and others (Yakkhas, Rakkhasas, Asuras, Nāgas). The live in the southern quarter, and Virūlha (D.ii.257) is the great sky king in charge of them. In the Vidhurapandita Jātaka (J.vi.272), Kumbhīra is mentioned as one of their chiefs. They have characteristically large bellies (kumbhanda = gourd), and their genitals are as big as pots (kumbho viya), which gives them their name (D.iii.198; DA.iii.964). 

• Giant Prehistoric Apes of Southeast Asia 
• Are Homo floresiensis living in jungles of Southeast Asia?

The U.S. gov't knows "Bigfoot" are real (video)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; UnsealedFiles; Sylvanic

(Sylvanic Bigfoot) Jeff Meldrum and Todd Standing talk about why they believe the species commonly referred to as Sasquatch or Bigfoot is alive and well in North America.

They are also found in other parts of the world where they are called by various regional names (just as the word "Sasquatch" is only one of countless Native American names for various species of this creature): The Coast Salish use the word Sesquac, "Wild Man." Himalayan "Bear Man" or Yeti, Buddhist yakkha, Russian/Georgian/Caucasian/Central Asian Almasty, which may be a remnant Neanderthal, Australian Yowie, Indonesian humanoid Orang Pendek or "Short Man"). In this episode official U.S. government files are shown that specifically list Sasquatch as a legitimate existing species [of human or something close to humans].



But we want proof, scientific (tangible, verifiable) proof! Geneticist Dr. Melba Ketchum has published such proof, and we are convinced by her DNA and other evidence. Why are others not saying that they are convinced. For one thing, it is not allowed to say so. One will be laughed out of "serious"scientific circles. For another, few if any have read the peer reviewed, published data. After all, being convinced could lead to getting laughed at and fired. Average people do not know how to read scientific papers and evaluate the evidence.

• What the Dead can teach us about Bigfoot

Show us the SCIENCE!

A Sasquatch (Bigfoot) wanders in the woods of Alberta, Canada (AlbertaSasquatch)

(The Bigfoot Project) Complete Sasquatch DNA Conference with principals

Dr. Ketchum, forensic geneticist

The Sasquatch Genome Project, led by Dr. Melba Ketchum, is the group responsible for the 5-year study and genomic sequencing of Sasquatch DNA, "Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies," that passed scientific peer review in January and was published in February of that year.

In conjunction with the screening of the new Erickson footage, the DNA study will be made available for all online as open-access at sasquatchgenomeproject.org.

Adrian Erickson will present his high-definition footage accompanied by researcher Dennis Pfohl, who personally captured video and collected DNA samples from Sasquatch individuals.

Dr. Ketchum presents physical Sasquatch samples used in the DNA study and new specimens under ongoing investigation and discuss sample chain of custody, study results, and bias encountered from the scientific establishment.

 

Press conference screening of never-before-seen HD video of Bigfoot and explanation of 5-year DNA study and new physical specimens visit the SASQUATCH MYSTERY MUSEUM EXHIBIT.

• Recommended reading on Bigfoot

Evidence for elusive orang pendek in Sumatra?
Richard Freeman (TheGuardian.com, Primatology, Oct. 7, 2011)

Enchanted, unspoiled nature, West Sumatra, Indonesia: Rumah Gadang, traditional house in Pandai Sikek village, Ngaai Siarok Valley in Bukittinggi, panorama of Lake Maninjau (wiki).

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You're kidding me! Who knew?

Even in this age of satellite mapping and global positioning, there remain "lost worlds" where few [modern] humans tread and where species of animals unrecognized by science live.

Kerinci Seblat National Park in West Sumatra [Indonesia] is one such place. The size of a small country, its dim, steamy interior has never been explored properly. Last month I returned to these jungles for the fourth time to track an elusive and, as yet, unrecorded species of ape known to the locals as the orang pendek or "short man."

This year's expedition [2011] was the largest of its kind ever to visit the area. It consisted of two teams. The first -- made up of Adam Davies (expedition leader at the Centre for Fortean Zoology, CFZ), Dave Archer, Andrew Sanderson, and me -- would concentrate on the highland jungles around Lake Gunung Tujuh. The second team -- consisting of Dr. Chris Clark, Lisa Malam, Rebecca Lang, Mike Williams, Jon McGowan, and Tim De Frel -- would have their base in the "garden" area, the more open, semi-cultivated land that abuts onto the true forest.

According to local reports, the creature has been sighted here on a number of occasions when it comes down to raid crops such as sugar cane. More

The Buddha and the Bigfoot
G.P. Malalasekera, encyclopedic Dictionary of Pali Proper Names (palikanon.com) edited by Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

The Buddha deals with a yeti (yakkha) "ogre" named Alavaka who abducts human females, eats humans (with king's permission), terrorizes the area, and is highly intelligent exhibiting supernormal human faculties we have lost.

 

Yakkha, Yama, Mara: ogres and death

Ālavaka: The king of Ālavi (named Ālavaka) was in the habit of holding a weekly hunt to keep his army fit. One day while hunting, the quarry escaped from where the king lay in wait and, according to custom, it became the king's duty to capture it. Therefore, he followed the small animal for three leagues, killed it, cut it in half, and carried it in a pingo.

On his way back he passed under a large banyan tree that was the abode of the Yakkha (Yeti) Ālavaka. That ogre had been granted permission by the king of the yakkhas that allowed him to eat (cannibalize) anybody who came within the shadow of the tree. So he seized the king, but was wily and made a better deal: He agreed to release the king of Alavi if the king would promise to exchange his life for his subjects' lives: at regular intervals he was to provide the ogre with an unwitting human victim and a bowl of food (SnA.i.217ff).

What is a "yakkha"? A class of beings generally described as "non-human" (amanussā). They are mentioned along with fairies (devas), demons (rakkhasas), dānavas, messenger-angels/lowly devas (gandhabbas), avians (kinnaras), and mahoragas (nāgas) (e.g., J.v.420). In other lists (e.g., PvA. 45, 55) they range immediately above the shapeshifting "hungry ghosts" (petas); in fact, some of the happier petas are called yakkhas. Elsewhere (e.g., A.ii.38) they rank, in progressive order, between humans (manussā) and gandhabbā (deva messengers). They are of many different kinds: spirits, ogres, dryads, ghosts, spooks. In the early records, yakkha, like nāgā, as an appellative and was anything but depreciative. So not only is Sakka, who is king of the devas of the two worlds immediately above Earth, referred to in this way (M.i.252; J.iv.4; DA.i.264), but even the Buddha is spoken of as a yakkha in poetic diction (M.i.386). Many devas, such as Kakudha, are also addressed in this way (S.i.54).

Lloyd Pye eliminated for presenting the truth

The king of Alavi, with the help of the mayor of the town (Nagaraguttika) and his ministers, was able to keep his promise for some time. First he would send criminals to the tree, and the ogre would tear them apart. The ogre's power was such that at the very sight of him men's bodies became as soft as butter presumably with terror as they fainted. But soon there were no criminals left, and each household was forced to sacrifice a child. 

Then women, about to bring forth children, began to leave the king's capital. Twelve years passed in this way until the only child left was the king's own son, Alavaka Kumāra. When the king learned of this, he ordered his son the prince to be dressed in all his royal splendor and taken to the ogre. The Buddha, with his Eye of Compassion, saw what was going to happen and went to the ogre's abode.

Shaman befriends bear in Kazakhstan, Central Asia (hamidsardphoto.com)

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Alavaka was away at a meeting of ogres in the Himalayas (Mt. Himavā, the Land of Snow). His assistant, Gadrabha, admitted the Buddha, after warning him of the ogre's savage nature. The Buddha went in and sat down on Alavaka's throne while Gadrabha went to Himavā to announce to his master the Buddha's arrival.

While the Buddha was there, teaching the Dharma to Alavaka's women, two other ogres, Sātāgira and Hemavata, passing through the air [by dimensional transition or sky vehicle is not stated] on their way to the assembly in Himavā, became aware of the Buddha's presence by their inability to fly over him. [Were they exercising supernormal power of levitation, teleportation, or did the Buddha disrupt the field so that vimanas, spacecraft, could not operate due to his emanations?] They descended to Alavaka's "palace" [chamber near or under or atop the banyan tree, also named Alavaka], and respectfully bowed before resuming on their journey. 

When Alavaka heard from Gadrabha and again from Sātāgira and Hemavata of the Buddha's visit, he was greatly incensed and uttering aloud his name, he hurried to his abode. There with all the various supernatural powers he could command he tried to dislodge the Buddha from his seat. But he was could not succeed even when using his special weapon, the dussāvudha. It was of no avail against the Buddha.

No evidence is good enough, not even bodies -- but perhaps tested, verified DNA?

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Then, approaching the Awakened One, Alavaka asked him to leave his house, which the Buddha did. He then summoned the Buddha back, and he returned. Three times this happened, and three times the Buddha did as he was asked, possibly figuring that compliance to a brute was the best way to soften his wrath. But the fourth time the Buddha left, he refused to return.

Then clever Alavaka expressed his desire to ask the Buddha some questions, threatening that if he did not answer correctly he would invade him, twist his mind, and toss him bodily to the other shore (other side of the sea). The Buddha was undaunted and informed the ogre that he did not perceive anyone in this world with its maras (killers, demons) and devas (fairies, light beings), its kings and gods (brahmas), who could follow through on those threats. Nevertheless, the Buddha agreed to answer the ogre's questions. They are listed in a famous sutra (Ālavaka Sutra), and Alavaka is also mentioned in the Atānātiya Sutra as a follower of the Buddha).

The Buddha answered to Alavaka's satisfaction. And as a result the ogre, being a kind of human, gained stream entry (sotāpanna), the first stage of enlightenment (SnA.i.239). Note: If he were a subhuman "demon," as the word yakkha, yaksha, and rakshasa is often translated, particularly in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, this would not have been possible.

At dawn, King Alavaka's men brought Prince Alavaka-Kumara to the ogre as a sacrifice to preserve the king's life. Hearing the ogre's shouts of joy at the close of the Buddha's enlightening sermon, they marveled. When they announced to the Yakkha Alavaka that they had brought their customary offering and on top of that handed him the child, he was much abashed in the Buddha's presence.

Alavaka gave the prince to the Buddha, who blessed him and gave him back to the king's messengers. The boy, having passed from the ogre's hands to those of the Buddha, and from there to the king's men, thereafter became known as Hatthaka Alavaka (SnA.i.239-40).

"India" was different in the past.

When the king and the citizens heard that the ogre had become a follower of the Buddha, they built for him a special abode near that of the extraterrestrial King Vessavana (Kuvera, one of the Four Great Sky Kings of the cardinal directions), who rules over the yakkhas, . [Note: Native Americans often report an association between UFOs and Sasquatches, e.g., a story of a Bigfoot stepping out of a a small moon that landed on Earth, an ET craft dropping off a Sasquatch for whatever reason, whether this is a "prison planet," as some say, or as an experiment.]

And the good people of Alavi provided the Yakkha Alavaka with a stream gifts of flowers, perfumes, and so on for his use. The story of Alavaka, of which this only a summary, is given in full in SnA.i.217-40 and in SA.i.244-59. It is also given in brief in AA.i.211-12 with some difference in details. 

Bigfoot researcher surrounded by Sasquatch family

(Bigfoot Evidence) Episode of "Call Out": Invermere, British Columbia - Canadian field researcher Todd Standing goes missing while searching to document the existence of Bigfoot in and around Kootenay National Park.

Where is Alavaka?

Alavaka's abode was 30 leagues (league="the distance one could normally walk in an hour") from Sāvatthi, and the Buddha covered the entire journey in one day (SnA.i.220). The abode was near a banyan tree and on or in the ground (bhummattham) well protected with walls and so on and covered on the top by a metal net, like a cart enclosed on all sides.

It was three leagues in extent, and over it lay the road to Himavā by air (SnA.i.222). Ascetics [possibly levitating over the area], having seen the glittering palace, often came down to find out what it was. The Yakkha Alavaka would ask them questions regarding their doctrine (dharma), and when they could not answer he would assume a subtle form and, entering their hearts, would drive them mad (SnA.i.228). This was the threat he made to the Buddha about "perverting his mind" if he could not answer his questions correctly.

The Yakkha Alavaka shouted his name before starting from Himavā to vanquish the Buddha. He stood with his left foot on Manosilātala and his right on Kelāsakūta. His shout was heard throughout Jambudīpa (lit. "Rose Apple Land," India) and was one of the four shouts mentioned in tradition as having travelled so far (SnA.i.223; for the others see Punnaka, Vissakamma, and Kusā).

Alavaka had a special [likely extraterrestrial] weapon, the dussāvudha, one of the four most powerful in all the world, comparable to these extraterrestrial rulers: 

• Sakka's Vajirāvudha, 
• Vessavana's Gadāvudha,
• Yama's Nayanāvudha.

It had the power, if it were thrown into the sky, of stopping rain for a dozen years and if cast on the earth of destroying all trees and crops for a like period. If hurled into the sea it would dry up all the water, and it could shatter Sineru (Mt. Sumeru, with its seven mountain ranges, a transit vortex extending up into space) into pieces. It was made of cloth and is described as a vatthāvudha, and it was worn as a part of the Yakkha Alavaka's upper garment (uttariya).

There are three salient features in the story of Alavaka that link it closely to the large circle of stories grouped by Prof.Watanabe (J.P.T.S.1909-10, pp.240ff) under the title of Kalmāsapāda stories:

• (1) The man-eating yakkha; 
• (2) the captured king saving himself by a promise to provide the yakkha with offerings, and the sanctity or inviolability of that promise; and 
• (3) the conversion of the yakkha. 

The conversion of Alavaka is considered one of the chief incidents of the Buddha's life (e.g., J.iv.180; vi.329; Mhv.xxx.84). Alavaka's name appears in the Atānātiya Sutta, among the yakkhas to whom followers of the Buddha should appeal for protection in time of need (D.iii.205). (See also Alavaka Sutta).

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The sutra

Yetis and yakkhas are well documented.

Ālavaka Sutta: This discourse records the eight questions asked of the Buddha by Alavaka Yakkha and the answers given by the Buddha. It is said (SnA.i.228) that Alavaka's parents had learned the questions and their answers from Kassapa Buddha in the ancient past and had taught them to Alavaka in his youth.

[If this is true it brings into question the Theravada Buddhist conception of the time between teaching-buddhas, which is normally believed to be not equally spaced yet measured in aeons, but here they are occurring roughly within the lifespan of one or two generations of yakkhas, whose lifespan at the time was considerably longer than average human lifespan but not by much in the overall scheme of things because they are just above humans but still under the Realm of the Four Great Kings, the lowliest of the akasha devas.]

But Alavaka Yakkha could not remember them and, in order that they might be preserved, he had them written on gold leaf with red paint, which he stored away in his palace. When the Gautama Buddha, the historical Shakyamuni Buddha, answered the questions he found that the answers were exactly the same as those given by Kassapa Buddha (SnA.i.231). 
 

The sutra appears in both the Sutta Nipāta (pp.31-3) and in the Samyutta Nikāya (i.213ff). The discourse is also included in the collection of "Protective Chants" (parittas). The Ālavaka Sutta is a conversation between the Buddha and Hatthaka Alavaka in which the Buddha states that he is among those who enjoy real happiness (A.i.136f).

Why people doubt Bigfoot
(History.com) History Channel documentary on the Native American legend of Sasquatch or Bigfoot. History examines ancient legends and folklore to uncover the truth about the myth of the beast. Here is a look into bizarre ogre attacks by Bigfoot.

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Where Yetis live in Himalayas, Asia

(The Bigfoot Project) Why people doubt: MK Davis interviews "hayseed" Larry McGowan, who claims he was given a rifle used to kill five or six Sasquatches at Bluff Creek California, site of the world-famous Patterson footage. The film footage has been authenticated as containing numerous bipedal creatures seen under closer frame-by-frame analysis of the original film (not degraded copies of copies, with an interesting anomaly that one creature in the bush is holding something very reflective that inexplicably shines brightly for an instant as if it were technology rather than a natural item). Enhanced film footage of "Patty" courtesy of MK Davis.

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