900 Pound, 10 Foot Giant Neanderthal Once Roamed Minnesota

http://gianthumanskeletons.blogspot.com/2014/01/900-pound-10-foot-giant-neanderthal.html

900 Pound, 10 Foot Giant Neanderthal Once Roamed Minnesota

Thursday, January 16, 2014

900 Pound, 10 Foot Giant Neanderthal Once Roamed Minnesota

The McIvor Times, September 5, 1884
Gigantic Skeletons
   A Michigan paper reports the discovery of a gigantic human in a rock near the Sauk Rapids.  It says: - "The head is massive 31 1/2 in. in circumference, is low in the front and very flat on the top.  The femur measures 26 1/4 in., and the fibula 26 1/2 in., while the body is equally long in proportion.  From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, the length is 10 feet 9 1/2 inches.  The measure around the chest is 59 1/2 In.,  This giant must have weighed at least 900 lbs, when covered with a reasonable amount of flesh.  The petrified remains, and there is nothing left but the naked bones, now weigh 304 lbs.  The thumb and fingers of the left hand and the left foot from the ankle to the toes are gone, but all of the other parts are perfect.  Verily, there were giants in those days!

[The article and the attached image have expired copyrights and are both in the public domain]

Is Bigfoot a Hairy Man?

http://www.history.com/videos/is-bigfoot-a-hairy-man

Basajaun and Iceman

 

Jay Cooney made this paste-up comparing the Basajaun photo from the Pyrenees mountains to the reconstrictions of the Minnesota Iceman as published by Bernard Heuvelmans. He subsequently decided not to publish the piece right away but gave me the permission to do so.

 

Jay BizarreZoo Cooney

Can you quickly tell me the main differences between the "real" iceman and the copy? I'm not gonna write much to go along with the comparison but I'd like to say that at least
 

Dale Drinnon

Very simple: Ivan Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans gave very long and very exacting descriptions of the original Iceman. Among its other features, it had apparently been shot in one eye and had the other eye bugged out of the socket. Nothing like that in the copy. Ivan Sanderson thought that the individual body hairs lightened in colour at the tip, a pattern similar to the fur of the agouti and called the agouti pattern. John Napier thought that was a suspicious reference and could indicate a model had been implanted with hairs from an agouti (a large South American rodent) in this new model there is nothing like that, the hairs are uniformly solid black and look like the hairs out of a wig. And among its other unusual features Sanderson noted a large pad or callus at the heel of the hand. Napier also thought that was suspicious, the now model does not show that. Not only is this model NOT the original, but it seems somebody has taken the pains to leave out all of the overly unusual or potentially suspicious traits [Jay Cooney said it was his impression that the original had its mouth shut not showing much of the teeth and the replacement model had its mouth more open and showing more of the teeth: he thought this was a significant enough difference to make an important point]

Whoever made up the new model was smart, but it seems like they were a little TOO smart and they gave themselves away because of it

Eastern Bigfoot Comparisons and Identity

The following chart was started by a friend on Facebook and I have added copies of the skull to all of his outlines as a constant point of reference. He works primarily with sightings in Ohio.

He has based his profile of "Ohio Sasquatch" on Trailcam photos (Nightvision-enhanced)

Ngandong cranium (Solo man) -Clearly similar to both Kansas skulls and Gadar man skull
Below, overlay of Kansas and Gadar skulls (Reversed so lettering reads normally. and this drawing reconstructs the Gardar Man face, which was missing. The indicated landmarks on both skulls are lined up here, bregma to bregma and so on) I find both of these skulls to be a good parallel to different skulls of the "Solo Man" series, some of which seem to be males and some females.

Below is the same Friend's painting representing one of the Ohio creatures.
(I am waiting for word back from him but right now I have not got permission to use his name)

             And below, comparative silhouettes showing A) "Littlefoot" or ProtoPygmy type,
B ) Ordinary human and C ) Eastern Bigfoot, generalised composite, compare to above (Males).

Some more of the characteristically burly body shapes below: 

(The first one is I believe from Western Pennsylvania)

 

"A beautiful painting of Rich LaMonica's Bigfoot sighting near Kimbolton, Ohio from 1988. This is a picture of the actual painting that Rich made after his encounter"

Below, a painting made for the Kentucky Bigfoot Research team

Ohio Bigfoot in Winter

"Actually, if its the Tim Peeler I believe it is, hes carrying a stick, and he stood up to the Sas, and said "Git!!". This is based on an encounter out of Cherokee County, NC"

Below are some more portraits of the type (Males) including a selection of beards

 

Model of face emphasizing the large eyes

 

 

Trailcam capture of face image

Neanderthal-like with prominent goatee beard

 

An exceptionally good Neanderthal type portrait 

 

Eating a Honey Comb by Rob Roy Menzies

Below, a roadside sculpture from Oregon

 

A Baby Bigfoot portrait by Thomas Finlay

 

A related report also just posted by Tom Marcum at The Crypto Crew:

http://www.thecryptocrew.com/2013/11/bigfoot-crosses-road-in-va.html

Thomas Marcum at The Crypto Crew posted this video link
http://www.thecryptocrew.com/2013/11/possible-bigfoot-howls-recorded-in.html

"This was recorded in Grahn, KY by Tabatha Steagall and she was nice enough to give me permission to use it and enhance the audio.
Now I don't know for sure if this is a bigfoot but there has been a lot of activity coming out of Carter county Kentucky for many years now, so it is very possible it is a bigfoot.
Tabatha told me about the time she let her young son makes some bigfoot calls and was awed when they heard replies.  That event happened about 1 year ago.

Thanks
~Tom~"

Kentucky is another place where physical remains of Bigfoot  have been reported in the form of teeth, skulls and skeletons. The form of these remains is  consistent with the information as given above. And incidentally if these creatures ARE some form of Archaic Homo sapiens, then they are NOT Cryptids, they are NOT unknown:  they are members of our own species.

More Kentucky Bigfoot from The Crypto Crew

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

http://www.thecryptocrew.com/2013/11/2-sighting-reports-from-kentucky.html

2 Sighting Reports From Kentucky  

Carter County, Kentucky

These two bigfoot sighting reports come out of Carter County Kentucky. The reports were given to us by Tabatha Steagall and they are of her personal sightings. This is her written account of what she saw.

- Sighting Report 1 -
"My shortest sighting happened when I was a teenager in the late 90's. Not sure the exact date. I was throwing out scraps to the horses after dinner, I was standing by the fence, in the field about 40 or 50 foot away stood a big man looking thing, it looked like a Neanderthal. I actually spent years thinking it was a ghost of a Neanderthal! I promise I'm not nuts! But after watching the Finding Bigfoot show for a season or two it just dawned on me that it was probably and more likely a bigfoot! It was huge, terrifyingly huge. I couldn't make out much about it and didn't stick around to either. All I could see was that it was dark in color, there was only moon light to see by.
It stood perfectly still didn't move at all. I don't even know if I was looking at the back side or the front. I did see hair that fell in different layers around its head and kind of flared outwards. I don't know how I even seen that much but that is the one thing I did see. My dad went to find it when I came back in and told my family, but it was gone. Didn't really put much thought into it other than it was ghost. Not even when I seen the real deal around the same time."

-End Report 1 -




Mock up of sighting report 2

-Sighting Report 2 -
"In February of 1998 we had a huge ice storm. I remember it so well because my sister had got hit by a car on Feb 2nd (and only suffered a hurt leg thankfully), and the storm came late that night. We lost power for 6 days. Everything we had in the deep freezer went bad and my Dad had sacked it up and put it outside by the gas tank to throw out later.
We had to cook out with a grill to feed my family & my Mamaw & Papaw all week (I think the smell may have drawn him in, but anyways).
The night the electric came on me and my dad were watching TV and the porch light was on. I glanced at the window and seen what looked like a man carrying our bag of meat. And that’s when I screamed "some man is stealing our rotted meat". I seen it run up the steps and it had black hairy legs. I could see that the hair was attached to the body as it moved, if that makes any sense! I don't know if I would say I seen the muscles but more so like it wasn't saggy.
Anyways, the porch light didn't light up the whole steps, so it was gone out of sight pretty quickly. My dad and me jumped up and we could hear it crashing through the woods about 15 or so feet up into the woods, and then it was silent, I'm assuming it jumped a fence and went into the neighbors cow field where it would make less noise while making its escape.
And the next morning my dad found the bag and the meat was gone, but the butter and the fries were still in the bag. My dad said that the bag wasn't opened like an animal chewed it but more like a person would open it.
I always wondered why it came so close to the house, but after watching Finding Bigfoot I learned that they don't like to leave tracks, and where the water came off the roof there was no snow, but up higher in the yard there was still snow. I don't remember looking that good for tracks then, just around the house, too bad I didn't have the knowledge I have today, but at least I seen it. I feel pretty lucky to have seen what I have seen, but I don't know if luck has anything to do with it when you live in Grahn! I think we are surrounded by them.”

Here is a general map of Grahn,KY

 

-End Report 2 -

Thanks goes to Tabatha for sharing the reports. Over the years Carter county has been an active bigfoot sighting area and it appears it is continuing. Anyone with sightings from that area or anywhere should feel free to contact us.

Thanks
~Tom~

Tsul 'Kalu

Tsul 'Kalu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsul_'Kalu

 

Tsul 'Kalu (the slant-eyed or sloping giant), is a legendary figure in Cherokee mythology who plays the role of "the great lord of the game", and as such is frequently invoked in hunting rites and rituals.^[1] Tsul 'Kalu is also believed by some to be the Cherokee version of Sasquatch or Bigfoot because he seems to share several physical and behavioral traits with the creature

 

The following report came from Lars Chiron Bohr and it is printed as it came from his page Sasquatch Evidence  on Facebook. It is an exemplary account and I am happy to be able to provide it for my readers at this blog:

 

 

 

 My Sasquatch sighting ~ Thanks to Terry Thomas for creating the amazing face and Paul Willison for creating the body of the Sasquatch I combined trying to recreate the being I saw!
...
About 13 years ago. I was living in Tennessee renting an old farm house way back up in a hollow on 700 acres. My landlord had cattle running on 300 acres or so and came by one day and told me about a deer he found up in a pasture with it's neck broken, almost twisted off and partially skinned and the meatier parts, heart and brain gone. Well I walked up to the pasture the next day and headed over to a pond that was at a ridge just below a hill top that he dug to water the cattle that was fed by a spring. As I came up the pasture about 150 feet from the pond I looked another 50 feet across the pond and there it stood! It looked right at me like it was surprised, then looked kind of curious and then I swear it looked like it smiled and then turned and walked up the hill into the trees and disappeared along a ridge. I couldn't see it after it made the wood line but I could hear it walking through the leaves and snapping trees. Never really felt threatened but I swear this thing looked almost human! I didn't get close enough to really see its face in much detail but the attached pic is as close as I've seen to what I saw that day. After I moved I went back on business trips, I was selling mineral specimens from a mine in Carthage TN. Anyway I had a rich friend from Fla, that owned a house up on a hill not far from where I lived that I stayed in while there on business and on the other side of the hill another good lived who owned around 1000 acres. One night at his house I heard what sounded like those Sierra tapes on you tube. It was the loudest howling and screeching I'd ever heard and scared the shit out of me! We went out on his land a lot collecting Geodes that we sold and several times when we were out hunting them you could hear and barely see something on the hill and ridge tops walking and following us around. Can't say for sure it was Sasquatch but it was really weird and it gave us the willies! We went Spelunking frequently too and several times we went into caves where you could see where something had made beds out of grass and ferns. There aren't any bear there just coyotes and bobcats so what was bedding in there? There has been several sightings reported in that area too. There are deer and turkey everywhere. Blackberry bushes and creeks in the bottoms full of fish, crawdads. Now that I know more about them I'd love to go back and try to habituate them but money, emphysema and my back won't let me.

This is one of those cases such as I had mentioned to Jay Cooney recently where the face and skull indicate a skull which is similar to the Neanderthals:

            
Two more reconstructions from the same album representing similar sightings in the same general area (the Civil War-era Border States and Tennessee). The one below shows the very large beard that is a feature in some of the stories

 

 

 And here is a bonus photo which seems to show the face of one of these creatures

 

From a video by Mark Parra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5BsWVyFMPE

 

 

Tennessee Bigfoot Via Jay Cooney

 

Jay Cooney recently wrote a blog in which he posted these fine drawings by Sybilla Irwin and he said that there was one kind of Bigfoot in North America, and the eastern kind matched the western kind. With this statement I most heartily disagree and Jay knows it. For that reason I feel no remorse in offering the alternative interpretation. Instead of being the same as the Western Sasquatch (as exemplified by the Patterson-Gimlin film) the Tennessee creature seems to me to be a prime example of my category, the American Almas (Hair samples submitted for analysis had supposedly consistently turned out to measure in the Neandertal range but my only source of this information is from other researchers, not from whatever reports they are quoting. I have at least handled some of the hair samples) . My contentin is that the head to body proportions and the body structure by itself are much more humanlike than the larger and bulkier classic Sasquatch. In the Eastern kind the head is larger in proportion and the head is held high enough that the chin is a level well above the shoulders. The top of the head is less pointed and the cranium is much larger.

The close-up of the head, and then the Neanderthal skull overlain for comparison. 

Jay makes a big deal about the teeth that show do not match ape teeth, but in fact they are

 a better match for Neanderthal teeth in size and shape. 

Here is a comparison of the Tennessee Bigfoot to the Living Neanderthal Man of Heuvelmans as depicted by hi former wife Alika Lindbergh. The proportions are a very good match. Below is a reconstruction plan of a Neanderthal man designed for animation by Jerod Bough and once again the bodily proportions are much the same. And I had previously remarked that the illustration of the habituated Tennessee Bigfoot "Fox" show a Neanderthal type of skull in his head.

Esau and Sei'rim

 

A side discussion in the world of Bigfoot involves the Biblical story of Jacob and Esau.

One (presumably fundamentalist Christian) site discussed the matter in this way:

They [Bigfoot] could be wild men, but fully human. Neanderthal comes to mind. Neanderthal is usally pictured as a knuckle-dragging missing link, but even evolutionary scientists have recanted this and now admit that Neanderthal stood upright and was a man and no ape or missing link. In fact, Neanderthal was every bit as smart as we are, if their skull size is any indication.I’m reminded of the biblical account of Jacob and Esau. Esau was described as a hairy man with red hair. It’s possible he was simply a hairy man. It’s also possible that he was ethnically a Neanderthal. wrap your mind around this: If Neanderthal is fully human, given his specific bone characteristics, if he were alive today, we would simply think of him as a specific ethnic type, much as we readily recognize someone of Asian, African or Caucasian descent today. Now what if that ethnic type was also covered in red hair. It might be a bit of a stretch, except that some ethnicities are extremely hairy and others are nearly hairless. And some ethnicities [Irish for example] favor red or black hair [no, I'm not calling the Irish Neaderthals. I'm making a point about how hair color is an ethnic trait.]
Anyway, what if Esau was of Neanderthal ethnicity?
Consider also Enkidu of the Gilgamesh epic. A red-haired, hairy wild man. So wild that nature is not really afraid of him, until he spends time with other men [specifically a woman] and growing wise, the animals begin to fear him. In time, he grows more and more learned in the ways of men. The Creationist theory, if we were assuming the Neaderthalid scenario, is that some of Noah’s children’s offspring degenerated into wild men. The Gilgamesh epic would then be an account of how one was redeemed from the wild and re-educated in the ways of his contemporaries. We have an analogous situation with Australian Aborigines, who have degenerated to a “primitive” state but nonetheless, as an ethnicity, still possess the intellectual potential to become college professors — and some have!
In any case, Esau’s children or kindred could be still further degenerated today and might avoid modern man for fear of him.
That’s one theory anyhow.
–Sirius Knott  

http://siriusknotts.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/creation-cryptids-bigfoot-enkidu-and-esau/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esau  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enkidu

A friend on Facebook shared this depiction which shows the Se'irim of the bible living in caves in Edom (Southern area of modern Israel and Jordan) and probably involved in the story of Jacob and Esau (The Edomites thought to be akin to these Se'irim)

Esau hairy, with ape, Johann Scheuchzer, 1731

The name Se'ir seems to have been transcribed into Greek as Satyr (Heuvelmans has it this way, the ' sign is a catch in the throat used as a consonant) And Wildmen referred to by travelers to the Holy Lands at the time of the Crusades and Renaissance called such Wildmen Satyrs also. There also was a continuing tradition that these creatures were completely hairy al over, something which is not always obvious in the traditions, stories or illustrations of them.

From George Eberhart, Mysterious Creatures (2002) 

Satyr

Mythical WILDMAN of Southern Europe.
In its earliest form, it was a Greek elemental spirit of the forests and mountains. Later, it came to represent the undeveloped, bestial state of humanity or, alternatively, an idyllic past. Satyrs were the companions of the wine god Dionysus. Etymology: From the Greek satyros, of uncertain origin, though possibly derived from the Hebrew se’ir (“hairy[goatlike] demon”).  

Variant names: Fatui ficarii, FAUN, PAN, SILENUS.  

Physical description: Covered with hair. Low forehead. Small horns. Monkeylike face. Pointed ears. Snub nose. Full lips. Long beard. Legs, hooves, and tail of a goat or horse. Behavior: Found in small groups. Lascivious. Loves to dance. Plays music on reed pipes (syrinx) or cymbals. Terrorizes shepherds and travelers. Habitat: Woodlands. Distribution: Northern Greece; Egypt; Turkey; India; other remote islands and lands. Significant sightings: In the fifth century B.C., the hide of a Satyr named Marsyas was a famous tourist attraction near the source of the Menderes River in south-central Turkey. In 86 B.C., a Satyr was found sleeping in a meadow called the Nymphaeum, near Durrës, Albania, and taken to the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who was passing through the area after sacking Athens in the First Mithridatic War. The Satyr’s speech could not be understood and sounded like a neighing or bleating. Euphemus the Carian was blown off course to an unknown island in the Mediterranean that was populated by Satyrs. The creatures had red hair and horse’s tails, and as soon as Euphemus landed, they tried to rape the women on board his ship. St. Jerome reported that in the early fourth century, Emperor Constantine traveled to Antakya, Turkey, to view the remains of a Satyr that had been preserved in salt. 

Possible explanations: (1) A symbol of precivilized, Neolithic Greece. (2) Early Greek tribal groups who followed the god PAN and revered goats as their totem animals. (3) Folk memory of Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) or archaic Homo sapiens. (4) An imaginative explanation for fossils of large vertebrates that are occasionally found in Greece and Turkey. (5) Indian Satyrs may have been based on monkeys. (6) As early as the fifth century B.C., cleverly manufactured Satyr masks for Greek dramatic performances were made from hair and skins. Fake Satyrs were probably created as tourist attractions out of human mummies fitted with such masks and other stage props. 

Sources: Lucretius, The Nature of the Universe, ed. R. E. Latham (Baltimore, Md.: Penguin, 1951), pp. 199–201 (V. 925–1010); Pliny the Elder, Natural History: A Selection, trans. John F. Healy (New York: Penguin, 1991), pp. 55, 57–58, 78–79 (V. 7, 46; VII. 24); Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia, III. 9; Plutarch, “Life of Sulla,” in Fall of the Roman Republic, trans. Rex Warner (New York: Penguin, 1958), p. 97; Pausanias, A Description of Greece, trans. W. H. S. Jones (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1918) (I. 23.5–6); J. D. P. Bolton, Aristeas of Proconnesus (Oxford: Clarendon, 1962), pp. 89–91; Richard Bernheimer, Wild Men in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1952), pp. 93–102; New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology (New York: Putnam, 1968), pp. 160–161; Peter Costello, The Magic Zoo (New York: St. Martin’s, 1979), pp. 61–62; Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), vol. 1, pp. 135–139, 146; Adrienne Mayor, The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 236–238.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodwose

Below is another good depiction of a Wildman, Eastern Bigfoot or American Almas, Note the rather prominent egg-shaped cranium and large red (-irised) eyes, and the Neanderthal-shaped nose and bony ridges of the face. The creature is balding, as some males are, with the longer hair of the top of the head fallen out and replaced with a sparse growth of short, thinned hair.Apart from that, the creature has a prominent beard. The beard ans balding are both human-like features although sometimes also found in apes.

 

Tslu 'Kalu, Cherokee Hairy Man or Wildman meets a boy in the woods
Michael Jon Wawrzyniec This is my land, still not done yet ,from BIGFOOT PRINTS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsul_%27Kalu

Curupira, And Other South American Wildmen

 

 

http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2012_04_01_archive.html

An index on South American Wild Men

(Click on the links below to read the Patagonian Monsters information for these creatures)

• CURUPI and YASY YATERE, Paraguay.
• CAAPORA, Paraguay
  Caapora - another wild man
• SAVAGE MAN, Venezuela
  The "Savage" Man of Venezuela
• SAVAGE MAN, Tucuyo, Venezuela.
  Ape men and Water Tigers in the 1620s
• CORUPIRA and BORARO, Amazon
  Korupira, the red haired Amazonian man
• SACHARUNA or CHULLACHAQUI, Peru.
  Sacharuna or chullachaqui the “jungle men”
• DIDI and NON DESCRIPT, Guyana
  Ape Men (Neanderthal?) sightings in South America

Corupira and all variants prob. originally variants of Corpo pelos, hairy body. Recorded synonyms for Wild Man include Sylvestres, Sauvages, Hommes Sauvages, Pilosi, Homo pilosus (Hairy man) and some of these are recorded from South America and used as caual synonyms for rumoured hairy subhumans such as the Didi and Maricoxi
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/08/some-impressions-of-texan-and-n-mexican.html

Curupira Little People of South America. Etymology: From the Guaraní (Tupí) curumim (“boy”) + pira (“body”). Kuru in Aché means “short” or “small.” Variant names: Caá-porá (“mountain lord”), Caiçara (for the female), Caipora, Cayporé, Coropira, Corubira (Bakairí/Carib), Kaaguerre, Kaapore, Korupira (Tupí/Guaraní), Kurupi (Guaraní), Kurú-piré (Guaraní), Yurupari (Tucano/ Tucanoan). Physical description: Height, 3–4[5] feet. Covered with hair. Red or yellow skin. Large head like a chimpanzee. Red head-hair. Shaggy mane around the neck. Flattened nose. Large mouth. Green or blue teeth. Large feet, said to point backwards. Crooked toes. Behavior: Arboreal. Poor swimmer. Emits a birdlike whistle. Eats bananas. Said to smoke a pipe. Lives in hollow trees. Said to abduct children and rape women. Can shape-shift. Protects trees, forests, and game. Rides a pig or deer. Tracks: Apelike prints.[and humanlike prints, allegedly turned back to front] Habitat: Forests, hills, ravines, mountains. Distribution: Pará, Amazonas, and Pernambuco States in northern Brazil; Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, and Goiás States in southern Brazil; Misiones Department in Paraguay; Chaco Province, Argentina. Present status: Caipora has become a minor god in the Candomblé religion. Possible explanation: Surviving Protopithecus, a Late Pleistocene spider monkey known from fossils in eastern Brazil. Sources: Charles Carter Blake, “Note on Stone Celts, from Chiriqui,” Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, new ser., 2 (1863): 166–170; Herbert H. Smith, Brazil: The Amazons and the Coast (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1879), pp. 560–569; Daniel G. Brinton, “The Dwarf Tribe of the Upper Amazon,” American Anthropologist 11 (1898): 277–279; Juan B. Ambrosetti, Supersticiones y leyendas (Buenos Aires: La Cultura Argentina, 1917), pp. 89–92; Luís da Câmara Cascudo, Dicionário do folclore Brasileiro (Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1962), vol. 1, pp. 166–168, 261–262; Napoleão Figueiredo and Anaíza Vergolino e Silva, Festas de santo e encantados (Belém, Brazil: Academia Paraense de Letras, 1972); Maria Thereza Cunha de Giacomo, Curupira: Lenda indigena (São Paulo, Brazil: Melhoramentos, 1975); Karl Shuker, “On the Trail of the Curupira,” Fortean Times, no. 102 (September 1997): 17; John E. Roth, American Elves (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1997), pp. 50–54, 83–89, 94–95, 107

Didi Unknown Primate of South America. Etymology: Possibly a Carib word. Variant names: Dai-dai, Didi-aguiri, Drudi- di, Massikruman, Quato. Physical description: Height, 5 feet. Reddishbrown or black hair or fur. Thickset, powerful build. Receding forehead. Heavy brows. Large eyes. Big-lobed ears. Flared nostrils. High cheekbones. Thick lips. Jutting jaw. Opposable thumbs. Long arms. Long, slender feet. No tail. Behavior: Shy. Swings arms while walking erect. Apparently lives and travels as part of a pair. Call is “hoo hoo” or a long, melancholy whistle, beginning in a high key then dying away. Builds crude brush houses from palm leaves. Throws sticks and mud. Accepts food that is left out for it. Said to be able to mate successfully with humans. Tracks: Apelike. Large toe joint of the male flares out, while the female’s does not.[Humanlike] Distribution: Mazaruni, Cotinga, Berbice, and Demerara Rivers in Guyana; French Guiana. Significant sightings: A British prospector named Haines came across two Didi in the Konawaruk Mountains, Guyana, in 1910. They were covered in reddish-brown hair. A guide named Miegam was traveling up the Berbice River in Guyana in 1918 with three others when they saw two hairy creatures on the riverbank. The creatures’ footprints looked apelike rather than human. Mycologist Gary Samuels observed a 5-foottall Didi about 60 feet away in the Guyanese forest in 1987. It walked past on two feet, making an occasional “hoo” sound. Sources: Edward Bancroft, An Essay on the Natural History of Guyana, in South America (London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1769), pp. 130–131; Charles Barrington Brown, Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana (London: E. Stanford, 1876), pp. 87–88, 123, 385; L. C. van Panhuys, “Are There Pygmies in French Guiana?” Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists 13 (1905): 131–133; Nello Beccari, “Ameranthropoides loysi, gli Atelini e l’importanza della morfologia cerebrale nella classificazione delle scimmie,” Archivio per l’Antropologia e la Etnologia 73 (1943): 1–112; Ivan T. Sanderson, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (Philadelphia: Chilton, 1961), pp. 178–181; Mark A. Hall, Living Fossils: The Survival of Homo gardarensis, Neandertal Man, and Homo erectus (Minneapolis, Minn.: Mark A. Hall, 1999), pp. 50–51; Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide (New York: Avon, 1999), pp. 72, 183.

Maricoxi Wildm an of South America. Etymology: Arikapu (Macro-Ge) word. Variant name: Morocoxo (Rikbaktsa/Macro- Ge). Physical description: Covered with hair. Apelike. Sloping forehead. Heavy browridge. Long arms. Behavior: Makes grunting noises. Bad odor. Uses bow-and-arrow weapons. Lives in villages. Uses a horn when hunting. Distribution: Serra dos Parecis, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Significant sighting: On an expedition to the area in 1914, Percy H. Fawcett encountered two hairy people who threatened him with bows and arrows and then ran away. Later, he came across a village in a clearing where they lived and was again approached menacingly. Fawcett fired a pistol and managed to retreat. Sources: Percy H. Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett (London: Hutchinson, 1953), pp. 200–202; Ivan T. Sanderson, “Hairy Primitives or Relic Submen in South America,” Genus 18 (1962): 60–74; Fritz Tolksdorf and Christian Darby, “Great White Chief of the Cannibals,” Argosy, July 1971, p. 42.

 

Didi, or Coaa-pora (Female and Male sightings)

 




Curupi
The stories that it wrapped its penis around the waist is more likely to be a reference to a be a rawhide belt or a
 loinclolth including an animal tail hanging at the back (Or wound around theneck it seems)

 

The standard Curupiri is of less than usual human height, but stocky build,

and the facial features are strongly Neanderthaloid .

Caapura



curuoira
The Creature is associated with wild pigs: more likely they like to steal the piglets to eat
"Feet turned in backward" is a common story told about the wildmen generally worldwide.



Curupira

The myths of many lands including Peru describe the creatures as like satyrs in their lustful habits

curupi

The name alternatively  is supposed to mean "Wooly Leg"



mohan



Mohan_pijao



pombero

 

Pombero (Dwendi Version, Poss=Mono  Grande?)

Maricoxi meet Fawcett

The Caa Pora of Gustavo Desimone   Obviously intended to represent the orangutan sort of Mapinguary (Mono Rey). The eyes on stalks are the artist's personal  embellishment, since the  creature otherwise does not seem to have a regular head     



Alternative classification scheme. The big one in back should be more human-like and is the same as the 'Patagonian Giants'

 



Uruyali