Nguoi Rung
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Người Rừng ("forest man") is a creature said to inhabit Vietnam, reputedly similar to the bigfoot, sometimes also known as "forest people". It is described as being approximately six feet tall and completely covered with hair except the knees, the soles of the feet, the hands and the face. The hair ranges in color from gray to brown to black. The creature walks on two legs and has been reported seen both solitary and moving in small clans.The creature is most often sighted foraging for food from fruits and leaves to langers and even flying foxes.
Two Người Rừngs were reportedly captured by tribesmen near Dak Lak Province in 1971. In 1974 a North Vietnamese general, Hoang Minh Thao, requested an expedition to find evidence of the creatures, but it was unsuccessful.[1]
The primary theory regarding this unknown hominoid is that the Nguoi Rung are a surviving population of Homo erectus or Neandertal, according to cryptozoologist Loren Coleman. [2]
A man who gave a huge amount of research into the existance of Nguoi Rung, is Professor Tran Hong Viet. In 1982, he got the first definitive piece of evidence of a footprint measuring 28x16cm.
[edit] References
- ^ Newton, Michael. (2005). "Nguoi Rung". Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide: 336. McFarland & Company, Inc.. ISBN 0-7864-2036-7.
- ^ *The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates (NY: Anomalist Books, 2006, ISBN 1-933665-1-22)
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