Mysterious Creatures : A Guide to Cryptozoology

Variant names: Ensut ensut (in Melaka),
Hantu jarang gigi (“thin-tooth demon”), Kaki
besar (Malay/Austronesian, “big foot”).
Physical description: Height, 6–10 feet. Covered
with dark-brown hair. Red eyes.
Behavior: Bipedal. Powerful smell like urine.
Eats fishes. Approaches humans in a friendly
way at first, then becomes frightened and runs
away.
Tracks: Four-toed. Length, 16–19 inches.
Width, 8–10 inches.
Distribution: Pahang, Johor, Melaka, and
Perak States, Malaysia.
Significant sightings: In 1959, a mining engineer
named Arthur Potter was sleeping in his
boat by the side of Lake Tasek Chini, Pahang
State, Malaysia, when something lifted off part
of the roof of the boat. He switched on a flashlight
and saw a huge, red eye. The next day, he
found 18-inch tracks in the mud.
Apelike footprints 18 inches long, 6 inches
wide, and 5 inches deep were found near Segamat,
Johor State, in early August 1966.
In 1970, Harold Stephens and Kurt Rolfes
photographed giant hominid tracks, 19 inches
long and 10 inches wide, on a sandbar in the
upper reaches of the Sungai Endau River, Pahang
State.
Students at a vocational institute near Lumut,
Perak State, reported seeing 10-foot hairy creatures
at night during the second week of August
1979.
Huge, four-toed footprints were found near
Cape Tanjung Piai, Johor State, on January 12,
1995.
Sources: Harold Stephens, “‘Abominable
Snowman’ of Malaysia,” Argosy, August 1971,
pp. 37–44; “Evil Forces in Malaysia,” Fortean
Times, no. 83 (October-November 1995): 18;
Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, The Field
Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery
Primates Worldwide (New York: Avon, 1999),
pp. 112–113; Harold Stephens, Return to
Adventure Southeast Asia (Miranda, Calif.:
Wolfenden, 2000), pp. 186–200; Karl Shuker,
“A Malaysian Man-Beast,” Fortean Times, no.
148 (August 2001): 18.
Orang Ekor
WILDMAN of Southeast Asia.
Etymology: Malay (Austronesian), “tailed
man.”
Physical description: Men and women with
tails.
Distribution: Peninsular Malaysia.
Source: Walter William Skeat and Charles
Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay
Peninsula (London: Macmillan, 1906), vol. 2,
pp. 281–282.
Orang Gadang
TRUE GIANT of Southeast Asia.
Etymology: Malay (Austronesian), “big man.”
Physical description: Height, 10 feet. Long
head-hair but little body-hair.
Tracks: Humanlike, 24 inches long by 8
inches wide.
Distribution: Sumatra and western Borneo,
Indonesia.
Sources: K. W. Dammerman, “De Nieuwontdekte
Orang Pendek,” De Tropische Natuur
21 (1932): 123–131; L. van der Pijl, “De
Orang Pendek als Sneeuwman,” De Tropische
Natuur 27 (1938): 53; Auckland (N.Z.) Star,
August 25, 1983.
Orang Gugu
Alternate name for the ORANG PENDEK of
Southeast Asia.
Variant names: Gugu, Orang goegoeh.
Physical description: Small, humanlike creature.
Height, 4–5 feet. Long, red or black headhair
that extends down its back in a mane.
Behavior: Individuals with red manes are said
to be docile; the ones with black manes are
larger and aggressive.
Distribution: Sumatra, Indonesia.
Significant sighting: This creature is well
known to the Kubu people of Propinsi Jambi
and Riau, Sumatra, who leave gifts for it when
passing through its territory. These gifts include
chewing tobacco, for which the Gugu has apparently
acquired a habit. Without a gift, the
Gugu will screech, pester, and throw things.
Sources: William Marsden, The History of
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