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MEXICO WATCH For many years, the possible existence of creatures similar to man or humanoids has intrigued a large number of scientists, from the distant Australian outback to the forests of Cnada. The names given to these creatures are numerous, whether we are discussing the "Yerene" or "wild man" in China, the Australian "Yahoo", Mongolia's "Alma", etc. However, identification in all of these cases is remarkably similar, involving massive, hairy and remarkably elusive beings. Ancient traditions provide numeropus sources for the existence of these strange entities, such as the Cherokee and Sioux tribes of the United States of America, who speak of "hairy giants" or even "wendigos"; old Chinese texts discuss the "wild man", etc. All of this leads us to understand that the phenomenon is by no means recent. With the formation in 1982 of the International Cryptozoology Society, the focus upon the study of these creatures has been nothing if not scientific. What does this mean? In the first place, it means that the researchers involved are renowned personalities within the scientific community, such as Frank Poirier, an anthropologist at Ohio State University and a feverish pursuer of the Chinese "Yerene"; Grover Krantz, a physical anthropologist at the University of Washington and an indefatigable investigator of the Sasquatch; Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans, president of the International Cryptozoology Society, who has studied all reports concerning Africa's man-beasts, summarizing them in a work that is not yet available in Spanish. Secondly, highly rigorous analyses have been conducted regarding the existence of real physical traces such as hair, excrement and dermatoglyphs, combined with hundreds of eyewitness interviews. All of this points to the existence of a mystery that is unknown to science. In 1989, Valentine Sapunov, a Russian scientist assigned to the University of Leningrad's medical and laboratory control department, travelled with a group of scientists to Central Asia. Using chimpanzee pheromones impregnated on cloth as a lure, Sapunov was able to detect the presence of beings with an approximate height of 2 meters and weighing approximately 250 kilograms, who were attracted by said substance. Barely four years ago, Mark Gardner established the Temporal Anomalies Research Association in Keizer, Oregon, theorizing that sightings of Bigfoot, Yeti, Yahoo as well as marine and lacustrine monsters and dinosaurs are little more than space-time distortions (with the past being projected onto the present or the future being projected onto the present), which could account for the sightings of this order of entities. Not a few researchers of the human mind consider that all of these "experiences involving gigantic hairy beings" are little more than rationalizations of the evil which lurks in our subconscious. Whether myth or reality, humanoid beasts shall continue to represent a headache for researchers worldwide...for a very long time. NOTES: |