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Ngu?i R?ng ("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 covered with hair except in 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 both solitary and moving in small groups. The creature is most often sighted foraging for food from fruits and leaves to langers and even flying foxes.
Two Ngu?i R?ngs 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]
Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman believes that the Nguoi Rung are a surviving population of Homo erectus or Neanderthal.[2]
A man who gave a huge amount of research into the existence of Nguoi Rung, is Professor Tran Hong Viet. In 1982, he got the first definitive piece of evidence of a footprint measuring 28x16cm.
See also
References
- ^ Newton, Michael (2005). "Nguoi Rung". Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide. McFarland & Company, Inc.. 336. 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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