The Sunday Times Expose on the Johor Hominid Hoax
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Is sensational fake news so important that truths be swept under the carpet?
1) In my article I have already said the sighting in Mawai in Dec 2005 never occurred. It was bad reporting of many different events occuring that resulted in this news. The real sightings occurred in Apr 2005 and Nov 2005. In Dec 2005 the then National Park Director asked 3 of the eye witnesses, among then a fisherman, to bring him into the Johor Forest, connecting forest area that inlcude the river Sedili. The fisherman used a branch and pointed up a tree to indicate the height of the creature he saw, and tha became the broken branch at 12 feet indicating the height of Bigfoot. Then also came the adjoining story of a footprint found by a fish researcher who allegedly went to the place of encounter. For a long while I wondered in my publication whop was that researcher. Now I know… it was Vincent Chow. The story also mixed up encounters of river kincin, a river situated 80km away where there was a sighting there of a female Bigfoot with baby runnning out after a forest fire, and fishbones found along the Kincin river bank, indicating that a family of Bigfoot had just finished their meal. These family of Bigfoot, which was just mentioned theoritically in the 2001 report, became the sighting of Dec 2005.
Then came the dicovery of footprints by a construction man Mr Kong, which was no other than Rhino prints. Mr Kong is Vincent Chow friend.
Then arrived an international News group that include Josh Gates (a US TV Host), Jan Mcgrik, a BBC reporter, a Austrailan Tracker Tony Burke and the SPI group. They met Kong and was led to the side of the bush where the Rhino prints were found, and brought them nto the bushes to find more footprint. And they found one. A misprint of hooves marks of normal forest creatures, the culprits being the works of boar, cow and even the tapir. A poorly made cast of the print destroyed the hooves outline and further mishandling resulted to its current shape.
Then Vincent went into farm areas in Kota Tinggi and found strands of hair in areas where animals and human frequented. Those hair was tested for its DNA and the result? Human. Then the Johor Wildlife got the photos of the alleged Johor Bigfoot and passed to Vincent. They looked prehuman. Thus the strands of hair became those of the Johor Hominid. Then having met with older folks who had been involved in the Thai border war, he believed they saw giant creatures in the forest up North. The news that carried report of Bigfoot seen in Pahang, which was reported by a Reporter who happened to drop by a Orang Asli village and asked them if they had seen Bigfoot. Then put together the sightings in the Up north of Perak, down south to Pahang, and then to Kahang (sightings in Apr-Nov), and then to Kota Tinggi (Mawai, in Dec 05). Thus was created the migratory path the Johor Hominid took.
The whole episode occuring after Feb 06 was theorised by Vincent, who unfortunately, did not give it critical thinking and analysis but accpeted them to be real. It didn’t help that the International Group who found made the footprint cast fail to see that the cast was not the real deal, but just animals marks. That propel Vincent further down his theory of the Johor Hominid.
BUt you can read it all in the Malaysia Bigfoot Enigma. Part II is in the works and will offer new information, gathered during our Discovery Trail II with the US Bigfoot Researchers.
Watch for it. API still remains the only source of factual information regarding this Bigfoot Creature. Only because we cared for the Orang Asli and for the Truth.
While the outside now has discredited the Malaysia Bigfoot due to the recent hoax, the Malaysia Chapter of API wishes the Reader to go with them as they delve back into the past and report on the basic question of what lives in the Johor Forest.
But for now, here is the Sunday Times article.
STI Home > Lifestyle > Hot > Story
Aug 13, 2006
Bigfoot hoax exposed
First, a website claimed to have photographs of the elusive Johor Bigfoot. Then, when the photos were exposed as a hoax, the site was quickly shut down. The Malaysian men behind it explain how things went wrong
By Sandra Leong
‘This is just one piece of evidence that has been debunked. We’ll be back when we have more evidence’
– Mr Sean Ang, who set up the Johor Hominid website with Mr Vincent Chow. On the left is a sketch of the Bigfoot by the latter.
EYE SPY: The Cryptomundo website debunked the pictures as fake after French hominologist Jean Luc Drevillon pointed out that they were from a 2003 French book, L’Odyssee de l’espece.
ON TRACK: Mr Wee Pao Chin, a member of the Johor Wildlife Protection Association, reveals a photo of footprints which the association believes were left by the Johor Bigfoot.
— THE STAR/TAN HOWE YANGFOR a brief, heady two months, it seemed like King Kong may not have been a figment of Hollywood’s imagination after all.
That is, if news coming out of Johor, Malaysia, were to be believed.In mid-June, the people behind Malaysian website Johor Hominid (http://www.johorhominid.org) claimed that they had laid their hands on supposedly convincing photographs of the Johor Bigfoot.
The Johor Bigfoot is the Malaysian incarnation of that elusive, tall, hairy man-like creature that is also known in other parts of the world as the Yeti or Sasquatch.
The site’s claims followed Bigfoot mania that erupted last December when workers at a fish farm reported spotting a family of giant, two-legged creatures near the Endau-Rompin National Park, a three-hour drive from the Causeway.
The website, naturally enough, dubbed the beast the Johor Hominid.
Soon after, the site owners – self-described Malaysian Bigfoot hunters Sean Ang and Vincent Chow – also started an online petition.
In it, they breathlessly cited the ‘recent discovery of a dozen of close-up photographs of living Hominids in Johor’, and called on no less than the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to help with the creature’s preservation.
The frenzy grew, even spawning a government- led Bigfoot research steering committee. A fascinated public flocked to the website and it got 16,000 hits in two days.
Things really exploded when the website claimed it had pictorial proof of Bigfoot’s existence.
Researchers the world over flew into a tizzy. They demanded that the photos be released for independent inspection.
But over the ensuing weeks, the site merely teased its enthralled audience, releasing only hand-drawn sketches of the alleged Bigfoot’s eyes and hands.
The site maintained that the actual photos belonged to two men from the Johor Wildlife Protection Association (JWPA), who would reveal the pictures only at an opportune time.
Some online sites linked to Johor Hominid even went so far as to say the photos had been taken by the JWPA from a treetop observation deck that they had built.
But there was no Hollywood feel-good ending. Far from discovering Bigfoot, Mr Ang and Mr Chow were simply branded big fools when, on Aug 4, the pictures were exposed as a hoax.
That came about when they published a cropped photograph of the alleged Bigfoot’s eyes on their website, and offered an RM1,200 (S$515) reward, a hotel stay and a guided rainforest tour to anyone who could prove it was a hoax.
It was an offer made to appeal to ‘cryptozoologists’, who study mythical creatures with the presumption that they do exist.
By 6pm the same day, French hominologist Jean Luc Drevillon unmasked the photos as fakes.
In an e-mail to the Johor Hominid website, he pointed out that the photos were in fact from a 2003 French book, L’Odyssee de l’espece (A Species Odyssey), which was made into a documentary of the same name the same year.
To support his claim, he attached a full copy of the picture which he had scanned from the book.
In an e-mail interview with LifeStyle last week, Mr Drevillon said he recognised the Bigfoot’s eyes from ‘seeing the documentary and book many times’. He also sent his discovery to Cryptomundo (http://www.cryptomundo.com), a reputable cryptozoology website, which then broadcast the news.
An hour after the photos were discredited, the Johor Hominid website shut down. A message on the now-defunct site reads: ‘Down but not out, the search continues… Given that the current evidence for the existence of a hominid is weaker, we are currently closing down this site temporarily… Vincent Chow will focus more on the fieldwork and exploration.’
‘What a disgrace’
SO THE big Bigfoot question is, why did Mr Ang and Mr Chow post fake pictures on the site?
After all, doing so casts doubt on their other pieces of ‘evidence’, such as supposed Bigfoot footprints and hair said to have been collected by researchers on their expeditions.
Said one irate Cryptomundo user named crypto-randz: ‘This makes me sick… Everyone involved in this hoax should be held accountable including Chow… What a disgrace.’
Similarly, Mr Loren Coleman, an American cryptozoologist and editor of Cryptomundo, said via e-mail that he began to doubt the authenticity of the photos ‘as soon as all efforts to have the photographs shown to primate and cryptozoological experts were denied’.
Asked if he thought the Malaysian researchers had orchestrated a publicity stunt, he said: ‘The word ‘orchestrated’ is too harsh. But certainly, something sinister appears to be afoot, and we need to patiently discover who was behind this fakery.’
‘No ulterior motive’
SPEAKING over the phone to LifeStyle last week, both Mr Ang and Mr Chow said that they had acquired the photos from the JWPA and could not answer queries on how the photos had come about.
Mr Chow, 60, a semi-retired horticultural consultant and member of the Malaysia Nature Society, is widely seen as the leader of Bigfoot hunting efforts in Johor. He said the sole intention behind setting up the website was to ‘find out the truth’. He revealed: ‘We, too, had our own reservations as to where the photos came from because it is very difficult to capture the Bigfoot on film. We stated that very clearly from the beginning, but people have short memories.’
The RM1,200 and hotel stay which he offered for the reward were to have been paid out of his own pocket, he added. ‘There is no ulterior motive. Why would I want to waste time and effort if I didn’t believe in the cause?’
In fact, he added, he was ‘happy’ that the truth had been outed so he would no longer have to ‘misdirect my energies’. ‘Our passion is genuine, but society interprets you differently. They like to criticise and throw cold water at us. To me, this is all very petty and the issue is closed.’
He appeared to pin the blame on the JWPA, saying: ‘I do not want to waste time on that group anymore.’
Mr Ang, 36, an IT specialist with an interest in the science of paleoanthropology, which studies Ancient Man, said he would be more careful with photos from the JWPA in future. ‘The next time, I want the negatives and a photograph of the photographer to verify authenticity.’
The fate of the Johor Hominid site is still in limbo. It is not permanently closed, said Mr Ang. ‘This is just one piece of evidence that has been debunked. We’ll be back when we have more evidence.’
Mr Kenny Fong, founder of paranormal research group Singapore Paranormal Investigators, puts the Bigfoot blunder down to ‘a case of over-enthusiasm’.
‘Obviously, someone made a mistake and jeopardised everything. But I believe it’s not Vincent, as he would not be so stupid as to knowingly use fake pictures and talk so loud about it.’
Not for the money
THAT left one more avenue to be explored – the usually low-profile JWPA, a 40-member body which was founded last year to look into the protection of endangered animals.
LifeStyle went to Johor last Wednesday to meet the association’s secretary, Mr Tay Teng Hwa, 64, and another member, Mr Wee Pao Chin, 60.
Mr Tay, a consultant, said that the JWPA got the photographs of the Johor Bigfoot in April from a member named Michael Yap.
The two men showed LifeStyle two colour photo- copied pictures of the animal they received, the same ones later exposed by the French researcher as having been taken from the book.
Asked where Mr Yap had got the pictures from, Mr Tay said he never asked. Mr Wee, a watch technician, said: ‘We are not professionals in the area so we have no reason to question where the photos came from.’
When asked to contact Mr Yap for this story, Mr Tay said he did not have his e-mail address or phone number.
The JWPA said there was no incentive for it to lie about the photos. ‘We are not in it for the money,’ said Mr Tay, adding: ‘A Korean newspaper wanted to buy the photos of the footprints for RM1.5 million and we turned them down.’
Meanwhile, the search for the real Bigfoot continues…
‘This is just one piece of evidence that has been debunked. We’ll be back when we have more evidence’
– Mr Sean Ang, who set up the Johor Hominid website with Mr Vincent Chow. On the left is a sketch of the Bigfoot by the latter.
Footprints of a hoax
December 2005:
Bigfoot fever erupts in Johor after a group of three workers building a fish pond in Kampung Mawai, Kota Tinggi, claim to have seen a Bigfoot family of two adults and a child. They also claim to have seen several footprints, including one 45cm long.
January 2006: The Johor government launches its first effort to track down Bigfoot, with researchers and wildlife officials traipsing the national parks in search of the beast. A Bigfoot research steering committee and hotline was also set up.In the same month, members of Singapore’s Asia Paranormal Investigators do an ‘interview trail’ of Johor to collect eyewitness accounts from the indigenous Orang Asli who claimed to have spotted Bigfoot.
February 2006: The Singapore Paranormal Investigators, API’s rival group, visits Johor’s rainforests. They find a set of 63 footprints in Bukit Tanti, which they believe to have been made by a two-legged creature.
June 2006: The Johor Hominid website ( http://www.johorhominid.org ) is set up by Malaysian Bigfoot researchers Sean Ang and Vincent Chow. They claim to have pictures of a Bigfoot that was sighted in Johor.
July 2006: Johor Hominid releases sketches of the photographs. They incur the ire of the international cryptozoological community which calls for the actual images to be made public.
August 2006: The photos are exposed as a hoax after Mr Ang and Mr Chow publish online a cropped photograph of the alleged Bigfoot’s eyes. Within 12 hours, a French hominologist traces the source of the photos to a book based on a French documentary about species evolution. One hour after news of the hoax is made public, the site shuts down.
I just realise.. the picture held by the Johor Wildlife folks..
Its a bear print. You can make out the shape of the front and rear paw!
picture taken from the API Johor Bigfoot Publication .
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Is sensational fake news so important that truths be swept under the carpet?
1) In my article I have already said the sighting in Mawai in Dec 2005 never occurred. It was bad reporting of many different events occuring that resulted in this news. The real sightings occurred in Apr 2005 and Nov 2005. In Dec 2005 the then National Park Director asked 3 of the eye witnesses, among then a fisherman, to bring him into the Johor Forest, connecting forest area that inlcude the river Sedili. The fisherman used a branch and pointed up a tree to indicate the height of the creature he saw, and tha became the broken branch at 12 feet indicating the height of Bigfoot. Then also came the adjoining story of a footprint found by a fish researcher who allegedly went to the place of encounter. For a long while I wondered in my publication whop was that researcher. Now I know… it was Vincent Chow. The story also mixed up encounters of river kincin, a river situated 80km away where there was a sighting there of a female Bigfoot with baby runnning out after a forest fire, and fishbones found along the Kincin river bank, indicating that a family of Bigfoot had just finished their meal. These family of Bigfoot, which was just mentioned theoritically in the 2001 report, became the sighting of Dec 2005.
Then came the dicovery of footprints by a construction man Mr Kong, which was no other than Rhino prints. Mr Kong is Vincent Chow friend.
Then arrived an international News group that include Josh Gates (a US TV Host), Jan Mcgrik, a BBC reporter, a Austrailan Tracker Tony Burke and the SPI group. They met Kong and was led to the side of the bush where the Rhino prints were found, and brought them nto the bushes to find more footprint. And they found one. A misprint of hooves marks of normal forest creatures, the culprits being the works of boar, cow and even the tapir. A poorly made cast of the print destroyed the hooves outline and further mishandling resulted to its current shape.
Then Vincent went into farm areas in Kota Tinggi and found strands of hair in areas where animals and human frequented. Those hair was tested for its DNA and the result? Human. Then the Johor Wildlife got the photos of the alleged Johor Bigfoot and passed to Vincent. They looked prehuman. Thus the strands of hair became those of the Johor Hominid. Then having met with older folks who had been involved in the Thai border war, he believed they saw giant creatures in the forest up North. The news that carried report of Bigfoot seen in Pahang, which was reported by a Reporter who happened to drop by a Orang Asli village and asked them if they had seen Bigfoot. Then put together the sightings in the Up north of Perak, down south to Pahang, and then to Kahang (sightings in Apr-Nov), and then to Kota Tinggi (Mawai, in Dec 05). Thus was created the migratory path the Johor Hominid took.
The whole episode occuring after Feb 06 was theorised by Vincent, who unfortunately, did not give it critical thinking and analysis but accpeted them to be real. It didn’t help that the International Group who found made the footprint cast fail to see that the cast was not the real deal, but just animals marks. That propel Vincent further down his theory of the Johor Hominid.
BUt you can read it all in the Malaysia Bigfoot Enigma. Part II is in the works and will offer new information, gathered during our Discovery Trail II with the US Bigfoot Researchers.
Watch for it. API still remains the only source of factual information regarding this Bigfoot Creature. Only because we cared for the Orang Asli and for the Truth.
While the outside now has discredited the Malaysia Bigfoot due to the recent hoax, the Malaysia Chapter of API wishes the Reader to go with them as they delve back into the past and report on the basic question of what lives in the Johor Forest.
But for now, here is the Sunday Times article.
STI Home > Lifestyle > Hot > Story
Aug 13, 2006
Bigfoot hoax exposed
First, a website claimed to have photographs of the elusive Johor Bigfoot. Then, when the photos were exposed as a hoax, the site was quickly shut down. The Malaysian men behind it explain how things went wrong
By Sandra Leong‘This is just one piece of evidence that has been debunked. We’ll be back when we have more evidence’
– Mr Sean Ang, who set up the Johor Hominid website with Mr Vincent Chow. On the left is a sketch of the Bigfoot by the latter.EYE SPY: The Cryptomundo website debunked the pictures as fake after French hominologist Jean Luc Drevillon pointed out that they were from a 2003 French book, L’Odyssee de l’espece.ON TRACK: Mr Wee Pao Chin, a member of the Johor Wildlife Protection Association, reveals a photo of footprints which the association believes were left by the Johor Bigfoot.
— THE STAR/TAN HOWE YANGFOR a brief, heady two months, it seemed like King Kong may not have been a figment of Hollywood’s imagination after all.
That is, if news coming out of Johor, Malaysia, were to be believed.In mid-June, the people behind Malaysian website Johor Hominid (http://www.johorhominid.org) claimed that they had laid their hands on supposedly convincing photographs of the Johor Bigfoot.
The Johor Bigfoot is the Malaysian incarnation of that elusive, tall, hairy man-like creature that is also known in other parts of the world as the Yeti or Sasquatch.
The site’s claims followed Bigfoot mania that erupted last December when workers at a fish farm reported spotting a family of giant, two-legged creatures near the Endau-Rompin National Park, a three-hour drive from the Causeway.
The website, naturally enough, dubbed the beast the Johor Hominid.
Soon after, the site owners – self-described Malaysian Bigfoot hunters Sean Ang and Vincent Chow – also started an online petition.
In it, they breathlessly cited the ‘recent discovery of a dozen of close-up photographs of living Hominids in Johor’, and called on no less than the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to help with the creature’s preservation.
The frenzy grew, even spawning a government- led Bigfoot research steering committee. A fascinated public flocked to the website and it got 16,000 hits in two days.
Things really exploded when the website claimed it had pictorial proof of Bigfoot’s existence.
Researchers the world over flew into a tizzy. They demanded that the photos be released for independent inspection.
But over the ensuing weeks, the site merely teased its enthralled audience, releasing only hand-drawn sketches of the alleged Bigfoot’s eyes and hands.
The site maintained that the actual photos belonged to two men from the Johor Wildlife Protection Association (JWPA), who would reveal the pictures only at an opportune time.
Some online sites linked to Johor Hominid even went so far as to say the photos had been taken by the JWPA from a treetop observation deck that they had built.
But there was no Hollywood feel-good ending. Far from discovering Bigfoot, Mr Ang and Mr Chow were simply branded big fools when, on Aug 4, the pictures were exposed as a hoax.
That came about when they published a cropped photograph of the alleged Bigfoot’s eyes on their website, and offered an RM1,200 (S$515) reward, a hotel stay and a guided rainforest tour to anyone who could prove it was a hoax.
It was an offer made to appeal to ‘cryptozoologists’, who study mythical creatures with the presumption that they do exist.
By 6pm the same day, French hominologist Jean Luc Drevillon unmasked the photos as fakes.
In an e-mail to the Johor Hominid website, he pointed out that the photos were in fact from a 2003 French book, L’Odyssee de l’espece (A Species Odyssey), which was made into a documentary of the same name the same year.
To support his claim, he attached a full copy of the picture which he had scanned from the book.
In an e-mail interview with LifeStyle last week, Mr Drevillon said he recognised the Bigfoot’s eyes from ‘seeing the documentary and book many times’. He also sent his discovery to Cryptomundo (http://www.cryptomundo.com), a reputable cryptozoology website, which then broadcast the news.
An hour after the photos were discredited, the Johor Hominid website shut down. A message on the now-defunct site reads: ‘Down but not out, the search continues… Given that the current evidence for the existence of a hominid is weaker, we are currently closing down this site temporarily… Vincent Chow will focus more on the fieldwork and exploration.’
‘What a disgrace’
SO THE big Bigfoot question is, why did Mr Ang and Mr Chow post fake pictures on the site?
After all, doing so casts doubt on their other pieces of ‘evidence’, such as supposed Bigfoot footprints and hair said to have been collected by researchers on their expeditions.
Said one irate Cryptomundo user named crypto-randz: ‘This makes me sick… Everyone involved in this hoax should be held accountable including Chow… What a disgrace.’
Similarly, Mr Loren Coleman, an American cryptozoologist and editor of Cryptomundo, said via e-mail that he began to doubt the authenticity of the photos ‘as soon as all efforts to have the photographs shown to primate and cryptozoological experts were denied’.
Asked if he thought the Malaysian researchers had orchestrated a publicity stunt, he said: ‘The word ‘orchestrated’ is too harsh. But certainly, something sinister appears to be afoot, and we need to patiently discover who was behind this fakery.’
‘No ulterior motive’
SPEAKING over the phone to LifeStyle last week, both Mr Ang and Mr Chow said that they had acquired the photos from the JWPA and could not answer queries on how the photos had come about.
Mr Chow, 60, a semi-retired horticultural consultant and member of the Malaysia Nature Society, is widely seen as the leader of Bigfoot hunting efforts in Johor. He said the sole intention behind setting up the website was to ‘find out the truth’. He revealed: ‘We, too, had our own reservations as to where the photos came from because it is very difficult to capture the Bigfoot on film. We stated that very clearly from the beginning, but people have short memories.’
The RM1,200 and hotel stay which he offered for the reward were to have been paid out of his own pocket, he added. ‘There is no ulterior motive. Why would I want to waste time and effort if I didn’t believe in the cause?’
In fact, he added, he was ‘happy’ that the truth had been outed so he would no longer have to ‘misdirect my energies’. ‘Our passion is genuine, but society interprets you differently. They like to criticise and throw cold water at us. To me, this is all very petty and the issue is closed.’
He appeared to pin the blame on the JWPA, saying: ‘I do not want to waste time on that group anymore.’
Mr Ang, 36, an IT specialist with an interest in the science of paleoanthropology, which studies Ancient Man, said he would be more careful with photos from the JWPA in future. ‘The next time, I want the negatives and a photograph of the photographer to verify authenticity.’
The fate of the Johor Hominid site is still in limbo. It is not permanently closed, said Mr Ang. ‘This is just one piece of evidence that has been debunked. We’ll be back when we have more evidence.’
Mr Kenny Fong, founder of paranormal research group Singapore Paranormal Investigators, puts the Bigfoot blunder down to ‘a case of over-enthusiasm’.
‘Obviously, someone made a mistake and jeopardised everything. But I believe it’s not Vincent, as he would not be so stupid as to knowingly use fake pictures and talk so loud about it.’
Not for the money
THAT left one more avenue to be explored – the usually low-profile JWPA, a 40-member body which was founded last year to look into the protection of endangered animals.
LifeStyle went to Johor last Wednesday to meet the association’s secretary, Mr Tay Teng Hwa, 64, and another member, Mr Wee Pao Chin, 60.
Mr Tay, a consultant, said that the JWPA got the photographs of the Johor Bigfoot in April from a member named Michael Yap.
The two men showed LifeStyle two colour photo- copied pictures of the animal they received, the same ones later exposed by the French researcher as having been taken from the book.
Asked where Mr Yap had got the pictures from, Mr Tay said he never asked. Mr Wee, a watch technician, said: ‘We are not professionals in the area so we have no reason to question where the photos came from.’
When asked to contact Mr Yap for this story, Mr Tay said he did not have his e-mail address or phone number.
The JWPA said there was no incentive for it to lie about the photos. ‘We are not in it for the money,’ said Mr Tay, adding: ‘A Korean newspaper wanted to buy the photos of the footprints for RM1.5 million and we turned them down.’
Meanwhile, the search for the real Bigfoot continues…
‘This is just one piece of evidence that has been debunked. We’ll be back when we have more evidence’
– Mr Sean Ang, who set up the Johor Hominid website with Mr Vincent Chow. On the left is a sketch of the Bigfoot by the latter.
Footprints of a hoax
December 2005:
Bigfoot fever erupts in Johor after a group of three workers building a fish pond in Kampung Mawai, Kota Tinggi, claim to have seen a Bigfoot family of two adults and a child. They also claim to have seen several footprints, including one 45cm long.
January 2006: The Johor government launches its first effort to track down Bigfoot, with researchers and wildlife officials traipsing the national parks in search of the beast. A Bigfoot research steering committee and hotline was also set up.In the same month, members of Singapore’s Asia Paranormal Investigators do an ‘interview trail’ of Johor to collect eyewitness accounts from the indigenous Orang Asli who claimed to have spotted Bigfoot.
February 2006: The Singapore Paranormal Investigators, API’s rival group, visits Johor’s rainforests. They find a set of 63 footprints in Bukit Tanti, which they believe to have been made by a two-legged creature.
June 2006: The Johor Hominid website ( http://www.johorhominid.org ) is set up by Malaysian Bigfoot researchers Sean Ang and Vincent Chow. They claim to have pictures of a Bigfoot that was sighted in Johor.
July 2006: Johor Hominid releases sketches of the photographs. They incur the ire of the international cryptozoological community which calls for the actual images to be made public.
August 2006: The photos are exposed as a hoax after Mr Ang and Mr Chow publish online a cropped photograph of the alleged Bigfoot’s eyes. Within 12 hours, a French hominologist traces the source of the photos to a book based on a French documentary about species evolution. One hour after news of the hoax is made public, the site shuts down.
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I just realise.. the picture held by the Johor Wildlife folks..
Its a bear print. You can make out the shape of the front and rear paw!
picture taken from the API Johor Bigfoot Publication .
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