| Batutut | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Naming | |||
| Others | Ujit or Người rừng | ||
| Morphology | |||
| Body type | Primate | ||
| Average height | 6 to 7 feet | ||
| Intelligence | |||
| Sapience | Semi-Sapient | ||
| Aggressivity | DD | ||
| Ecology | |||
| Place of origin | Earth | ||
| Habitat | Jungles of Vietnam | ||
| Diet | Omnivorous | ||
| Locomotion | Bipedal Walking | ||
| Behind the Scenes | |||
| Universe | Real | ||
The Batutut is Vietnam's equivalent of Bigfoot.
Appearance[]
It is described as being approximately 1.8 m (6 ft) 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. It resembles Bigfoot form the United States.
Overview[]
Thought to inhabit the Vũ Quang nature reserve and other wilderness areas of Vietnam, Laos and northern Borneo. The Vũ Quang has been the source of a number of newly discovered mammals by Dr. John MacKinnon. Mackinnon claims to have first observed tracks in 1970 that led him to believe that a hominid similar to the Meganthropus lives there (instead, cryptozoologist Loren Coleman believes that the Batutut are a surviving population of Homo erectus or Neanderthal). Mackinnon's 1975 book In Search Of The Red Ape describes his experiences and findings. A 1947 sighting by a French colonist refers to the animal as a L'Homme Sauvage (wild man). Vietnamese scholars refer to the animal as the Người Rừng ("forest man"). 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.
In Borneo, witnesses describe it as four feet tall and very aggressive, occasionally killing humans and tearing out their livers.
Sightings during the Vietnam War[]
In his book Very Crazy G.I. - Strange but True Stories of the Vietnam War, Kregg P. J. Jorgenson relates a sighting of such a creature by a team of US soldiers. The men referred to it as a "Rock Ape" reporting it as being small in stature, about 5 feet tall and having a reddish tinge to its fur.
Two Người Rừngs were reportedly captured by tribesmen near Đắk Lắk 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.