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Posted: 26-06-2006 23:09 Post subject:

Being a bit of a Disney-phile, I went through the "museum"
which is part of the queue for the Expedition Everest ride.

It has many actual photos and books that seemed to be
in a separate case from the ones made especially
for the ride's backstory.

The ride is good, but yeti that you encounter is the star --
it is at least 25 feet tall, fully animatronic and in motion.
Extremely well done!

One of the best moments was when we were
about to emerge from the "museum" and get into
the ride car. The last exhibit is a Disney Yeti footprint
about 5 feet across. One teen girl in front of me asked
"What made that?" and then quickly added, "Wait -- I don't
want to know!" She was seriously terrified... Laughing

TVgeek

Posted: 30-11-2007 19:05 Post subject:

Footprints seen around Mt.Everest stoke Yeti mystery
By Gopal Sharma
Fri Nov 30, 8:54 AM ET

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.S.-based television channel investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has found footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman, the company said on Friday.

A team of nine producers from Destination Truth, armed with infrared cameras, spent a week in the icy Khumbu region where Mount Everest is located and found the footprints on the bank of Manju river at a height of 2,850 meters (9,350 feet).

One of the three footprints discovered on Wednesday is about one foot long, or is of similar size and appearance as shown in sketches of the mystical ape-like creature believed to live in snowy caves, the TV company said.

"It is very very similar," Josh Gates, host of the weekly travel adventure television series, told Reuters in Kathmandu after returning from the mountain.

"I don't believe it to be (that of) a bear. It is something of a mystery for us," said Gates, 30, an archaeologist by training.

Tales by sherpa porters and guides about the wild and hairy creatures lurking in the Himalayas have seized the imagination of foreign mountain climbers going to Mount Everest since the 1920s.
Several teams have searched for it and some have even claimed to have discovered footprints.
But no one has actually seen the creature nor has it been scientifically established that the Yeti exists.

Gates said the footprints on lumps of sandy soil, which would be sent to experts in the United States for analysis, were "relatively fresh left some 24 hours before we found them."

"This print is so pristine, so good that I am very intrigued by this," Gates, flanked by his team members, said adding the findings would prompt more investigation into the Yeti.

Destination Truth chronicles some of the world's notorious crypto-zoological creatures and unexplained phenomena.

Some local sherpas believe that the Himalayas are abodes of strange creatures and consider the Yeti as a protector while others say it is a destroyer.

"There is a kind of mysterious creature that lives in the Himalayas," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, who hails from the Khumbhu region were Mount Everest is located.

SOURCE: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSDEL830620071130

"A British artist has produced what she calls a "photo-fit" of the Yeti based on "potentially explosive" new evidence of the elusive creature's existence.

Wildlife painter Polyanna Pickering was shown what is believed to be a 100-year-old yeti scalp at a remote monastery in the Himalayas.

The sketch was produced with the
help of eyewitness accounts

At least one expert believe it could be the most important proof yet that the giant apelike beast is more than mere folklore.

Ms Pickering was gathering material for a new exhibition in the remote Bhutan region of the Himalayas when she made her chance discovery - with a little help from David Beckham.

She said: "I was told this was from a Migoi - their name for the yeti. All I know is, it was bigger than any human or ape scalp I have ever seen.

"It had tufts of reddish-black fur coming out of it and was mounted on a pole and seen as a holy relic."

The scalp was housed in a part of the monastery closed to visitors.

"The sole occupant was a caretaker monk who got very excited when he found out we were English and he was a huge David Beckham fan and then ushered us through to the back."

Photography is banned in all such monasteries but Ms Pickering, 65, was able to make a rough sketch of the scalp.

She also produced a full sketch of the creature, based on scores of eyewitness accounts by indigenous people.

"I was amazed when they told me of regular sightings, close encounters and even tales of people being carried off by the Migoi," she said.

"Their descriptions were so detailed, I ended up doing this 'photo-fit' with them all sitting round telling me to alter this or how that should look."

Jonathan Downes, director of the Centre of Fortean Zoology, which studies mystery animals, said: "If this is true it is the most important zoological discovery in 70 years."

He added: "This is potentially explosive. If this scalp is authentic and has bone still attached, it will probably be the single most important zoological find since the discovery of the coelacanth."

Mr Downes said the discovery was unique because the scalp still had a portion of bone attached to it.

He said: "Other yeti scalps have been found before but this is the only one with bone attached. The others turned out to be man-made.

"Quite a lot of the Buddhist monks dress up as Yetis as part of their religious ceremonies and explorers mistook religious costume as Yeti scalps."

Experts believe if it does exist the Yeti is a likely descendant of a giant ape which lived in India and China about half a million years ago.

Ms Pickering's sketches form part of her new Land of the Thunder Dragon exhibition, the name the Bhutanese people give to their region.

She is transforming her gallery in the Derbyshire village of Oaker into a Himalayan temple for the opening of the exhibition, which opens on Monday June 9."

Source: http://tinyurl.com/65kp84

Posted: 03-06-2008 12:17 Post subject:

I'm not sure if this has already been mentioned earlier in the thread but I love Brian Blessed's theory about Yeti. He thinks the locals were actually seeing European mountaineers with their big bushy beards and wild hair who had become lost and a little crazed jabbering in a language they don't understand - I can see where he's coming from - If I saw Brian Blessed all wild eyed and dressed in tattered clothing coming towards me I'd probably run a mile!

Posted: 03-06-2008 18:52 Post subject:

I´m not that impressed by that British artists. So she has a sketch of a scalp, and a sketch of a yeti which doesn´t look that detailed. As she mentioned herself, the other scalps turned out to be fakes, the fact there is a bone there doesn´t make me that confident this isn´t. She couldn´t have taken a small DNA sample from it?

Posted: 16-08-2008 09:35 Post subject:

Japanese decorator goes to Himalayas in search of the elusive yeti
A Japanese decorator will set off from Tokyo on Saturday on an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the elusive yeti.
By Julian Ryall in Tokyo
Last Updated: 7:08PM BST 15 Aug 2008

Yoshiteru Takahashi, 65, claims to have seen a group of three yetis on his last visit to Nepal, in 2003, but maintains that the light quality during the evening sightings was too poor for him to take photographs.

This time - his fifth such mission - his seven-strong team is equipped with state-of-the-art motion-sensitive photographic equipment and they plan to position it along a ridge at an altitude of 4,800 metres in a range of mountains some 200 km from Kathmandu.

"The ones that I saw were small, around 85 cm tall, but it was getting dark and it was difficult to see them properly," said Mr Takahashi.

"I don't know what they are, but they appear to be some sort of hybrid of chimp or orangutang without a tail."

Mr Takahashi and his team plan to stay at their base camp for six weeks to catch a glimpse of a creature, which he described as "shy".

He traces his obsession with a creature that many believe is mythical to his first visit to the Himlayas, in 1971.

"I have climbed the Dhaulagiri (White Mountain) massif four times, and every time, I saw footprints of the yeti," he said.

"In 1971, one of my expedition members saw one of these creatures.

"It looked like a gorilla," he said. "It was only 15 metres away from him and watching for about 40 seconds," he said.

"It was about 150 cm tall and stood on its hind legs, like a man. Its head was covered with long, thick hair and he was certain it was not a bear or a monkey."

In another visit to the region in 1994, Takahashi discovered what he describes as a "bolt-hole," a natural cave that stretched back 5 metres into a rock face at 5,000 metres above sea level.

"Animals had definitely visited the cave and there were more of the footprints in the snow around the mouth of the cavern," he said.

Unfortunately, his camera failed and he couldn't record his find.

"The footprints that I saw were similar to the one photographed by British explorers Eric Shipton and Michael Ward in 1951," Takahashi said.

Found in the Gauri Shankar pocket, those prints were fresh when the mountaineers chanced upon them. The trail continued for nearly 2 km until it finally disappeared on hard ice.

"The ones I found were smaller and thinner, more like a human foot, with an arch between the heel and the toes," Takahashi said.

"There are no animals that leave that sort of track."

He says the creature is known locally as the "migou" or "bongamanche," meaning "man of the forest," and local people regularly bump into the species on their travels in the region.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2565641/Japanese-decorator-goes-to-Himalayas-in-search-of-the-elusive-yeti.html

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Posted: 06-04-2010 08:46 Post subject:

'Oriental yeti' discovered in China
A creature dubbed the 'oriental yeti' is being examined by scientists after emerging from ancient woodlands in remote central China.
Published: 10:34PM BST 05 Apr 2010

The hairless beast was trapped by hunters in Sichuan province after locals reported spotting what they thought was a bear.

Hunter Lu Chin explained: "It looks a bit like a bear but it doesn't have any fur and it has a tail like a kangaroo."

"It also does not sound like a bear - it has a voice more like a cat and it is calling all the time - perhaps it is looking for the rest of its kind or maybe it's the last one?

"There are local legends of a bear that used to be a man and some people think that's what we caught," he added.

Local animal experts now plan to ship the mystery beast to scientists in Beijing who will perform DNA tests on the beast.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7557799/Oriental-yeti-discovered-in-China.html

Different photo here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7088318.ece

Posted: 06-04-2010 20:39 Post subject:

Looks like a mangy dog, nothing like a Yeti. Bit of a desperate story at first glance.

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Posted: 06-04-2010 22:02 Post subject:

Mangy civet.

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Posted: 06-04-2010 22:42 Post subject:

Palm Civet, Large Spotted? Cant tell in that condition, poor bugger really needs some goats milk.