Archive for September 4, 2008

The Cambodian Wildman!

September 4, 2008

Destination Truth reports the existence of a Cambodian wildman, an ape-like man who goes about naked with long hair and a sword (a guy could get into that!). The remote area of the appearances is rich in legends of wild men living in the forest.  This guy is not Bigfoot as he also sports tattoos, and Bigfoot doesn’t work with a sword.

It gets better in that a young naked woman was also seen with the guy.  She was captured as the duo lurked around the fringes of a village to steal food; the wildman escaped capture.  The feral girl was reunited with her biological father, who identified her from a scar she had acquired before her disappearance 18 years ago.  The language skills of the girl were poor, and she supposedly didn’t communicate much verbally with the wildman (guys aren’t much for conversation, anyhow).  After being given a bad haircut and living with her father in civilization for about ten months, the girl again escaped into the forest, and has not been seen since.

A likely explanation is that the wildman escaped from the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia about 20 years ago, and has never bothered returning to civilization…kinda like those handful of Japanese soldiers in isolated locations who continued to fight World War II for years after it ended…

Mongolian Death Worms!

September 4, 2008

— Hehe, Mongolian Death Worms are cryptids reported to exist in the Gobi desert of Mongolia.  They are supposedly two to five feet long (not as big as a sand worm from Dune), reddish in color, and kinda look like intestines.  More intriguingly, they are said to be able to spit sulfuric acid, and can kill at distances by electrocution!Gotta get me some of these puppies for my backyard!

The most recent expedition in search of these creepy-crawlies was conducted by the reality TV series Destination Truth in 2006-07.  This show would appear to be the SciFi channel’s answer to the History Channel’s MonsterQuestIn searching the Gobi Desert at night for the Death Worms, they found a tunnel of some sort on the sand. As this might be the lair of a creature that can spit sulfuric acid and electrocute prey, the intrepid investigators did what any of us would do…they plunged their arms into the presumed worm hole! Soil from these holes tested normal rather than acidic…