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31st December 2005

'Bigfoot' hunt begins after Malaysian jungle sighting

The Scotsman

AUTHORITIES began searching the jungles of southern Malaysia yesterday for the mythical "Bigfoot", following a reported sighting of three giant human-like beasts, officials said.

Wildlife authorities said that they may set up cameras in the 309sq mile Endau Rompin National Park in Johor state to see if the creatures exist.

Hashim Yusof, the park's director, ventured into the jungle yesterday to survey the site where three fish-farm workers reportedly saw the beasts - two adults and a younger creature - last month, his secretary said.

The fish-farm workers were in the jungle to clear an area for a fish pond. They alerted their employer who photographed what appeared to be footprints measuring up to 45cm in length, said Lim Teong Kheng, the chairman of the Malaysian Nature Society in Johor.

He said brown hair reeking of body odour was also reportedly retrieved nearby, and a broken tree branch at the site appeared to indicate the creatures were some three metres (10ft) tall.

On Thursday, the New Straits Times newspaper reprinted one of the photographs, showing what appears to be a triangular depression in the undergrowth.

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