Do any of you believe in the Yeti?

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Broken Arrow

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I wanted to ask Uncle Bill about this subject a while ago, but I forgot. I viewed a show last night about the Yeti and this made me remember that question I wanted to ask Uncle. Many of my friends don't believe in Bigfoot or the Yeti, but I do. I was wondering if Uncle or Yangdu has some information concerning this subject. I'm all ears.
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I believe the kamis will always come up with Yeti 'nuther khukuri!

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Jim
 
Every now and then Jim hits a home run.

Both Pala and Yangdu consider the Yeti a reality as do almost all the Sherpas I know which is a bunch. In fact, about 50 showed up a Pala's place during Losar, the Sherpa new year. I used to be a staunch disbeliever. Today I am undecided.

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Broken Arrow,

Can you give a brief summary of the show with the Yeti?

I know two guys on separate occasions claim that they were going to go hunt Big Foot and sell him to a university. I never saw either guy again. Coincidense or did Big Foot eat them?

Will
 
I hope he does exist.

Life would be unbearably boring if every question had a sensible answer to it. Leave me something for my imagination and to dream about. Leave me something to wonder about as a child does, and delights in amazement.

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Horse sense is what a jackass ain't got.
 
I hope he does exist.

The resulting bidding war between the various shampoo companies each trying to hire him/her/it as a spokesbeing will be the best comedy of the decade.

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Jim
 
Alright! Now we're in my area of knowledge! To be honest I can't help but belive in such things as the yeti. Really just because a group of scientists can't find it, it doen't exsist? I know many more have looked for these creatures than scientists but the snow leopard was thought myth until they finally found the body of one in the '30's I belive. There are also supposed to be three types of yeti , Nepal is said to house a pygmy version as well as a true version. There are also milk drinking statues and devil cats in Nepal. If anyone wants anymore stories of crypozoological nature mail me.

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Our Malay elders believe that very big size hairy man (look alike man) exist in Malaysian jungle - few of those elders had face to face sighting on them!

One other thing is that those elders also told that there are very small size man (look alike man) exist in Malaysian jungle - they are said to be very strong (with the strength of about 3 to 5 ordinary man!) but always shy away from ordinary man.

BTW - Very big size means about twice the ordinary man size - very small size means about 1/2 size of ordinary man.

NEPAL HO!
 
Hey Jim: when is Vampire Gerbil moving to Pahrump? Once he gets there, maybe he can make a quick trip over to Rachel and gerbilvamp his way under Area 51 and bring us back the real story. Could it be that the alien bit is nothing but a red herring to lead us astray from the presence of the Yeti among us? Come to think of it, I've been at Tribal Council and school board meetings where a few Yeti would never have been noticed.

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Broken Arrow,

Good question, I would love to think the "Big Guy" is out there, but until they find some real proof, its best to take a skeptical view of it (i.e. investigate and ask questions, but reserve judgment, not just debunk or dismiss out of hand).

If you can, try to find "Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in myth and reality" by John Napier, my copy was published by Abacus books in 1976. Its well worth geting hold of, Napier is an Anthopologist and anatomist who specialised in the mechanics of walking.

Listed in this book (quoting Nepalese sources) are three types of Yeti:

Dzu-teh - 7+ft tall, agressive, attacks cattle, lives above the snowline.

Meh-teh - smaller, apelike, lives in rocky areas between the treeline and permanent snow.

Teh-lma - pygmy, lives in the forests around foothills (described as a goblin or gremlin type).

It also lists some translations on the "teh" & "tre" suffix - bear (or thing, depending on the translator) in Tibetan
and "Meh" - man

So Meh-teh could mean 'Man-bear' or 'Man-thing"

All three are reguarded as flesh and blood creatures, not spirits or demons.

However many of the stories told by locals tend to fit classic folk tale profiles of the 'wildman of the woods' type.

If nothing else you tend to learn a whole lot about a range of subjects when you start looking into this kind of thing.

Ash
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I saw that same show as BA. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the yeti existed. The Himalayans aren't settled by any Westerners, and the Sherpas leave them alone, so it is quite possible for the yetis to exist.

Bob
 
Pala claims to have heard them and says he has seen tracks but has never seen one in the flesh.

When I was living in Nepal I heard a story of a girl who lived with a Yeti male for awhile but no offspring.

It is a fascinating subject. I am still not sure but like most who posted I like to think the yetis are alive and well.

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Uncle Bill
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Frankly, I doubt it matters much to the Yeti if we believe in them or not...

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Tony King
Tulsa, OK
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Why not? There are fossil apes that would fit a similar description to the Yeti and North America's Sasquatch/Bigfoot, including, I believe, Java Man (~500,000 years old).

Is it coincidence that the Pacific Northwest and the Himalayas have vast areas with little human habitation and are also the primary areas for sightings?

The Gorilla and Orangatan were both believed superstitions and myths until someone captured or killed a few specimens.

I work as junior level scientist (master's degree level) and find senior scientists (Ph.Ds)are very closed minded about the possibilities for explaining a particular aberration in an experiment, including that they are wrong (more often, it's "you're wrong"). Science is supposed to be based on a desire to find new answers, but it, in practice, is about finding answers that conform to accepted theories. That a scientist would dismiss the possibility of yetis out of hand reflects 1) a lack of an open mind and an ignorance of the rationale behind science to begin with and 2) the fact that he has invested so much of his time in his theory/explanation that he can't afford to be wrong, from both a professional and psychological point of view.
 
Hell, I'm a 6'1", 240 lb. hunchback who has to shave his back and shoulders with a straight razor every other week.

I AM the yeti.

-Dave

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It just didn't occur to me til a bit back. The sasquach is talked about on the local reservation as something that someone who you knew had met someone else who knew someone who

had seen one, etc.

The waterbabies are talked about as something the person you are talking to had direct experience with. Not necessarily having seen them, but having had an encounter of some type. One lady told me that as a child she'd found a trove of waterbaby rocks and taken one, and when she got home her grandmother immediately felt a disturbance and asked her what she'd done, and then told her to put it back right away before something bad happened.

The map is not the terrain. Til I walk the terrain, I ain't going to figure I know what's there no matter how many maps I read.
 

Hey Dave! I din't want to get to off subject ,but there's this hair removal system that my girlfriend ordered from QVC that is blue and takes the hair off for weeks! Maybe you should check it out. Heck while I'm at it, maybe big foot saw a broadcast of this and is now just a really big guy. Who knows. I like to think anything is possible.

- D
 
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