Comments on: Remembering The Monkey Man

By: oldpine

oldpine — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:59:41 +0000

This sounds a lot like spring heel Jack and thye mad gasser, don’t you think.

By: Fhqwhgads

Fhqwhgads — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:06:20 +0000

Jacko, what have you done?

The limited credibility of these sightings are not helped by the cartoonish “police sketches”. Look at the size ratios of the head and feet! *Maybe* an infant has a similar ratio — but this is supposed to stand 5′6″! And no primate that I know of *ever* has hands that are that much bigger than its feet.

My guess is that that some real events (burglars? monkey attacks?) got distorted an amplified in a hysterical feedback loop.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:41:07 +0000

Another thing—
Paranormal and unusual phenomena are accepted as commonplace in countries like India. That’s because the general population sees no barrier between Science and the Spiritual world. Not everybody, but most people. Things which “westerners” demand proof of easterners accept as given.
Western media controls the “message,” though, so ultimately this would have been given short shrift.
I once read in a book which shall remain nameless a Lama-type figure from Bhutan gently chide a man for his skepticism and then declare—
“If you want proof, you will never be enlightened.”
Take from that what you will.
Of course, it does depend on what one means by “enlightenment,” and whether one WANTS to be enlightened. Good post, Loren.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:38:53 +0000

Even if 9/11 hadn’t happened—this would still have faded quickly away.
Let’s face it—no “normal, sane” person believes in even the possibility of a Monkey-Man. The media would have eventually got tired of it and moved on. Unfortunately.

I tend to agree with you, Loren. The original sightings may have been “fact-based” but the story then took a life of its own and exaggerations inevitably occurred.

From what I remember of the story, some of the witnesses believed it may have the legendary monkey-god Hanuman, best known for his role in the Hindu epic The Ramayana. Sightigns of him are fairly regular in certain parts of India and certain other parts of Asia, allegedly.
There were even people who swore it was not a “monkey” per se but a robot made to look like a monkey. Seriously.

India is its own world and its own reality. Nothing that comes out of it surprises me. If they can have statues of the Elephant God Ganesha crying milk and Gurus and Rishis living (supposedly) over 300 plus years by sheer force of spirit, then we can have a Monkey-Man attacking people.
Incredible India, indeed.

By: Andrew Minnesota

Andrew Minnesota — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:19:23 +0000

Scary thought, waking up to a mysterious ape like creature looking down at you. Perhaps there is something to the first few reports.