Christmas With The Sakai
Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 25th, 2006
Today is always a good time to retell the story of the Malaysian Sakai seen way back in 1953. This took place when such sightings were not occurring with background noise that included this year’s Johor photo hoaxing, diverse footprint finds, and the generally confusing contemporary picture out of that corner of the world.
The Tropi of Skullduggery (director Gordon Douglas, 1970), fictionalized bipedal hairy hominids, may resemble the Sakai. A major distinctive feature of the Sakai, however, is that the Sakai females have mustaches!
The account is one that happened on December 25, 1953, involving an encounter with the Sakai, on the Trolak Reserve, Perak, Malaysia. Here’s how I wrote about this Christmas incident of 53 years ago in my 2006 field guide, co-authored with Patrick Huyghe:
Wong Yee Moi, a young Chinese girl, was tapping a rubber tree when she felt a hand on her shoulder. When she turned around, she beheld a fowl-smelling female covered with hair and wearing a bark loincloth. Her skin was white and she had long black hair on her head and a mustache.
When the creature grinned and displayed her long fangs (or were they merely large buck teeth?), the witness ran back to the estate compound. On her way she noticed there were two other similar creatures standing under some trees by the river. Both were males whose mustaches hung down to their waists.
The owner of the estate, a Scot named G. M. Browne, immediately called the local security forces, who dispatched a posse of Malayan Security Guards led by Corporal Talib. When the posse reached the river they spotted the three hairy creatures and prepared to fire on them. But the creatures dove into the river, swam under water, and emerged on the far bank where they vanished into the jungle.
The next day on the same estate a Hindu Indian worker named Appaisamy was grabbed by a pair of hairy arms while tapping rubber. Terrified, the worker ran off but fainted on the way back to the compound. When he came to he found three hairy creature laughing at him. Later that day a patrol of Talib’s guard spotted the creatures by the river again.
It turns out these creatures were known about long before this [1953] incident throughout peninsular Malaysia. Both locals and government authorities were apparently quite familiar with [these unknown hairy hominids]. Some had been seen pulling out tapioca roots and eating them. Reports suggest they have raided crops in various parts of country.
Source: The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates
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Merry Christmas Loren and everyone else reading this. I got the book above in my christmas stocking. Since I last posted I have moved 100 miles to get a job at a very good university where they may support my anthropological study into bigfoot. So watch this space. Thank you to your and your fellow bloggers for all the stuff they’ve posted this year. Well done guys.
Merry Christmas to Loren and all at Cryptomundo!
Loren by the way…did you see Santa while you were up writing this?
hey loren great new article merry christmas bill
Merry Christmas Loren and those who celebrate.
As far as I know, the Sakai is an aborigine tribe. They maybe be smelly but I don’t think they are that hairy or the size of bigfoot (7-12 feet tall). That’s what I learned at primary school many years ago.
I’ve been looking into old texts (17-18th century texts) for possible mentions of these hairy hominids. When I was 10-12 years old, I read many of these texts (during those years I read everything I can get my hands on) and I think there are a few mentions of these creatures and if I’m not mistaken they were called ‘orang ulu’ or something which means the people who lived deep inside the jungle.
I don’t know for sure but I will take a good look into it when time allows
Perhaps a variant of the Nguoi Rung?
Happy Xmas.
I have a `tache too, though very discrete