Comments on: Marcos Wild Boy

By: sschaper

sschaper — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:58:21 +0000

H. Flor. had normal human feet. Orang Pendek tracks have the big toe separated towards the heel, rather like a thumb, or the Gnome Linux interface’s symbol. IIRC.

So, they wouldn’t be the same thing.

By: Karrde

Karrde — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:12:19 +0000

I don’t remember when, but I saw once a TV show about feral children, and a scientist said that sometimes malnutrition triggers abnormal hair growth in the whole body. If I recall it correctly, the show even mentioned the case of a kid in Africa. When he was discovered, the child was completely covered with short hair and scared the witness who first spotted him. The latter thought the creature he was looking at wasn’t human at all.

By: Karon Booth

Karon Booth — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:33:44 +0000

This sounds like a feral child. There is an excellent website on feral children if anyone is interested.

By: Lee65

Lee65 — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:27:26 +0000

This reads like it is out of Texas. San Marcos is only about 30 miles south of Austin. There are other stories out of that area, also from the 19th century. The stories about the Werewolf of Converse also supposedly happened sometime in the late 1800s, and Converse is 40 miles southwest of San Marcos, basically a suburb of San Antonio now. And going back even further there are stories about the Wild Woman of Navidad from the 1830s. Navidad is about 100 miles southeast of San Antonio. Not any "modern" incidents I know of in the area though.

By: youcantryreachingme

youcantryreachingme — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:52:38 +0000

I’m still intrigued by the – was it Hawaiian? – census which recorded some number of little people. Does anyone have any further info on that?

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:09:21 +0000

I responded to the fact there was a description, which there was within the news item. I was not debating any intrepretation of that description, only that one did, indeed, exist.

By: Dark-Obsessor

Dark-Obsessor — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:48:54 +0000

I definately agree-the language sounds more like Texan.
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Also, in regards to Loren’s response of my previous post
-The notion of ‘cryptid’ is a last resort by me. In this case, this thing could easily be a pygmy or something. Not all unknowns are bizarre, unique animals! This is, as said, quite old. Whether or not it is a ‘homo floresiensis’ remains both unknown and superfluous to know. It’s impossible to actually know, as it is long dead.

They could have taken a picture of it, since cameras had been around for some time.

And the sentence ‘it follows its captor around like a dog’ is inhumane. Even if it were a ‘homo floresiensis’ capturing it like that seems crude and abhorrent.

Just my opinions.

-Dark~Obsessor

By: youcantryreachingme

youcantryreachingme — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:31:32 +0000

LOL

Yes, “quarterhorse” and “lassoed” sound more Texan than Philippino!

Chris.

By: charlie23

charlie23 — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:24:15 +0000

How do you connect this to the Phillipine Islands? I see no reference there, and would be more inclined to assume Texas.

By: afigbee

afigbee — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:46:46 +0000

If some genetic variation like hypertrichosis were to occur in some relatively isolated population it might overtake the whole group, as with pygmies resulting in an actual race of all-over hairy people.

Pygmies are held in superstitious dread by their normal neighbors, imagine how the neighbors would regard hypertrichosoids.