"earth. This Mi-Go appears to be inspired by, rather than lifted from, the original Lovecraftian creature, since their unique feature in the game is to mimic human speech and other sounds in an attempt to lure people towards them. It is possible that Lovecraft encountered the word ""migou"" in his readings. ""Migou"" is the Tibetan equivalent of the yeti, an ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the high mountain ranges of that region. While the Mi-Go of Lovecraft's mythos is completely unlike the migou of Tibetan stories, Lovecraft seems to equate the two, as can be seen in the following excerpt"
"Almas (cryptozoology) The Almas or Alma (Mongolian: ""Алмас/Almas"", Chechen: ""Алмазы"", Turkish: ""Albıs""), Mongolian for ""wild man"", is a purported hominid cryptozoological species reputed to inhabit the Caucasus and Pamir Mountains of Central Asia, and the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia. The creature is not currently recognized or cataloged by science. Furthermore, scientists generally reject the possibility that such megafauna cryptids exist, because of the improbably large numbers necessary to maintain a breeding population. ""Almas"" is a singular word in Mongolian; the properly formed Turkic plural would be 'almaslar'. As is typical of similar legendary creatures throughout Central Asia, Russia, Pakistan"
"matched DNA from hair samples found in the Himalaya with a prehistoric bear from the Pleistocene epoch. The word ""Yeti"" is derived from , a compound of the words ""rocky"", ""rocky place"" and () ""bear"". Pranavananda states that the words ""ti"", ""te"" and ""teh"" are derived from the spoken word 'tre' (spelled ""dred""), Tibetan for bear, with the 'r' so softly pronounced as to be almost inaudible, thus making it ""te"" or ""teh"". Other terms used by Himalayan peoples do not translate exactly the same, but refer to legendary and indigenous wildlife: The name ""Abominable Snowman"" was coined in 1921,"
"Bukit Timah Monkey Man The Bukit Timah Monkey Man, commonly abbreviated as BTM or BTMM, is a cryptid said to inhabit Singapore, chiefly in the forested Bukit Timah region. The creature is often cited as a forest-dwelling hominid or primate, and is also accounted for as being immortal; however, its exact identity remains unknown, and its existence disputed. Documentation of the BTM is sparse and scattered; the creature is largely considered a product of local folklore. Karl Shuker, a leading cryptozoologist, however, has featured the BTM at length in his book ""Extraordinary Animals Revisited"" (2007). Alleged sightings of the animal"
"Yeti (comics species) The Yeti are a number of similar fictional hidden races appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Yeti are fur-covered humanoid beings living in the Himalaya Mountains and familiarly known as ""Abominable Snowmen."" There are three known varieties of Yeti. The first, the so-called ""Cold People,"" were highly intelligent and had made advanced scientific developments. They were transformed into normal human beings. A far more primitive race of Yeti with human intelligence first appeared in ""Man-Thing"" vol.2, #2, but was destroyed. An example of a third race of Yeti was encountered by Shang-Chi, and first"
"Heuvelmans have speculated that the Almases are a relict population of Neanderthals, while Loren Coleman suggests surviving specimens of ""Homo erectus"". They have been connected to the Denisova hominin. Descriptions of Almases are similar to that of the Yeti of the Himalayas. Almas (cryptozoology) The Almas or Alma (Mongolian: ""Алмас/Almas"", Chechen: ""Алмазы"", Turkish: ""Albıs""), Mongolian for ""wild man"", is a purported hominid cryptozoological species reputed to inhabit the Caucasus and Pamir Mountains of Central Asia, and the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia. The creature is not currently recognized or cataloged by science. Furthermore, scientists generally reject the possibility that such"
"In the latter case, many have believed mass hysteria as the sole cause of the perpetuation. The two cryptids have themselves been linked to the Spring Heeled Jack, an extraordinary leaper that frightened civilians in England in the 19th and 20th century, in a feature by Terry Deary in his book ""True Monster Stories"" (1992). As a well known cultural trope in modern Singapore, the Bukit Timah Monkey Man has featured in a variety of contemporary media representations including: Bukit Timah Monkey Man The Bukit Timah Monkey Man, commonly abbreviated as BTM or BTMM, is a cryptid said to inhabit"
"appeared in ""Master of Kung Fu"" #124. Yeti (comics species) The Yeti are a number of similar fictional hidden races appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Yeti are fur-covered humanoid beings living in the Himalaya Mountains and familiarly known as ""Abominable Snowmen."" There are three known varieties of Yeti. The first, the so-called ""Cold People,"" were highly intelligent and had made advanced scientific developments. They were transformed into normal human beings. A far more primitive race of Yeti with human intelligence first appeared in ""Man-Thing"" vol.2, #2, but was destroyed. An example of a third race of"
"Barmanou The Barmanou (or Barmanu or Baddmanus) is a purported bipedal humanoid primate alleged to inhabits the mountainous region of western Pakistan. The Barmanou is the Pakistani equivalent of the Bigfoot. The term ""Barmanou"" is used in several Pakistani languages including Khowar, Shina, Hindko and Kashmiri. In addition to the name ""Barmanou"" there are other local names as well. The proposed range of the Barmanou covers the Chitral and Karakoram Ranges, between the Pamirs and the Himalaya. This places the Barmanou between the ranges of two more-famous cryptids, the Almas of Central Asia and the Yeti of the Himalayas. The"
"reported to travel in groups of two or three, and not in large packs as modern wolves do. In the ""Incryptid"" novels by Seanan McGuire, the character Istas is a waheela therianthrope (a magical shapeshifter) that is a friend and ally of Verity Price, the novels' chief protagonist. Original author: Peter Maly Waheela The waheela is a wolf-like cryptid reported from Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It has also been reported in areas of Michigan and Alaska. Cryptozoologist Ivan Sanderson thought that the waheela might represent a relict population of amphicyonids, prehistoric bear-dogs (but which he incorrectly"
"response the field naturalist Rex Gilroy, citing an Aboriginal figure from western and central Australia called the Tjangara, made the astonishing claim that Australia was home to its own Abominable Snowman. However, the image of the enormous primate that Gilroy eventually presented to the Australian public in May 1975 as the yowie, while overtly modelled on exotic forms like the yeti, was apparently inspired by muddled recollections from the newspaper's readers of much earlier stories about the yahoo (Joyner 2008, pp. 5–8). On this estimation only the yahoo has (or more accurately had) a basis in reality. Yowie Yowie is"
"two large openings at the top of the lift hill that had allowed guests to briefly glimpse the entire southern part of the park. Another major addition was an Abominable Snowman, who had taken up residence in the mountain and was affectionately named ""Harold"" by the Imagineers. The creature exists as three similar Audio-Animatronic figures that roar at the bobsledders; the first is visible from both tracks at the point where they divide to take separate paths, while the other two are visible only from their respective tracks. Each track also features a pair of red eyes that glow in"
"trilogy ""His Dark Materials"", Lord Asriel's dæmon is a snow leopard named Stelmaria. Tai Lung, the main antagonist of the 2008 film ""Kung Fu Panda"", is an anthropomorphized snow leopard. In the 2013 film ""The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"", photojournalist Sean O'Connell (played by Sean Penn) is shown photographing snow leopards in Afghanistan. Snow leopard The snow leopard or ounce (""Panthera uncia"") is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because the global population is estimated to number less than"
"returned in the 2012 Christmas Special ""The Snowmen"", where it is voiced by Sir Ian McKellen, which details the entity's origins. Richard E Grant assumed the role in subsequent appearances in the seventh series of the revived show. Both the Great Intelligence and the Yeti appeared twice in the fifth season of the series as adversaries of the Doctor's second incarnation (Patrick Troughton). The 1967 serial ""The Abominable Snowmen"" depicts the Great Intelligence as having possessed the body of the High Lama Padmasamabhava (Wolfe Morris), ever since encountering the man on the astral plane some centuries ago. Using Padmasambhava the"
"the 1950s, he studied photographs of a relic from the Pangboche monastery in Nepal called the Pangboche Hand, which was claimed to be the hand of a Yeti, and decided that it belonged to an unknown anthropoid. However, after the a few bones from the relic were smuggled out of Nepal and brought to him for examination, he concluded that the bones had belonged to a human. He reportedly changed his mind later and declared the bones belonged to a Neanderthal. In 1961, Osman Hill published an article entitled ""Abominable snowmen: The present position"". After examining the evidence available at"
"protagonists to control the sphere, and by extension any Yeti it is stored within, using a short-range remote control. The Yeti appeared twice in the fifth season of the series as adversaries of the Doctor’s second incarnation (Patrick Troughton). They are introduced in the 1967 serial ""The Abominable Snowmen"" guarding a cave near a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas, scaring or killing travellers. The Yeti robots are protecting a pyramid of spheres that house the Great Intelligence, who has also possessed the body of the High Lama Padmasamabhava (Wolfe Morris) ever since encountering the man on the astral plane some"
"Bharal The bharal (""Pseudois nayaur""), also called the Himalayan blue Dog or naur, is a caprid found in the high Himalayas of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Myanmar and Pakistan and some parts of rural Indore. Its native names include ""bharal"", ""barhal"", ""bharar"" and ""bharut"" in Hindi, ""na"" or ""sna"" in Ladakh, ""nabo"" in Spitian, ""naur"" in Nepali and ""na"" or ""gnao"" in Bhutan. The bharal was also the focus of George Schaller's and Peter Matthiessen's expedition to Nepal in 1973. Their personal experiences are well documented by Matthiessen in his book, ""The Snow Leopard"". The bharal is a major food"
"Barmanou allegedly possesses both human and apelike characteristics and has a reputation for abducting women and attempting to mate with them. It is also reported to wear animal skins upon its back and head. The Barmanou appears in the folklore of the Northern Regions of Pakistan and depending on where the stories come from it tends to be either described as an ape or a wild man. The first search in Pakistan for Bipedal Humanoid man was carried out by a Spanish zoologist living in France, Jordi Magraner, from 1987 to 1990. He wrote a paper, ""Les Hominidés reliques d'Asie"
"other Hammer productions during this time. Both he and his wife feared Cushing would become typecast into horror roles, but he continued to take them because they guaranteed regular work. He appeared in the 1957 horror film ""The Abominable Snowman"", a Hammer adaptation of a BBC Sunday Night Theatre television play from 1955 which Cushing had also starred in. He portrayed an English botanist searching the Himalayas for the legendary Yeti. Director Val Guest said he was particularly impressed with Cushing's preparation and ability to plan which props to best use to enhance his performance, so much so that Cushing"
"led to renewed speculation in this respect. Orang Pendek Orang Pendek (Indonesian for ""short person"") is the most common name given to a cryptid, or cryptozoological animal, that reportedly inhabits remote, mountainous forests on the island of Sumatra. The animal has allegedly been seen and documented for at least one hundred years by forest tribes, local villagers, Dutch colonists and Western scientists and travellers. Consensus among witnesses is that the animal is a ground-dwelling, bipedal primate that is covered in short fur and stands between tall. While Orang Pendek or similar animals have historically been reported throughout Sumatra in Indonesia,"
"Abominable (2019 film) Abominable (originally titled Everest) is an upcoming American-Chinese 3D computer-animated adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio. It will be directed by Jill Culton and Todd Wilderman, with William Davies as the screenwriter, and will star the voices of Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, and Tsai Chin. The film is scheduled to be released on September 27, 2019 by Universal Pictures. Trekking the 3000-mile journey from Shanghai to the Himalayan snowscapes, a group of misfits encounter a young Yeti, and they set off to reunite the magical creature with his family on the"
"Waheela The waheela is a wolf-like cryptid reported from Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It has also been reported in areas of Michigan and Alaska. Cryptozoologist Ivan Sanderson thought that the waheela might represent a relict population of amphicyonids, prehistoric bear-dogs (but which he incorrectly referred to as dire wolves, which were true members of the dog genus ""Canis"", but not what the waheela is said to be). The waheela is similar to the shunka warakin, but inhabits a far more northern habitat. It is also similar to Amarok, a giant wolf from Inuit mythology. It is"
"Almaz (mythical beast) The almaz (Chechen: ""almaz"" or ""hun-sag""; Adyghe: ""almesti""), roughly translated as various ""feral forest-man"" or ""stone spirit"", is a mythical beast that is considered to be an evil forest creature with magical powers residing in its hair that exists in Chechen and Ingush folk beliefs and Circassian folk beliefs. The first ""attestation"" of it in writing was by a Bavarian captive of the Mongols, but it is present in the national folklore of Chechens and Ingush and of Circassians. The male almaz is said to be hairy and hideous, and have an axe embedded in its chest,"
"and pulls people in to eat them, particularly careless children. It is said to have long red hair, and in some versions, it was a human woman before being changed into a serpent. Apotamkin The Apotamkin (also spelled apotampkin) is a creature in Native American mythology. One interpretation of Apotamkin is that it is a myth used to instill fear into children to keep them from venturing into areas alone and without parental guidance. In popular culture, Apotampkin is briefly referenced in the 2008 film Twilight. It is often called a ""vampire"" by non-Native Americans, especially since it was named"
"Orang Pendek Orang Pendek (Indonesian for ""short person"") is the most common name given to a cryptid, or cryptozoological animal, that reportedly inhabits remote, mountainous forests on the island of Sumatra. The animal has allegedly been seen and documented for at least one hundred years by forest tribes, local villagers, Dutch colonists and Western scientists and travellers. Consensus among witnesses is that the animal is a ground-dwelling, bipedal primate that is covered in short fur and stands between tall. While Orang Pendek or similar animals have historically been reported throughout Sumatra in Indonesia, and Southeast Asia, recent sightings have occurred"
"The Abominable Snowmen The Abominable Snowmen is the mostly missing second serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which originally aired in six weekly parts from 30 September to 4 November 1967. The story is notable for the introduction of recurring foes, the Yeti. Only one of the six episodes is held in the BBC archives; five remain missing. Professor Edward Travers, an anthropologist and explorer, is awoken from his sleep when he hears the screams of his companion. He is horrified to see a lumbering, hairy creature standing over his friend's lifeless"
"led in establishing the Lalu Wetlands National Nature Preserve in Lhasa, at 1,600 acres, now a region completely surrounded by the city of Lhasa. Additionally, he led in setting up a range of community conservation initiatives in Arunachal Pradesh, India. For the enigmatic maker of mysterious tracks in Himalayan snows, the yeti, after three decades of field research he was able to show ‘the abominable snowman’ to be the Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) which in its early life years spends time in trees and develops a “thumb-like” digit on its paw that then can make an overprint of hind"
"encounters the creature while climbing a mountain to see Minnie. The bobsled ride vehicles from the attraction litter the entrance of the beast's ice cavern home. After the original 1978 Audio-Animatronic Abominable Snowman figures were removed in 2015, one was placed in the queue of Disney California Adventure's attraction, which opened on May 27, 2017. The figure is portrayed as one of the Collector's many artifacts on exhibition. In the 1980s, the Matterhorn Ski Club (ride operators led by Chuck Abbott) began buying seeing eye dogs from Guide Dogs of the Desert with the unclaimed coin change and knives that"
"Snow Lion The Snow Lion, sometimes also Snowlion (; ), is a celestial animal of Tibet. It is the emblem of Tibet, representing the snowy mountain ranges and glaciers of Tibet, and may also symbolize power and strength, and fearlessness and joy, east and the earth element. It is one of the Four Dignities. It ranges over the mountains, and is commonly pictured as being white with a turquoise mane. From 1909 until 1959, a single snow lion or a pair of them was used as the national emblem of Tibet on coins, postage stamps, banknotes and the national flag"
"Lakhey Lākhey (Nepal Bhasa: लाखे, lā-khé) (alternative spellings Lākhe, Lākhay, लाखय्) is a demon in Nepalese folklore. He is depicted with a ferocious face, protruding fangs and mane of red or black hair. Lakhes figure prominently in traditional Newar culture of Nepal Mandala. The Lakhe tradition is found in the Kathmandu Valley and other Newar settlements throughout Nepal. Lakhes are said to be demons who used to live in the forests and later became protectors to the townspeople. A female Lakhe is known as Lasin (लसिं). The other common legendary being in Nepalese folklore is the Khyāh, who is depicted"
"would be administering the tests or how it would be shipped. The alleged creature has been widely dubbed the ""Oriental Yeti"" in the media; this name has, however, come under criticism from some cryptozoologists who argue that labeling it a ""yeti"" discredits real yeti research. According to cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, ""This is not a true yeti. This is more media madness."" Coleman believes that the creature is a common civet or Himalayan palm civet, and that its hairlessness is due to a bad case of mange; Coleman remarked that ""mange sweeps through populations of small animals just like this one..."
"Barbegazi Barbegazi are mythical creatures from Swiss and French mythology. A variety of dwarf or gnome, a barbegazi resembles a small white-furred man with a long beard and enormous feet. They travel in the mountains that are their home by skiing with their massive feet, or using them as snowshoes. In the summer they aestivate in caves and tunnels and do not come out until the first snowfall. The word barbegazi comes from the French ""barbe-glacée"", meaning ""frozen beard"". Because of their penchant for high altitudes and low temperatures, they are rarely sighted by humans, but sometimes help shepherds round"
"in Time"" DVD. The Abominable Snowmen The Abominable Snowmen is the mostly missing second serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which originally aired in six weekly parts from 30 September to 4 November 1967. The story is notable for the introduction of recurring foes, the Yeti. Only one of the six episodes is held in the BBC archives; five remain missing. Professor Edward Travers, an anthropologist and explorer, is awoken from his sleep when he hears the screams of his companion. He is horrified to see a lumbering, hairy creature standing over"