Rock Apes and Wild Men: Mad Monkeys on the Attack!

Rock Apes and Wild Men: Mad Monkeys on the Attack!

You’re winding your way through the underbrush of some archaic and exotic tropical greenwood. You think you’re alone, save only the nagging mosquitoes that dance alongside your eardrums, whining with hunger for droplets of your blood, whose buzzing are suddenly overpowered by a shrill, soaring scream from someplace nearby. You turn instinctively to see where this noise might have originated, or even to catch a glimpse of the devil who made it. As your pace quickens, you realize that your footsteps begin to echo, as the noise of a second set of feet are moving almost in sync with yours from several steps behind. Whatever it is that is pursuing you walks on two legs.

Indeed, it is well known in cryptozoological circles that reports of bipedal ape creatures stem from every continent, with virtually every country hosting its own variation of creatures known throughout the world as Wild Men. While recently researching a few lesser-known reports of anomalous primates from around the world, I stumbled onto some real goodies, particularly those which stem from areas such as Eastern and Central Africa, Vietnam and India. Additionally, many of these forest-dwellers also manage to bear a host of Fortean peculiarities; sort of like extracurricular “bonuses” in addition to their already meritorious cryptozoological status.