Orang Pendek, Sumatra’s Mysterious ‘Short Person’
About 5 min readFor more than a century, people in the rainforests of Sumatra have reported a small, upright, powerfully built ape that science has never confirmed — the orang pendek.
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The Ahool: The Giant Bat of Java
About 4 min readIn 1925, Dutch naturalist Ernest Bartels reported a bat-like creature with a wingspan of about ten feet over the rainforests of Mount Salak in Java. No specimen or photograph has ever confirmed it — but the report has never been explained away, either.