ASIA PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS

There is an article about us in the New Paper regarding our research on the Malaysian Bigfoot.

Its titled "Could 'Bigfoot prints' be that of orang utan?"

It meant to say if the sightings are that of an orang Utan as per our report but somehow the words ended up this way. Bu still taken metaphorically it is still correct.

The Reporter Jen Lee did a great job summarising what we found in that space we had.

But a wee litle problem that in the printed version our webby was wrongly stated as www.api.com.sg, instead of www.api.sg.

But the Jen has made the correction on the online and archive records so things will turn out okay.

Here is the link to the article:

http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story ... 73,00.html?

extracted:

ANOTHER group which calls itself Asia Paranormal Investigators (API) claims to have shed some light on the Johor Bigfoot mystery.

After doing historical research, map analysis and interviews of locals in Johor, API's founder Charles Goh, 38, a part-time tour guide, claims that the Bigfoot sightings in Johor were nothing more than misinformation.

SAME SIGHTING?

'Many different sightings reported actually stemmed from just one incident last November. The sightings in Mawai of three fish farm workers and the sightings in Kahang of three Orang Asli are the same,' said Mr Goh.

He has led a few trips to Johor to verify witness accounts that were reported in the press.

After carefully going through various media reports, he found inconsistencies, possibly due to insufficient information being released or poor interviewing techniques.

For example, one reported sighting seemed to involve two locations - Kincin River and Kampung Mawai - but these are actually 80km apart.

Mr Goh thinks the creature sighted in November could have been an orangutan species that managed to survive in Peninsular Malaysia for thousands of years.

He said: 'The other two known species are in Sumatra and Borneo island.

'This could well be the third because Johor lies within the same geographical band.

'The reason for there being more sightings in recent years could be due to human encroachment into pristine jungle habitats.'

He added that there have been historical records of encounters between early settlers and orangutans on Mawai.

REPORT OUT

API has come up with a 49-page report on its website www.api.sg on their Bigfoot research.

Mr Goh said: 'Not all may agree with our report's findings, but then again, the purpose of any report is critical analysis.

'So we welcome anyone or any organisation with evidence to show that we've erred in our conclusion.'

The email is case@api.sg

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Charles Remarks:-

As you may know, the Malaysia Bigfoot sightings are based on the accounts of a few eye witness... among them Amir Mhd Ali (we called him Amir), and Herman Deraman (we called him Along). I am pleased to have the live video interview with Along, and later on this month, with Amir. This will make API the only available source anywhere that can provide 1st hand factual accounts of uncovering the Malaysia Bigfoot, in a counry where the Government is going all out to prove that Bigfoot exist in their country.

I hope that our little effort can assist them in their endeavour.

Very well-done, API!

Although I'm Malaysian, but I believe more in ethical journalist reporting. Speculations and sensationalised news do not appeal to me. Factual accounts of such a matter will receive much higher respect from me as therein lies the virtue and principle of TRUTH.

And the report is really beautifully done, abductboy.

API article has been popping in quite abit of para-related website, but this must have been the cutest:

http://www.paranews.net/nachrichten_kat ... php?cid=10

Click the orangutan and you will come to our article.

I used Google to translate and this is what you get:

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Malaysia - the sceptical group of researchers of Asia Paranormal Investigators went to the phenomenon of the Malaysian Bigfoots on the reason. Due to its searches the question arises whether the Bigfoot is perhaps only a Orang Utan.

For some months Malaysia a true Bigfoot illusion struck, which draws not only native, but also foreign groups of researchers into its spell. But for a long time all interested ones do not believe also in the fact that really an alleged forest human being drives his nuisance in Malaysia.

Thus among other things the director/conductor of the group Asia Paranormal Investigators meant that their members came to plentifully search work and questionings of the inhabitants to the conclusion that the Malaysian Bigfoot phenomenon is based on the information and misunderstandings.

Charles Goh, which explained founders of the group of researchers that many reports relied on an alleged sifting of a Bigfoot family in last November. With these observed three men, which wanted to build a fischteich in Mawai, during its work a family of three large behaarten natures, which they held for Bigfoots, surprises.

The group wanted to give itself however with the poor information not contently and continued to research therefore. Among other things the members examined the testimonies and undertook several journeys after Johor, where the last sighting took place.

And according to Charles Goh is also successfully to have run its work. Because the group encountered according to own statement inconsistencies, which let doubt the Bigfoot theory.

Above all the misleadingness of some testimonies resulted in for Asia Paranormal Investigators that the alleged Bigfoot could have been also only a Orang Utan. In the last years the researchers with the ever stronger penetration of humans into the habitat of the Primaten explain the frequency of the sighting.

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Thanks to fengshui,

More incredible news:-

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?fi ... sec=nation

Bigfoot existence still in doubt

BY MEERA VIJAYAN

JOHOR BARU: The existence of Johor’s Bigfoot continues to be shrouded in mystery despite two sets of revelations by different groups here.

The Johor Wildlife Protection Society claimed that up to 40 Bigfoot creatures were living in the jungles in the state, including one that is supposedly 60 years old and nearing death.

At the same time, an expedition led by bio-researcher Vincent Chow said they had found two strands of hair embedded in dry clay in the jungles of Panti which could hold the key to prove the creatures exist.

The society called for a press conference to say that one of their members, who has been living in the jungle for the past six years, has seen a group of Bigfoot and knows where they live.

But when pressed for more details, society secretary Tay Teng Hwa claimed that the evidence, including images, were “locked away in a safe�.

“We cannot give everything out all at once, or there won’t be anymore story,� he said.

He said the press conference was called to put pressure on the state government to disallow foreigners to enter the jungle for the purpose of looking for Bigfoot.

Tay said it would be embarrassing if foreigners, instead of Malaysians, discovered Bigfoot.

Chow told The Star that members of his expedition came upon the hairs near shoots that the creature might have been feeding on.

He said the strands would be sent for DNA testing to ascertain what sort of creature they belonged to.

“At this point, we don’t know for sure what it is, but we hope that it might belong to the Bigfoot,� he said.

This is the most stupid thing I ever read!

If they found teh family of bigfoot, just the photos of them will show they have found it, not any foreigners...

But instead they rely on 2 strand of hair????????????

In the end it is just hype to ask the government not to allow foreigners to come.. which is opposite what Johor parks is trying to do.. ask tourist to come....

Another interesting news:

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/ ... index_html

Bigfoot’s 4am howls?
R. Sittamparam

KOTA TINGGI, Feb 17:
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Did residents of Kampung Lukut at the foothills of Gunung Panti wake up over the past four mornings to the call of the "Johor Bigfoot"?

Some believe the spine-chilling howls they heard about 4am could be coming from the creature.

Dicky Darwis Abdul Rahman, whose family owns a 40- hectare oil palm plantation at the foothills of the mountain, said plantation workers had reported the phenomenon to him.

He said they had described it as a cross between the cry of a monkey and a wild pig.

"The workers who regularly go hunting in the nearby jungle know how to differentiate the calls of the various animals in the jungle and they are convinced that the roars were unlike that of any known animal."

Dicky Darwis said some of the workers had gone into the jungle to investigate and found many large footprints, especially at a nearby riverbank and hilltop.

They also found branches and leaves of trees in the area stripped clean up to a height of about 3m.

He added that before his father set up the plantation, the area was virgin jungle, where tigers and elephants used to roam.

"All the recent sightings of the Bigfoot and cases of elephants in this area, which is connected to the Mawai area, could be due to logging activities in the jungles."

He said his father, a former Johor Baru city councillor and retired factory manager, was excited about the new Bigfoot evidence and felt the whole area should be protected.

Dicky Darwis’ family had a visit today from a television crew from the British Broadcasting Corporation, which wanted to interview him for a preview of a television documentary.

The crew was led by BBC's Kuala Lumpur-based correspondent, Jonathan Kent.

The crew had earlier visited the adjoining Kampung Temening Lama area where villagers found 50cm-long footprints last month, believed to be that of the Johor Bigfoot .

There were also many footprints found in the jungle, where the creature was believed to have climbed a hill and disappeared into the interior.

The NST had earlier reported Dicky darwis’s account of how a search for Bigfoot conducted in the 1990s at Air Hitam by his late game warden brother had produced faeces samples and cement casts of the creature’s footprints.

He said the analysis of the faeces indicated that Bigfoot survived on leaves.

He added that the search party led by his brother, Abdul Jalil, had found an area in the jungle which was unusually clean with most trees bare of leaves up to a certain height.

Despite the announcement by the State Government that foreign media would only be invited to cover the Bigfoot story after local scientists had established a proper databank on the creature, two foreign media groups besides the BBC arrived here today.

They included a seven-man crew from a United States-based firm producing documentaries for television networks, and a cameraman from KBS 2TV, South Korea.