Message #264233

[By Demons Driven]

FACT OR FICTION: YETI FACTS

Tibetan folklore has it that the yeti is nocturnal, whistles, and can kill with a single punch.

Actor James Stewart smuggled a yeti ‘finger’ into London by hiding it among his wife’s lingerie after holidaying in India in 1959.

Sherpa tradition holds that the yeti will only show itself to those who believe in it.

Possible explanations for yeti tracks include melting snow, overlapping hind and forefeet animal tracks and prints left by nomads wearing snow sandals.

Until 1847, the gorilla was thought of as a myth in the west and was believed to be supernatural being by African tribespeople.

Heinrich Himmler is said to have had an interest in finding the creature, sending scientist Ernst Schaefer, to Tibet to search for it in 1938.