The Worker's Cauldron
A podcast about the cultural politics of the paranormal. Where Karl Marx shakes his fist at the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot speaks to us about the legacies of colonialism. We discuss the contemporary obsession with all things supernatural through a socialist, feminist lens and ask what our strange experiences and beliefs tell us about the society we live in.
The Worker's Cauldron
Communist Cryptozoology 3: Big Footprints in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Finally, we travel to Vietnam, where both National Liberation Front fighters and American GI’s allegedly encountered Bigfoot-like creatures in the midst of the Vietnam War. We discuss how Vietnamese scientists respond to the Nguoi Rung or forest people in light of the nation's astonishing biodiversity..
Bonus material: The applications of Friedrich Engels to Bigfoot research
Sources:
Kon Tum: The truth about the horror and bloodthirsty "forest man with no tail"
Nguoi Rung: mythical or missing ape
Kregg P. Jorgenson, Very Crazy GI! Strange but True Stories of the Vietnam War
Loren Coleman & Jerome Clark, Cryptozoology A To Z
Nguyen Dinh Khoa, Forest Man of Vietnam (Nguoi rung)
Bernard Heuvelmans, Neanderthal: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman
Helmut Loofs-Wissowa, In Search of Unidentified Relic Hominoids in Southeast Asia
Rock Apes of Vietnam: Jungle Cryptid of the Vietnam War?
Vietnam 40 years on: how a communist victory gave way to capitalist corruption
John Mackinnon, In Search of the Red Ape