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











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