Do you think cryptids don’t exist in the Asian part of the world? Well, think again. There have been reports of giant creatures found in the southeastern region of the Asian continent. One such story is that of the Nyalmo, who supposedly lives in the Himalayas. The sighting of a Nyalmo was first documented in the Himalayas in 1937. There was a small expedition group that encountered an assembly of huge creatures, each with an estimated height of twenty feet.

The creatures were standing as they formed a circle and chanted, as if they were doing a religious ritual or something like that. One of the Yeti-like creatures was enthusiastically beating a hollow tree trunk, like a man playing drums to create some music. The others continued their “chants”, but their faces seemed to be filled with a sad expression. With this sight, the adventurers thought that the creatures acted like typical people and that they should not be feared. But eventually, the fears arose due to the huge structure of the creatures, so they decided to sneak away to avoid conflict.

Doig and Hillary, two proponents of cryptozoology, first learned about the Nyalmo in north-central Nepal. The creature, as described by the natives of Nepal, has almost the same attributes as a primate. It is approximately twenty feet tall and has thick hair or all fur. It weighs up to nearly 545 kilograms or 1,200 pounds and leaves long four-finger prints buried in mud or snow.

Some researchers often associate the huge primate-like hairy Nyalmo with the Yeti in the Himalayas. However, this creature is said to also have connections to the werewolf-like beasts found in the countries of Thailand and Burma. The Nyalmo is often guilty of cattle mutilation deaths, in which only the tongue is removed from the cattle and no other part of the animal has been touched or taken.

The famous founder of cryptozoology, Bernard Heuvelmans, who is also a writer, scientist, researcher, and explorer, believed that the Himalayan Nyalmo represent a remnant population of Gigantopithecus blacki, which is an extinct species of the ape that was born. 100,000 years ago in what is now India, China, and Vietnam. They are, as the fossil records suggest, the largest apes that have ever existed in the world. Some evidence suggests that they were herbivores and probably had bamboo as a staple food.

There is a website that describes the Nyalmo and many other creatures from cryptozoology in detail, this website is called: Unknown Creatures and it can be found at this URL: http://www.unknown-creatures.com

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