Ebu Gogo

[bigsmalldiminut]

Do you believe in Ebu Gogo?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Not particularly. Tales of humanoid creatures are not exactly unique to Flores.

Anyone remember the Central Asiatic alma?


Tangentially, a comparative study of the floresiensis brain case in a recent issue fo Science concluded that f. looks most of all like a sister species of H. erectus, descended from some habiline or georgicus-like common ancestor.

 

[bigsmalldiminut]

or is it a pygmy?

 

[Yom]

Maybe it's just a monkey? Besides, as TLC pointed out, these stories exist everywhere (Bigfoot, anyone?). Detail in the story doesn't mean that it's true.

If they were to catch an "Ebu Gogo," then I would believe, but until that time, I remain highly doubtful.

 

[Xen]

well, the story is consistent enough to be local ledgend based on somthing weather its an ancient species of Human, i cannot say- the possibility exists, surelly, but the probability dosent, IMO; I suppose the genetic testing on the lumps of hair found will be of aid to this reserch.

A bigger question spawned off this woudl be; if they do still exist, what will we do with them?

 

[bigsmalldiminut]

Maybe it's just a monkey? Besides, as TLC pointed out, these stories exist everywhere (Bigfoot, anyone?). Detail in the story doesn't mean that it's true.

If they were to catch an "Ebu Gogo," then I would believe, but until that time, I remain highly doubtful.

The detail of the stories describes Homo floresiensis well. In the stories they are a meter tall with longish arms and fingers. I just read an article on the web from a woman who was an anthropologist there and she said they described them has “small people who looked like monkeys”

 

[Yom]

The detail of the stories describes Homo floresiensis well. They are a metre tall with longish arms and fingers. I just read an article on the web from a woman who was an anthropologist there and she said they described them has “small people who looked like monkeys”

I am aware of the existence of Homo floresiensis, but that doesn't mean that Ebu Gogo exists. If some Ethiopian peasants were to claim to see a creature that looked like a human that hard long arms and was short, should I believe that there still exist members of Australopithecus afarensis (granted, afarensis went extinct a few million years ago, compared to a few thousand years for floresiensis, but the existence of a human-esque species in an area doesn't verify all of a region's myths)?

 

[GeneralZed]

I saw once on tv an indian guy, who apparently was taken over by demons, ate everything: glas, rubber, burned wood and much more. Is he a gogo bogu?