China’s Yeti Is Protected By The Chinese Government And Three Officials Swear They Saw One

On top of the Shennong Ding (Shennong's Peak)

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The Shennongjia nature reserve, which is officially called Shennongjia Forestry District by Chinese Government, is located in the northern Hubei province of China. This reserve is the one of two known locations (The other in Nepal) in the world where the Yeti has been officially placed as a protected species. It is interesting to also find that only three other provinces are so well protected by the Chinese government, Xiantao, Tianmen and Qianjiang. Could the reason, you may ask, for such high level of control and monitoring of the Shennongjia Forestry District is to protect the Yeti species?

In Zhangmu, Tibet, superstitious villagers living near Mount Everest have stated that they have not seen a Yeti or an "abominable snowman" for generations, but Chinese officials supposedly have documented evidence that shows they have crossed paths with two Yetis’ in the last 30 years.

In an interview with a local paper in 1984, Chinese trade official Guo Shenbao, a 35 year old deputy chief of the Border Trade Offices of the Foreign Affairs Department, stated that in 1979, two of his colleagues managed to capture a Yeti and not realizing how important the creature was to the scientific community, let the creature escape. Also during the early 1950s, an army frontier guard mistook one for a prostitute and tried to arrest it, Guo stated.

In 1979, the two colleagues and Guo were living in a hillside hut while doing their compulsory part-time farm work for the government. Guo had to go home that night, but his two colleagues remained and were asleep in a flimsy hut when one felt a hand on his face.

"Thinking it was his friend playing a joke, he sleepily tried to push the hand away," recounted Guo. Then realizing it was furry, he called to his friend for help and the official wrestled the hairy chest-high creature to the ground. They then tied it up and then went back to sleep. In the morning when they awoke, they found that the Yeti had escaped.

Many Chinese government officials asked how they could have caught such a rare beast and then casually dozed off but Guo was not surprised. He stated, "We were all tired out by the unaccustomed physical labor from the compulsory farming, but since we were used to catching various wild animals like birds, monkeys and bears, is no wonder my two colleagues had the courage and skills to capture the beast."

His two colleagues were too exhausted from tangling and wrestling with the beast and because of this they were unable to see the significance of their catch. The two, who have since moved back to China's inner provinces, were sure that the beast was not a monkey or a black bear, even though the creature slightly resembled a primate but much larger in size.

The earliest encounter to ever be recorded of the beast called Yeti among the Nepalese and Migo in Tibet was in the early 1950’s when Chinese troops, for the first time, began to patrol Zhangmu providence. This area is known for its spectacular valley that descends from the arid Tibetan plateau into the forested hills of Nepal. During his watch one night, a guard spotted a figure with long hair walking and crouching as it silently approached his post. The guard assumed it was one of the many local prostitutes who used to sneak in from the borders of Nepal to seek clients among frontier residents and dropped his rifle to try and arrest the supposed prostitute.

The guard, thinking the figure was a prostitute, seized it and dragged it towards the guardhouse, feeling what he believed at the time was a fur coat. However, in the struggle the creature broke away and went speeding down a steep gorge that no human could have scaled with amazing speed. This surprised the guard, which at that moment made him realize he was dealing with a Yeti. The next day its footprints were found and were not human prints but looked similar.

In parts of China, many scientists and other Yeti researchers are seeking to show the world the existence of the Yeti, which some scientists believe may be the missing link in the evolution from ape to man. Heinrich Harrer, a European mountaineer who lived for seven years in Tibet, wrote at the time that he does not believe in the wild man. The huge tracks that gave rise to the legends, he argues, are caused by the strange gait of Tibetan bears, whose front and rear legs land at almost the same point. Some locals and even government officials, however, are certain that the wild men do exist. The Shennongjia nature reserve in central China and the Chinese government have officially proclaimed them as a protected species.

So at times it makes me wonder if the Chinese Government is watching its Yeti population closely to secure the survivability of the species. Another interesting fact is that the BFRO map shows only 10 sightings of the Yeti in the Himalayan region. We can presume that for a government to publicly accept the Yeti species, even with such low sightings, specific proven scientific evidence had to have been produced to convince the Chinese government of the Yeti’s existence.

I have come to a conclusion based on my study of the enigma of Bigfoot; the Yeti could possibly be close to extinction just like its American counterpart. I have surmised that if we do not capture a Bigfoot for scientific study within 10 years, we will never attain the proof needed to bring this species to light. The BFRO map of sightings on the North American continent shows only a total of 5241 supposed confirmed sightings, keeping in mind that they started to map these sightings in 1995 and some of the states have not had new sightings since 2005 or later. Also we must take into account the possibility of people making up Bigfoot stories is very plausible and the BFRO data may show some reports that are fiction and not actual facts.

Link to BFRO’s Bigfoot sightings map: http://www.bfro.net/gdb/#usa

Damian Bravo

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