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More Bigfoot footprints found near waterfall

03 May 2006
R. Sittamparam

KOTA TINGGI: The Johor Bigfoot, it seems, is still alive and kicking.

Kampung Lukut's well-known Bigfoot hunter Kong Nam Choy said yesterday that he had seen a set of eight fresh giant footprints, which he believed were made by Bigfoot, in the vicinity of the Kota Tinggi waterfall last Wednesday.

He said a friend from the village had come across the footprints while fishing in the area.

"The footprints, measuring about 60cm by 30cm with a diagonally positioned big toe, appeared fresh and were scattered along the banks of a stream," Kong said.

Residents of Kampung Mawai, meanwhile, believe the strange animal calls they continue to hear in the jungle are Bigfoot's.

Bigfoot mania was set off by a New Straits Times report at the end of last year on the purported sighting of a Bigfoot family of three at Kampung Mawai by three workers building a fish pond.

Kong, 38, who loves jungle-trekking in the area, found the first clear Bigfoot footprints on a tarred road in Kampung Temening near here in January.

In an incident last month, a Kampung Mawai prawn catcher who identified himself only as "Soma" said he heard a strange howling sound while out in his boat on the Sungai Sedili in the late afternoon.

He said: "The loud, throaty 'Ohh...', which sounded almost human, droned on for a few minutes. I have heard the calls of elephants and other animals but this was unlike anything I'd ever heard."

Soma said another fisherman friend of his heard the same eerie sound at the same place a day later.

Plantation workers at a 40-hectare oil palm plantation at Kampung Lukut had reported hearing similar sounds at 4am in mid-February.

Checks in the area at daybreak revealed huge footprints, like the ones found before, on a sandy riverbank nearby.

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