Jun 4, 2024 · When standing upright, anecdotal evidence places the Batatut at around 6 feet tall, a hairy apelike beast not unlike the "Bigfoot" more familiar to North America. The Batatut range in ferocity, depending on regional legend, with the most aggressive variants found in Borneo.

The Batutut, also known as the Nguoi Rung, is a bipedal cryptid that inhabits the dense forests of Vietnam, Laos, and Malaysia. It is often compared to other mythical creatures such as Bigfoot and the Yeti due to its physical characteristics.

The Batutut is a hominid of legend across Vietnam, Laos and Malaysia and was first sighted in1918 according to local history. Described as being covered from head to toe in hair with the exception of a leathery looking neck and a pot belly, the Batutut is said to be approximately 4 feet tall and sightings

The Batutut or Ujit is a proposed hominid Cryptid thought to inhabit the Vu Quang nature reserve and other wilderness areas of Vietnam and Laos. The Vu Quang has been the source of a number of newly discovered mammals by Dr. John MacKinnon.

The Rock Apes, also called Batutut or Nguoi Rung ("jungle people" in Vietnamese), have been described by witnesses as muscular, six-foot-tall hairy humanoids that inhabit the remote highland jungles of Vietnam.

Deep in the wilds of the Vũ Quang nature reserve in Central Vietnam, the local people speak of a mysterious half man, half ape-like creature. To them, it’s known as the Người rừng or forest man. To French colonists who explored the area, it was known as L’Homme Sauvage (wild man).

Hantu is the Malay and Indonesian word for spirit or ghost. [1] In modern usage it generally means spirits of the dead but has also come to refer to any legendary invisible being, such as demons. [2] In its traditional context the term also referred to animistic nature spirits or ancestral souls. [3]

Various peoples of the jungle choked interiors of Vietnam, Laos, and northern Borneo, in particular within the Vu Quang Nature Reserve, have a rich tradition of stories of a bipedal, hairy apelike creature known by various names, such as the Batutut, Ujit, or Người rừng, also written as Nguoi Rung, or ‘jungle people.'”

Jan 17, 2010 · Sometimes referred to as the Ujit or “forest people,” the existence of the Batutut was first brought to the attention of the western world by renowned British zoologist John MacKinnon, after he discovered over 24 sets of small, squat, semi-humanoid footprints in a rain forest during an expedition to the Malaysian state of Sabah, in 1970.

The term 'Batutut' is a familiar one heard in the Southern Pacific Rim Islands of Borneo, the Mentawi Islands nearby Sumatra and Malaysia. In Borneo’s Kalimantan region, it is a smallish dark hair-covered upright walking hominid that flees from humans in a terrestrial manner as opposed to brachiating through tree-tops like monkeys.