Hi everybody!!!
"Cuarto Milenio" (Fourth Millenium) is a very interesting program about cryptids and paranormal made in Spain. The program is well known by its interviews to spanish-speaking experts, scary ghost stories and they usually build full-scale realistic replicas of the creatures discussed on the programs.

I'm sorry that I cannot provide an english translation of the program, but I can give a summary.

"Following the tracks of the yeti" discusses the experience of an spanish mountaneer, who worked for several years in climbing expeditions on Nepal. He worked with Sherpa guides, and he described that for Sherpa people, the Yeti is a real beast. Sherpas told him that there was [at least] 2 types of Yeti, one "very dangerous" and the other relatively harmless. Sherpas avoid places where the yeti supposedly lives and hat a lot of tales and foklore about it.

The mountaneer arrives to a place and starts digging on the snow to place a tent, and then a paw of unkown origin jumps out from the snow. The paw is either Yeti but also could be from a bear. Anyway, the sherpas went away and say that this is yeti territory and they do not want to met him.

The second experience is quite more insteresting. They travel to a isolated valley in Nepal, in which people had little contact with the external world.
They start climbing, and they actually see a yeti, a bipedal creature screaming and fleeing away. They got very impressed.

There is also an interview with other experts, a naturalist very interesting in the Nguoi.Rung, the vietnamese apemen, and a spanish explorer.

The spanish explorer was in Africa in the 60s, and he brought some fotos from a very weird skull. He told a very, very interesting story.
He went into an african village, and in one hut, they showed him a skull and a pelt from a purported apemen. The villagers told him that some time ago, there was a woman sick from leprosy in the village, and she lived in a hut near the forest. She befriended some kind of gorilla (or apeman?), she got pregnant and some time later, she gave birth to a hybrid.

The village people discovered this and went enraged, They chased the hybrid and killed him. They described it was hairy, half human, half ape, he could not speak, but he cried in a very human way before he died. The skull and the pelt belong to this hybrid.


The explorer was not really interested in this story at that moment, he just wanted to hunt wild animals. But some time later, he saw in the japanese news, that a woman wanted to be artificially inseminated with chimpanzee sperma. But the japanese governement forbid this because it was unethical. Then we remembered this story and the strange skull.
The skull seemed for me, at a first look, similar to some african fossils.

Following the tracks of the yeti (in spanish)
Following the tracks of the Yeti part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4


The second program is about the minnesota iceman. They prepare a replica from the creature, explain the story of the iceman in detail, and explain that they believe, it is a vietnamese Nguoi Rung. They show some documents and scientific papers from China and Vietnam, in which the local scientist actually take these creatures seriously.

The minnesota iceman (in spanish)
The minnesota iceman part 1
Part 2

Interesting, I wonder if "Nguoi Rung" is what I heard referred to in a Laotian context as "ghosts of the yellow bamboo". But that term I don't know if it's a translation from Laotian or an upcountry dialect or Hmong language or what.

The story of the african beast-man is told in this interestig video (in spanish). I'm sorry because all of them are in spanish, but I tried to summarize them the best I could in english.


The beast-man of Cameroon part 1
Part 2

The video has 2 additional stories, another apemen seen by the Masai tribe in Africa, which was investigated by a french woman who married a Masai and entered into their tribe, and the other is the south american DeLoys apemen, which in the program, they believe it is a hoax. An spider monkey.

I really do not know this. In the documentary, a spanish naturalist when to Vietnam to film some documentaries, and he entered in contact with 2 researchers from Hanoi university, which told him about the Ngoui Rung. They mentioned that in central Vietnam, near the borders of Cambodia and Laos, there is a jungle called "Kon Tum" in which the sightings of the Nguoi Rung are reported. (In the program, they call him just "Nguoi", pronunced "woeei". In the program they refer to the Nguoi Rung as a "tropical yeti", a biological being.

Wikipedia on Kon Tum

this is wonderful new thread about the yeti please keep it up ok... ty bill g