The name "Orang Pendek" translates to "short person" in Indonesian. With recorded encounters from as far back as colonial times, both locals and the odd outsider have had sightings of an ape-like creature in the Sumatran wilderness. The Suku Anak Dalam (translates as "Children of the Inner-forest") are groups of nomadic people, who have traditionally lived throughout the lowland forests of Jambi and South Sumatra.

by cryptid 5. With recorded encounters from as far back as colonial times, both locals and the odd outsider have had sightings of an ape-like creature in the Sumatran wilderness. 172.

Let’s say these Park Rangers had actual sightings but obviously got size wrong.

0. S umatra’s version of Big Foot, the Orang Pendek is a mystery.


A Dutchman named Van Herwaarden reported a similar encounter in 1923. Sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account. The Mysterious Orang Pendek: Science or Myth? The Mysterious Orang Pendek: Science or Myth? Sort by. In 1910 there occurred one of the first Orang-Pendek sightings by a European, who reported "a large creature, low on its feet, which ran like a man, and was about to cross my path; it was very hairy and it was not an orangutan; but its face was not like an ordinary man's."

share. The landscape there comprises dense jungles and an active volcano, making it an ideal location for a hitherto unknown creature to live in mystery. The Orang Pendek, also known as Uhang Pandak, and several other similar translations, is said to be a bipedal ape living in the jungles on the island of Sumatra.

Orang pendek have been seen feeding off grubs in such logs. These cryptids are described as being covered in golden, brown, or grey hair and are bipedal, walking erect in … The most common characteristics confirmed by these numerous sightings depict the Orang Pendek standing between 30 and 60 inches in height, or about 2½ to 5 feet tall. Explorer Adam Davies is one of the foremost experts on the elusive cryptid known as the Orang Pendek.. The director of the park, Pak Mega Harianto, when interviewed in 1993, confessed that the park has been overwhelmed with reports of the orang pendek. 23 months ago.

A study of the history of the people of Sumatra demonstrates that the existence of small, hairy, human-like animals on the island has been accepted for centuries.
The mysterious creature is believed to inhabit jungles on the island of Sumatra with reports dating back many years. Orang Pendek Sightings, Evidence, and Theories.

Moonlit Jackalope [OC] 172. 100% Upvoted. Post Comment anthony difazio . Sightings of …

A few expeditions to find the Orang Pendek, including the 15-year long expedition of Debbie Martyr launched in 1990 in which Martyr and her photographer Jeremy Holden brought back footprint casts and their own sightings of the creature, have been launched, none turning up much evidence for the ape-like cryptid. youtu.be/42tJ2_... 0 comments.