BY SHITAL PRADHAN
I was at Zaluk last Friday, the day most of the couples across the globe were busy celebrating Valentine's Day. More or less an exciting adventure
was awaiting us when we came to know that there was a Yeti sighting at
this remote place in 2004 in April. Zaluk is a small place
where the population is below 300 and the world-famous Changu Lake is
an hour and a half drive from Rongli Bazaar.
We were a five-member team myself, Praveen, Rocky, Swarup, and Beren.
The video above is a short interview I took where the prime eye witness Nar Bahadur Sunar confirms that he along with other 10 labourers and a GREF
Officer had come across a Yeti in April of 2004 while going for daily work. Sunar a farmer now was working as a baidar then. They were in a vehicle and the "animal man" as he was called was on
the other side of the road along the Valley walking on two feet along with
the bushes of pareng
( a bamboo variety). The distance between them was around 200 to 250 meters. They saw the back portion of the animal for over half an hour and suddenly it vanished around the bushes. It was noted that for over a few days, the army helicopter did have a vain
search over that particular region but nothing more could be known.
Such an incident was not known till then and also not heard after that but
the people of Zaluk also have confirmed that at particular times they do
hear strange voices coming from the nearby valley.
Well, the people who saw it claim it to be a "Sokpa" as Yeti is better called in this part of the land. For them, that animal was not a bear as it
is commonly found in that region and they could identify with it.
Another interesting part of the story is that a few days after the
incident, the villagers did find footsteps on the marshy land near
the overflowing water that was measured as something like "from an elbow
joint to a fingertip" long.
Nar Bahadur Sunar said a water pipe was recovered by the villagers
along with the bushes inside the forest that were crushed and thrown away from
the water source so that no man or any other animal could do it.
We talked
with Jeena Chettri, daughter of Nar Bhadhur Sunar who added that the
the animal was dragging his feet as such they could not realize whether the animal had its feet on the opposite side as it is normally believed.
The "thing" had black hair covered all over the body and the length of
the hair was as such it looked as if a woman had let free her hair, told
Jeena in her own words. Those GREF workers whistled and made a sound to that animal that it hurried inside the bushes, she added.
Well, it is too early to say that the animal man those people claimed was not the mysterious Yeti that the whole world is searching for.
I had gone through the wrinkled face and the piercing eye of the man who was in his mid-sixties and believed in his word that the thing he saw along with his daughter and his fellow workers was a Yeti. I do believe him that he could differentiate a bear from an animal they had never seen before that they believed to look more like a human.
The supposed yeti was 7 & 1/2 feet tall? :O
ReplyDeleteSo what was the final conclusion? Or is the matter still un-resolved, I'm curious to know.
Oh... you've mentioned in your conclusion that the incident was unresolved.
ReplyDeleteI was in so curious to know what happened next that I commented earlier without thinking :P
Very interesting news. Wonder if its really a yeti.
Madam i actually wanted to just give a small input to make whether anyone believed in the story but when u wanted to know more about it i rewrote the complete story...
ReplyDeleteThis is so v interesting. I've heard so many tales Yeti sightings in Nepal and Big Foot in US, but hadn't for a moment thought about the possibility of one being sighted in Sikkim!
ReplyDeleteAnd good interviewing! You asked him all the questions running in my mind (timing, fog, etc) :)
Well Thanks Puku for appreciating it i believe u had been to Zaluk..its near from Rhenock..
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