"I created a new section (2.5) with plenty of photo evidence supporting my theory.
"I also added the testimony of Amir, the one who had an alleged stand-off with Bigfoot in Section 5.6. I found out 2 interesting facts from him
"(1) Amir called the creature he saw as an Orang Utan, except that he believed this Orang Utan is 12 ft tall.
"I believe he meant it literally as the Malay translation for 'Forest People'. It might mean there could be some big ape-like creature roaming around near Sugai Madek.
"(2) Amir said that the ear of this creature, though it had a human face, had comparatively large ears. Could he really be talking about a male Orang Utan with cheek flaps? Their cheek flaps do looked like ears when seen from afar.
"The area to look for the Johor Bigfoot is thus in Sungai Madek and Endau Rompin, not Kota Tinggi. I have written in my report in Section 8.1 why everyone got it wrong, based on improper media reports and information dissemination.
"Amir had an encounter in April 05 but kept it to himself. In Nov 05 a group of his fellow Orang Asli saw something they have never seen before, at the same place Amir saw his creature. Then Amir, knowing that the rest too had seen something, starts to tell his story.
"The stories reached the ears of the National Parks Director Hashim Yusoff, who asked the Orang Asli to bring him to the place of sighting.
"In Dec 05, 3 Orang Asli brought the National Park Director to Lenggor Forest, travelling along Sungai Madek and near their sighting location. Among the three, Amir, who was a fisherman by trade, used a branch to indicate the height of the creature he saw, using the height of a tree there as a gauge.
"The place they were at was also the river end of Sungai Sedili, a large and winding river that stretches more than 50 km from end to end. A portion of Sungai Sedili runs through Kampung Mawai. Never mind that the location of the Sungai where they were at was some 50 km away from Kota Tinggi's Kampung Lukut & Kampung Mawai.
"As the place of sighting was near a Sungai, the press re-stated another case of Bigfoot sighting that occurred in year 2001, at Sungai Kincin. Never mind that the river was some 80km away, and it stretches into another State running another 20-40 km into Pahang. In the Kincin sighting, fishbones were found along the river, and it was assumed that a family of Bigfoot must had just eaten their meals there.
"Somehow that translated into a tale of three fish farm workers who encountered a family of Bigfoot in Kampung Mawai.
"Amazing? Not as amazing as the colony of 12 ft tall Bigfoots that moved from Perak, then to Pahang and now Johor.
"Everybody got it wrong and if I could borrow a phrase from Amir, pointing up the wrong tree.
"That foreign and local groups in their haste to be first to discover bigfoot, disregarded circumstances, evidences and logical reasoning to declare boar-cow prints as a bigfoot print. Else I too can declare I found Bigfoot prints. They are all over Kampung Lukut. I found more than five such prints, with three very distinct imprints in the 20 mins I was there.
"I do hope my article reaches the desk of Johor National Parks Director.
"If Bigfoot exists in Malaysia, then having been able to hide from humankind for so long, it can't be found so easily, especially not in a agricultural place like Kampung Lukut, Kota Tinggi. Look towards your 248 million years old forest, Endau Rompin. My interviews showed that Orang Asli had seen giant humanlike prints in those forests. The 1970 hunt by Harold Stephens showed a clear trail of identical giant human prints along River Kincin. In addition, an Orang Asli lad of 21 years drew a giant human footprint he saw in Endau Rompin, very similar to the trail Mr Stephens saw."
