Still frame from the video

What is this strange, almost human shaped, object in the sky? That is what many people are asking after seeing the video below.

Before we get to the actual video, let me tell you what is known about the clip. Reportedly this was filmed in Indonesia during what appears to be some type of riot, protest or a demonstration. The local people called it a Kuntilanak. A Kuntilanak in Indonesian mythology is a female vampiric spirit of a woman who died while pregnant. Another word used to describe this is Pontianak. Pontianaks are usually depicted as pale-skinned women with long black hair, red eyes, and white dress.

According to what I read about this folklore a Kuntilanak is a woman who died during childbirth. That the woman would come back to terrorize and take revenge on the towns people. The creature would or might look like a pretty woman and have a floral aroma. Then she would attack with claws and rip open peoples stomach.

Now, I'm not sure what this entity is, or even if it is an spirit of some sort. But it does appear to be odd and out of place with the events going on. Lets watch the video and then I will close with a few more thoughts.

Here is the video.

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There is a video going around and it has been really popular, it is of a mystery creature walking through a waterfall in Indonesia. The original title lists the creature as a bigfoot. I have viewed the video many times and there seems to be some type of figure walking into the waterfall. It also appears to be carrying something. The something almost looks like a astronauts helmet or some type of helmet. The face of the figure seems very white looking.    

Now, before I get more into the particulars of the video, I think I should mention that there is a similar reported creature to a bigfoot in Indonesia. It is most commonly called the Orang Pendek. For at least the last 100 years the Orang Pendek has been seen and documented by the local tribes, villagers and Western scientist and travelers. Unlike bigfoot, the Orang Pendek has been described as being smaller in height. Normally with height maxing out at around 5 foot tall. The color of the Orang Pendek is similar to bigfoot in that the colors described cover a wide range. Witnesses describe Orange Pendek as being bipedal with short legs and long powerful arms.

Now, back to the video. I have taken a still frame from the video and attempted to adjust the color and tweak the image. You still can't see a whole lot but here it is.

Please notice the large white object that it appears to be carrying. It kind of looks like a helmet to me but that is just a wild guess.

Something to keep in mind about this video. We do not know the height of the figure and we do not know the height of the waterfall. This will make it extremely difficult in attempting to determine the height of the figure. Of course, we really don't have a lot of clues to go on, for all we know it could be someone pulling a hoax. It could be a guy in a suit. I know the first couple times I watched the video, I thought the figure looked like some kind of CGI effect. In fact, I still think there is a good chance this is a computer generated figure. It seems the video has some distortion going on. This can be an effort to make the CGI effect appear more realistic or is sometimes a side effect of using the software to create the figure. But of course this is all speculation from me.

I invite everyone to watch the video for yourself and form your own opinions about it. Here is the video.


What do you think ? let us know?

Thanks
~Tom~



 
This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.



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The Ebu Gogo are a group of human-like creatures that appear in the mythology of Flores, Indonesia. In the Nage language of central Flores, ebu means 'grandmother' and gogo means 'he who eats anything'. A colloquial English equivalent might be something like "Granny Glutton."

The Nage people of Flores describe the Ebu Gogo as having been able walkers and fast runners around 1.5 m tall. They reportedly had wide and flat noses, broad faces with large mouths and hairy bodies. The females also had "long, pendulous breasts." They were said to have murmured in what was assumed to be their own language and could reportedly repeat what was said to them in a parrot-like fashion.


The legends relating to the Ebu Gogo were traditionally attributed to monkeys, according to the journal Nature.


The Nage people believe that the Ebu Gogo were alive at the time of the arrival of Portuguese trading ships in the 17th century, and some hold that they survived as recently as the 20th century, but are now no longer seen. The Ebu Gogo are believed to have been hunted to extinction by the human inhabitants of Flores. They believe that the extermination, which culminated around seven generations ago, was undertaken because the Ebu Gogo stole food from human dwellings, and kidnapped children.


An article in New Scientist (Vol. 186, No. 2504) gives the following account of folklore on Flores surrounding the Ebu Gogo: The Nage people of central Flores tell how, in the 18th century, villagers disposed of the Ebu Gogo by tricking them into accepting gifts of palm fiber to make clothes. When the Ebu Gogo took the fiber into their cave, the villagers threw in a firebrand to set it alight. The story goes that all the occupants were killed, except perhaps for one pair, who fled into the deepest forest, and whose descendants may be living there still.

There are also legends about the Ebu Gogo kidnapping human children, hoping to learn from them how to cook. The children always easily outwit the Ebu Gogo in the tales.

The discovery of the remains of a meter-tall hominid on Flores Homo floresiensis, alive at least as recently as 13,000 years ago, has inspired more literal interpretations of the Ebu Gogo stories. Anthropologist Gregory Forth, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada has stated that "wildman" myths are prevalent in Southeast Asia and has investigated their linguistic and ritual roots, speculating that H. floresiensis may be evidence that the folktales of Ebu Gogo and similar creatures such as the Orang Pendek on Sumatra may be rooted in fact.


- Source: wikipedia -

I really don't have anything to add to this one other than to say it reminds me of Orang Pendek. The size and description are very similar.

Thanks
~Tom~


This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet



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Fruit bat

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