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Dietrologia.

While reading a book the other day, I ran across this term that caught my attention. Actually it is an Italian word. A term used to cover a great multitude of meaning.

Dietro meaning "behind". Logia meaning "the study of".

In Italy, this means that the idea that is the obvious thing cannot be the truth. There has to be, there  always is, something hidden behind that truth.

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Antelope Mountains Hairy Man

In 1879, while out duck hunting, William Shegan and his friend Mr. Gore flushed out more than just flying targets.

As evening approached, the two men, returning to the ranch, took a shortcut across the mountain. The trail they were on was a rough one that went through the wildest part in the Antelope range of the mountains.

They were carefully working their way along the edge of a chasm when they heard an "animalistic noise" back towards a cliff. Looking in that direction, they saw a "large, hairy man-like animal". Suddenly it began running with "the speed of the wind".  Thinking it was an animal, Mr. Gore shot at it, wounding the creature in the arm.

Wildmen of China

We take another trip today into the wild terrain of China to take a look around for the wildman said to reside there.

Reports are rare from China; the political policy of the country may be partly to blame. But we do have records of wild men going back a long way.

Li Yanshow, a 9th Century historian, talked of a band of wild men residing in the forests of Hubei. The 18th Century poet, Yuan Mei, wrote about a creature found in the wild regions of Shanxi province. He called them "monkey-like, yet not monkey-like".

In 1940, Wang Zelin, was a graduate of the biology department of Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. He claimed to have seen a corpse of the creature. He was driving to Tianshui in Gansu Province when he heard gunfire. Driving on a little further, he came upon a group of soldiers standing around a strange body. It appeared to be a female, human-like, about 6'6" tall, and covered with a coat of thick greyish-red hair about 1 1/4 inches long. The hair on its head was about 12" long but the hair on its face, was shorter. The cheekbones were prominent and the lips jutted out.