Yokai, The Hibagon .. Bigfoot of Japan.

 

Japanese Bigfoot,The Hibagon 👣🇯🇵

It seems that every country or at least most have a version of a hairy manlike cryptid that roams the forests or mountains ..

North America's Bigfoot/Sasquatch the Rock Apes of Vietnam, the Yeti of the Himalayas and so on..

Well Japan is no exception, the Japanese version is called the Hibagon..

The first reported sighting was in Hiroshima Prefecture in what is now Shobara City during July of 1970.

FIRST SIGHTING...

July 20, 1970, that a man in his 30s said he saw from his car an unusual two-legged creature walking down a mountain road in the Yuki district in the former town of Saijo, now incorporated into the city of Shobara, before it slowly retreated back up the trail after noticing it was being watched.

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Second and third Sighting..

A man who was cutting grass near his home early in the morning of July 23, three days after the first sighting, claimed to have seen a creature in a grassy area with a "human face." 

Another man on July 30 called out to a person whom he believed was a relative walking along a footpath to a rice field, but it turned out to be a "gorilla-type monster.

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In 1971 the government special office to take reported sightings this continued until about 1975 when the sightings started to drop eventually leading to the office being shutdown there were a total of 29 local sightings from 1970-75.

Later sightings of a similar creature took place  in the neighboring city of Yamano, it was called the yabagon it was sighted infrequently for a few years leading people the believe the Hibagon had simply moved to a new location however the yabagon seemed to have disappeared too as it has not been spotted since 1980.

It's believed to live near Mount Hiba in the Chūgoku Mountains. 

Like Bigfoot/Sasquatch the Hibagon walks upright on two legs, standing about 5 -6 feet or up to 1.5 meters tall and very muscular build for it's size.

Eyewitnesses have described the unidentified figure as resembling a gorilla covered in dark brown bristles

 Their bodies are completely covered in black, gray, or dark brown hair.

 Their faces resemble an inverted triangle, and they have bulging eyes that slant upwards. Their voices resemble a dolphin’s call.

There are many theories on what the hibagon actually was.

Some suggest it was a  large Japanese macaques, black bears, a humans in a suit or possibly an  alien being but no one is entirely sure...

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The sightings eventually got the attention of the local authority's and media. Leading to a newspaper article..

A former reporter, then Shobara bureau chief of the Chugoku Shimbun, who wrote the article, was quoted in the Hiroshima-based daily as saying, "I didn't take the first call seriously because I thought it was just a hoax, but then I got another call from someone else who gave an eyewitness account."

After meeting separately with the three eyewitnesses to hear and compare their stories, the reporter said all appeared shaken up, with one saying, "I can't live here anymore." Another complained of people accusing him of "faking" the story and not believing him.

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A footprint that was cast in 1970

A plaster cast of "footprint" believed to belong to the Hibagon was cast on December 16, 1970 and was kept in the chief's office of the Shobara Police Station, which is part of the Hiroshima Prefectural Police.

the Shobara Police Department has donated the footprint to the tourism association, which moved it to JR Bingo-Saijo Station.

 The tourist association used the donation as an opportunity to start recruitment for a "Hibagon Explorers" fan club that has seen about 40 people from around Japan join.

A tour of the mountain road where the first sightings took place was planned for may 2024.

Today the Hibagon has become a symbol of the town, and signs with its  likeness can be seen everywhere.

Texas Dogman/Werewolf.

 

Dogman in Texas..

First hand werewolf/dogman encounter by an Eye witness from Roscoe Texas

My first encounter was when i was young trying to fall asleep i looked out the window and saw it, out towards the backyard faced my window at the time, now a days i sleep in the basement, back on topic my brother and I always felt nervous looking out that window,. My bed perfectly faced the window at the time the beast was 3 feet away looking into the window, , It had yellow eyes, long snout of a dog, black fur, it face is kinda human subtract the snout and the gnarly long teeth, and fur all over it's face, once it realized I noticed it, it snarled at me quietly through the window and it was a stare down, i slowly pulled the covers over my head. I then proceeded to cry for what felt like forever,then i ran into my parents room crying. telling me it was just a dream. 

I thought that for what was like 8 years until my sophomore year in high school when My brother, my friend and I were out fishing. My brother loved peanut butter at the time he brought a plate with a giant serving size spoon glob and some Ritz crackers. 

There's a creek back there, surprisingly some decent fish, mostly chub, but there is bullhead, carp, green bellied sunfish, crayfish, snapping turtles, Brown trout but that's really rare to catch there, we sometimes thought it be funny to throw the chub there and leave them there at our favorite spot, A giant Fallen oak tree which acts like a natural bridge across the creek it fell due to the amount weight it was bearing that due to a bad snowstorm. 

My friend and i went down stream one summer's day, meanwhile my brother was fishing alone, He went to go take a leak, he left the the food on the other side of the creek, when came back he saw it running off with, he described as more of a Bigfoot, He ran to us hysterical, we just thought he was crazy so started calling him crazy Joey. After that i thought of my run in with something similar at the young age the stare down. Later My friend was busy with lawn work and prepping to move. 

I was secretly afraid to go out. Joe decided to come back there a month later, he left by himself i wish i could saw to confirm my story. 

But the second time around i believed him for sure. He was catching some fish, his line was all screwed up and took it off his fishing and re-spooled it he ran come because he only had one hook on the pole. He ran back and claimed he the same thing chasing the bird that was wrapped up, he yelled scared it, then ran back home for knife as fast as he can, then cut it free. I seen something similar To my sighting, My brother, my friend and some others were going to fish at a illegal spot we didn't know it was private property at the time, whenever me and my friends try out new spots we have tradition casting bass lures first, then use normal live bait. I wanted to hesitate because the fish were biting there pretty good at the creek. So sure enough they went ahead me across the oak tree towards the quarry. 

I felt alone after 12 minutes then i took my bag, 2 poles, and tackle i was changed out close to the log. I started walking and saw what I thought to be a big grey wolf easily waist hight to me being 5.6  In IL anythings possible my friend got cornered by 4 coyotes out there once, But sure enough the creature by another giant oak tree and i made eye contact again another stare down only different since it was on all fours. 

It was obviously interested in my friends since it was following the trail that leads there, I yelled and chased it, the look on its face was playful because it was probably pretending not to notice me, so i chased it to the clearing, the retention ponds are on the left and a small prairie on the right. It seemingly went towards the prairie. Sure enough i quickly forgot when one my friends caught a pig of large mouth that weighed 3 1/2 pounds on the first cast. I waited until we were going to leave to inform them because i didn't want ruin the fact we were catching bass on every cast. 

But the guard working there gave us a warning told us to get out there and this private property etc. I told them they didn't believe me. The last time we saw something similar, Me and My brother were scavenging for roadkill when saw a Black dog/maybe it look at us ran away constantly back it moved gracefully through the brush meanwhile me and my brother were absolutely getting torn up by the razz berry bushes. We catch up it waits then runs away again, we played this game 5 times with that thing, then we couldn't find it again. 

I live Roscoe enjoy being outside i notice strange things out in that woods, people usually just kick the roadkill off the highway it can cause an issue if it's big enough like a deer, but i notice something went out of it's way to drag them out to the prairie coyotes maybe, the thing sure why not, theirs plenty of deer, Turkey, Rabbits, You can even hear the coyotes get excited when they catch a poor rabbit at night