China opens museum dedicated to the Yehren

[From “Reuters News”. June 1996.]

China has opened a museum dedicated to the elusive "Big

Foot" ape-man said to roam the Shennongjia Nature Reserve in central Hubei

province, the Xinhua news agency said Sunday (June 2).

The museum displays samples of reddish hair and plaster models of huge

footprints collected over the years that are said to prove the existence of

the creature, which local residents call the "Wild Man," Xinhua said.

Opened last month, the museum also features documents and pictures of various

scientific and exploratory operations mounted over the years to track down

the creature.

"All the materials in the museum are genuine," the agency quoted Chen Renlin,

Chairman of the Shennongjia Cultural Research Society and self-proclaimed

"Big Foot" expert, as saying.

Since the 1950s, both scientists and amateurs have searched in vain for the

creature in the Shennongjia valley, as well as for its cousin the Yeti in the

Himalaya mountains.

WCSRO, 2006.