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**ffdfriendforurr** · 09-18-2011, 10:17 PM

Hajurba, what do you make about the folklore surrounding the Yeti? Do many people in Nepal believe in it?

Most Nepalese believe that the Yeti exists. It gos so far that there is a law that forbids to chase or capture one. Furthermore the Dalai Lama also has given orders to the monasteries in Nepal and Tibet to protect the Mingu (Tibetan word for Yeti...which is the local Nepalese Sherpa language).

One would never meet any ethnic Sherpa who does not believe in his existence. The American oil-millionaire To Slik from Texas who died in an air crash under mysterious circumstances had done an extended expedition in search of the Yeti about 65 years ago and he claims to have found true evidence. He was an investigator of the American Cryptology Society and his family was angry with him for wasting so much money on this issue. There is a conspiracy theory that the family ordered to killed him by tampering with his private aircraft. His files are property of the society and they seem to be open for study now...yet no one in the US seem to take that society serious enough.

Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti
I have this book in our library. Myself ? Yes I believe it because I had a many strange encounters when I was the leader of search and rescue parties for missing people at forests in high altitude areas about 15 years ago. But that is an other story.
I only can tell this: The creature is far stronger than humans and can get away at high speed before humans reach a spot where it has being dwelling. Perhaps the Yeti is as intelligent as a simple local human and does not want to spend time in a Zoo!

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ffdfriendforurr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 517 Senior Member	Hajurba, what do you make about the folklore surrounding the Yeti? Do many people in Nepal believe in it? Most Nepalese believe that the Yeti exists. It gos so far that there is a law that forbids to chase or capture one. Furthermore the Dalai Lama also has given orders to the monasteries in Nepal and Tibet to protect the Mingu (Tibetan word for Yeti...which is the local Nepalese Sherpa language). One would never meet any ethnic Sherpa who does not believe in his existence. The American oil-millionaire To Slik from Texas who died in an air crash under mysterious circumstances had done an extended expedition in search of the Yeti about 65 years ago and he claims to have found true evidence. He was an investigator of the American Cryptology Society and his family was angry with him for wasting so much money on this issue. There is a conspiracy theory that the family ordered to killed him by tampering with his private aircraft. His files are property of the society and they seem to be open for study now...yet no one in the US seem to take that society serious enough. Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti I have this book in our library. Myself ? Yes I believe it because I had a many strange encounters when I was the leader of search and rescue parties for missing people at forests in high altitude areas about 15 years ago. But that is an other story. I only can tell this: The creature is far stronger than humans and can get away at high speed before humans reach a spot where it has being dwelling. Perhaps the Yeti is as intelligent as a simple local human and does not want to spend time in a Zoo!
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