{"id":6165,"date":"2010-11-24T01:51:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:51:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:51:16","slug":"chinese-scientists-study-wild-man-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/11\/chinese-scientists-study-wild-man-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"SCIENTISTS STUDY &#8220;WILD MAN&#8221; HAIR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/hairy-hominids\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hairy-hominids.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" title=\"hairy-hominids\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-734\" \/><\/a>China&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/china.globaltimes.cn\/top-photo\/2010-11\/595939.html\" target=\"_\">Global TImes<\/a> has reported that scientits working at the Shennongjia Nature Reserve in Hubei province has examined a strand of hair which it has not managed to identify, prompting local people to speculate that it may belong to the &#8220;Wild Man&#8221; &#8212; or YEREN &#8212; China&#8217;s version of Bigfoot.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Piao Jinlan, a researcher at the reserve, said that scientists need to continue their tests before they can identify the species. The hair of this alleged <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/hairy-hominids\/\" target=\"_\">HAIRY HOMINID<\/a> is said to be thicker than human hair and thinner than horsetail hair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/china_wildman_hair.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/china_wildman_hair-300x230.jpg?resize=300%2C230\" alt=\"\" title=\"china_wildman_hair\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/china_wildman_hair.jpg?resize=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/china_wildman_hair.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/china_wildman_hair.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>More than 400 people have claimed to have seen the half-man, half-ape &#8220;Wild Man&#8221; in the area in the last 100 years. Witnesses describe the creature as walking upright, more than 6-feet tall and with grey, red or black hair all over its body. An investigative team was set up in 2009 and started a large-scale search for the mysterious creature in Shennongjia this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Global News has reported that the Shennongjia Nature Reserve in Hubei province has examined a strand of hair which it has not managed to identify, prompting local people to speculate that it may belong to the &#8220;Wild Man&#8221; \u2013- or YEREN &#8212; China&#8217;s version of Bigfoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[25,24,498,1121,497,164,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-6165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ape-man","9":"tag-bigfoot","10":"tag-china-wildman","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-wild-man","13":"tag-yeren","14":"tag-yeti"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/china_wildman1.jpg?fit=450%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10215,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions\/10215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}