Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Kaki Besat!

Power supply to Taman Sibuga and nearby Taman Mawar was disrupted during the weekend. Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB) staff conducted checks upon receiving complaints of power disruptions from residents and traced the source of the problem to the damaged11KV electricity pole.

Residents are reeling from the shock of discovering two extra large footprints near the post and short circuiting the transmission line. They probably resembled those mentioned many times in foreign reports in claims of sightings of the mysterious ‘Bigfoot’.

The shocker has been spreading like wildfire in Sandakan district for the past few days.

According to Wikipedia, Bigfoot is one of the more famous creatures in cryptozoology, and, like many cryptids around the world, there is a fierce debate as to whether the Bigfoot species exists or not. Cryptozoologist John Willison Green has postulated that Bigfoot is a worldwide phenomenon.

Each footprint measures 37 inches from heel to toe and 19 inches sideways, clearly too gigantic for any normal human being.

I drove about five minutes from Sibuga market to the site. Then, I walked on foot along a footpath for quite a few minutes to the place where I met many residents who were gathered there.

Then some residents pointed to the big footprints.

I was shocked to see them and excited as I took those photographs.

When I asked the residents the first time they discovered the two big footprints, they told me it was June 15.

They also told me they now recall that before they came across the footprints, residents few months ago felt uncomfortable and sick as if there was something ‘unclean’ in the air.

They said they decided to look for a Bobohizan who told them to make offerings near the road side.

When I asked the residents if they were afraid or not they told me some were afraid; other just curious. But all of them apparently believe that the place was ‘unclean’.

The residents are now clearing up the footpath leading to the large footprints in anticipation of more people coming to have a look at the footprints.

This was not the first time that I saw such mysterious big footprints in Sandakan. In fact, the first time I saw such big footprints was about 20 years ago.

It would be impossible for a person to create such a mark on the hard ground.

The place where those residents stumbled upon the footprints is the same place where few months ago, a group of monkeys attacking passer by.

I believe that the monkeys had run out of their jungle habitat to escape from ‘Bigfoot’.

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