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from: Loren Coleman
to: jeffooi.screenshots@gmail.com
date: Jan 17, 2007 7:36 PM
subject: Your Johor Bigfoot

Dear Mr. Jeff Ooi

You may not be aware that the Vincent Chow- and Sean Ang-promoted "photographs" of the "Johor Hominid" were exposed as hoaxes in August 2006, due to the investigative work of the readers of Cryptomundo.

We have been investigating and posting on the "Malaysian Bigfoot" for months. Please see:

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoology/malaysian-bigfoot/

But the bigger story is that since November 2005, actual non-hoaxed sightings have occurred, in spite of the Chow-Ang sidetrack. Indeed, the Malaysia situation was one of the Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006.

It was the #1 story:

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/top-10-bf-2006/

1. Johor Bigfoot Seen, Slammed, and Stabilized

Starting in late 2005, and moving right through every month of 2006, reports of sightings, government disputes, footprints, and expeditions in search of the so-called "Johor Bigfoot" issued forth from south Asia and were repeated worldwide. (Cryptomundo was reporting on so many stories we created a "Malaysian Bigfoot" category to file away all the blogs.) Most of the middle of the year¹s "Johor Hominid" distraction was caused by first withheld and then exposed photographs that turned out to be a hoax. Nevertheless, re-surfacing of credible 1970s¹ accounts, for example from Harold Stephens, mixed with a confusing array of 2006 Johor footprints, have left open questions about what is really happening in Malaysia.

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Hope this assists your reportage on this.

Best wishes
Loren Coleman
Cryptozoologist
Author, The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates (Anomalist, 2006)
Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America (Simon and Schuster, 2003)