Between Ape and Human

“But then subsequent to um that visit um I I I began to hear about uh similar creatures uh further to the east in a place called Leo. Um and those are the ones I write about in in uh in the book.”

“And when did you talk to someone that had had an encounter? That was um first of all that was uh when I um visited the Leo the Leo region um which is the main topic of the the book as I said.”

“Now, I should stress that I can't go into all the details or the circumstances of our communications, but uh all indications are that they'd never heard of my writings or never read my writings uh on, you know, Floresmen before. So, they just had an encounter and they had an encounter.”

“Um, now that he did allow me to mention in uh in the book, in fact, in more than one one book. And he did he described the same type of creature, the same type of experience, a big monkey standing upright, no tail, about three feet or more tall.”

“I mean one uh case I uh go into uh again in the in the recent book um is um a creature that uh uh we are told uh is very good at climbing trees.”

“Well, this is something that I well it's the first thing one of the first things I discuss in in the book um is um the different cultural context circumstances of on the one hand people uh in in Flores ordinary you know villages um reporting what you know they they once saw”

“Well, it's also the my problem with Bigfoot is that it's fun. It's fun to believe. Yeah. And so I start looking at my own judgment and going, "Stop." Yeah. Being silly. You're wasting time. Yeah. No, I um I I don't I don't find Bigfoot uh credible. And again, I've said so in in print in in an earlier”