Orang Pendek

The Account

Reported by rangers, tea planters, and locals in Kerinci Seblat for over a century. Casts of the tracks have been examined by primatologists who cannot rule it out.

From the Public Record

In Indonesian folklore, the Orang Pendek is the most common name given to a creature said to inhabit remote, mountainous forests on the island of Sumatra. The creature has allegedly been seen and documented for at least 100 years by forest tribes, local villagers, Dutch colonists, and Western scientists and travelers. Consensus among witnesses is that the animal is a ground-dwelling, bipedal primate covered in short fur, standing between 80 and 150 cm tall.

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