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URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

URECAT is a formal catalog of UFO related entities sightings reports with the goal of providing quality information for accurate studies of the topic. Additional information, corrections and reviews are welcome at patrick.gross@inbox.com, please state if you wish to be credited for your contribution or not. The main page of the URECAT catalog is here.

1947, Pangboche, Sagarmatha, Nepal, Mr. Dakhu:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Charles Robert Stonor, born 1912, wrote several travel books from his travels to the Himalayas. "The Sherpa and the Snowman" is one of them, published in 1955.

He told:

"I found with my host a friend or relative, by name Dakhu, who hailed from Pangboche village. About four seasons back, Dakhu had been up above the village tending his yaks. During the afternoon he found one had gone astray, and as he made his way up into the crags to search for it, he saw about a hundred yards ahead of him, half-hidden by rocks, part of a hairy animal which he naturally took to be his lost yak. He called out to it by name, when the creature suddenly stood up and came slowly towards him, on two legs, agitated and seemingly menacing, for it began to pull up tufts of grass with its hands. It was the blackish and Thyangboche, another Yeti Hunt, and the Pangboche "Scalp" reddish-brown colour of a Tahr, fairly long haired, fighter coloured on the stomach, and of much the same build as a thick set man. Dakhu had never seen a beast like it before, but he realised it was a Yeti, and having no wish to come to closer quarters, the more so from its threatening and aggressive manner, and the way it stood its ground he made his way down as quickly as he could to his herd."

This entered in summarized format and without further information or comment in a "skeptical" ufology catalogue about 2016.

Basic information table:

Case number: URECAT-001741
Date of event: 1947
Earliest report of event: 1953
Delay of report: 6 years.
Witness reported via: Told traveler who has interested in the Yeti.
First alleged record by: Travel book about the Yeti by Charles Robert Stonor.
First certain record by: Travel book about the Yeti by Charles Robert Stonor.
First alleged record type: Travel book about the Yeti.
First certain record type: Travel book about the Yeti.
This file created on: October 14, 2018
This file last updated on: October 14, 2018
Country of event: Nepal
State/Department: Sagarmatha
Type of location: Outside in the Pangboche area in the Himalayas.
Lighting conditions: Afternoon.
UFO observed: No
UFO arrival observed: N/A
UFO departure observed: N/A
UFO/Entity Relation: None.
Witnesses numbers: 1
Witnesses ages: Not reported. Young adult or adult or aged.
Witnesses types: Male local sherpa.
Photograph(s): No.
Witnesses drawing: No.
Witnesses-approved drawing: No.
Number of entities: 1
Type of entities: Yeti
Entities height: Not reported.
Entities outfit type: None.
Entities outfit color: N/A.
Entities skin color: Not reported.
Entities body: Built like a string man.
Entities head: Not reported.
Entities eyes: Not reported.
Entities mouth: Not reported.
Entities nose: Not reported.
Entities feet: Not reported.
Entities arms: Yes, with hands.
Entities fingers: Not reported.
Entities fingers number: Not reported.
Entities hair: Hairy.
Entities voice: None reported.
Entities actions: Was there, stood up, pulled up tufts of grass with its hands, walked to witness, agited and possibly menacing.
Entities/witness interactions: Stood up, agiteated, possibly menacing.
Witness(es) reactions: Observed, fled.
Witness(es) feelings: Frightened.
Witness(es) interpretation: Yeti.
Explanation category: Possible Yeti, not UFO-related
Explanation certainty: High.

Narratives:

[Ref. cs1:] CHARLES STONOR:

[...]

I found with my host a friend or relative, by name Dakhu, who hailed from Pangboche village. About four seasons back, Dakhu had been up above the village tending his yaks. During the afternoon he found one had gone astray, and as he made his way up into the crags to search for it, he saw about a hundred yards ahead of him, half-hidden by rocks, part of a hairy animal which he naturally took to be his lost yak. He called out to it by name, when the creature suddenly stood up and came slowly towards him. on two legs, agitated and seemingly menacing, for it began to pull up tufts of grass with its hands. It was the blackish and Thyangboche, another Yeti Hunt, and the Pangboche "Scalp" reddish-brown colour of a Tahr, fairly long haired, fighter coloured on the stomach, and of much the same build as a thick set man. Dakhu had never seen a beast like it before, but he realised it was a Yeti, and having no wish to come to closer quarters, the more so from its threatening and aggressive manner, and the way it stood its ground he made his way down as quickly as he could to his herd.

[...]

[Ref. bh1:] BERNARD HEUVELMANS:

[... more Yeti reports...]

Charles Stonor had already set off in December 1953 on a reconnaissance of the route to Namche Bazar, the Sherpas' capital, when he met a Sherpa of about 30 called Pasang Nyima, who said that he had seen a yeti three months before when he went to a remote area to take part in a religious ceremony in a sacred place. He heard that there was a yeti about and went off with several companions to investi¬gate. When they reached the spot they saw the yeti some 200 or 300 m away on a flat piece of ground sparsely covered with bushes. It was the first yeti Pasang bad seen. According to him it was the size and build of a small man. Its head, its body and its thighs were covered with long hair. Its face and chest looked less hairy and there were no long hairs on the legs below the knees. 111e colour of the fur was 'both dark and light' and the chest was reddish. It walked nearly as upright as a man and bent down occasionally to grub in the ground for roots. When it realised that it had been seen it gave a loud, high-pitched cry and ran off into the forest, still on its hind-legs, but with a sidling gait. Never once did it go on all fours. As all the villagers insisted that Pasang was speaking the truth, Stonor slyly asked him:

"ls the yeti a flesh-and-blood animal, or is it a spirit?" To which the Sherpa replied with disarming logic:

"How could it have been a spirit since we saw its footprints after it had run away?"

Stonor went on collecting yeti lore and soon had several other first¬hand accounts of the beast's appearance.

One afternoon in 1947 or thereabouts a yak-breeder called Dakhu who lived in Pangboche saw one some 50 m away. Tt walked upright, was the height of a small man and was stocky and covered with hair.

In March 1949 another Pangboche villager called Mingma heard something like a stentorian human cry while he was driving his herd to pasture, then he saw something among the rocks corning down towards him. He took refuge in a stone hut, but was able to see the yeti through a large crack in the wall and to examine it very carefully. Stonor reports his description as follows:

[... more Yeti reports...]

[Ref. pr1:] PETER ROGERSON:

1947.

PANGBOCHE (SAGARMATHA : NEPAL)

Mr Dakhu saw a humanoid being, about 1.7m tall tall, covered in brown red hair and with a conical head, walk towards him on two legs. The thing had broad shoulders. Dakhu left the scene to attend to his flock.

Freeman 2011 p31 citing Charles Stonor

Points to consider:

Richard Freeman (born 1970) is a cryptozoologist, author, zoological journalist, and WebTV host. He is the zoological director of the "Centre for Fortean Zoology" (CFZ), co-edits both their journal Animals & Men and several editions of the annual CFZ Yearbook. Freeman wrote, co-wrote or edited several cryptozoology books.

Charles Robert Stonor, born in 1912, wrote several travel books from his travels to the Himalayas. "The Sherpa and the Snowman" is one of them, publisher in 1955.

Peter Rogerson writes about a "humanoid being"; which is clumsy since this is a Yeti story, unrelated to any UFO. Being a "sptikal" ufologist, he might have tried an explanation, but did not, as his goal was only to show that such "stories", invented or caused by misinterpretations, have always existed. The term "Yeti" does bring some information that gets lost with the term "humanoid".

Some other remarks:

  1. There are many other, equally interesting or not interesting - depending on one's opinion - reports of Yeti's in the same book by Charles Stonor and other sources. So why do I find only asmall number of them in Peter Rogerson's catalog? Either all, or none, should be in it.
  2. It is apparent from Peter Rogerson's catalog intructuction that he considered all the cases he summarized to be either hoaxes or misinterpretations. But no evidence of hoax in presented and no explanation of the cause of a misinterpretation is proposed. So these explanations are only speculative and thus cannot serve to solve with any assurance his other reports.
  3. "Freeman 2011 p31" is not a qaulity source reference, a first name for Freeman is missing and a book title or magazine reference is missing. Not everyone would find out easily what book one "Freeman" is supopsed to have written in 2011.
  4. "Freeman 2011" is not the primary source. "Skeptics" vocally criticize the so-called "believers" for using secondary sources, so they should no do the same. The book by Charles Stonor was already on Google Books when INCCAT surfaced on the web.
  5. Using Freeman as source makes us lose the information that the first publication of the story was in 1955, well earlier than 2011.
  6. I found no ufology source that tried to claim this case is an alien encounter.

List of issues:

Id: Topic: Severity: Date noted: Raised by: Noted by: Description: Proposal: Status:
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Evaluation:

Possible Yeti, not UFO-related.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

Document history:

Authoring

Main Author: Patrick Gross
Contributors: None
Reviewers: None
Editor: Patrick Gross

Changes history

Version: Created/Changed By: Date: Change Description:
0.1 Patrick Gross October 14, 2018 Creation, [cs1], [rf1], [pr1].
1.0 Patrick Gross October 14, 2018 First published.

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