Do some of your own searches on this topic if you want,
but I have actually seen one of these almost on the
millennium new year 2000. Although, what I saw was over
6 feet tall.
I think it was the day before that I had an almost fatal
encounter with both a croc and a hippo a few minutes
apart, and so the memory is a little hidden behind that
excitement.
And this is typical of the Agogwe. They are not animals
at all. They are only seen when they choose to be seen.
So you will not see any photos. I have looked. They are
far stealthier than any modern technology.
But let me give you my description:
Taller than me by a small amount, I am 6'2', so this creature
was between 6' and 6'5.
Covered in hair like a baboon or monkey, it walked upright
perfectly, on legs shorter than a person; it thus had a long
slim torso, and a round head.
So it was not a gorilla because the head was round, and its
shoulders were as broad as a strong man, nowhere near
the much more powerful gorilla in shoulder size.
The sun was behind it; as its path crossed ours, it walked in
front of me by about 4 yards, and nodded very slightly,
in a polite, but curiously startled manner. The guy with me
was the caretaker of the house in Kariba, at the North
of the Kariba dam in Zimbabwe. We were taking a shortcut
through the bush to go to the shop. It was thus, shortly
before Christmas 1999.
Most of the encounters I have looked at lately online seem to
involve smaller variations, but the description other than that
factor is almost the same.
This is not a knuckle-scraper, but a hominid with an advanced
mind, and powers of movement and stealth beyond current
human technology. It had yellowish, intelligent eyes, and a face
that was more human, than any other primate.
I did not have the presence of mind to note the size of its feet.
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