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Among the Indians of Amazonia lives the legend of a terrible monster, living in wild forests. Met him and remained after that in living – a few units. Those unlucky are found with severed heads. The monster walks on its hind legs and exudes a terrible stench from which victims lose consciousness. Indians call his mapingari is the lord of the forest.
Amazon Monster
Indians describe it more than two meters high, covered long red hair, walking on both legs and on all fours. The monster does not like water. Sleeps in the hole dug in the afternoon huge claws, goes hunting at night. Spreading the disgusting stench of rotting meat, a monster wanders through the forest, twisting tree trunks and growling into the darkness. His paws are twisted backwards. His strength is so great that he easily tears his head large animals. The muzzle mapingari looks like a monkey, with one with his eye, on his stomach he has a second mouth and it’s impossible to kill a monster – from stone-hard skins bounce off both arrows and bullets.
Mapingari Finder Professor Amegino
Scientists did not believe in the existence of such a monster with one eye and mouth on his stomach, considered him a figment of the imagination of the wild Indians. A Amazon researcher, Professor Florentino Amegino believed. In the 1890s, he met with the Argentinean Ramon List. The restless adventurer Liszt climbed into the wilds virgin forests and assured that he had seen a monster. According to Ramon it resembled a giant armadillo, a researcher several times shot him, but the bullets did not do any harm to the beast. Traveling around South America, Professor Amegino has collected many stories about mapingari. In addition to the stories, the professor brought a huge claw of an unknown animal and a piece of skin covered with brown the hair from which the bones protruded, each the size of a bean. Such an “armor-piercing” skin was indeed invulnerable to arrows and copies. Could withstand a shot if it was fired not under right angle and from a long distance.
Who are you, mapingari?
In 1988, Harvard graduate David Oren came to Brazil to study birds. He talked with local hunters and enjoyed listened to their legends, including about mapingari. He soon with I realized with amazement that the described monster is very reminiscent of giant sloth – milodon, extinct about 10,000 years back.
A photo from open sources The same skin covered with bone nodules, long inverted claws, leaving very strange prints. On the belly milodons had glands that gave off a nasty smell (apparently a means of defense against enemies). These glands are Indians quite could be mistaken for a “mouth on the belly.”
Finding Milodon
Since then, Oren has made his life’s goal to find milodon. For search, he organized several expeditions to hard-to-reach areas of Brazil. David sure giant sloth really lives in the forests of the Amazon, where huge massifs untouched by civilization, comparable in size to the territory throughout Western Europe. While in his “piggy bank of achievements” only photos of trees with peeled bark, casts of obscure prints traces and recordings of stories of Native American hunters about meetings with a monster. 80 people claim that they saw mapingari, and 7 faced him literally face to face. One claims that even killed the beast and wanted to bring a paw to the village like a trophy, but threw it away She stinked too much.
A photo from open sources Oren himself has not yet managed to catch “lord of the forest” nor take a picture. But he does not lose hope. IN David Oren sets off on a new expedition this year Amazon.
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